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Regina events coordinator resigns in protest over censorship |
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Written by IMC Sask
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Saturday, 11 June 2011 |
Regina citizens got a glimpse of the 'new downtown' this week after a public lecture was cancelled under pressure from city hall. The Leader-Post is reporting that city councillor Michael Fougere, who sits on the board of the Regina Downtown Business Improvement District, was influential in the cancellation of Dr. Emily Eaton's scheduled talk on Palestine and economic sanctions. Now RBID's event coordinator Neil McDonald has resigned, telling the prairie dog that censorship of the Profs in the Park lecture series is something his personal beliefs cannot accept. It is a brave stand, and McDonald has far more to lose than the professors, who promptly and unanimously withdrew from the series. The Faculty of Arts, RBID's partner for Profs in the Park, announced it will move the series away from downtown and indoors. This is a great loss to citizens, who otherwise would have had easy lunchtime access to discussion on issues of public interest. The logical extension is that City Hall's vision of the new downtown and Victoria Park - historically the city's gathering point for protest and debate - is to become controversy-free space that no longer belongs to the public domain.
Read Neil McDonald's full statement to the 'dog
Leader-Post report
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