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	<title>Offended by Offence</title>
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		<title>Sarah (Auger?) comments on the GETCA speech</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/11/sarah-auger-comments-on-the-getca-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/11/sarah-auger-comments-on-the-getca-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cora Weber-Pillwax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GETCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Rost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Auger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiaiake Alfred]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a message posted by &#8220;Sarah&#8221; (presumably Sarah Auger) last week on the contemptuously delusional website of Mohawk &#8220;warrior&#8221; Taiaiake Alfred (http://www.taiaiake.com/42#comments).  &#8220;Sarah&#8221; is one of the people responsible for the press release condemning my GETCA speech and advocating censorship in discussions of aboriginal educational policy; she attended the speech as a parent, and is not a graduate student as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Directions in Aboriginal Policy Forum 2010 &#8211; Update</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/09/new-directions-in-aboriginal-policy-forum-2010-update/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/09/new-directions-in-aboriginal-policy-forum-2010-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Directions in Aboriginal Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Hodgkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Newhouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Sandberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Widdowson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary McHale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Lane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Quesnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Vandermaas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Bourgeault]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Flanagan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/?p=1357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Things are beginning to firm up for the New Directions in Aboriginal Policy Forum at Mount Royal University.  The forum is free and open to the public and is intended to stimulate public debate on aboriginal policy.  People with very different perspectives on aboriginal economic development, governance and education have been invited because it is assumed that bringing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Indigenous scholarship&#8221; and Weber-Pillwax</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/07/indigenous-scholarship-and-weber-pillwax/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/07/indigenous-scholarship-and-weber-pillwax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal Women's Hand Drumming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cora Weber-Pillwax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ghislaine Goudreau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gillian Osler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous scholarship]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/?p=1354</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a description of the research of Ghislaine Goudreau, a graduate student who was supervised by Cora Weber-Pillwax.  The article gives readers some idea of the kind of research that is being undertaken under the auspices of &#8220;Indigenous scholarship&#8221;.  Weber-Pillwax then collaborated with Goudreau in an article published in the January 2008 issue of the Journal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Israel an &#8220;apartheid state&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/06/is-israel-an-apartheid-state/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/06/is-israel-an-apartheid-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-semitism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Israel lobby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheri DiNovo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israeli Apartheid Week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Na'eem Jeenah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Uppal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/?p=1305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As March 4-11 is &#8220;Israeli Apartheid Week&#8221;, it is appropriate to ask the question &#8211; can Israel be accurately chracterized as an &#8220;apartheid state&#8221;?  Various Zionist organizations claim that it is not, but instead of refuting the charge, they argue that such an allegation constitutes &#8220;hate speech&#8221; and therefore should be censored.  These arguments are now being taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some comments from Asinimanido (G. Deschamps, B.A., LL.B.)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/04/some-comments-from-asinimanido-g-deschamps-b-a-ll-b/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/04/some-comments-from-asinimanido-g-deschamps-b-a-ll-b/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/?p=1323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This comment was posted on my Aboriginal Policy page, but it deserves a wider readership.  I will be contacting Dr. von Gernet, and hope that he will respond.
FW
***
Professor Widdowson:
I’m an aboriginal lawyer, grad student and a citizen of the Ojibwe Nation. I have read a number of articles condemning you. I do not agree with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cora Weber-Pillwax, self-serving censor</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/04/cora-weber-pillwax-self-serving-censor/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/03/04/cora-weber-pillwax-self-serving-censor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alberta Teachers' Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Hanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cora Weber-Pillwax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GETCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous research methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Rost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Loyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Auger]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/?p=1307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Edmonton Sun, there is a column by Andrew Hanon about the continuing controversy concerning the speech that I gave at the Greater Edmonton Teachers&#8217; Convention Association (GETCA) on February 26, 2010 (www.edmontonsun.com/news/columnists/andrew_hanon/2010/03/04/13104741.html).  One professor from the University of Alberta, Cora Weber-Pillwax, and Michelle Rost and Sarah Auger (who I believe are two graduate students at the same university), have put [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking frankly about aboriginal education at GETCA</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/02/27/speaking-franking-about-aboriginal-education-at-getca/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/02/27/speaking-franking-about-aboriginal-education-at-getca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GETCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hope Knudsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Frideres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Enright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Loyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Kulchyski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Tomsons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiaiake Alfred]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/?p=1267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday February 26, I spoke at the Greater Edmonton Teachers&#8217; Convention Association (GETCA).  I was invited to speak by Hope Knudsen, the President of GETCA, after she heard me interviewed by Michael Enright on CBC radio on June 14, 2009 about Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry (the interview is available on the Video/Audio/Interviews page of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The kindly inquisitors</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/02/17/the-kindly-inquisitors/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/02/17/the-kindly-inquisitors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural relativism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Rauch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multiculturalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[queer theory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/?p=1237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just had the pleasure of reading Jonathan Rauch&#8217;s Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought (www.amazon.ca/Kindly-Inquisitors-Attacks-Free-Thought/dp/0226705757).  Although the book was published in 1993, all of its arguments continue to have relevance today. 
