{"id":2102,"date":"2017-11-24T22:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T03:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2017-11-24T22:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T03:42:28","slug":"heres-the-full-recording-of-wilfrid-laurier-reprimanding-lindsay-shepherd-for-showing-a-jordan-peterson-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2102","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the full recording of Wilfrid Laurier reprimanding Lindsay Shepherd for showing a Jordan Peterson video"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Here\u2019s the full recording of Wilfrid Laurier reprimanding Lindsay Shepherd for showing a Jordan Peterson video<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"excerpt\">Teaching assistant Shepherd was accused of creating a \u2018toxic climate\u2019 at the university by screening a televised debate discussing gender-neutral pronouns<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-featured-media-container below-content\">\n<figure class=\"entry-featured-media video featured-video wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"videoParentContainer noPlaylist playlistHidden\">\n<div id=\"pn_video_357058\" class=\"videoContainer custom-not-IE-modifier\" data-id=\"1_tx9dvsek\">\n<div id=\"pn_video_357058_Player\" class=\"video-js custom-css vjs-mouse vjs-controls-enabled vjs-workinghover bc-player-E1ej3O6Q0x_default vjs-plugins-ready vjs-contextmenu vjs-contextmenu-ui vjs-player-info vjs-errors vjs-ima3-autoplay vjs-ima3-html5 ima3-loading-spinner custom-landscape custom-not-ie custom-probably-desktop vjs-has-started vjs-ad-controls vjs-user-inactive vjs-playing\" data-embed=\"default\" data-player=\"E1ej3O6Q0x\" data-id=\"pn_video_357058_VideoPlayer\" data-account=\"4077388043001\" data-video-id=\"5652928971001\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"vjs-text-track-display\"><\/div>\n<div 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class=\"byline-dates\">\n<p><time class=\"entry-date published pubdate\" datetime=\"2017-11-20T20:09:36-05:00\">November 20, 2017<br \/>\n8:09 PM EST<\/time><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dateModifiedLabel\">Last Updated<\/span><br \/>\n<time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2017-11-21T15:34:54-05:00\">November 21, 2017<br \/>\n3:34 PM EST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"filed-under\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-main-content\" class=\"fixed-fluid-holder right active last\">\n<div class=\"fluid-holder right\">\n<div class=\"entry-content \">\n<div class=\"story-content\">\n<p>During a seminar with first-year communications students, Wilfrid Laurier University teaching assistant Lindsay Shepherd screened a TVOntario debate to illustrate the sometimes-controversial politics of grammar.<\/p>\n<p>The video, an episode of The Agenda with Steve Paikin, included University of Toronto\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/tag\/jordan-peterson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professor Jordan Peterson<\/a>\u00a0presenting his case against the use of non-gendered pronouns. It also included panellists taking the opposite viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, after an anonymous student complained,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/politics\/jen-gerson-in-disciplining-lindsay-shepherd-wilfrid-laurier-university-chooses-catechism-over-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shepherd found herself reprimanded for violating the school\u2019s Gendered and Sexual Violence policy<\/a>. In a subsequent meeting with university officials, she was accused of creating a \u201ctoxic\u201d and \u201cproblematic\u201d environment that constituted violence against transgendered students. She was also falsely told that she had broken the law.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd recorded the meeting. Audio and selected transcripts are below. The voices are of Shepherd, her supervising professor Nathan Rambukkana, another professor, Herbert Pimlott, as well as Adria Joel, manager of Gendered Violence Prevention and Support at the school.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-soundcloud\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F358636994&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxwidth=640&amp;maxheight=960&amp;dnt=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3><strong>00:00:56 \u201cSO YOU WEREN\u2019T, LIKE, ONE OF JORDAN PETERSON\u2019S STUDENTS?\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0Obviously this person (the complainant) who had an issue did not express it to me, they just went straight to whoever, I don\u2019t know what really happened.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fsk_splitbox_9_onscreen\" class=\"fsk_splitbox_9_onscreen\">\n<div id=\"fsk_splitbox_9\" class=\"  fsk_splitbox_9     sb-opened\"><iframe id=\"fsk_frame_splitbox\" name=\"fsk_frame_splitbox\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0Just for some additional context so, you came from U of T is that right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0No, SFU.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0From SFU, okay. So you weren\u2019t, like, one of Jordan Peterson\u2019s students?