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The controversy over academic freedom at the University of Ottawa was sparked in September 2020, after a professor used the word "nigger" during a lecture to illustrate how certain groups reclaimed words or phrases traditionally used against them. The professor's use of the word and the ensuing outrage was first reported by Charley Dutil and Paige Holland in the university's anglophone student news outlet, Fulcrum. The university suspended the teacher after an offended student filed a complaint. The debate about whether the suspension was justified and about academic freedom then flared up. The controversy was lively, and generated a lot of media coverage in Canada, and also attracted some attention in Europe. It prompted reactions from the federal government of Canada: the Bloc Québécois defended full academic freedom, while the New Democratic Party and the Green Party of Canada were against it.
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