Tag: Freedom

Tatted doesn’t mean taboo

When someone notices that I have a tattoo, they often ask me what it means. In my case, I have a typical answer — it’s something like a life mantra. But for others, it’s not like that. Whether a tattoo is deemed a cool form of self-expression, or just the result of being young and stupid, often depends...

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Citizenship and the niqab

Citizenship ceremonies require open identity Vanessa Walsh, ArtSci ’16 The debate surrounding the niqab goes beyond whether it belongs in Canadian citizenship ceremonies. Arguing women should be prohibited from wearing what they choose to wear, no matter the situation, is an affront to liberty in...

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Queen’s improves free speech grade

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) recently raised the “practicing” grade of the AMS from an F in 2013 to a C in the 2014 Campus Freedom Index. The Campus Freedom Index measures the state of free speech at Canadian universities by grading the policy and practice of both the administration...

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McGill ban is out of line

Some situations call for extreme measures — but not quite as extreme as the ones McGill is taking against student journalists. McGill University recently attempted to ban certain Access to Information requests (ATIs) after a significant spike in them by campus newspapers, from 37 to 170 in the past...

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