Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Jake Offenhartz
Publication Date: May 21, 2025 - 13:15
Over boos, Columbia University president notes Mahmoud Khalil’s absence at graduation
May 21, 2025
The head of Columbia University gave a commencement speech Wednesday acknowledging the absence of student activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was due to receive his diploma this week but is instead in a Louisiana jail facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests.The brief address drew loud boos and chants of “free Palestine” from some graduating students. Acting president Claire Shipman also alluded to the crackdown on foreign students by the Trump administration that has roiled the Ivy League school in recent months.
Unpublished Newswire
I deas move in space and time. They swim like fish. They drift like pollen. They migrate like birds. Sometimes their movement carries them right around the world, and they find new niches in which to flourish.
One day in October 1971, a young academic called Christopher Stone was giving a seminar on property law at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. It had been an intense class; the students were tired and distracted. Pens were being twirled, windows stared out of. Stone decided to have a last shot at regaining their interest. What he said then jolted the students...
June 7, 2025 - 06:30 | Robert Macfarlane | Walrus
A new multilateral defence bank aims to help Canada and its allies build their militaries to meet looming threats in an increasingly hostile world while also giving Canadian industry a leg up when it comes to producing weaponry and military kit to tackle those threats head on.
And its Canadian president is hoping it will have a major presence in Toronto.
Announced this past spring, the new Defence, Security and Resilience Bank could solve financial problems for countries, including Canada, that are under pressure to increase military spending beyond two per cent of their gross...
June 7, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
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