Universities serve many purposes and different communities but, first and foremost, a university should always be a bastion of free speech. How sad then, how in a macabre sort of way funny, that they have become instead (in William Bennett’s elegant phrase) “islands of repression in a sea of freedom.”   

At Canadian universities, political correctness has become so all pervasive that “academic freedom” is a ribald joke. Queen’s University and its new “diversity facilitators” have recently illustrated the point, but let us focus here on Brock University in St. Catharines, Ont. 

Here is the rest. Thanks to Boozing Kitty Fur.

And, on this (roughly) second anniversary of Cape Breton University taking two weeks’ pay away from me, here is that policy which abused me. Not only is the policy as flawed as Section 13, the university failed even to follow the dictates of its own policy.

You know, here is what I think now bothers me the most about the injustice I suffered from bureaucrats. I can never leave to the university what is a significant personal library. It was always my dream that I could leave probably tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of sometimes hard to find books in English and French (and a few in German and Polish, &c.). But I will never leave such a collection to such an institution which cares nothing about attacks on the free speech of one of its faculty — and turns on him when he defends his right to that basic freedom. And that is what this is all about.

I shall take this opportunity to thank again the many people who offered me support, and even offers of money for my defence. I have the satisfaction of being able to tell you that I have never backed down one inch in the cases brought by the paid pansexual activist-whiner.

Be sure to watch for the CBU Faculty Association Day of the Weasels at the end of January.