University under fire over residential schools course taught by white prof

A Halifax university is under fire for assigning a course about Canada's residential schools to a non-Indigenous professor, something activists say undermines reconciliation efforts.

Mount Saint Vincent University is expected to offer the course, Selected Topics in North American History: Residential Schools, this fall.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/university-under-fire-over-residential-schools-course-taught-by-white-prof-1.4660716