Author: Adam Gaundry and Danielle Lorenz

Following the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, Canadian universities and colleges have felt pressured to indigenize their institutions. What “indigenization” has looked like, however, has varied significantly. Based on the input from an anonymous online survey of 25 Indigenous academics and their allies, we assert that indigenization is a three-part spectrum. On one end is Indigenous inclusion, in the middle reconciliation indigenization, and on the other end decolonial indigenization.

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Author: El-Assal, K.

Canada’s international student population has tripled over the past decade to 642,000 in 2019. Canada has moved into third place globally behind the United States of America and Australia.

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Author: Victoria Surtees

Drawing on interviews with undergraduate students (n = 13) from one postsecondary Canadian institution, I examine how the seemingly neutral labels applied to diverse students, such as the category “international,” operate in talk to reproduce deficit understandings of these students.

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Author: Wisahkotewinowak

Wisahkotewinowak is an urban Indigenous garden collective building Land-based relationships across the Grand River Territory.

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Author: Bruce Perry, Maia Szalavitz

In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children—and outlines the path to recovery.

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Author: Keeta Gladue

This resource provides concrete practices that centre Indigenous academic integrity and stem from Indigenous theories and Indigenous research, and it focuses on the principles of relationality, reciprocity, and respect.

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Author: Queens SASS

This guide breaks down cultural expectations that indirectly impact students’ academic success.

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Author: John Strazzabosco

Ninety Feet Under–What Poverty Does to People identifies ninety major impacts of poverty on people, stressors that strike in total and all the time.

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Author: Brian Arao, Kristi Clemens

This article explores the language about safe spaces, and provides guidance on how to change the conversation to become more inclusive.

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Author: Norquest College

This resource provides examples of cultural dissonance in which a miscommunication or sense of discomfort occurs but is not addressed. They are perfect scenarios for critical discussion. A facilitation guide is provided.

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