OVERCOMING THE LEGACY OF COLONIALISM IN CANADIAN HIGHER EDUCATION
March 1st, 2019
A FORUM of experts, including senior academics, staged in Toronto, Canada, has been told that Canadian academic institutions need to do more work to promote reconciliation between the country’s indigenous population and descendants of settlers from overseas and more recent immigrants.
The forum, staged by discussion group Worldviews was, assessing the impact of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) on Canadian higher education. This institution from 2008 to 2015 has researched the impact of the a past residential school system on indigenous ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.