Widdowson’s Workplace Harassment and Termination Happened This Way

From June to July 2020, Widdowson advocated for former CBC broadcaster Wendy Mesley after the CBC disciplined Mesley for referencing a book title “White Niggers of America” in CBC staff meetings.

“I spoke out for Mesley because she didn’t use the title to insult someone or discriminate against a group,” Widdowson said. “She just said it to reference the book to CBC editors in staff meetings.”


Later, Widdowson publicly opposed educators presenting indigenous science as objective science since indigenous science draws its conclusions from native-elder anecdotes and spiritual legends.

“Science must always be based on facts, not untested stories or beliefs,” Widdowson said. “So indigenous science isn’t, at all, science.”


In July 2020, the political-scientist professor caught the attention of her colleague Gabrielle Weasel Head, an indigenous studies professor at the same university.

Weasel Head, in response to Widdowson’s dissenting views, defamed Widdowson online by naming Widdowson a racist and a danger to university faculty and students. She also urged university students and faculty to file complaints against Widdowson and harass her online.


After Gabrielle Weasel Head complained to the university about Widdowson satirizing her defamatory social-media posts about Widdowson, the university then developed its nonexistent social-media policies to target Widdowson and restrict what Widdowson and other faculty members post online.


“It’s crazy how a woke professor can target another professor for dissenting views that aren’t hateful or discriminatory,” Widdowson said. “and the university does nothing. But when the victim satirizes or criticizes that woke professor’s conduct, the victim is the one being investigated, not the attacker.

“Such contradictory standards!

“Plus, harassment and safety complaints shouldn’t be used as a tool to silence factual and dissenting views, especially in an academic environment where professors are supposed to pursue the truth.”


In December 2020, Weasel Head resigned from the university because she felt Widdowson endangered her safety.

After Gabrielle Weasel Head resigned, the university fired Widdowson in December 2021 then rehired Weasel Head two-months after Widdowson’s termination.

“Mount Royal University brands itself as a first-nation friendly university for indigenous students, so it needs Weasel Head as a faculty member to be its spokesperson for that brand, and having me on staff is detrimental to that brand,” Widdowson said.


After her termination, Widdowson filed ten grievances with an Alberta arbitrator against the university.

The arbitrator, David Phillip Jones, ruled in July 2024 the university wrongfully terminated Widdowson and awarded Widdowson $300 thousand in damages. Jones also ruled to allow the university to not reinstate Widdowson in her former position because Widdowson’s presence creates an acrimonious workplace.

So Widdowson filed an appeal with the Alberta Labour Relations Board in July 2024 for the university to reinstate her in her former position and increase the financial damages awarded.

To learn more about Frances Widdowson’s February 6 hearing, visit Widdowson’s website wokeacademy or email her at widdowsonfrances@gmail.com


Bobby Kushner, a screenplay, feature and public-relations writer in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. To work with Kushner or pitch your story ideas, contact him at kushnerbobby@gmail.com or 226 - 220 - 4961


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Chris Hedges on the Left and Victor Hanson on the Right Assert this about North America’s Free-trade Agreements

Canada and America’s free-trade deals fuel deindustrialization and unemployment for the working class, and the skyrocketing unemployment fuels drug use, domestic violence, mass shootings, suicides and crime.

“Free-trade recreated oligarchy capitalism,” Hedges said. “. . . And the unchecked greed of these elites created phenomena like the opioid crisis, suicides, political extremists both on the left and right, mass shootings and crime in deindustrialized areas.”

Liberal and conservative leaders in Canada and the U.S. presented free-trade, globalism, as a means to better jobs, products, services, innovations and environmental standards.

Yet the opposite occurred!

“NAFTA mainly was mainly created to boost profit margins for the elites and the coastal cosmopolitans through the use of worker exploitation, cheap materials, low-quality manufacturing and non-existent employment and environmental standards in Mexico and China,” Hanson said.

“. . . Microplastics are found in almost everything throughout the world: our water, soil, animals and bodies.

