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News December 16, 2024

Jordan Laffrenier Joins CFE Board

Award winning director, dramaturg, producer and educator, Jordan Laffrenier, is joining the Advisory Board of the Centre for Free Expression (CFE) at Toronto Metropolitan University.Jordan is currently the Associate Artistic Director of Canadian Stage and Prime Mover Theatre Company and the former Artistic Producer of Theatre Sheridan and Program Co-ordinator of Theatre Sheridan. 
News December 9, 2024

Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu Joins CFE Board

Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu, Artistic Director of the Obsidian Theatre, Canada’s leading creator for Black Art, is joining the Centre for Free Expression’s (CFE) Advisory Board. “Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu’s extensive experience as a theatre creator and director will be vital to the CFE as we expand our work to defend and promote artistic expression in Canada” said James L. Turk, Director of CFE. 
Blog December 9, 2024

Canadian universities and faculty must continue to push back against the speech-stifling IHRA antisemitism Working Definition

In January 2024, we wrote a blog post (and one of us, Blayne Haggart, wrote a companion piece) for the Centre for Free Expression raising concerns about the weaponization of antisemitism to stifle academic and political speech in the context of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. We wrote it in the context of the then-upcoming and now proposed Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act.
Natasha Tusikov
Blayne Haggart
Academic Freedom