A Calgary professor who says she was fired for her stance on issues such as Black Lives Matter, indigenous residential schools, and the relationship between gender and biological sex has filed a grievance against her dismissal and will crowdfund the fight to regain her job.
Frances Widdowson, a tenured associate professor in the department of economics, justice, and policy studies, was fired by Mount Royal University (MRU) on the day of fall-semester final exams on Dec. 20 last year.
In a letter to Widdowson that day, MRU president Tim Rahilly listed 12 reasons for her dismissal, including complaints from students, external parties, former colleagues who left because of her, and her contribution to a “toxic workplace environment … negatively impacting the mission and reputation of the university.”
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