Getting involved in research is a great way for undergraduate student’s to prepare for graduate school, hone their skills, and get scholarships!

Come to a workshop that will focus on how to get involved in research as an undergrad, and how to make the most of this experience! We will discuss how to get published, attend conferences, and apply for
scholarships.

Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-04-07
End Time: 18:00

AHED: Academics for Higher Education and Development
- a talk by John Waterhouse

Friday, April 9th at 3:00pm
Galileo’s, Students’ Union Building

Refreshments served.

This presentation outlines opportunities that faculty, staff and students have to contribute to higher education development worldwide. AHED is a Canadian Non-­Governmental Organization that sends Canadian volunteers abroad to share their knowledge with colleagues based in institutions of higher education in the developing world. Volunteers include support and technical staff, administrators, faculty and students and they may work in a variety of higher education institutions around the globe, including universities, technical institutes, and colleges. Find out about AHED’s exciting new program that contributes $10,000 toward covering the expenses of volunteers who would like to propose their own projects.

John Waterhouse is a member of AHED’s Board of Directors who has taught internationally in China, Turkey and Australia. Most recently, he has volunteered his time on an AHED sponsored project in which he was an advisor to the president of the University of Liberia. A former VP Academic, Dean of Business, and Professor at Simon Fraser University, Professor Waterhouse is a specialist in management control, corporate governance and non-­financial performance measures.

Start Time: 15:00
Date: 2010-04-09
End Time: 17:00

A meeting will be held on Thursday, April 8th at 7:00pm in Room
TH241 to plan further action. Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting.

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-04-08
End Time: 21:00

On the agenda is:

1. A short business meeting where the financial statement and annual report will be presented.
2. Presentation from students who have received funding from LPIRG over the past year.
3. Entertainment and refreshments and time to mingle and get to know the incoming LPIRG board members.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-04-13
End Time: 21:00

A film by Dez Kamara and Robert of Macumba International of Montreal

Dez Kamara returns to Sierra Leone to follow up on 6 former child soldiers they filmed in the first documentary in 2001. In attempting to find and reconnect with these children (now adults), Dez and his team travel as far as Kambia in the north of the country. Life has not been easy for these children; today most of them are on their own trying to survive with the skills the NGOs taught them. After much searching Dez was able to find and reconnect with one, Kai Yousef, who unfortunately passed away early this year. This film examines the successes, the failures, and the personal stories of former child soldiers in Sierra Leone and around the world face and those who try to help them.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-30
End Time: 21:00

Yves Engler

Monday March 29, 2010

7-9pm
Andy’s Place (AH100)

In his new book Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, the speaker argues that the long term trajectory of Canada’s foreign policy towards Israel has been clear. Six decades of mostly one-sided support has culminated with Canada (at least diplomatically) becoming the most pro-Israel country in the world during the past four years, under the guidance of a Conservative minority Government, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

This book is a critical primer about Canada’s ties to Israel and suggests Canadian complicity in the 20th and 21st century colonialism, dispossession and war crimes. The book also documents the history of Canadian Christian Zionism, Lester Pearson’s important role in the United Nations negotiations to create a Jewish state on Palestinian land, millions of dollars in tax-deductible donations used to expand (illegal) Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) ties to Israel’s Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad).

Speaker: Yves Engler

Yves Engler is a former Vice President of the Concordia Student Union and served as their media spokesperson in 2002, when he was suspended for one semester after taking the lead role at a political demonstration. Currently, Yves is an activist and author based in Montreal and has earned respect within some Jewish communities in Canada, who themselves believe Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal.

Yves has previously published three books: The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy (Shortlisted for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction in the Quebec Writer’s Federation Literary Awards); Playing Left Wing: From Rink Rat to Student Radical and (with Anthony Fenton) Canada in Haiti: Waging War on The Poor Majority.

Born in Vancouver, Yves grew up playing hockey. He was a Pee Wee teammate of NHL star Mike Ribeiro at Huron Hochelaga in Montréal and later played in the B.C. Junior League. Yves is still a passionate fan of the great Canadian game of hockey.

Session moderated by Keith McLaughlin.

Session to be held at University of Lethbridge.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-03-29
End Time: 21:00

Featuring Chief Bernard Ominayak and a local expert panel

Friday, March 26, 2010
6:30pm
Lethbridge City Hall, main atrium
910 – 4th Avenue South
Lethbridge, AB

Canada is supposed to be a global leader in human rights. Yet the treatment of Aboriginal people in this country is an often overlooked aspect of how Canada, as a rich and powerful nation, is violating human rights for the benefit of government and corporate interests. For more than 110 years, this violation has been the norm for the Lubicon Cree in Northern Alberta.

