SPPIT thinks the big story for 6 December 2017 is President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US will recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol and move the US Embassy from Tev Aviv to Jerusalem. SPPIT supports this completely.
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Lindsay Shepherd is a graduate student working part time as a teaching assistant at Wilfred Laurier University. She recently showed her class an excerpt from a TV program featuring Jordan Peterson.
Wilfred Laurier University hauled Lindsay Shepherd before a three member tribunal – which included her academic supervisor, Dr. Herbert Pimlott and the university equity officer – and interrogated her because of an alleged complaint over her having shown her class a video of Jordan Perterson., whom the tribunal labelled as, among other things, a controversial “alt-right” figure.
SPPIT.org considers this an appalling assault by a university on academic freedom and freedom of speech. Here are some videos about this case:
The next two videos are for context in this disgraceful behavior by Wilfred Laurier University.
First, here is the full audio recording of Lindsay Shepherd interrogation by Wilfred Laurier University:
Here is the complete episide on the October 2016 TV Ontario program, The Agenda, from which Lindsay Shepherd took the video excerpt of Jordan Peterson which started all this in the first place:
A graduate student named Lindsay Shepherd has been disciplined for showing her Wilfred Laurier University class a short video of Dr. Jordan Peterson. SPPIT.org considers it appalling that these assaults on Freedom of Speech are happening regularly on university campuses.