2026-10-05 · National Post
🔮 Widdowson, who is claiming $3 million in damages, also alleges that she was defamed when the university sent out a notice that it would be holding a sacred smudging ceremony to “dissipate the negative atmosphere brought by this individual to our community.”
Characterizing Widdowson as a “source of ‘negativity’ and communal or spiritual contamination, personally ‘brought’ by her, so serious that the university community required a formal, public ceremony to ‘cleanse’ itself of it” is defamatory assertive