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‘Not every opinion is valid:’ Carleton University free speech wall torn down within hours
Only hours after students installed a “Free Speech Wall” at Carleton University to prove that campus free speech was alive and well, it was torn down by an activist who claimed the wall was an “act of violence,” against the gay community.
“What we wanted to promote was competition of ideas, rather than ‘if I disagree with you I’ve got to censor you,’” said Ian CoKehyeng, founder of Carleton Students for Liberty, the creators of the wall.
Installed on Monday in the Unicentre Galleria, one of campus’ most high-traffic areas, the wall was really more of a 1.2 x 1.8 meter wooden plank wrapped in paper and equipped with felt markers.
By Tuesday morning the wall was gone, destroyed in an act of “forceful resistance,” by seventh-year human rights student Arun Smith.
Giant sinkhole swallows car in Ottawa on highway off-ramp
(Ottawa Fire Department/The Canadian Press)
Manhunt underway for Luka Rocco Magnotta as police search for missing body parts
The police had finished their work inside and Apartment 208 was pretty much stripped bare, but the stomach-turning stench and darkened red stain on the mattress left little doubt that something terrible had happened here.
“The smell of death is not funny,” Eric Schorer, the building’s superintendent, said as he opened the door Wednesday afternoon. “If you look at the bed, that’s where it happened.”
Within hours, Montreal police would issue a wanted bulletin for the tenant of the one-room apartment, 29-year-old Luka Rocco Magnotta, sought for one of the most gruesome killings in Montreal in recent memory.
Not only was the unidentified victim dismembered, not only were two body parts apparently mailed to political parties in Ottawa, but it has emerged that the killer filmed his crime and posted it on the Internet. The snuff film titled 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick, depicting the dismemberment of an Asian male body and various indignities to the remains, has provoked online debate about its veracity since it was posted last week. Police have confirmed the video depicts the actual crime.
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Ottawa Bluesfest 2012 reveals lineup
The 2012 edition of Bluesfest has taken a decidedly electronic turn, with acts such as Skrillex, A-Trak and Paul Oakenfold among the biggest names on this year’s newly announced lineup.
The festival — which has incorporated into its 2012 logo the catch phrase “Electro-fied!” — also includes such dance- and caps lock-friendly acts as MSTRKRFT, LMFAO and AWOLNATION.
Thrilla on the Hilla
The Post’s Steve Murray is posting updates about the Justin Trudeau vs. Patrick Brazeau Fight For The Cure throughout the night.
Photo: Steve Muray, taking it on the chin from Senator Patrick Brazeau.
Chateau Laurier celebrates centennial with amnesty … so bring back that fork
Did grandma steal silverware from the Fairmont Château Laurier? Or perhaps great-grandpa kept a bill from the castle’s early days when rooms cost $2 per night?
The landmark hotel, located next to the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year by launching an amnesty program for Chateau memorabilia including menus, dishes, furniture, matchbooks and pins.
“We’re looking for not only items that grandma may have slipped in her purse as a souvenir but also stories that go along with it,” says Deneen Perrin, a spokeswoman for the Fairmont Laurier which opened on June 1, 1912. (Photos: Postmedia News; Bloomburg)
Rivals Justin Trudeau and Senator Patrick Brazeau facing off in charity boxing bout
Liberal MP Justin Trudeau and Conservative Senator Patrick Brazeau have sparred on Twitter, but on March 31, the two will fight for real in the ring.
The boxing match is part of Fight for the Cure, an annual gala featuring matches between “white-collar” Ottawans such as CTV anchor Terry Marcotte and lobbyist Walter Robinson, who fought last year. All proceeds go toward increasing “survivorship” among cancer patients in the Ottawa region.
Mr. Trudeau received training as a boxer in his youth, although he has never employed his skills in the ring. “He really wanted to see if he could compete properly,” said Rob Imbeault, one of the event organizers.
Analysis: Who shone and who stank in Parliament this year
Call them sizzlers or fizzlers, stars or squibs: they’re the members of Parliament who either rose through the political firmament in 2011, or suffered serious parliamentary pummelling.
Here are some of the politicians who made one of the lists, as compiled by the parliamentary bureau of Postmedia News. But bear in mind — politics being what it is — that any of them could make it onto the opposite list by this time next year.
Celebration on Parliament Hill marks the end of Canada’s Libya mission
A flyover the West Block of Parliament Hill on Thursday by RCAF aircraft deployed in Libya in recognition of the Canadian Forces contribution to support of the Libyan people. (Photo: PAT McGRATH/Postmedia News)
‘This hurts too much,’ gay teen says in last blog before suicide
Jamie Hubley’s goodbye letter appears on a blog that gave so many signs of what was to come: powerful images of other young people attempting suicide after being bullied, dark self-harm mantras and pictures of razor-sliced skin.
Less than a week ago, an anonymous commenter told the 15-year-old openly gay student from Ottawa to stop hurting himself, to believe that he has something to live for. The comment was met with a curt “No.”
“I don’t want to wait 3 more years,” he wrote Saturday in his last message to the world. “This hurts too much. How do you even know It will get better? Its not.” (Photo: Courtesy of Hubley family)
Layton’s casket arrives in Ottawa
Tears flowed Wednesday as Jack Layton arrived in the nation’s capital for the final time.
As a bagpiped lament filled the air, an honour guard of Mounties carried the late NDP leader’s Canadian-flag-draped casket from a hearse into a foyer of Parliament, where he will lie in state for the next two days.
The hearse carrying Layton, who died Monday after his second battle with cancer, arrived from Toronto after an hours-long drive, to a crowd of hundreds who had shown up to pay their respects.
After the RCMP officers put the casket in place in the foyer outside the House of Commons, the line soon began for those giving their condolences to Layton’s wife, MP Olivia Chow, and family, as they also signed the condolences book.
Photo: Members of the RCMP carry the coffin containing Jack Layton into the Center Block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Aug. 24, 2011. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters)
Q&A: The proper definition of a flip-flop
The municipality of Renfew County, near Ottawa, recently voted to update its dress code to forbid its nearly 750 government employees from wearing flip-flops. Open-toed sandals are acceptable business attire, but “flip-flops,” even leather ones, are not. Councillor Jennifer Murphy, Mayor of the 4,000-person township of Bonnechere Valley, caused a brief stir when she pressed for a proper definition of a flip-flop. (Getty Images/ThinkStock)
Prince William and Kate announce Canadian tour dates
The freshly minted — and newly married — Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will spend Canada Day in the capital before embarking on a cross-Canada tour in early July, according to a tour itinerary released by the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday.
In their first official visit abroad since their April 29th wedding, Prince William and Catherine Middleton will visit Ottawa from June 30 to July 2 before stopping in Montreal on July 2 and Quebec City on July 3 on their way to Charlottetown. Following an overnight stay in Charlottetown, they will travel to Summerside, P.E.I. on July 4 and then head north to Yellowknife from July 4 to 6. They wind up their Canadian tour in Calgary from July 6 to 8.
