Two media articles have appeared today about the St. Lewis v. Rancourt lawsuit:
"Report author denied status in racism dispute"
by Heather Guardiner, Legal Feeds
"Denis Rancourt ordered to pay $16,000 in legal costs in defamation case"
by Don Butler, Ottawa Citzen
Showing posts with label Yavar Hameed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yavar Hameed. Show all posts
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Global News Reporter's File::: State of academic freedom in Canada's capital -- video
The Press-TV Global News report of September 8, 2011 (4:30pm GMT) contained this segment about the state academic freedom in Canada, and in Canada's capital Ottawa in particular.
The Press TV video report features:
- James Turk (Executive Director, Canadian Association of University Teachers),
- Yavar Hameed (human rights lawyer),
- Joseph Hickey (student representative on the Senate, University of Ottawa),
- Ian Bron (Managing Director, Canadians for Accountability),
- Denis Rancourt (wrongfully dismissed Full Professor with tenure, University of Ottawa), and
- activist students being wrongfully arrested for free expression on the campus of Carleton University (Ottawa).
Labour law tribunal hearings into the wrongful dismissal of Denis Rancourt are on-going and can be followed HERE.
Friday, April 29, 2011
Report on racism at the School of Nursing - today's press conference and Michaelle Jean
[April 29, 2011, press conference participants]The Centre for Equity and Human Rights (CEHR) of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO) held its press conference about the racism in the U of O School of Nursing today.
The CEHR has received twenty racism discrimination complaints from students in the School of Nursing since 2009.
The press conference testimonies by two plaintiffs were detailed and disturbing.
There can be no doubt that Nursing has an urgent and widespread racism problem that has been disregarded for years by the university administration.
The lawyer for the plaintiffs Yavar Hameed stressed that the problem was not only from bad management but was also systemic, pointing to a lack of internal structures to solve and correct racism problems.
Unlike previous press conferences at the University of Ottawa, the university communication staff and legal counsel were nowhere to be seen on the floor. Instead, they have installed a new electronic lock on their main door and called the media behind closed doors for private conferences.
The presenters avoided naming the six university staff complained against in the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario complaints but Student Appeal Centre director Mireille Gervais had the following statements for UofOWatch.
"[Professor] Isabelle Cyr is a problem regarding differential treatment of Nursing students based on the colour of their skin."
"Kirsten Woolend, ex-director of the School of Nursing, acknowledged in 2008 -- at a meeting with me, CEHR director Francine Page, SFUO VP-University Seamus Wolfe, vice-dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences Francis Reardon, and School of Nursing administrator of undergraduate programs Joanne Larose-Dubois -- that the School of Nursing had received many complaints about Isabelle Cyr."
"It is a widely known fact that Isabelle Cyr once physically shook [assaulted] a black Nursing student."
As the event was closing, former Governor General Michaelle Jean, who now has her UNESCO office beside university president Allan Rock's office, happened by accident to walk by and stopped to chat with some of the plaintiffs. Jean inquired why they were in Tabaret Hall. After some explanation Jean asked CEHR director Francine Page to send her all the documents so she can prepare for a possible informal chat with Rock. Maybe Rock will listen to Jean? He hasn't listened to anyone else.Saturday, November 27, 2010
Student press conference (video) leads to settlement with researcher summarily fired by UofO
M.-Z. Dang, J. Hickey, S. Kelly vs. University of Ottawa
The above is from the August 2009 media reports. The newly released video is embedded below.
In late 2008 and early 2009 University of Ottawa researcher Dr. Mei-Zhen Dang was summarily fired and graduate students were threatened with loss of their Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) scholarships in preparation for the Allan Rock administration’s March 2009 political firing of their supervisor tenured physics professor Denis Rancourt.
The video of their successful February 24, 2009, press conference in Tabaret Hall (U of O main administration building) has recently been released on YouTube (embedded below).
Dr. Mei-Zhen Dang, a long-time (more than 12 years) research associate and environmental analysis expert in Rancourt’s physics laboratory was summarily fired. She was locked out of both the laboratory and her office overnight and her pay was arbitrarily stopped by the dean of the Faculty of Science André E. Lalonde without any notification or explanation.
The joint lawsuit led to a significant cash settlement for Dang and a letter of apology from the university.
Meanwhile the hired university corporate lawyer (Lynn Harnden of the Emond Harnden firm) informed physics graduate student claimants Joseph Hickey and Sean Kelly that if the University of Ottawa won its jurisdictional motion to strike the action, the students would be made liable for the university’s legal fees.
The students dropped their participation in the lawsuit and Hickey pursued an internal (Policy 110) complaint supported by the graduate student association (GSAED) which the University of Ottawa via VP-Governance Diane Davidson has refused to hear to this day.
The media reported the late August 2009 Dang settlement victory and the alleged bullying of the students in some detail at the time:
Here is the newly released two-part YouTube video of the February 24, 2009 press conference:
The above is from the August 2009 media reports. The newly released video is embedded below.In late 2008 and early 2009 University of Ottawa researcher Dr. Mei-Zhen Dang was summarily fired and graduate students were threatened with loss of their Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) scholarships in preparation for the Allan Rock administration’s March 2009 political firing of their supervisor tenured physics professor Denis Rancourt.
The video of their successful February 24, 2009, press conference in Tabaret Hall (U of O main administration building) has recently been released on YouTube (embedded below).
Dr. Mei-Zhen Dang, a long-time (more than 12 years) research associate and environmental analysis expert in Rancourt’s physics laboratory was summarily fired. She was locked out of both the laboratory and her office overnight and her pay was arbitrarily stopped by the dean of the Faculty of Science André E. Lalonde without any notification or explanation.
The joint lawsuit led to a significant cash settlement for Dang and a letter of apology from the university.
Meanwhile the hired university corporate lawyer (Lynn Harnden of the Emond Harnden firm) informed physics graduate student claimants Joseph Hickey and Sean Kelly that if the University of Ottawa won its jurisdictional motion to strike the action, the students would be made liable for the university’s legal fees.
The students dropped their participation in the lawsuit and Hickey pursued an internal (Policy 110) complaint supported by the graduate student association (GSAED) which the University of Ottawa via VP-Governance Diane Davidson has refused to hear to this day.
The media reported the late August 2009 Dang settlement victory and the alleged bullying of the students in some detail at the time:
Fallout from prof’s firing leaves students in the cold
One researcher settles with U of O, but others say administration bullied them into dropping claims after award-winning lab was shut
By Tim Shufelt, The Ottawa Citizen, August 26, 2009
One researcher settles with U of O, but others say administration bullied them into dropping claims after award-winning lab was shut
By Tim Shufelt, The Ottawa Citizen, August 26, 2009
Here is the newly released two-part YouTube video of the February 24, 2009 press conference:
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