Mount Saint Vincent University grappled this month with a complex web of issues that will feel uncomfortably familiar to academics at plenty of other Canadian universities: how to (belatedly but quickly) increase the numbers of professors from traditionally under-represented Indigenous and other marginalized communities; how to (belatedly but quickly) add academically rigorous course offerings on...
Does Cornwallis matter? More than I would have thought
Last week, Halifax City Council voted overwhelmingly to take down the statue of Edward Cornwallis. Columnist Stephen Kimber believed Cornwallis had become too easy a distraction for those of us in the non-Indigenous community. Then he talked with Indigenous journalist Maureen Googoo...
Count me among the countless Nova Scotians happy to see the back of Eddie Cornwallis’s scraggy, statue-head as it was ignominiously carted off last week to some dank, secret storage depot somewhere, out of sight and — hopefully — out of mind. For at least a while. My satisfaction, I confess, had less to do...
What indigenous oral histories can teach us: Morning File, Thursday, July 13, 2017
News 1. Leibovitz collection “The minister responsible [for] culture in the province is standing behind the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and its repeated attempts to convince a federal body to certify as ‘cultural property’ hundreds of images produced by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz,” reports Jean Laroche for the CBC: As far as Culture Minister Leo Glavine is […]