Speaking the truth can be disastrous for your academic career. Lying to appease the ‘acceptable’ narrative costs you your integrity and soul.
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Dead Wild Roses: Into Wokism’s Raging Maw: Frances Widdowson at the University of Lethbridge – C2C Journal
We must guard against this sort of degenerate mob justice. See the entire article here. “When talking to people about the state of universities in Canada, many deny the negative impact of “woke-ism.” My current “lived experience” in a province with a reputation for supporting free speech, however, indicates otherwise.
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Frances Widdowson was not Miss Popularity at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Over 6,000 people signed a petition calling for her firing. They wanted her gone. And gone she was. The tenured PhD was fired in 2021 after 13 years of teaching and shit disturbing. Her outrages against political correctness
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Yesterday, I posted about the outrageous treatment graduate student Lindsay Shepherd experienced at the hands of the Wilfrid Laurier University thought police. As usual, Toronto Star readers had much to say about this shameful episode, and in the interest of balance, I am reprinting not only those who condemn what
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Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. -The Trial, by Franz Kafka Thus begins one of the most disturbing and compelling novels I have ever read. It centres around a man who, even those he is
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Andrew Potter Affair #nlpoli #cdnpoli
For those interested in the controversy caused by an opinion piece in Macleans, here are some useful links. 1. “How a snowstorm exposed Quebec’s real problem: social malaise” Sub-head: “The issues that led to the shutdown of a Montreal highway that left drivers stranded go beyond mere political dysfunction” Andrew
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: So Much For Academic Freedom
You only have to watch the first two minutes of this video to see the unhealthy and evil influence of the Koch brothers. The video also helps demonstrate why I love Rachel Maddow. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Recommend this Post
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Jim Balsillie has an op-ed in the Globe today in the wake of the rejection by York University of a major investment by him of about $30 million that was to be matched by the province: “Academic freedom at York University? More like academic myopia.” Here’s what he says was
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