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| November, 2009 |
Campus - Freedom of Speech - Press Release: Open Bias, Discrimination & Misinformation Against Pro-Life Students
November 9, 2009
Lakehead University Student Union VP Finance intensifies campaign against pro-life students – claims pro-life students have the same mentality as murderers.
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| October, 2009 |
Campus - Freedom of Speech - Free speech: a cornerstone of the university
October 27, 2009
Freedom to express a wide range of ideas - a privilege of our democracy - is essential in a modern university.
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Campus - Freedom of Speech - BCCLA demands equal treatment for U Vic pro-life club
October 22, 2009
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is taking up the case of Youth Protecting Youth (YPY), a pro-life club at the University of Victoria.
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Campus - Freedom of Speech - Press Release: Abortion Event Censured by Students’ Society of McGill University
October 5, 2009
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| February, 2009 |
Campus - Freedom of Speech - U of C students’ union votes to sanction anti-abortion group
February 11, 2009
"This action is a disturbing abuse of power," said club vice-president Cameron Wilson. "It is an abuse of power when the body elected to protect us heaps further oppression upon us."
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Campus - Freedom of Speech - University of Calgary students' union votes to sanction anti-abortion group
February 11, 2009
The University of Calgary Students' Union has voted to sanction an anti-abortion group that has butted heads with administrators over its graphic public protests.
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Campus - Freedom of Speech - Rights group pans bid to deny anti-abortionists campus-club status
February 3, 2009
Denying campus-club status to groups that oppose abortion infringes on freedom of speech, says a civil liberties group, wading into a dispute
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| December, 2008 |
Campus - Freedom of Speech - Lakehead student union bars clubs from 'negative' messaging
December 4, 2008
Clubs at Lakehead University must make their messages “positive,” cannot be seen to be offensive or disparaging and they are not allowed to impose their views on anyone else, new amendments to the student union constitution say.
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| November, 2008 |
Campus - Freedom of Speech - University of Calgary singles out abortion for censorship
November 28, 2008
It is becoming a fairly typical scenario across Canadian university campuses: pro-life groups are being told to take their views elsewhere.
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Campus - Freedom of Speech - Tribunal to decide U of G club's fate
November 28, 2008
Life Choice members and free speech advocates were left dissatisfied and skeptical that the terms and the members of the tribunal will be chosen by the same CSA executive that denied the club its status in early October.
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| October, 2008 |
Campus - Freedom of Speech - CSA takes sides in debate about human rights, violates right to free speech
October 23, 2008
"It is the CSA's responsibility to step outside its own biases and uphold the right to free speech on campus. This is what the CSA failed to do"
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| May, 2008 |
Campus - Freedom of Speech - Pro-life groups told to shut up
May 31, 2008
The York Federation of Students has decided that pro-life groups are "anti-choice" and, therefore, not allowed to be an official campus club at York University. Johanna Miller thinks this is yet another example of campus speech being squelched.
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Campus - Freedom of Speech - York students to ban clubs opposed to abortion
May 29, 2008
In response to a series of controversies over abortion debates on Canadian campuses, the student government of York University has tabled an outright ban on student clubs that are opposed to abortion.
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Campus - Freedom of Speech - Campus abortion debate reaches compromise
May 21, 2008
Rather than face a hearing at the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, the Capilano College Student Union has agreed that an anti-abortion student group can operate on campus next year.
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| March, 2008 |
Campus - Freedom of Speech - Is abortion too hot a topic for campuses?
March 5, 2008
The abortion debate that never happened at York University last week was, by all accounts, a typical campus affair. ... But, as is increasingly common at Canadian universities, one student politician saw potential for offence and brought the whole thing to an abrupt end.
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Campus - Freedom of Speech - We might just all be KKK members
March 5, 2008
Some student leaders have compared supporting anti-abortion student clubs to supporting white supremacists. Really?
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| January, 2008 |
Campus - Freedom of Speech - Student union suppresses freedom of expression
January 29, 2008
But I also believe anti-abortion advocates, like all Canadians, have a right to freedom of expression. That’s why I’m disturbed by the trend among students’ unions at colleges and universities across the country to prevent anti-abortion groups from operating campus clubs.
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Editorial - The Day Humanity Became Cheap
January 22, 2008
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Campus - Freedom of Speech - Pro-life body seeks rights on campus
January 18, 2008
After the student government at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay prohibited the campus anti-abortion group from handing out leaflets, putting up posters, receiving student money, using the school's name, "approaching people to tell them about your club and beliefs," or engaging in any "unsolicited conversations," the pro-lifers were left with very few avenues through which to spread their message.
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Campus - Freedom of Speech - Lakehead University Life Support Club DENIED
January 14, 2008
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| October, 2007 |
Political - MPs Mull Fetal Murder Bill
October 3, 2007
The stabbing death of a Toronto woman who was eight months pregnant has revived the emotional debate over a new law that would make it a crime to kill or injure an unborn child.
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Other - Abortion Wait times in Ottawa hit Six Weeks
October 1, 2007
Wait times for abortions in Ottawa stretched to six weeks this summer and are expected to do so again this winter.
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