The efforts of freedom-loving students to build free speech walls at Canadian university campuses have prompted some universities, student unions and even students to take it upon themselves to silence speech that they find uncomfortable. Such actions only serve to undermine the mission statements that universities are supposed to abide by–to create a haven for academic inquiry, engaging debate and the pursuit of truth (no matter how uncomfortable or politically incorrect the truth might be).
Click on the photos below to read about the Queen’s (left) and York (right) free speech walls:
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- September 20, 2017
Speech codes, cancelled lectures, faculty censorship earn universities new F’s in 2017 Campus Freedom Index - September 14, 2017
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- August 25, 2017 RELEASE: Justice Centre granted intervenor status at Supreme Court of Canada in critical freedom of association case
- August 3, 2017
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