Campus crackdowns earning a failing grade

Student encampments protesting the genocide in Gaza will surely pack a political punch that will rankle the sensitivities of the Laurentian elites.

A student encampment at McGill University, joining others across the continent. The next generation of power concentration is using its privilege to fight for the lives of people being slaughtered halfway across the globe, writes Erica Ifill.Screenshot courtesy of CTV News

Opinion

BY ERICA IFILL

May 1, 2024

OTTAWA—Take a deep breath. You smell that? It’s the scent of resistance affecting your olfactory system. You can’t shove an ethnic cleansing down gen-Z’s throats and think they’re going to swallow.

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