The life that a great many Canadian professors lead is just too soft and too-tempting to the lazy. They have tenure, a quite unnecessary system of life-long job security that no academic now defends except to argue it can only be scrapped if all universities agree, which of course they never all will.Today it is Carol Goar, denouncing "mainstream historians" for promoting a sanitized portrait of John A. Macdonald -- even as she builds a whole column on the critique of Macdonald presented by James Daschuk, ... who, ah, is a professor at the University of Regina, and whose book Clearing the Plains has been winning a slew of awards from his fellow academics.
And for their work, so much of it self-interested, they make a lot of money.
NB: Dashuk is actually in the school of kinesiology and health sciences, not history.
