Who will defend the public university?
Photo by Ondré/Flickr Knowledge Under Siege: Charting a Future for Universities Edited by Marc Spooner and James McNinch University of Regina Press, 2026 The contributors t...
Laurie Adkin
University crackdown on Palestine solidarity encampments a grievous violation of Charter freedoms
Encampment on the Quad at the University of Alberta in May 2024. Photo from the Kent report. If the repression of Palestine solidarity protests on Canadian campuses is permitted to…
Far-right attacks on EDI goals go unanswered by Alberta’s post-secondary education leaders
University of Alberta President Bill Flanagan has doubled down on his claims that equity, diversity, and inclusion goals conflict with building community and belonging, and should be replaced. Photo courtesy…
An EDI policy, by any other name, appeases not the far-right
University of Alberta North Campus. Photo by Jeffrey Beall/Wikimedia Commons. In his January 2 op-ed in the Edmonton Journal, University of Alberta President Bill Flanagan explains why a coterie...
Israel lobby and its media enablers threatening academic freedom on campus
Knowledge cannot be advanced in an environment where people are afraid to present evidence or research or new ways of thinking that challenge existing norms, writes Laurie Adkin. Photo by…
Believing women, believing Palestinians
Photo by Romain Guy/Flickr “ew justifications are now needed to keep the war/genocide machine going and—as has occurred in many other conflicts—women’s victimization is now being mobilized for that purpose.…
Rachel Notley’s war cry against B.C. is an ill-fated strategy
Photo from Public Domain Premier Rachel Notley is clearly frustrated by British Columbia’s new obstacles to the expansion of pipeline capacity for transporting Alberta’s diluted bitumen to the coast and…