Professor ARRESTED for pushing back against unmarked graves narrative

Professor Frances Widdowson was removed from the University of Victoria under B.C.’s Trespass Act. She joins Marc Patrone to walk through the incident.

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Free speech is under attack again in British Columbia. Professor Frances Widdowson was detained by police at the University of Victoria after attempting to speak with students in an outdoor public space about the unproven residential-school burial claims at Kamloops.

The university declared her “unauthorized,” removed her from campus under B.C.’s Provincial Trespass Act, and allowed a hostile protest to continue unimpeded — a move critics say violates Charter protections at a publicly funded institution.

The incident highlights a growing free-speech crisis on B.C. campuses, where administrators increasingly shut down discussion while activist groups escalate intimidation. Widdowson, co-author of Dead Wrong, joins the show to explain what happened and what this says about the culture of censorship taking root in British Columbia.