“It’s proven globalism, with its shipping lanes and waste dumping, caused this. However, the elites and cosmopolitans still declare free-trade environmentally more safe, so the left will say anything to oppose Trump, even if it undermines its own desires and objectives.

“Plus, globalism always pushed to erode working-class prosperity, national sovereignty and cultural identity, especially in America.”


Hedges said, “Ronald Reagan, Brian Mulroney, Bill Clinton and Jean Chretien pushed for NAFTA.
“. . . So the Democrats abandoned the working class when it supported the Republicans in these trade deals. . . .
“ . . . And our gravest mistake happened when we failed to build a counterweight to the Democratic Party after NAFTA.”

Chris Hedges Opposes President Trump’s Tariffs as Victor Hanson Advocates for Them.

Hedges wants mass social movements and protests and union influence to dismantle the oligarchy behind North America’s free-trade deals.

“Persistent-mass protests, social movements and civil disobedience backed by unions produced the change throughout history – not obedience, politicians or the elites.” Hedges said.


However, Hanson describes President Trump’s tariffs as the means to smash the oligarchy behind free-trade and thwart China, Mexico and India from their engagement in mercantilism, a country exporting more than it imports through,

• tariffing imports
• subsidizing exports
• manipulating the value of its currency
• shirking labour and environmental standards
• flooding global markets with cheap goods
• stealing intellectual property and technology
• and using any other means to force one-sided trade

“China always engaged in mercantilism against the U.S.,” Hanson said. “by subsidizing Chinese exports, tariffing U.S. exports, stealing U.S. intellectual property and technology, flooding our markets with inferior-and-cheap products and manipulating the value of its currency.

“NAFTA creates, with just Mexico alone, a $170 billion each year in job losses and trade deficits because the trade deal allows Mexico to engage in sweatshop-labour and ignore employment and environmental standards with no sanctions.

“So Trump’s tariffs just match the tariffs on U.S. goods from other countries to force fairer deals, end worker exploitation and protect American workers.

“Trump’s tariffs also challenge traditional conservative free-market orthodoxy. Something overdue and needed!”

Canadian Liberal and Conservative Leaders Vie to Preserve the Status Quo for Canada’s Free Trade

President Trump's tariffs hand Canada an opportunity to exit its free-trade deals and rebuild its gutted economy through its own efforts and self-determination.

However, Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney and Canadian Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre vie to preserve all Canada’s free-trade deals and replace America in USMCA with Mexico, China and the European Union, so Canada’s liberal and conservative leaders lack the will to transform Canada’s economy into an independent and productive one.





Since we last spoke in 2020, Idris Reza and Roovert Katz received their American green cards, and Reza a designer and engineer job offer from an automotive EV supplier and Katz a scholarship to a Tennessee medical school.

The two already applied for a bank loan to relocate together to the U.S. with Reza’s wife and kids.

“There’s really no opportunity in Canada for capable people,” Katz said. “unless you got all the right connections and timing. Once we leave this place, we’re gone for good!”

“Unless we come back to visit you,” Reza cracked a smile and said.

To view Chris Hedges’ content, visit his Youtube @ChrisHedgesChannel or Subtack chrishedges.substack.com channel

And Victor Hanson’s content on his “The Blade of Perseus” website at victorhanson.com and Youtube channel @victordavishanson7273


Bobby Kushner, a screenplay, feature and public-relations writer in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. To work with Kushner or pitch your story ideas, contact him at kushnerbobby@gmail.com or 226 - 220 - 4961


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James Heller’s Dispute with the Law Society Started This Way

Heller perused a law society manual titled “Indigenous Intercultural Course.” The manual discusses the history and legacy of indigenous legislation and residential schools, and the law society requires all British Columbia lawyers to study it to retain their law license.

He formally requested the law society to change the factual errors in its manual regarding the Kamloops Indian Band discovering 215 child graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Heller also included in his requested amendment an appellate ruling on the matter from British Columbia Chief Justice, Leonard Marchand, also indigenous.

