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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/WordPress-Image-12-4.jpg2000700Over the last year, my writing with W.R. Morrison has sparked some interesting debate about the role and future of universities in Canada. We have been frequently surprised by which ideas in Campus Confidential are deemed controversial and which are not. But it has been most striking to detect the growing unease at the powerful […]