UCalgary students decry residential school denialism debate
UCalgary students decry residential school denialism debate

By Sarah Palmer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, LiveWire Calgary University of Calgary students are calling on the school for answers after a controversial on-campus debate. Social media posts have surfaced from Sept. 29, when a national student-led organization set up a debate table in the Science Theatres area, posing the question of whether the residential school system should be considered a genocide. The organization, Canadian Students for Free Speech, describes itself as a “movement defending open debate, viewpoint diversity, and free expression on Canadian campuses,” according to its website, which also serves as a place to report censorship. Tom Flanagan, a current political science master’s instructor at UCalgary who has been employed by the school as a professor for decades, and journalist Drea Humphrey were the featured debaters, according to

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