#UofG sociology professor and femicide researcher Dr. Myrna Dawson has co-authored a new report on a decade of gender-based violence in Atlantic Canada.
@CSAHS_UoG@DawsonMyrna@CAN_Femicide@csslrv
https://t.co/9RVdvUpPJw
✨Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 SSHRC Impact Awards! These awards are the highest honour bestowed by SSHRC. Read more about these outstanding social sciences and humanities scholars: https://t.co/egjBxMNyIV
From student to president, Dr. Rene Van Acker reflects on his #UofG roots and his vision for the future of higher education.
Learn how president Van Acker’s U of G experience continues to guide the University’s mission to Improve Life: https://t.co/eKDlITsbyz
This summer marks a historic milestone at #UofG—the first grads of the Justice & Legal Studies (JLS) program! They unveiled a commemorative bench, funded by the JLS Society, and are now fundraising for the first JLS undergrad scholarship.
Learn more:https://t.co/S2g3OJtJko
With deep sadness, we share the passing of Michael Burawoy.
A towering figure in sociology, he shaped global debates & championed Public Sociology with passion.
His legacy lives on.
Read ESA’s full statement here: https://t.co/YjowFTE3Eo
Our paper is 1 of 4 short-listed for @IS_sociology Best Paper Prize.
Shout out to my co-authors @HaleakalaAngus & @AngelikaZecha w/out whom it would never have progressed to the submission stage.
Check out all 4 shortlisted papers below:
https://t.co/jGzCoepy8v
Dangerous effort to push back important gains toward ending anti-black racism in Ontario schools. Remember that under police-in-school programs, Black children were being handcuffed in their spaces of learning. It was a vicious practice. Never again. https://t.co/p6YTftR7z0
A man who was shot by Winnipeg police on Sunday has been identified as 24-year-old Jordan Charlie.
Charlie, who was originally from Iqaluit, was released from a provincial jail just days before his death.
https://t.co/9Cw0LVBpdN
Record numbers of displaced and stateless people are in dire need of help.
As @Refugees provides emergency aid and long-term solutions, greater global support is urgently needed to protect, assist and empower the world’s most vulnerable.
https://t.co/dq5eC1KysP
Another Indigenous person has been shot and killed by the RCMP.
According to APTN News, this is the 11th person killed by RCMP/municipal police since August.
MB police watchdog investigating RCMP shooting of 17-year-old boy in Norway House First Nation https://t.co/bwZlyCbpJz
Did you know that in some regions of the world a coyote is a person who smuggles migrants?
Migrants pay coyotes a fee to cross borders.
Migrant smuggling is a #DeadlyBusiness!
Family grieving after Indigenous man dies shortly after being in police custody
Five children are grieving the loss of their father Eugene Joseph who passed away just days after being taken into RCMP custody. This was after he was detained for
https://t.co/vEdSWsXfzr
An Alberta man who shot and killed two Métis hunters in 2020 was denied an appeal of his conviction by the Supreme Court of Canada.
Anthony Bilodeau was sentenced to life in prison in July 2022 with no chance of parole for 13 years.
https://t.co/wC0OjJk3yE
We are devastated to learn of the loss of our beloved leader and Elder, Mizana Giizhik, His Honour, Murray Sinclair. His tireless work to advance the rights of Indigenous Peoples and ensure the legacy of residential school Survivors will never be forgotten.