Frances Widdowson's 'Grave Error' at Kamloops Residential School Lecture at Brock University

On October 29, 2024, Frances Widdowson, after being invited by Brock University professors Kevin Gosine, Tamari Kitossa, and Ron Thomson, gave the Tomas Hudlicky Memorial Lecture for Academic Freedom. The talk was entitled "The 'Grave Error' at Kamloops: How Does it Relate to Academic Freedom?" There were introductions by Kevin Gosine and Ron Thomson, and a Q an A was held in the second hour.

The lecture slides for the talk are available at this link - https://wokeacademy.info/frances-widd....

The video was shot and edited by Greg Wycliffe and his assistant Dan. You can support Wycliffe's fight against Bill C-63 by visiting www.savefreespeech.ca.

Frances Widdowson was wrongfully terminated from Mount Royal University in December 2021 - https://wokeacademy.info/arbitration-.... Her firing was directly related to her criticisms of the residential schools. She was fired for making six satirical Tweets (https://wokeacademy.info/geoff-hopes-...) and filing what was deemed to be a frivolous and vexatious complaint (https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2022.... Two of the Tweets satirized the idea that the residential schools were genocidal.

Although Widdowson was found to have been wrongfully terminated, the arbitrator ruled that she could not be returned to the workplace because her employment relationship with Mount Royal University was was no longer viable. This decision is being appealed to the Alberta Labour Relations Board.