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Immigrant professors say they need to “act white” in Canadian academia
Racialized faculty members not only carry the emotional labour in an academic institution, but they also find themselves constantly needing to “transform themselves” in order to be accepted by their colleagues and students, according to a Black professor at Edmonton’s MacEwan University.
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CEGEP students protest Bill 96: ‘It’s going to damage our futures’
Hundreds of CEGEP students at English colleges around Quebec left class in a co-ordinated action Thursday morning to denounce Bill 96 — the proposed law to overhaul the province’s French-language charter.
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