There is an east/west divide but I think it is overstated. It's more the bulk of the curve is slanted right or left depending on where you are. Saskatechewan, for example, is western but not, at least in my experience, very right wing.
Spurned in Ottawa, Calgary rolls out the welcome mat for Coulter
CP: Elizabeth Church
March 24, 2010
A day after she was chased away from an Ottawa campus by rowdy crowds, the University of Calgary is giving American pundit Ann Coulter a bigger venue to air her extreme brand of right-wing politics, saying part of its role is to "promote the free exchange of ideas."
Ms. Coulter, a skilled political agitator, has hit the jackpot on her three-campus visit to Canada. Her planned appearance earlier this week at the University of Ottawa was cancelled because of security concerns after an estimated 1,500 people showed up at a lecture hall with roughly 400 seats.
That cancellation – and an advance note from the school's provost advising her to mind her words in case she risk criminal charges for hate speech – has unleashed a firestorm, especially among conservative commentators, and renewed the debate over freedom of expression on campus. As the tour moves from Ontario to Calgary, it also holds the potential of exposing yet again the political east-west divide of the nation.
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7 comments:
She is deliberately speaking at universities in order to cause trouble. Her "free speech" is paid for by right-wing groups.
I don't think George W. Bush spoke at any universities on his recent visits to Canada.
Though George W. Bush has been spoken about at universities recently.
Our universities can best be understood today as finishing schools in political correctness. From pre-kindergarten days, students have been brainwashed by the liberal consensus on all issues – political, moral, social. The university exists to round that off with a little learning. So the Ann Coulter saga is neither the first nor the last to expose the corrupt heart of the university.
This is what needs to be changed in Canada.
The above quote from a professor Hunter at The UWO proves the point.
The students at Ottawa University have never heard someone like Coulter so they act like loons.
If they had heard other points of view other than Marxism, then maybe they would behave accordingly.
The far left must be loving this along with Mr Alinsky who must be smashing some heroine in his grave with needles from the SafeSite in Vancouver.
Ann Coulter has a great post on anncoulter.com
Suggest you read it.
Might get you away from the Toronto mentality of shutting everyone up.
Anon, last anon, maybe you misunderstand me -- I did not like Coulter being stifled -- I thought she should have been able to speak and was "appalled" that she wasn't.
Mr. Morton, were you equally outraged last year when democratically elected British MP George Galloway was not allowed to speak at the University of Ottawa about Israeli war crimes?
I think she can have free speech on stormfront or other appropriate venues, but a gimick entertainer who can't engage intellectually in debate has no place in an academic theatre.
I found this to be very interesting:
http://ifuckedanncoulterintheasshard.blogspot.com/?zx=89ee51229dc14a26
Your musings on the parchment?
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