Hells Of Higher Learning...

'Progressive' intolerance in action

Rex Murphy: The University of Waterloo is inadequately and belatedly trying to make up for the shabby treatment afforded Christie Blatchford at the renowned institution

Heavy-handed university presidents are the problem

By EZRA LEVANT, QMI Agency
What is it with university presidents threatening to sic the police on their critics?

Carleton anti-abortion club to sue over ban

The lawyer for an anti-abortion group just decertified at Carleton University said Friday he will take the school’s student association to court unless the ban is reversed

David Frum: York University, where the rules change based on who’s speaking


York University’s reception of George Galloway — and the Toronto-area university’s legal threats against Galloway protesters — reminded me of an old joke from the Jim Crow American South.
A line of white men are waiting to cast their votes. The polling officer presents each white man with an elementary school reader and asks him to read a line aloud. The white men sound out, “the cat is fat,” “the mice are nice,” and so on. The polling officer congratulates them for passing the literacy test. At last, an old black farmer steps forward. The polling officer pulls out a medical school text book on diseases of the esophagus and points the farmer to the most obscure passage. “What’s it say here?” The farmer looks at the dense type and answers sadly, “It says this old man ain’t voting today.”

The point of the story is that institutions sometimes have two sets of rules. The institution may say, “All literate men may vote.” But the institution actually practises the rule, “Only white men may vote.” Read More »