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About Michael K. Barbour

Michael K. Barbour is the Director of Faculty Development and a Professor of Instructional Design for the College of Education and Health Sciences at Touro University California. He has been involved with K-12 online learning in a variety of countries for well over a decade as a researcher, teacher, course designer and administrator. Michael's research focuses on the effective design, delivery and support of K-12 online learning, particularly for students located in rural jurisdictions.

Happy Year of the Tiger! 🐯 Protecting academic free speech; innovating Inuit throat singing

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A newsletter from one of our fellow Canadian organizations in the Bay Area.
Canadian Studies Announcements
In this issue:
  • Happy Year of the Tiger!
  • Next week: “Models for Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Property from First Nations, Canada”
  • Cosponsored event: “Legal and Constitutional Protections for Free Speech in Academia in the US, UK, and Canada”
  • The New Yorker reviews Tongues, the new album from Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq
  • Grant deadline tomorrow: British Library Visiting Fellowships
  • External event: “Boeing 737 MAX: Money, Machines, and Morals in Conflict”
  • External event: “Canadian Minister of Northern Affairs Dan Vandal: Building A Strong, Sustainable North”
  • External event: Book talk on Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America’s Northern Border
Happy Year of the Tiger!
Canadian Studies wishes a happy and prosperous Year of the Tiger to our friends around the world! While the Lunar New Year is often most associated with (and referred to as) the Chinese New Year, it is actually celebrated by a variety of East Asian cultures. While COVID is dampening celebrations for the third year in a row, the CBC checked in with several Ottawa families to see how they were continuing their cherished New Year traditions in spite of the pandemic. And in San Francisco, Chinatown business owners hope this New Year is the turning point for a better 2022.
Image: Chinese New Year vector created by Freepik – www.freepik.com.
NEXT WEEK
Panel Discussion: Models for Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Property from First Nations, Canada
Tuesday, February 8 | 12:30 pm PT | Online | RSVP here
How can repatriation be built from mutual respect, cooperation and trust? North American museums and institutions have historically engaged in the collection and categorization of Indigenous cultural property and knowledge without the consent or active involvement of Indigenous people. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was enacted in 1990 to return Native American “cultural items” to lineal descendants and culturally affiliated American Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, and Native Hawaiian organizations. Despite this and further state legislation, many institutions including the University of California, have obfuscated or denied repatriation claims. Across the border, the Canadian government does not currently have legislation addressing the repatriation of Indigenous Ancestors and cultural heritage, but is working to create national support for repatriation through legislation Bill C-391. Some Canadian provinces have passed repatriation acts or provincial museum polices that have facilitated the return of ancestors and belongings. This panel discussion seeks to learn from what is being done in Canada. What is the cultural and nuanced work that builds successful repatriations? How can repatriation and indigenizing the institution from within preserve and strengthen tribal cultural heritage?
Join Canadian Studies affiliate Sabrina Agarwal (Professor of anthropology and chair of the UC Berkeley NAGPRA Advisory Committee) in conversation with Dr. Louis Lesage (Director, Nionwentsïo Office, Huron-Wendat Nation), Lou-ann Neel (Curator and Acting Head of Indigenous Collections and Repatriation Department, Royal BC Museum), and Michelle Washington (Repatriation Specialist, Royal BC Museum) to explore these questions and hear about their experiences in repatriation.
Image: Kwakwaka’wakw house posts from British Columbia in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, UC Berkeley.
COSPONSORED EVENT
Legal and Constitutional Protections for Free Speech in Academia in the US, UK, and Canada
Friday, February 11 | 10 am PT | Online | RSVP forthcoming
The Public Law and Policy Program and the Anglo-American Legal Studies Program at the UC Berkeley School of Law invite you to an expert discussion comparing traditions and laws around free speech in university settings in three common law jurisdictions: the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada.
Professor Eric Kaufmann of the University of London, who is Canadian, will be participating from London. He will discuss his research on freedom of speech in academia in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada as well as proposed legislation in the U.K. parliament to protect free speech in colleges and universities in the UK.
Professor Nadine Strossen of the New York School of Law and former head of the ACLU will join from New York. She will comment on Professor Kaufmann’s findings, her own work on this subject, and legal and policy implications of the proposed legislation.
Professor Keith Whittington of Princeton University and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the UC Berkeley School of Law will participate from Berkeley. They will also comment on Professor Kaufmann’s research and recommendations for legislation.
Steven Hayward of UC Berkeley will serve as moderator.
Please check the Public Law and Policy website above for forthcoming RSVP information.
The New Yorker Reviews Tongues, the New Album from Inuit Throat-Singer Tanya Tagaq
