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A woman has filed a $1.25 million lawsuit against the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, alleging that, while she was a scholarship student, she was sexually harassed by her mentor and the foundation then pressured her to sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep it quiet.
Cherry Smiley, 38, is a member of the Nlaka’pamux Nation in British Columbia and the Dine’ Nation. She received a scholarship to the foundation in 2016, when she was in the second year of her PhD program at Concordia University in Montreal. She alleges she was sexually harassed by her mentor, Stephen Kakfwi, the former premier of the Northwest Territories, and the foundation tried to get her to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
This dispute resembles the protests over Clayoquot Sound (also on the west coast of Vancouver Island). Dubbed the “War in the Woods,” more than 850 people were arrested in 1993 for blockading logging roads. That protest, sparked by a decision to allow logging in the area, was the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history and a seminal event in the history of the environmental movement.
This research can shed light on current and future conflicts. People who support the goals and values of a movement can be drawn into it, what social movement scholars call “the mobilization potential.” However, involvement is often contingent upon other factors, such as social ties to other participants.
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However, HIV/AIDS has deeply affected, and continues to affect, many different communities in Canada. This includes gay, bisexual and queer men, who are still disproportionately affected by the pandemic, as well as women, Indigenous people, transgender people and African, Caribbean and Black people, who are often overlooked in HIV policies and histories.
People who live at the intersections of marginalized communities face unique barriers.
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Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh, relax as they sail to Victoria on May 3, 1971. It was the royal visit that marked B.C. s centennial celebration of joining Confederation. Prince Philip died early Friday.(Bill Croke/Canadian Press)