In July 2024, Chief Justice Marchand ruled in Miranda Dick’s appeal, No bodies were found at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The burials and deaths are still unconfirmed, so British Columbia Justice Shelley Fitzpatrick presented no prejudice or factual errors about the residential-school burials or the accused, Miranda Dick, before sentencing Dick to 28 days in jail for violating an injunction, a court order, to not obstruct the construction of the trans-canada pipeline or endanger the safety of the pipeline’s workers.

> Levi Landry's coverage on Chief Justice Marchand’s ruling and Miranda Dick’s appeal


In its public response to James Heller’s request, the law society claimed Heller’s request to be misinformed and named him a racist, so Heller filed suit for defamation in August 2025 against the law society.

Past Facts about the Kamloops Residential Indian School

". . . Heinous crimes of child abuse and genocide must be based on evidence, not hearsay . . . ," said Michelle Stirling, a Canadian researcher and writer on the confederation and formation of Canada.

"GPR, ground penetrating radar, also isn't capable of identifying bodies in the ground, just anomalies, and Canadians are still unaware that the Kamloops Indian Residential School were largely run by indigenous people from the Kamloops Indian Band, not white people.

". . . Although the band received $12 million in government funds to dig up the site and collect any human remains, the first nation still doesn't want to excavate the supposed burial site because it designated the site sacred ground, so the site can't be disturbed. . . .

" . . . Regardless, the Kamloops first nation owes us the remains of the bodies after it accused my ancestors of genocide and took $12 million in government money to excavate the site."


Canadian political scientist and writer about Canadian indigenous governance, Frances Widdowson said, "It turns out the excavated tooth at the Kamloops residential school from the early 2000s wasn't even human and the rib bone too poorly tested and documented to conclude if its human and or if it came from the Kamloops school.

"It’s also unusual no parents from the Kamloops band complained or filed any reports of their children going missing. All parents, regardless of race, panic and complain when their kids go missing.”

Residential-school Provisions in First-nation Treaties

Nigel Biggar, a University of Oxford theology professor and historian, explained, The Canadian government created residential schools for indigenous tribes not to extinguish their culture and language but to grant the tribes educational provisions. Provisions the tribes included themselves in their treaties, their agreements with the Crown.

"The natives lobbied for residential schools," Biggar said. ". . . When the bison population collapsed, the Natives and the Crown made treaties with another, and the tribes persuaded the Crown to provide provisions in education, land, protection, agriculture, weapons, medical care and hunting. Provisions the Natives still receive from the Crown to this day.”

A Famous Indigenous Writer’s Take on Canadian Residential Schools

Huffington Post reporter, Joshua Ostroff asked in 2015 Tomson Highway, a Canadian playwright, author and composer, about the abuse he experienced at Guy Hill Residential School in Manitoba and his difficulties in life after his departure from the school.

“That was a mistake,” Highway responded. “My residential school experience was fantastic. So much of that is skewed. You don't have the whole picture.”

> Highway’s 2015 televised interview

American Lobbies and First-Nation Governments and Organizations

Three American foundations fund many first-nation governments, organizations and unions to lobby the Canadian government and the United Nations about first-nation natural resources, land claims and residential schools.

Dallas Brodie, now the leader of the OneBC party, said, “Foundations like the Tides, Ford and Rockefeller foundations finance numerous indigenous lobbies in Canada also UN declarations like UNDRIP -- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."

Read more about the three American foundations by clicking,

• Tides
• Rockefeller Foundation
• Ford Foundation

The Future of Residential-school Death and Abuse Claims

NDP Winnipeg Centre MP, Leah Gazan moved in October 2025 to legislate questioning any residential-school abuse or death claim a criminal offence and all residential-school claims to be classified as genocides.

"We know children died there. We know children were abused there," said Wade Grant, a Musqueam first-nation member. "So why do we need to dig graves to prove this."

Currently, the Kamloops Indian Band fenced off the disputed burial site and appointed security to bar any access to it.



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The accused’s lead counsel, Gloria Ichim said, “The Crown pursued a clear care-and-control case against my client and only presented evidence for that case. Nothing about my client driving intoxicated earlier in the day, which the Crown never presented evidence for at trial.”


