'Campus press freedom weakening': Student council reportedly wants to replace newsroom with multi-faith prayer room

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First, copies of The Gazette started disappearing from newsstands, then the student government reportedly demanded to sit in on editorial meetings, and now in what Canada’s only daily student paper is calling the latest crackdown on “campus press freedom,” Gazette staff are being turfed out of their offices to make way for a prayer room.

“Given some of the issues that we’ve been undergoing in the last nine months, it leads me to strongly suspect that is about something else,” said Gloria Dickie, editor in chief of the University of Western Ontario-based student paper, …

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