Canadian Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq has worked hard to bring the Inuit tradition of throat-singing to a wider audience. But her award-winning performances are anything but conventional, blending the ancient Inuit techniques with contemporary music production and spoken word poetry. Last week Sheldon Piece, music writer and editor for The New Yorker, gave a glowing review to Tagaq’s latest album, Tongues, which he calls her boldest and most experimental yet:
“The Canadian Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq makes music that seems to cleanse the body. The form that she practices uses guttural sounds and breaths to produce a physical performance of groans, gasps, and sighs, conjuring a sonic landscape which is by turns rhythmic and melodic. Her performing, at once animalistic and operatic, brings a spirit of experimentation to an old tradition… It is her technique and vision that have made her one of the most celebrated and innovative practitioners of her culture’s visceral style.”
Read the full piece online via The New Yorker.
Grant Deadline Tomorrow: British Library Visiting Fellowships
Application deadline: February 1, 2022, 9:00 am PT
Applications are due tomorrow for the 2022 Visiting Fellowships at Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library in London. These fellowships are open to academics, postgraduate students, creatives and independent scholars and cover all regions of the Americas, including Canada. For more information about the fellowship programme, please look here. The deadline for applications is 5pm GMT (9:00 pm PT) on Tuesday, 1 February 2022 and the Fellowship needs to be taken by 30 April 2024. For more information about the four themes, please look here.
EXTERNAL EVENTS
Boeing 737 MAX: Money, Machines, and Morals in Conflict
Tuesday, February 1 | 2 pm PT | Online | RSVP here
Canadian Studies faculty affiliate Brian Barsky addresses the troubled development of the Boeing 737 MAX, which crashed twice within its first two years of commercial flight, leaving no survivors. Professor Barsky has been personally involved in the investigation of this disaster. He was featured prominently in a recent Smithsonian documentary, and his full-page op-ed in The Globe and Mail was debated in the Parliament of Canada. Professor Barsky will elucidate how these tragedies were the consequence of a corporation prioritizing profits over safety as well as of regulatory capture of the government agency which was derelict in its duty to protect the public. This event is sponsored by the Berkeley Retirement Center.
Canadian Minister of Northern Affairs Dan Vandal: Building a Strong, Sustainable North
Friday, February 4 | 10 am PT | Online | RSVP here
The Government of Canada, Indigenous peoples, and 6 territorial and provincial governments came together to develop Canada’s Arctic and Northern Policy Framework, a transformative vision of the future where northern and Arctic people are thriving, strong and safe. The Framework includes goals relating to eight overarching themes—people and communities, strong economies, comprehensive infrastructure, environment and biodiversity, science and Indigenous knowledge, global leadership, safety, security and defence, and reconciliation. It incorporates regional and distinctions-based lenses while integrating domestic and international dimensions. Canada’s Minister of Northern Affairs, Daniel Vandal, will discuss federal, Indigenous, and community-driven partnerships and programs to address short-term and long-term climate change adaptation and mitigation, supporting healthy ecosystems in the Arctic and North in a conversation by moderated by Jothsna Harris.
Book Talk: Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America’s Northern Border
Friday, February 18 | 12 pm PT | Online | RSVP here
Join Professor Ashley Johnson Bavery for a discussion of her new book, Bootlegged Aliens. The book explores immigration on America’s northern border before World War II, situating Detroit, Michigan as America’s epicenter for unauthorized immigration. In this industrial center, thousands of Europeans crossed the border from Canada each year, prompting nativist backlash and complicating the labor politics of the automobile industry. This event is jointly hosted by the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego and UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration. UCLA professor Tobias Higbie will join as a discussant.
Ashley Johnson Bavery is assistant professor of history at Eastern Michigan University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Urban History and the Journal of American History and her book, Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America’s Northern Border (2020) won the First Book Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
Tobias Higbie is a professor of history and labor studies at UCLA, the chair of the Labor Studies and the associate director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. His research explores social movements, migration, and the politics of community in the United States. Higbie’s most recent book, Labor’s Mind: A History of Working Class Intellectual Life (2019), recovers the social world of self-educated working people and the politics of working-class identity during the early 20th century.
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2021 Supporter Report – The Memorial Day Flowers Foundation

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Dear Michael,

It is hard to believe that a decade has passed since the first 10,000-flower tribute at Arlington National Cemetery (ANC). Since then, the Memorial Day Flowers Foundation has held events every year, even during the most difficult times of the pandemic.  These tributes are only possible thanks to the ongoing support from the network of sponsors, donors, and volunteers.

