Tag: free speech
Conservatives outraged over suppression of free speech at UTM
Campus Conservatives took a stance over reading week in hopes of advocating their right to free speech. This past week, dozens of conservatives and...
UTSU breaks ties with UTMSU, scraps slates
This year’s UTSU Annual General Meeting heard discussions and debates concerning the union’s separation with UTMSU, banning the running of teams in UTSU elections,...
U of T to ban smoking
The Governing Council, which is responsible for overseeing the academic, business, and student affairs of the University, met last Thursday amid discussions of the...
UTMSU’s legal battle continues
The lawsuit between the University of Toronto Mississauga Students’ Union and the pro-life group, UTM Students for Life, is still ongoing with no verdict...
Free speech isn’t an excuse
Our news section this week includes an article about a group called Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. They gave UTSU and UTMSU an F...
Peterson addresses U of T
U of T psychology professor Jordan Peterson released a YouTube video on November 5, addressing U of T following its agreement to hold a...
U of T agrees to hold a forum with Peterson
The Students in Support of Free Speech administration have written an open letter decrying the university’s treatment of Black and transphobic threats.
“The University has...
The dangers of biased reporting
I feel like this horse has been beaten to death by now but I want to talk about Jordan Peterson.
Shockingly, I’ve had a few...
Free speech rally incites controversy
Transphobic comments
Ever since U of T psychology professor, Jordan Peterson, refused to recognize genderless pronouns in his YouTube lectures on September 27 and October...
On free speech and endorsements
Freedom of speech has been a difficult topic for me personally to wrap my head around. On the one hand, I’ve generally been opposed...
The choice to have dialogue
What a week.
Last Wednesday, my day began with news of the lawsuit filed against UTMSU by the Students for Life chapter at UTM. And...
Pro-life group launches legal action against UTMSU
UTMSU is facing legal action by UTM Students for Life, a pro-life student group disputing the union’s refusal to renew their organization’s club status...