In the book, Rauch outlines three threats to free thought &#8211; what he calls &#8220;fundamentalism&#8221;, &#8220;egalitarianism&#8221; and &#8220;humanitarianism&#8221;.  While the threat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on research ethics and aboriginal peoples</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/02/14/more-on-research-ethics-and-aboriginal-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/02/14/more-on-research-ethics-and-aboriginal-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Widdowson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiera Ladner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Augustine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Frances Widdowson, Ph.D., Department of Policy Studies, Mount Royal University, 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW, Calgary, Alberta T3E 6K6, Email: fwiddowson@mtroyal.ca, Telephone: 403-440-6884
February 14, 2010
Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics, 350 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 1H5
Dear Colleagues,
I am a political scientist who studies aboriginal-non-aboriginal relations, and I would like to comment on the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howard-Hassmann on Research Ethics and Aboriginal Peoples</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/02/10/howard-hassmann-on-research-ethics-and-aboriginal-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/02/10/howard-hassmann-on-research-ethics-and-aboriginal-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academic freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Political Science Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graham White]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous knowledge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhoda Howard-Hassmann]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/?p=1223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a letter from Rhoda Howard-Hassmann to the Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics concerning Chapter 9 of the Tri-Council Policy Statement (I have also posted a PDF of this letter on the Ethics page of this blog).   Many very important points are raised in this letter, which will be of interest to all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With friends like these, Haitians don&#8217;t need enemies</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/02/06/with-friends-like-these-haitians-dont-need-enemies/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/02/06/with-friends-like-these-haitians-dont-need-enemies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Wilentz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Maria Tremonti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claude Douge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Gutnick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Francois Duvalier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jean-Claude Duvalier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Beauvoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voodoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wade Davis]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/?p=1190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday February 3, 2010, the CBC surpassed its usual efforts to promote irrationality.  The show in question was aired on the radio program, The Current, hosted that day by both Anna Maria Tremonti and a CBC producer, David Gutnick (www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2010/201002/20100203.html).  Also featured was an interview with Wade Davis, the unctuous pontificator featured in an earlier post on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s new at Canada&#8217;s aboriginal university?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/30/whats-new-at-canadas-aboriginal-university/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/30/whats-new-at-canadas-aboriginal-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Pratt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federation of Saskatchwan Indian Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Nations University of Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herman Michell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morley Watson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Mandryk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murray Westerlund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, there have been a number of newspaper articles about the ongoing troubles at the First Nations University of Canada (FNUC).  Since its designation as a university in 2003, the educational institution (the title of “university” is somewhat of a misnomer, since its degrees are granted by the University of Regina) has had continual problems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The injustice of Victim Impact Statements</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/20/the-injustice-of-victim-impact-statements/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/20/the-injustice-of-victim-impact-statements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol LaPrairie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hunter Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Roberts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victim Impact Statements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting story in The Globe and Mail about a sentencing hearing for the killer of Hunter Brown, an elderly man stabbed to death while delivering Christmas cards (Romina Maurino, &#8220;Outpouring of grief at killer&#8217;s sentencing hearing&#8221;, January 19, 2010, p. A7).  The article inadvertently raises questions about the nature of the Canadian justice system when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The strange world of Women&#8217;s Studies</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/14/the-strange-world-of-womens-studies/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/14/the-strange-world-of-womens-studies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barbara Kay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Porter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christina Hoff Sommers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daphne Patai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminist epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noretta Koertge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Studies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On January 12, 2010, the CBC Radio program, The Current, investigated the topic of &#8220;Women&#8217;s Studies&#8221; in universities today (http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/).  