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Freedom to Read 2007: Current Censorship Issues in Canada
Including an article by Wade Maclauchlan, President of the University of Prince Edward Island, explaining his decision to censor the UPEI student newspaper in 2006. The entire "2007 Freedom to Read Kit," including...
UPEI Student Paper strives for autonomy
Ryan Gallant, president of the UPEI Students’ Union, said he first heard about the Cadre’s drive for autonomy on CBC Radio. Gallant was the Cadre’s editor-in-chief before becoming the student... In wake of "cartoon controversy," UPEI student newspaper struggles to preven...
According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, "staff at the Cadre, the UPEI student newspaper, are fighting a plan to be taken over by a campus group, the Independent Student Media Society." The story, dated March 22, 2007 is available here.The plan involves cutting the... Speech codes and our 'culture of comfort'
The most recent abuse of student academic freedom was perpetrated by the University of Prince Edward Island, which censored a student paper that dared to publish the Danish cartoons. Perhaps the Danish cartoons controversy, coupled with the extreme culture-of-comfort...
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