<\/p>\n<p><em>The meeting had just begun when Shepherd received this oblique accusation that she might be a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 or supporter of Peterson\u2019s. Later in the meeting, Pimlott will expound on how people like Peterson live in a fantasy world of false conspiracies. However, it should be noted that upon encountering a teaching assistant who had mentioned an unpopular idea, one of Laurier\u2019s first assumptions was that she was somehow an agent of those ideas. Several times during the meeting, Shepherd will reiterate that her beliefs about gender had no bearing on her decision to screen the video. \u201cI disagree with Jordan Peterson, but you people seem to think I\u2019m pro-Jordan Peterson,\u201d she says at one point.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong><br \/>\n00:03:10 \u201cTHESE ARGUMENTS ARE COUNTER TO THE CANADIAN HUMAN RIGHTS CODE\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_\" class=\"wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-76974697\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmedia.nationalpost.com\/2017\/11\/1121_wilfrid_laurier-1.jpg?quality=60&amp;strip=all\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"img-caption\">Nathan Rambukkana, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, WLU. Credit: Wilfrid Laurier University<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2026[Peterson] lectures about critiquing feminism, critiquing trans rights \u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019m familiar. I follow him. But can you shield people from those ideas? Am I supposed to comfort them and make sure that they are insulated away from this? Like, is that what the point of this is? Because to me, that is so against what a university is about. So against it. I was not taking sides. I was presenting both arguments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0So the thing about this is, if you\u2019re presenting something like this, you have to think about the kind of teaching climate that you\u2019re creating. And this is actually, these arguments are counter to the Canadian Human Rights Code. Even since \u2026 C-16, ever since this passed, it is discriminatory to be targeting someone due to their gender identity or gender expression.<\/p>\n<p><em>By C-16, Rambukkana is referring to a recently passed federal bill that prohibits discrimination based on gender identity or expression. His read of it is dead wrong; it\u2019s obviously not a violation of C-16 to screen a TVOntario program at a university. For one thing, the bill only applies to federally-regulated industries, which does not include universities. Even if it did,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/politics\/what-the-wilfried-laurier-professors-got-wrong-about-bill-c-16-and-gender-identity-discrimination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal experts contacted by the National Post<\/a>\u00a0were extremely dubious that Shepherd\u2019s actions constituted anything remotely resembling discrimination.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>00:04:22 \u201cIT HAS CREATED A TOXIC CLIMATE FOR SOME OF THE STUDENTS\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0Like I said, it was in the spirit of debate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0Okay, \u201cin the spirit of the debate\u201d is slightly different than \u2018this is a problematic idea that we might want to unpack.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0But that\u2019s taking sides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s taking sides for me to be like \u201coh, look at this guy, like everything that comes out of his mouth is B.S. but we\u2019re going to watch anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0I understand the position that you\u2019re coming from and your positionality, but the reality is that it has created a toxic climate for some of the students, you know, it\u2019s great \u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0How many? Who? How many? One?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0May I speak?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0I have no concept of how many people complained, what their complaint was, you haven\u2019t shown me the complaint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0I understand that this is upsetting, but also confidentiality matters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0The number of people is confidential?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><em>According to Shepherd, the seminar actually went pretty well; students considered the video, and soon got to discussing the use of gender neutral terms such as \u201cthey\u201d instead of \u201chim\u201d or \u201cher.\u201d As Shepherd explained at the opening of her meeting with supervising professors, \u201cthere were people of all opinions.\u201d Whoever took offence, she noted, did not approach her directly or even raise their concerns in class before filing a gendered violence complaint with university officials.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>00:05:58 \u201c\u2026 CREATES AN UNSAFE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS.\u201d<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0Do you see how this is something that is not intellectually neutral, that is kind of \u201cup for debate,\u201d I mean this is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0But it is up for debate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0You\u2019re perfectly welcome to your own opinion, but when you\u2019re bringing it into the context of the classroom that can become problematic, and that can become something that is, that creates an unsafe learning environment for students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0But when they leave the university they\u2019re going to be exposed to these ideas, so I don\u2019t see how I\u2019m doing a disservice to the class by exposing them to ideas that are really out there. And I\u2019m sorry I\u2019m crying, I\u2019m stressed out because this to me is so wrong, so wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joel:<\/strong>\u00a0Can I mention the \u2026 Gendered and Sexual Violence Policy?