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Coulter needs apology, teachers' association says 'Serious questions'; Letter to Ottawa provost in defence of free speechRobert Sibley Friday, March 26, 2010 Gavin Young/Canwest News Service OTTAWA - University of Ottawa provost Francois Houle should apologize to American pundit Ann Coulter, says Canada's main university teachers' organization. "We feel you [Houle] owe an apology to Ms. Coulter and, even more importantly, you owe the University of Ottawa community an assurance that the administration of the university strongly supports freedom of expression, academic freedom and views the role of the university as fostering and defending these values," officials with the Canadian...

Angry, Fascist University Mob Too Much of a Security Risk to Allow Coulter to Speak Tonight was a sad night to be a Canadian.   This was the evening that free speech was banned because a few hundred student thugs who attend Ottawa University forgot what a university is about.  They would not allow the rest of the public - numbering between 1500-2000 people - to listen to Ann Coulter’s speech tonight.  As I walked past the long line-up, which stretched to the streets, I got the sense that a small majority of the crowd were sympathetic to Ms. Coulter’s appearance.  But there were “concerns”, you see,  for “public safety”.  Ottawa...

Until last year, Hassan Diab was leading the quiet life of a Canadian sociology professor. Prof. Diab was teaching at both Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, was said to be a popular colleague and teacher. After leaving the violence of his native Lebanon and earning his doctorate in the United States, Prof. Diab, 54, received his Canadian citizenship and appeared to settle into Ottawa. There, friends said he was a secular man with an interest in sociology and Middle East studies, and was not without a warm side. "He has a great rapport with students," said Carleton professor...