We would like to share our accomplishments from 2021 with our community.
WEEK OF MEMORIAL DAY, 2021
The first large event of the year was held during Memorial Day Weekend.  In the weeks of preparation, over 250,000 flowers were procured. Some flowers were purchased from farms in Colombia and importers in Miami, while others came in as donations from Californian, Colombian, and Ecuadorian growers: Passion Growers, CalFlowers, Queens Group, Ocean Breeze International, Kitayama Brothers, Hilltop Flowers, and RosaPrima.

All the California flowers were brought from Lansdale, PA to Arlington by Younger & Son, and Armellini Express Lines trucked the Latin American roses from Miami to ANC.

Nationwide – Tribute Box Program: Delivered by Thursday, May 27, 2021

Across the country, Peraton employees who took part in the Matching Funds Tribute Box Program received a box with 125 roses.  Participating associates and their families visited their local cemeteries and placed flower tributes at military graves.

Alexandria National Cemetery Saturday, May 29, 2021

Associates from Peraton placed a flower and said a few words of thanks to every hero interred at Alexandria National Cemetery, one of the precursors to Arlington. Through four hours of chilly rain, fifteen volunteers focused on placing a flower at each of the 5,500 headstones at the cemetery.

Arlington National Cemetery – May 30 through 31, 2021

ANC administration worked closely with MDFF to get back to a sense of normalcy in flower placement and Welcome Center flower handouts.  2021 was the second year of the Gold Star Program, handing small tote bags of 25 complementary flowers to Gold Star Families as they entered on Memorial Avenue. This provided sponsors the unique opportunity to directly interact with families visiting their interred loved ones.
Over the course of Memorial Day Weekend, volunteers and families placed more than 200,000 flowers at headstones throughout the cemetery.  Flowers were distributed at:

  • Memorial Avenue
  • ANC Welcome Center to all visitors entering the cemetery
  • Sponsored sections throughout the cemetery
  • Section 60 on Memorial Day

The eighteen Core Volunteers, most of whom take time every year to help, ensured that the events ran smoothly.  Registered volunteers and visitors were instrumental in placing flowers at all the different sections.

Victory for Veterans: May 30 – 31

In the sixth year of its partnership with MDFF, Victory for Veterans used the Memorial Day events to raise funds for their Veteran Suicide Prevention Centers in their communities.  In 2021, their organizers and volunteers placed over 30,000 flowers at six different cemeteries throughout the country.  Find out more about Victory for Veterans on their website.

Fort Custer Michigan – May 30

For the fifth consecutive year, Plumeria Floral Designs held a flower tribute event at Fort Custer National Cemetery, placing over 3,500 flowers at the graves of our heroes.

Fort Custer Michigan – May 30

For the fifth consecutive year, Plumeria Floral Designs held a flower tribute event at Fort Custer National Cemetery, placing over 3,500 flowers at the graves of our heroes.
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WEEK OF VETERAN’S DAY, 2021

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This year, the Foundation had the unique opportunity to take part in commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.  Over sixty thousand flowers were placed around the Tomb Monument, placed by thousands of visitors on the two days leading up to Veteran’s Day.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Alexandria

The Foundation, along with Peraton volunteers, participated in an intimate ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution.  The monument can be found in the small cemetery behind the historic Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Alexandria, VA.  After a few words of prayer from a church official, flowers were given to all attendees to place around this historic monument.

Bouquets for Veterans

For the first time, the Foundation made bouquets available to residents and staff at two veteran retirement communities in the Washington DC area, Vinson Hall Retirement Community and the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington DC.  Over one thousand bouquets were brought to these retirement communities, paid for with donations from our readers and supporters.
With your help, for every dollar donated, a volunteer will place or hand out a flower at Arlington National Cemetery during Memorial Day Weekend 2022.  We invite you to join us this upcoming Memorial Day.
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🇨🇦 Get to know C100’s newest Charter Members | 📣 We’re Hiring! | 🌴 Announcing C100’s next Chapter

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TL;DR ON TODAY’S EMAIL

  • C100 Fellows 2022 Application Update
  • Get to know the 7 leaders who joined the C100 Charter Membership in 2021
  • First look: where will C100’s next Chapter be? Here is a hint: 🌴  😇 ⭐️
  • C100 is Hiring a Marketing & Communications Associate
  • Community events and insights
  • Canadian tech news & Members who made headlines

FELLOWS SELECTION PROCESS IS UNDERWAY

Thank you all for your involvement and support with the search for who will make up the 2022 cohort of C100 Fellows. We’re thrilled to say that there were over 450 applications! This week, our esteemed Selection Committee (made up of founders, investors, and senior leaders in the C100 Membership and Partner communities) gathered to review this competitive group of applicants. Next up: the interview round.

