On October 19, 2022, Stephanie M. Lee, a senior reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, expressed concern that the Academic Freedom Conference at Stanford University was closed to the media (this has now changed – see below).
An email was sent out on October 22, 2022 saying that, because of the large public interest in it, the conference will be streamed.
Stephanie M. Lee’s post led Ian Mosby, a professor at the former Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), to state that “Canada’s leading residential school denialist” would be “part of this conference”.
Mosby’s Tweet was responded to by Sean Carleton, the self-proclaimed “residential schools denialism expert” and Daniel Ruck, a professor from the University of Ottawa.
In May 2021, Ian Mosby repeated the false claim that the Kamloops Indian Residential School “buries 215 children in an unmarked mass grave”. He has not, to our knowledge, taken any responsibility for spreading this misinformation.
On December 23, 2021, Ian Mosby commented on Frances Widdowson’s firing from Mount Royal University.
