2025 – Page 2 – The Woke Academy

The worst university in Canada? (Thompson Rivers University)

By admin October 18, 2025Academic Freedom, Grave Error, Indigenization2 Comments

When Frances Widdowson gave her acceptance speech for the George Jonas Freedom Award in Toronto, she referred to Thompson Rivers University (TRU) as the "worst university in Canada" (she had…

University of Winnipeg Documents

By admin October 3, 2025Indigenization1 Comment

On Thursday, September 25 - one day before Frances Widdowson arrived at The University of Winnipeg to do Spectrum Street Epistemology - Dr. Pavlina Radia, the Provost and Vice-President, Academic…

Manitoba Madness!

By admin September 23, 2025Academic Freedom, Grave Error, Indigenization, Residential Schools, The University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba2 Comments

On September 25 (1:00 p.m. CT) at the University of Manitoba, and September 26 (2:00 p.m. CT) at The University of Winnipeg, Frances Widdowson is coming in to do Spectrum…

Is “Indigenous Science”, Science?

By admin September 16, 2025#FrancesWiddowsonCase, Academic Freedom, Indigenization1 Comment

On September 18, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. at Mount Royal University, Frances Widdowson will be facilitating a Spectrum Street Epistemology session on the claim "'Indigenous science is not science". The…

The amazing MRU professor, Dr. Victoria Bucholtz

By admin September 5, 2025#FrancesWiddowsonCase, Academic Freedom, Trans Activism, woke-ismNo Comments

On September 16, 2024, Dr. Victoria Bucholtz, a MRU history professor, became known to the world. This is because Dr. Bucholtz was one of the participants in a struggle session…

Introducing the Magnificent Benjamin Kucher

By admin August 25, 2025Grave Error, Indigenization, University of Alberta2 Comments

Frances Widdowson first became aware of Benjamin Kucher when she was asked to give a presentation on "Academic Freedom Under Threat" at the University of Alberta. Kucher was the president…

A Strange Story: UBC’s First Nations House of Learning

By admin August 24, 2025Grave Error, Indigenization, University of British Columbia2 Comments

In November 2024, UBC's First Nations House of learning hosted the event with Sean Carleton, Michelle Good and Andrew Martindale entitled "Confronting Indian Residential School Denialism". The participants were introduced…

The International Criminal Court complaint from 22 lawyers

By admin July 13, 2025IndigenizationNo Comments

On June 3, 2021, 22 lawyers filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court. This complaint referred to "the recent discovery of a mass unmarked grave of 215 Indigenous children..."…

Frances Widdowson’s Commentary Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair’s presentations

By admin June 20, 2025IndigenizationNo Comments

On June 18, 2025, Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair gave presentations at the event "Dispelling the Myth of Denialism". Widdowson took a screen video of their presentations, which included the…

Gabrielle Weasel Head’s presentation on “Countering residential school denialism”

By admin June 1, 2025Indigenization2 Comments

On May 2, 2024, Gabrielle Weasel Head (formerly Gabrielle Lindstrom) gave a presentation with Shelley Wiart on "Countering Indian Residential School Denialism" at the Liberal Education Conference in Calgary. It…