<\/p>\n<p><em>Once again, Rambukkana accuses Shepherd of breaking the law. But as with C-16, there is nothing in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms that prohibits what Shepherd did. The Charter says the exact opposite, in fact; one of the document\u2019s four \u201cfundamental freedoms\u201d is the \u201cfreedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression.\u201d If someone ever launched a legal case against Shepherd for this, the Charter would be the document most likely to protect her from prosecution.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>00:07:28 ALL PERSPECTIVES ARE NOT VALID.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0What I have a problem with is, I didn\u2019t target anybody. Who did I target?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joel:<\/strong>\u00a0Trans folks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0By telling them ideas that are really out there? Telling them that? By telling them? Really?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s not just telling them. In legitimizing this as a valid perspective\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0In a university all perspectives are valid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s not necessarily true, Lindsay.<\/p>\n<p><em>The tug-of-war between Shepherd and her supervising professor basically boiled down to single point. Shepherd argued the case that ideas, however controversial, deserve mention in the classroom. Rambukkana, however, held fast to the notion that some ideas are \u201cproblematic\u201d and cannot be raised without being clearly labeled as such. In this, arguing against gender-neutral pronouns was compared to banning women\u2019s suffrage or claiming that cigarettes are harmless. Using a rhetorical tactic typically more at home on Reddit forums, Rambukkana and Pimlott would also thrice use the example of Nazi Germany. \u201cThis is like neutrally playing a speech by Hitler,\u201d\u00a0Rambukkana said at one point.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong><br \/>\n00:17:19 \u201cTHE NAZIS ACTUALLY USED \u2026 ISSUES AROUND THE FREE SPEECH IDEA.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_\" class=\"wp-caption post-img size_this_image_test alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-76974698\" src=\"http:\/\/wpmedia.nationalpost.com\/2017\/11\/1121_wilfrid_laurier.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wpmedia.nationalpost.com\/2017\/11\/1121_wilfrid_laurier.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all 300w, http:\/\/wpmedia.nationalpost.com\/2017\/11\/1121_wilfrid_laurier.jpg?w=150&amp;quality=60&amp;strip=all 150w, http:\/\/wpmedia.nationalpost.com\/2017\/11\/1121_wilfrid_laurier.jpg 350w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"img-caption\">Dr. Herbert Pimlott, Associate Professor Communication Studies, WLU. Credit: Wilfrid Laurier University<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Pimlott:<\/strong>\u00a0I would find it problematic if my tutorial leaders were representing positions that didn\u2019t have any substantial academic credibility to that evidence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0But he\u2019s still a public figure \u2026 this was on a TV show. He\u2019s still a public figure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pimlott:<\/strong>\u00a0He\u2019s a public figure, and a lot of people there like (American white supremacist) Richard Spencer of, I don\u2019t like calling them alt-right, it gives them too much legitimacy, but Richard Spencer, right? The Nazis actually used, this is a historic\u2014issues around the free speech idea in the 1920s in Weimar Germany as an issue around which which is what they\u2019re using now. We know that someone like Richard Spencer is using theories and ideas that don\u2019t have any academic credibility. He\u2019s a public figure. But in terms of, if we introduce someone, we give them greater credibility in a certain condition. I agree that there are public figures out there that bring people, uh, bring hatred, target groups and if you look at statistically the degree of suicide attempts of trans people, young people, it\u2019s the highest of any group in society. And, you know, it\u2019s, you go through \u2014 Indigenous people \u2014 and so on. There are things that don\u2019t have academic credibility and I just don\u2019t think\u2014I personally think I have some problems, I have no problems with the fact that these things are out there and people are going to engage them but we have to think of the atmosphere that we also create for the learning process.<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s worth reiterating that this whole debacle happened within Wilfrid Laurier University\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>communications<em>\u00a0department. The program\u2019s whole job is to teach students how to legibly convey ideas. Despite this, the rambling semi-coherent answer above is quite typical of the other 43 minutes of the recording. Pimlott\u2019s mention of \u201cacademic credibility\u201d is notable. It\u2019s not like the group is discussing an issue like climate change or evolution, in which there\u2019s a pretty clear scientific consensus on the truth. They\u2019re discussing language, and Laurier appears to be telling Shepherd to ignore the language ideas of any \u201cpublic figure\u201d who doesn\u2019t have appropriate academic credentials. Such a broad definition could presumably include anyone from William Shakespeare to J.K. Rowling.