MRU Media: 02/02/2023
MRU in the media
Aheer’s former campaign manager denounces Nicolaides for supporting Widdowson: https://mru.ca/7c51 (Western Standard)
Free speech does not give you the right to deny facts and cause injury: https://mru.ca/2508 (AUPE)
Crowchild Classic makes a comeback: https://mru.ca/c29a (The Gauntlet)
Free speech debate continues to rage in Alberta: https://mru.ca/67f81 (City News)
Controversial speaker forced off U of L campus: https://mru.ca/cdb3 (CTV Calgary)
Hundreds of protesters drown out speaker Frances Widdowson at University of Lethbridge: https://mru.ca/98d19 (Global News website)
Hundreds of protesters drown out speaker Frances Widdowson at University of Lethbridge: https://mru.ca/c6c92 (Global News broadcast)
Hundreds of protesters drown out speaker Frances Widdowson at University of Lethbridge: https://mru.ca/e6e02 (770 CHQR Radio)
Frances Widdowson met by 700 protesters at University of Lethbridge; speech moves to Zoom: https://mru.ca/dc81 (CTV News website)
Frances Widdowson met by 700 protesters at University of Lethbridge; speech moves to Zoom: https://mru.ca/800d5 (CTV Calgary broadcast)
Controversial academic meets noisy resistance at U of L after school halts planned lecture: https://mru.ca/1828 (CBC News website)
Controversial academic meets noisy resistance at U of L after school halts planned lecture: https://mru.ca/e2f11 (CBC Radio One broadcast)
Hundreds oppose controversial speaker Widdowson at U of L: https://mru.ca/8f2b (Lethbridge Herald)
‘She is not welcome on our campus’: hundreds rally against controversial speaker at U of L: https://mru.ca/5b187 (My Lethbridge Now)
Controversial speaker drowned out by protestors at U of L: https://mru.ca/b1e3 (The Rush Radio Whitehorse)
Widdowson forced out of U of L amid attempt to give speech: https://mru.ca/d1e0 (City News Radio Calgary & Vancouver)
OPINION – Bell: Premier Smith’s free speech point man takes on campus woke crowd: https://mru.ca/a305
Crowchild Classic gets a shout out on WHL broadcast: https://mru.ca/8949 (The Sports Network – CHL Hockey)
AB, CAUT respond to ULethbridge’s choice to not let Widdowson talk proceed: https://mru.ca/1c25 (Academica)
Faculty, students and alumni in the media
Feds spent $6.8M to house 15 people in Calgary quarantine hotel last year: https://mru.ca/5068c https://mru.ca/fe2c (CBC News – Duane Bratt, faculty)
Feds spent $6.8M to house 15 people in Calgary quarantine hotel last year: https://mru.ca/42f5 (CBC Radio One- Duane Bratt, faculty)
Commentary: Companies, do more to retain employees returning from overseas deployments: https://mru.ca/d51c (Channel News Asia – Adam Cave, Michael Joseph Dominic Roberts, faculty)
Also worth noting
Athabasca University board fires president who fought Alberta government on staff relocations: https://mru.ca/45c3 (CBC News)
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