{"id":3452,"date":"2019-10-11T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2019-10-11T16:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:25:38","slug":"rcmp-called-in-after-pushing-and-shoving-breaks-out-at-controversial-ubc-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3452","title":{"rendered":"RCMP called in after pushing and shoving breaks out at controversial UBC event"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UBC says RCMP were called in due to concern for the safety and security\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Campus security called police when things started to escalate after protesters started banging hard on windows, threatening to break them, an event organizer said.\u00a0(Darryl Dyck\/The Canadian Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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RCMP were called in as tensions rose outside a controversial event at the University of British Columbia Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The event\u00a0organized by student-led group Students for Freedom of Expression\u00a0invited two controversial speakers to attend. One of them was Mark Hecht, who wrote a\u00a0highly-criticized\u00a0anti-immigrant op-ed<\/a>\u00a0for the Vancouver Sun last month.<\/p>\n

The other speaker was Ricardo Duchesne, who has been critical of multiculturalism and Canada’s immigration policies.<\/p>\n

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But the event was met by dozens of protesters, upset over the university’s decision to give a platform to what they say is far-right hate speech.<\/p>\n

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