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North Star with Ellin BessnerPro-Palestinian tent protests have spilled onto Canadian campuses. What happens next?Show notes:
At least five Canadian university campuses are now home to temporary tent cities erected by pro-Palestinian students protesting Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. The U of T, McGill, Western, the University of Ottawa and the University of British Columbia have all become focal points for protestors insisting they won’t leave until their schools divest of financial ties to Israel, among other demands. Other schools like TMU are coping with sit-in protests.
So far, local police departments have not forcibly cleared out the compounds, as happened earlier this week at Columbia University in New...
2024-05-0229 min