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Principal Patrick Deane opened the first in-person Senate meeting in two years on Tuesday with a land acknowledgement, followed by moments of silence for Queen Elizabeth II and Dr. Isabel Bader.

In an open letter to Principal Patrick Deane, the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) 901 said Queen’s is not doing enough to protect employees, students, and the Kingston community.

Queen’s is mourning the loss of Isabel Bader, LL.D ’07, a major donor to the school alongside her late husband Alfred Bader, who passed away in 2018.

Isabel Bader and her late husband Alfred directed hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts to various causes.

Cuba, who won a Grammy for best Latin pop album, has been honoured with a mural in his hometown of Smithers, B.C., and a doctorate from Ontario's Queen's University.

Alex Cuba will become Doctor of Laws at Queen’s University in October on heels of Grammy win

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped at Mitchell Hall to announce the construction of a $1.5 billion Umicore electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility in the Loyalist Township.

Several academics say the call for the Kingston, Ont., university to apologize and create a process to verify the Indigenous identity of staff could be a promising step forward. The report comes after a handful of school associates were accused of falsely claiming to be Indigenous.

The 32-page report from First Peoples Group, an Indigenous advisory firm, was released Friday and comes after an anonymous report surfaced online last June alleging six instructors, professors and associates at Queen's had falsely claimed Indigenous identity at the Kingston, Ont., university.

Queen’s University announced it is renaming the Bader International Study Centre (BISC) to Bader College on Monday.