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William Brooks: To Defend Academic Freedom, a Canadian Professor Calls for ‘Dangerous Universities’

October 23, 2022
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Commentary Mark Mercer is a professor of philosophy at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, who has served as president of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship since 2015. SAFS is a Canadian organization whose members are devoted to “academic rigour, scholarly inquiry, open discourse and free universities.” Academics like these appear to be in…

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Fired Professor With ‘Anti-Woke Position’ Fights to Regain Her Job

April 27, 2022
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A Calgary professor who says she was fired for her stance on issues such as Black Lives Matter, indigenous residential schools, and the relationship between gender and biological sex has filed a grievance against her dismissal and will crowdfund the fight to regain her job. Frances Widdowson, a tenured associate professor in the department of…

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Free Speech on Campus and the Case of Jonathan Bradley

March 3, 2021
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Commentary The case of Ryerson University student Jonathan Bradley is yet another example of the erosion of academic freedom and free speech at universities. A fourth-year journalism student and a strict Catholic, Bradley has filed a discrimination complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO), claiming to have been fired from the Eyeopener, a Ryerson…

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