Bypassed by the treaty commissioners in 1899, the Lubicon have never signed away their rights. Yet giant corporations mine resources from their traditional territory and the Lubicon receive no compensation, and have no access to clean drinking water. Such corporations include Daishowa, who was given access to Lubicon territory by the Alberta government to clear-cut forests, Unocal who constructed a large sour-gas plant on Lubicon land; TransCanada Pipelines, who are building a jumbo, 42 inch gas pipeline to supply natural gas to the Tarsands; and recently, plans to mine bitumen from Lubicon territory.

After nearly ten years, Chief Bernard Ominayak has agreed to meet with a local expert panel and the Canadian public outside the Lubicon traditional territory to discuss Human Rights abuses against the Lubicon people by the governments of Alberta and Canada. Food and drinks will be provided.

Panel Members Include:

Bernard Ominayak, Chief of the Lubicon Lake Nation

Leroy Little Bear, Chair of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge

Linda Many Guns, Faculty of Native American Studies at the University of Lethbridge

This event brought to you by the Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group (LPIRG)
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2010-03-26
End Time: 21:30

Wednesday, March 24
4:00pm
Ballroom A, Students’ Union Building

Narcisse Blood and Ryan Heavyhead, two distinguished Blackfoot scholars, were recently selected to attend Al Gore’s global warming training seminar in Montreal, based on a similar presentation in the film An Inconvenient Truth. Feeling that the perspective taken in the seminar was imbalanced, Ryan and Narcisse have adapted their own presentation on climate change, taking into account the cultural ways of knowing of the Blackfoot people, or Niitsitapi.

Come and enjoy this free presentation of Indigenous knowledge as it
applies to ecological issues such as climate change. Brought to you by the Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group (LPIRG), the Native American Students Association (NASA), and the Faculty of Education at the University of Lethbridge. Lunch (snacks?) will be provided.

Ryan Heavy Head is director of Kainai studies at Red Crow Community
College, Blackfoot-specific undergraduate program, and a researcher at Red Crow Community College, where he teaches and writes on the Blackfoot approach to science and knowledge.

Narcisse Blood is the former director of Kainai studies, and is currently
a full-time researcher in the department. He is the principal on the
Learning From Place project, part of the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge
Centre, funded by the Canadian Council of Learning, and was an advisor on the SSHRC-funded Itsinikssiistsi project. The college opened in 1995 as the first tribally controlled community college in Canada and was a founding member of the First Nations Adult and Higher Education
Consortium, which provides adult and higher education as defined and
controlled by First Nations people.

Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2010-03-24
End Time: 18:00

A presentation on behalf of the Sinixt Nation, or Arrow Lakes People, and their struggle against Canada, colonialism and extinction.

Who:
Marilyn James, spokesperson for the Sinixt Nation, or Arrow Lakes people.

Where:
University of Lethbridge, room TH241

When:
March 18th, 12:15pm

Website:
www.sinixt.org

Sponsors
Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group (LPIRG) and the Native American Students Association (NASA)

Biography and synopsis:
Marilyn James works part time for Selkirk College as the Aboriginal Advisor, has developed indigenized curriculum sets for local school districts and is featured on line in a partnership with school district #79. Marilyn sits on many boards and committees dedicated to community services and education. Marilyn holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Evergreen State College and a Masters of Education from Simon Fraser University. Marilyn James is the appointed spokesperson of Sinixt Nation and a Board member for Sinixt Nation Society.

The Sinixt are a tribe of the Interior Salish peoples. They share a common linguistic connection to the Interior Salish but are dialectically distinct. The Sinixt were declared extinct by the federal government of Canada in 1956 through a Federal Order in Council. The Sinixt have occupied a site at Vallican B.C. since 1988 and have remained committed to cultural and environmental work since that time as community members within their traditional territory. Cultural work has consisted of the repatriation of ancestral remains, conducting annual ceremonies, gathering local landscape foods and upholding cultural responsibilities for the traditional territory and all resources and members held therein. Sinixt representatives have conducted many educational tours and sessions at the occupation site for local K-12 and post secondary students.
Start Time: 12:15
Date: 2010-03-18
End Time: 13:25