Alberta’s Advanced Education Minister Tasked With Protecting Free Speech on Campus

Students walk on campus at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, in a file photo. Omid Ghoreishi/The Epoch Times

EDMONTON—Alberta’s Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides has been charged with improving free speech and academic freedom on the province’s campuses.

In a mandate letter released Nov. 16, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith instructed the minister to ensure the province’s post-secondary institutions “are adequately protecting the academic freedom and free speech of students and faculty.”