Paul Axelrod, a professor emeritus at 91ŃÇɫ’s Faculty of Education, recently lent his expertise on the origins of the public education system during an interview on CBC News' IDEAS podcast. The discussion, which took place on the second episode of the series, provided an in-depth look at the historical development of schooling and higher education.

For those intrigued by educational history and its impact on society, Professor Axelrod's insights offer a compelling exploration of the forces that have shaped our educational institutions.

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A parliamentary committee member is calling for transparency from Canada's premier art institution following recent and very public staff turmoil â€” and he's imploring Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez to step in. 

"It's important that the minister, because [he] has an overseeing role for our cultural institutions, get the answers to questions that many people are asking," said Peter Julian, the NDP MP for New Westminster-Burnaby and a member of the standing committee on Canadian heritage, in an interview Monday with Radio-Canada. 

Gabrielle Moser, an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education at 91ŃÇÉ«, agreed that Hill's departure was surprising, pointing to the creation of his role as a groundbreaking moment for the gallery.

But she said talk of his exit has overshadowed recent positive developments, including the launch earlier this year of the gallery's department of Indigenous ways and decolonization. 

"Two newly hired people are still there directing that work," Moser said, adding that the gallery . 

"I worry that the big, big reaction [the staff departures are] getting is from an old guard who wants to keep things the way they were and that folks are not willing to see that this might be a necessary stage in changing the gallery so that it is more meaningful to a greater number of people." 

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Professor Celia Haig-Brown shares her collaborators’ stories of their experiences of residential schools and reconciliation. Haig-Brown talks about returning to earlier work on surviving the Indian Residential School in her forthcoming book, 'Tsqelmucwílc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School―Resistance and a Reckoning', and the journey to its publication.

"I think in terms of reconciliation, this book has allowed the opportunity for me to return to the people I interviewed initially, to the children of those people who have passed on, and to offer them the opportunity to claim their words for themselves by using their full names. At the time that I was doing this work - it was not possible to do that," says Haig-Brown.

"There's a number of them who have agreed to have their names attached to their words and a number of them have also done some follow-up writing about the ongoing impact of residential schools," continues Haig-Brown, "How they're moving on and reconciling themselves to their understandings of what residential schools have done to culture, language, family and making positive moves in the direction of a change."

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The system for granting federal research funding in Canada fails to give Black scientists the support they need to optimize their work, professors and researchers say. Not providing that stability for researchers may result in a brain drain to other countries, says Lawrence Goodridge, who has worked in the U.S. and Canada. He said one common criterion for determining who gets grant funding in Canada is if a candidate demonstrates leadership or has received grants before.

Carl James, a professor at 91ŃÇÉ« in Toronto and the Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community and Diaspora, agrees that different life and work experiences from Black and other racialized researchers don't always get the recognition they should by people who review grant applications.

"If you believe that the research is enhanced by the diversity of the people who are doing it, the entire society benefits, because of the diversity, because of the richness of the information that we're getting," James said. 

"We are trying to help Black students go on the path towards the kind of occupations that they might have interest in."

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