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong><br \/>\n00:22:06 YOUR NEUTRALITY IS \u201cKIND OF THE PROBLEM\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0Do you understand how what happened was contrary to, sorry Adria, what was the policy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joel:<\/strong>\u00a0Gendered and Sexual Violence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Gendered and Sexual Violence Policy. Do you understand how \u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0Sorry, what did I violate in that policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joel:<\/strong>\u00a0Um, so, gender-based violence, transphobia, in that policy. Causing harm, um, to trans students by, uh, bringing their identity as invalid. Their pronouns as invalid \u2014 potentially invalid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0So I caused harm?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joel:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 which is, under the Ontario Human Rights Code a protected thing so something that Laurier holds as a value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0Ok, so by proxy me showing a YouTube video I\u2019m transphobic and I caused harm and violence? So be it. I can\u2019t do anything to control that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0Ok, so that\u2019s not something that you have an issue with? The fact that that happened? Are you sorry that it happened?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0I know in my heart, and I expressed to the class, that I\u2019m not transphobic and if any of them \u2014 again, I don\u2019t know what they said \u2014 but I don\u2019t think I gave away any kind of political position of mine. I remained very neutral, and uh\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014that\u2019s kind of the problem.<\/p>\n<p><em>Unlike with C-16 and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, it is much more believable that Shepherd actually did violate the schools\u2019 Gendered and Sexual Violence Policy. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlu.ca\/about\/governance\/assets\/resources\/12.4-gendered-and-sexual-violence-policy-and-procedures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">document<\/a>\u00a0is quite broad, and defines gendered violence as \u201can act or actions that reinforce gender inequalities resulting in physical, sexual, emotional, economic or mental harm.\u201d The policy further stipulates that the\u201cviolence\u201d can take the form of graffiti or text messages. Under these parameters, a YouTube video that made a student feel uncomfortable would seem to amply qualify.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>00:25:16 STUDENTS DON\u2019T HAVE THE \u201cCRITICAL TOOLKIT\u201d TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0These are very young students, and something of that nature is not appropriate to that age of student, because they don\u2019t have \u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a018?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd:<\/strong>\u00a0They\u2019re adults.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rambukkana:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, but they\u2019re very young adults. they don\u2019t have the critical toolkit to be able to pick it apart yet. This is one of the things we\u2019re teaching them, so this is why it becomes something that has to be done with a bit more care.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a theme that Pimlott takes up later in the recording; that Wilfrid Laurier University is bringing in young na\u00effs from a prejudice-filled society who aren\u2019t yet ready to handle complex ideas without proper training. He said it takes a while to properly challenge \u201cthe faith-based, family and other types of structures in society that they\u2019ve been inculcated with for years.\u201d The meeting concludes, by the way, with a note that Shepherd must now run her seminar notes past Rambukkana and obtain specific approval for any future media she intends to show. \u201cI\u2019ll ask you not to play any more Jordan Peterson videos, or anything of the like,\u201d Rambukkana said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kasiov0ytEc?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span>\u2022 Twitter:\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button-rendered\" title=\"Twitter Follow Button\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets\/follow_button.5069e7f3e4e64c1f4fb5d33d0b653ff6.en.html#dnt=false&amp;id=twitter-widget-0&amp;lang=en&amp;screen_name=TristinHopper&amp;show_count=true&amp;show_screen_name=true&amp;size=m&amp;time=1511581194146\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-screen-name=\"TristinHopper\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe>\u00a0|\u00a0<em>Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:thopper@nationalpost.com\">thopper@nationalpost.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the full recording of Wilfrid Laurier reprimanding Lindsay Shepherd for showing a Jordan Peterson video Teaching assistant Shepherd was accused of creating a \u2018toxic climate\u2019 at the university by screening a televised debate discussing gender-neutral pronouns 0:51 \/ 3:53 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=2102\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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