Category Archives: News

Heart gardens honour those lost to residential schools Sherri Vansickle and her students went on a planting spree recently. Vansickle, a lecturer in the Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education, her two classes, and members of the Canadian Union … Continue reading →

Trio of awards for dramatic arts professor It has been a busy spring for Joe Norris. In the midst of packing up his office to transfer to the new Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, the dramatic … Continue reading →

Brock-led arts documentary captures top prizes in international film competition When young people are given the chance to tell their own stories in their own ways, amazing things can happen. They produce plays that are both entertaining and informative. They … Continue reading →

Teens’ push against dress codes could be a sign of social shift, expert says Waterloo Region Record By Michelle McQuigge TORONTO — Students may have been rebelling against school-imposed dress codes for decades, but observers say the fact that those … Continue reading →

Kendra Coulter, Brock Labour Studies Violence against animals is horrific wherever it occurs. Yet much of it is normalized and hidden from public view on factory farms, in slaughterhouses, in the wildlife trade, in cosmetics testing facilities. Most animals are … Continue reading →

The Ontario Council on University Research has selected Jennifer Rowsell, Canada Research Chair in Multiliteracies, to participate in the upcoming Ontario and Canada Research Chairs Symposium, to be held in Toronto April 1-2. Rowsell, professor in the Department of Teacher … Continue reading →

Larry Savage has teamed up with History Professor Tami Friedman to create the Twitter-based Niagara Labour History Project as a way of communicating and celebrating that history. It’s a series of Tweets based on a chronological timetable of key events, … Continue reading →