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The Board of Governors at Cape Breton University meets today to vote on a tentative contract with the faculty association.
The Board will also discuss the situation with university president David Wheeler, apparently over the way he handled the contract negotiations. Nobody is saying much about that. Wheeler was placed on a paid leave pending the outcome of an independant investigation into what the board called governance issues.
A Dalhousie professor says Viola Desmond was a true trail blazer.
Desmond was chosen to be the first woman on a Canadian banknote, replacing John A. MacDonald on the $10 bill.
Desmond decided to sit in the whites only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow (NS) in 1946 and was arrested.
She was fined $20.
After that she went on to be a civil rights activist.
Professor Isaac Saney, a senior instructor of black studies at Dal; says Desmond’s act of defiance was a singular act of courage.
He hopes her story will help teach people the unsanitized version of Canadian history included slavery and institutionalized racism.