Frances Widdowson, a former associate professor in the department of economics, justice, and policy studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, in an undated photo. Courtesy of Frances Widdowson
Author and former university professor Frances Widdowson reacted to a recent hoax interview where children’s shoes were dumped on a table in front of her by taking out her smartphone and interviewing those who she said had been trying to humiliate her.
Widdowson, who has faced arrest at universities for attempting to hold conversations on claims of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., said an “elaborate deception” led to her being in a Vancouver studio for a hoax interview on May 4.
