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Tristin Hopper: Trespassing charges dropped against academic Frances Widdowson

Widdowson was mobbed and then arrested after stepping onto the UVic campus last year

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A trespassing ticket has been withdrawn against ‘unmarked graves’ former university professor Frances Widdowson, more than seven months after she was mobbed and arrested after stepping onto the campus of the University of Victoria.

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Widdowson was an early critic of the 2021 claim that 215 children’s graves were found at the former site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

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