Frances Widdowson proposed a date for the case against Mount Royal University. The academic confirmed she wanted to have it out with the institution in January. Widdowson was fired in December for saying BLM had ‘destroyed’ the university. Activists attacked her for being positive on Canada’s residential school program.
A tenured economics professor in Canada was fired for saying Black Lives Matter destroyed her university to such an extent she ‘doesn’t recognize it anymore’.
Frances Widdowson, who also taught justice and policy studies, was sacked from Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada last year.
The academic is now calling for an open arbitration hearing with the school to have it out with the institution next January – but bosses are yet to agree.
Widdowson was fired in December for saying BLM had destroyed the college to such an extent she ‘doesn’t recognize it anymore’.
Activists rounded on her and called her a racist for claiming Canada’s residential school program offered Indigenous children chances ‘they wouldn’t have received’.
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