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A new congressional effort to police advertising by crisis pregnancy centers is unnecessary, pro-life advocates said, and unconstitutional, free-speech defenders charged. The American Civil Liberties Union, which has long promoted itself as the leading defender of freedom of speech and civil rights, is right in the middle of the controversy, promoting the new legislation to the surprise of some.

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I have a question that should be of interest to those concerned about the principle of academic freedom. How is one to account for the fact that when the administration at UPEI sent in the police to confiscate the copies of a recent edition of the stud

Comments on the response from Wade MacLauchlan, President of the University of Prince Edward Island, to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship.

A "letter of thanks" from a pious Muslim woman to the President of the University of Prince Edward Island, originally posted on the official UPEI website, but removed on February 27, 2006. This URL leads to the page cached by Google.

Letter from the Society for Academic Freedom and Censorship to Wade MacLauchlan, President of UPEI, and MacLauchlan's response to SAFS, republished in the news digest of the University of Toronto.

As an academic -- and one, who as a child, was fortunate enough to have his parents take him from a "fear" to a "free" society -- I suggest that the principle of freedom of speech must be treasured over all other principles, especially in universities, wh

So Wade MacLauchlan, the president of the University of Prince Edward Island, believes that censoring student newspapers is the best way to prevent potential violence and help his university strive towards "an engaged and positive learning environment."

Letter to the National Post, 24 Feb 2006, from Awrey, concerning Wade MacLauchlan's open letter to the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship

A response to a letter, posted on the website of the University of Prince Edward Island, from a Muslim woman to Wade MacLauchlan, President of the University of Prince Edward Island.

Fear of possible "mob action" must not be allowed to dictate to UPEI or any other Canadian university what ideas its students and faculty may express, disseminate and debate. By censoring this debate at your campus rather than taking the necessary steps t

Yesterday, my local university's student newspaper became the first paper in Canada to print the twelve "Muhammed" cartoons. Two hundred copies were picked up by students before the President and the student union/government agreed that the newsp

Published as a letter to the editor in the [Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island] Guardian, 21 Feb 2006. Contents of the initial, two-page letter of thanks to Mr. Wade MacLauchlan can be accessed at www.upei.ca/letter

For the past two weeks, Patrick Sookhdeo has been canvassing the opinions of Muslim clerics in Britain on the row over the cartoons featuring images of Mohammed that were first published in Denmark and then reprinted in several other European countries.