{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"berrygrounds","title":"The Smouldering Tensions at Memorial University (Ep. 6)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2309,"description":"Vianne Timmons may be gone, but the controversy around her claims of Indigeneity have brought two key issues at Memorial University to the fore. Race-shifting, as it's become known: the growing phenomenon of settlers seeking out Indigenous ancestry to claim an Indigenous identity today. And the crisis in governance at Newfoundland and Labrador’s only university.\n\nIn the first half of Episode 6, a conversation with Métis lawyer Jean Teillet, who wrote a report last year for the University of Saskatchewan on race-shifting and Indigenous identity fraud in Canadian universities. \nIn the second half, we speak with two faculty leaders from MUNL, Robin Whitaker and Ash Hossain, about the years-long push for a more open and transparent hiring process for senior administrators. \nThen we go back to 2019 and uncover an alarming fact about how Vianne Timmons was hired.\nRead Teillet's full report, \"Indigenous Identity Fraud\".\nListen to Episode 5 of berrygrounds: \"Vianne Timmons and the Race-Shifting Conundrum\".\nSongs Xenon Sentry, Pop Rocks, and Reach the Top courtesy Shane Ivers of Silverman Sound Studios.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TmixHP1rYWE5BVzfU2-0CNKq-bvNypCqxYNqXZF0JvA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMGI5/ODgxZDA4ODJmZmIw/NzBkMjg4OTgzZDEw/MmI2MC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}