Alex Usher steps very carefully though this discussion of the implementation of the calls to action in Justice Murray Sinclair's 2015 report on Residential Schools. In particular, Usher points to recommendations that universities offer programs in Indigenous languages and offer specific curricula to doctors, lawyers and journalists on residential schools, Aboriginal-Crown relations and intercultural competency and anti-racism. And, notes Usher, while institutions did a lot of things, most notably they mostly failed to do these things. Why not? He perhaps wisely doesn't press. But I think we should, because it could be at least argued that these curricula would undermine the fundamental structures of power and culture the university system was developed to promote and preserve. Image: CBC.
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