Could this be the beginning of the end of the strangling speech restrictions at Canadian universities?

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A new course you probably wouldn’t expect to exist at a Canadian university just wrapped up. “Dangerous Ideas” invited students to tackle difficult and polarizing topics by debating both sides, and the students loved it — suggesting that they would rather examine and discuss ideas than be told that they’re off-limits. Could this be the beginning of the end of wokeism in Canadian universities?

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Dangerous Ideas is an upper-level combined political science and philosophy seminar course created by Brad Epperly and Renaud-Philippe Garner, who work at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna, B.C. According to its syllabus, the course allows students to tackle controversial topics that some people might deem dangerous, including freedom of speech, anti-racism, academic freedom, Zionism and colonialism.

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