It noted that, with these programs, &#8220;women created a new field of study&#8230; one centred on their own experiences and perspectives&#8221;.  There was also a discussion of the fact that Women&#8217;s Studies programs are transforming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Academic freedom, scholarly debate and the CPSA</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/10/academic-freedom-scholarly-debate-and-the-the-cpsa/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/10/academic-freedom-scholarly-debate-and-the-the-cpsa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Political Science Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gurston Dacks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyce Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiera Ladner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Radha Jhappan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Tomsons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stuart Soroka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Flanagan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Soroka, the 2010 Programme Committee Chairperson for the CPSA, had a message posted on the Women’s Caucus listserve before it was moderated (see Email from Stuart Soroka – January 4 on the Ethics page of this blog).  In this message, Soroka assured members of the Women’s Caucus that my paper was transferred to a poster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike DeGagné responds</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/09/mike-degagne-responds/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/09/mike-degagne-responds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal Healing Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Widdowson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike DeGagne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following letter was printed in the National Post today(www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2422478).  I have been invited to respond, and will be doing so shortly.  There was one error in my column (and original blog entry); I assumed that the executive director of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation was non-aboriginal, since his ancestry/identity was not stated in his bio.   Determining whether or not someone is &#8220;Aboriginal&#8221; is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More censorship from the postmodern sisterhood</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/06/more-censorship-from-the-postmodern-sisterhood/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/06/more-censorship-from-the-postmodern-sisterhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Postmodernism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Widdowson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane Arscott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Ajzenstat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janice Newton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jill Vickers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rhoda Howard-Hassmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Caucus of the Canadian Political Science Association]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Subscribers to the Women&#8217;s Caucus listserve received a message yesterday with the following information:  &#8220;Due to the volume and content of recent messages on the WC-CPSA list serve, and following consultation with members of the WC, the WC-CPSA is now a moderated list-serve. Its purpose is to share information about job opportunities and future events [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A member of the healing industry responds</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/04/a-member-of-the-healing-industry-responds/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/04/a-member-of-the-healing-industry-responds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal Healing Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Widdowson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tarry Hewitt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
 

An extended version of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation boondoggle post on this blog appeared today in the National Post.  Tarry Hewitt, a beneficiary of this enterprise, was not happy with the result.  Once again, the racism libel is used (as well as references to the &#8220;KKK and the Natzi Party [sic]&#8220;) to prevent criticism of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is criticism of cultural relativism racist?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/03/is-criticism-of-cultural-relativism-racist/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2010/01/03/is-criticism-of-cultural-relativism-racist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advocacy Studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albert Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural relativism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Widdowson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janet Ajzenstat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jill Vickers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joanna Quinn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kiera Ladner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women's Caucus of the Canadian Political Science Association]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/?p=994</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The battle with certain members of the Women&#8217;s Caucus of the Canadian Political Science Association appears to be entering a new phase.  In a posting on the Women&#8217;s Caucus listserve, the distinguished political science professor from McMaster University, Janet Ajzenstat, weighed in with the following (for the full posting see &#8220;WC email &#8211; Janet Ajzenstat&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Davis Inlet to Natuashish &#8211; the dysfunction continues</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2009/12/30/from-davis-inlet-to-natuashish-the-dysfunction-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mtroyal.ca/fwiddowson/2009/12/30/from-davis-inlet-to-natuashish-the-dysfunction-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frances Widdowson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The community of Natuashish in northern Labrador is in the news once again (www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-red-flags-of-a-thriving-black-market/article1412287/.  It is noted that while the community voted to ban alcohol within its borders, this decision has only resulted in a black market for alcohol, where residents pay smugglers $350 for 60-ounce bottle of hard liquor.  The existence of the continuing demand [...]]]></description>
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