The Criminal Code’s Care And Control provision bars any intoxicated person from occupying the vehicle’s driver seat or operating its controls: the vehicle’s gearshifter, ignition and steering wheel.

The accused’s co-counsel, Emmanuel Wingate, said, “If the Crown filed a Readback application at trial, the court would have sent us – the defence – a Notice To Call, which the court never did.”

A Notice to Call, a court notice directing the defence to call its experts to test the accuracy of the police’s physical evidence and examine if the police followed the proper procedures when collecting and handling that evidence.


Ichim’s appellate response outlines the case this way:

• The accused entered a Kitchener restaurant while waiting for a friend.
  A restaurant patron said to police and later testified, “The accused appeared sober when arriving at the restaurant.”
  
  
• The accused then drank spirits as he continued to wait for his friend.
  
  
• After the accused’s friend left the restaurant, the accused entered his vehicle, urinated in a bottle, phoned his wife for a ride home then returned to the restaurant and consumed more spirits.
  
  
• The patron then phoned police about an intoxicated patron entering his vehicle.
  
  
• When the accused’s wife arrived to collect her husband, the police also arrived then charged the accused in April 2023 for Impaired Operation and Over 80.
  
  
• At trial, the Crown pursued a care-and-control case against the accused. A case based on the accused occupying the vehicle’s driver seat or operating its controls while intoxicated.
  
  
• Justice Kennedy ruled in January 2025 the accused not guilty on both charges.
  
  
• Waterloo Region lead Crown, Alanna Fedak-Tarnopolsky appealed in September 2025 the Justice’s ruling and asserted, The accused drove while intoxicated to the restaurant.
  
  
• Ichim said, "My top concern, the Crown never presented any evidence or testimony showing the accused drove intoxicated to the restaurant nor served us a Notice To Call to challenge the Crown’s Readback application because the Crown never filed that application at trial.
  
  "Meaning, the Crown's appeal violates the accused's Charter rights to challenge the Crown's new position, which wasn't presented at trial, and examine the accuracy of the police's physical evidence.
  
  "So the Crown filed this appeal to uphold the Bell precedent, and nothing more!"

To learn more about this appeal, email Gloria Ichim at gichim4@gmail.com

Ichim Law, a family, estate and criminal law firm in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
For additional information about Ichim's practice and other cases, click Ichim Law





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"The attacks from FNNND employees often start as racial slurs like interloper, nigger, kike and southern squaw then progress to the employees sabotaging our work and directing FNNND citizens to accost and assault us for being outsiders,” a former First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun employee said.

"It’s also clear this First Nation still struggles not because of residential schools and past discrimination but because of the blatant theft of funds and criminal activity from its administrators, so FNNND’s incompetence isn't circumstantial but intentional because of its criminal activity and corruption, similar to many third-world countries.”

A former RCMP commander and First Nation of Nacho Nyak justice and governance director, Robert Gillan said, “The Yukon First Nations are so damaged from residential schools that they can’t be held accountable for their corruption, racism and criminal activity.”

“I agree,” the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun executive director, McGarry Selbee said. “Employees coming to the First Nation as outsiders need to grow a thicker skin and tolerate some deserved prejudice for past wrongs done to this First Nation by our colonist ancestors.”


The Yukon statement of claim lists 10 First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun employees as defendants:

- Teresa Samson, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun heritage manager
- Adrienne Hill, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun finance director
- Eileen Peter, a Yukon Soaps Company and First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun social-media assistant

- Karen Clark-Marlow, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun human-resource director
- Robert Gillan, a former First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun justice-governance director
- Geri-Lee Buyck, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun councillor

- McGarry Selbee, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun executive director
- Ronalda Moses, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun human-resource technician
- Peter Idoko, a former First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun information-technology manager
- Joella Hogan, the owner of the Yukon Soaps Company and a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun contractor


Click below for the plaintiff's claim and evidence file and the defendants' defence and other affidavits.

