{"id":10201,"date":"2019-07-14T13:44:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=10201"},"modified":"2019-07-14T13:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T17:44:38","slug":"canadian-labour-law-a-threat-to-academic-freedom-dr-rick-mehta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10201","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Labour Law: A Threat to Academic Freedom &#8211; Dr. Rick Mehta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n\t<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/io0oASmZqf4\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Canadian Labour Law: A Threat to Academic Freedom &#8211; Dr. Rick Mehta\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Canadian Labour Law: A Threat to Academic Freedom &#8211; Dr. Rick Mehta\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2019-07-14T13:44:05-03:00\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/io0oASmZqf4\/default.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/io0oASmZqf4\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"310\" \/>\n\t<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"550\" \/>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/io0oASmZqf4?modestbranding=1&fs=0&rel=0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Former tenured Professor of Psychology at Acadia University, Dr. Rick Mehta uses his personal experience of being fired, ostensibly for his political views, to make the case that Canada\u2019s labour laws offer no protection to academics in matters of academic freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mehta was presenting at the Annual General Meeting of the Society For Academic Freedom and Scholarship (SAFS) on May 4th at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former tenured Professor of Psychology at Acadia University, Dr. Rick Mehta uses his personal experience of being fired, ostensibly for his political views, to make the case that Canada\u2019s labour laws offer no protection to academics in matters of academic freedom. Dr. Mehta was presenting at the Annual General Meeting of the Society For Academic <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/10201' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,28,205,6,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech","category-latest","category-law","category-politics","category-society","issues-academic-freedom","issues-acadia-university","issues-feminism","issues-free-speech","issues-post-modernism","issues-unions","issues-universities","personalities-rick-mehta","category-59-id","category-28-id","category-205-id","category-6-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10204,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions\/10204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}