Dear King’s Community, On Saturday, September 30, King’s and people across the country will observe the third National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. When Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its 94 Calls to Action [PDF] in 2015, among these was a Call to Action for the federal government of Canada to establish a statutory holiday “to honour Survivors, their…
On September 8th, the Foundation Year Program (FYP) received an extraordinary gift: a lecture from Hereditary Chief on the Mi'kmaq Grand Council, Elder and Mi'kmaq scholar Stephen Augustine. It was an honor for King’s to host Chief Augustine as he taught a hall of FYP students about the Mi’kmaw Creation Story, and shed light on…
The Peter Mansbridge Investigative Writing Award will benefit students in King’s Master of Journalism and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction A $100,000 gift from esteemed Canadian journalist Peter Mansbridge will endow a new scholarship, the Peter Mansbridge Investigative Writing Award, to be awarded annually to a student in the second year of the…