• statement of claim
• affidavit of documents
• statement of defence
• other affidavits

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A First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun Heritage Manager Pleads Guilty to Breach of Trust and Fraud

By Bobby Kushner / November 7, 2025

WHITEHORSE, YUKON -- Teresa Samson, a First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun heritage manager, pleads guilty to the charges after the Mayo RCMP arrested Samson for bilking $9 thousand from the Village of Mayo Ambulance Service to fund her hedonistic lifestyle.

> Click here for CBC's coverage of Samson's court case

To learn more about the upcoming October 31, 2025 hearing at the Yukon Supreme Court, contact Bobby Kushner at kushnerbobby@gmail.com or (226) 220 - 4961




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"Excessively long wait times remain a characteristic of Canada’s health-care system," says Mackenzie Moir, a Fraser Institute policy analyst.
"And yes, the long wait times decreased the quality of life and work productivity and increased unemployment, and in the worst cases, disability or death.
"For most Canadian patients wait for treatments and surgeries about two years and, sometimes, four years."

The provinces and territories together call the federal government to provide them a $28 billion annual increase, so they better contend with the staffing shortages. The federal government agrees to the funding increase if the provinces and territories compose a plan for expanding the health-care workforce and improving data sharing among the provinces and territories.


The director of the Manitoba Health Coalition, Thomas Linner says, "We need to staff up and share data in a more timely manner across all provinces and territories, so all Canadian health-care providers and facilities make more informed decisions more quickly, and so all patients benefit across Canada.    . . .  
I think the federal government’s starting to realize this."


Hoping to receive a date for his cataract surgery, John Gilroy phoned the office of his ophthalmologist. However, the office provided him no upcoming date for his surgery, so Gilroy still remains on the wait list.


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A passenger of Murphy's recalls Murphy handing out every Friday Canadian Eat-More candy bars to every passenger.

"A little effort to make others smile in this cruel world goes along ways," Murphy says.

Murphy also tries never to play the same CD twice in one day.

"I always take music requests from my passengers, but I'm always partial to anything Burton Cummings or The Guess Who," Murphy says as he tears open the wrapper for an Eat-More candy bar.

David Murphy began driving buses for Wayne State University Law School when he started in January 2002 his boxing training camp at the Kronk Gym and needed extra money.

He plans to keep driving buses for the law school until his training camp ends or until he jokingly finds a wife.

"Who knows!" Murphy chuckles. "Maybe oneday, my future bride will board my bus."

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“I never saw who it was or knew what was happening,” Price says. "but felt that I likely won't walk away from this."

Price then wrestled the suspect to the ground and handcuffed him. However, the suspect was a 10-year-old boy and the gun a replica toy gun.

“It looked like a Smith & Wesson pistol to me. But it was thankfully a metal-cap gun,” Price said.

The 10-year-old boy was charged with assaulting a police officer with a weapon and held with no bail.

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“When someone’s not hearing voices, doesn’t have racing thoughts and isn’t awake for days – a more logical explanation for these behaviors is ADD,” Dr. Shuang Xu says, a psychiatrist at Homewood Health Centre. “especially if these individuals struggled with impulsive behaviors since childhood.”

According to information from the Canadian Mental Health Association, impulsive behaviours begin in childhood for ADD patients and adulthood for schizophrenic and bipolar disorder ones.

Dr. Xu explained, ADD is often difficult to diagnose in adults because most patients aren’t forthcoming about their struggle with impulsive behaviors during childhood.

“This is frequently why many adults with ADD are misdiagnosed as being bipolar or schizophrenic,” Dr. Xu says.

“Uncontrolled anger, mood shifts and other impulsive behaviors are also key traits in biopolar disorder and schizophrenia, not just ADD.”

Johnston currently copes with his disorder by attending dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) programs at Homewood Health Centre.

He also takes Concerta, a stimulant used for treating ADD.

“An uncle of mine told me. I’ll live a hard life,” Johnston says. “if I continue destroying the things I’ve worked very hard to get when overwhelmed.”



THERAPY OPTIONS Two therapy options for ADD individuals wanting to better manage stressful life events

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