EDMONTON—Alberta’s Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides has been charged with improving free speech and academic freedom on the province’s campuses.
In a mandate letter released Nov. 16, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith instructed the minister to ensure the province’s post-secondary institutions “are adequately protecting the academic freedom and free speech of students and faculty.”
“Our institutions of higher learning must absolutely be places of open debate,” Nicolaides told The Epoch Times.
“It is critical for the mandate of an institution. If we can’t engage in rigorous and open debate on our university campuses, then when is that to occur?”…