MEET THE SEVEN CANADIAN TECH LEADERS WHO JOINED THE C100 CHARTER MEMBERSHIP IN 2021

Who is a C100 Charter Member you ask? In short, they belong to a by-invitation cohort of the C100 Membership, united in the mission to inspire and advance the next generation of Canadian entrepreneurship and leadership in tech.

Get to know the seven tech leaders who joined the C100 Charter Membership in 2021; David Baga (CEO, Even), Jen Lee Koss (Founding Partner, Springbank Collective), Andrew Lindsay (SVP Corporate and Business Development, HubSpot), Jack Newton (Founder & CEO, Clio), Michele Romanow (Co-Founder & President, Clearco), Joanna Lee Shevelenko (General Partner, f7 Ventures), and Benji Shomair (VP, Commerce & Go-To-Market at Meta).

C100’S NEXT CHAPTER LAUNCHES THIS MARCH!

You heard it here first: the next C100 Chapter to launch is C100 Los Angeles! Stay tuned for a launch event taking place at the end of March for Members of this Chapter (and those in town!).

Do you know a Canadiant tech founder, operator, or investor building in Los Angeles? If that is you or someone you know, we invite you to apply using the link below!

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE

Do you know an energetic, detail-oriented, entrepreneur-loving person that would be a perfect fit to join C100’s Marketing Team?

The ideal person for this position is a “Jack/Jill of all trades” that is passionate about the startup scene and uplifting global Canadian tech leaders. They know how to tell a great story, have excellent business communication skills (especially written), and embrace the special balancing act of creative development and data-driven growth. Learn more about the role here or using the link below.

FROM THE COMMUNITY

Events & Op-Eds by the community, for the community.

FEB 9 | WEBINAR: THE STATE OF FUNDING FOR BLACK ENTREPRENEURS IN CANADA

Rep Matters, a Real Ventures’ initiative, is hosting a webinar focused on the current state of funding for Black entrepreneurs in Canada. Learn where progress has been made, what gaps still exist, and how we can continue to build on efforts to create a more inclusive tech ecosystem. Real Ventures is a proud C100 Corporate Partner >> REGISTER HERE.

📝  “A FOUNDER’S STORY: FROM COLLEGE TO THE NASDAQ IN 8 YEARS

Francis Davidson, Co-Founder & CEO of Sonder (and C100 48Hrs Alumnus ’15), shares his founder journey, from dropping our of college in Montréal, growing a hospitality disruptor out of the Bay Area, going through the worst crisis the industry has ever faced, to now entering the public markets. >> READ IT HERE

COMMUNITY UPDATES

🤝 Walmart-backed fintech Hazel has signed a definitive merger agreement with Even and ONE, expected to operate collectively under the ONE brand. Hear from David Baga, CEO of Even (and C100 Charter Member), who breaks down more about this deal.

✈️  Montréal-based Hopper (led by Frederic Lalonde) has added short-term home rentals to its app offering, placing it directly in the sights of AirB&B. ICYMI: Hopper secured more than $400-million across three separate financing rounds in 2020 and 2021, boosting its valuation to $3.5-billion. | Globe and Mail

🎉  New York-based Diversio has raised a $6.5M Series A led by First Round Capital, Golden Ventures (C100 Corporate Partner), and Chandaria Family Holdings Series. Diversio, led by Laura McGee (C100 Member & Fellow ’21), is a data-driven people intelligence platform that measures, tracks, and improves diversity, equity, and inclusion for organizations.

🛎  Sonder, led by Francis Davidson (48Hrs Alumnus ’15), has debuted on the Nasdaq ($SOND) after completing its previously announced combination with Gores Metropoulos II, a California-based SPAC.

🔥  Last year, British Columbia saw investments increase 316% with a total of $662M across 35 deals in the province, the second-largest investment increase in Canada (Toronto 354%).  This article from BetaKit interviews Chris Neumann to breakdown some of the successes seen in the region (C100 Member).

🤖  Toronto-based AI company BenchSci, led by CEO Liran Belanzon (C100 Member & 48Hrs Alumnus ’17), has raised $50-million to help further how scientists find the right chemical compounds for preclinical biomedical research.

🥗  Globe & Mail: Canadians flocking to food rescue apps to reduce grocery bills and waste (ft. Toronto-based startups Too Good To Go, Flashfood and Feedback).

🤝  Vancouver-based enterprise software banking fintech Zafin has made its latest acquisition of Surrey-based FinancialCAD Corp. for $32.7-million.

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