WLU PROFS AUTHORS OF THEIR OWN MISFORTUNE

  A year ago, Wilfrid Laurier University made international headlines — none of them good — when two professors and a university human rights bureaucrat hauled then teaching assistant and graduate student Lindsay Shepherd into a bullying disciplinary meeting for leading a classroom discussion on gender identity issues.
  As part of her presentation to facilitate that discussion, she played a video clip showing controversial University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson debating the use of gender-neutral pronouns — to which he objects — with sexual diversity scholar Nicholas Matte, who supported their use.

     Shepherd's faculty advisor, communications studies professor Norman Rambukkana, reprimanded her for even raising the issue of gender identity in her tutorial, comparing Peterson to Hitler.  To no one's surprise, Peterson sued Rambukkana and professor Herbert Pimlott, who also attended the meeting, claiming their comments defamed him.
Now, the professors, who deny defaming Peterson, are suing Shepherd, according to her lawyer, Howard Levitt, for publicly releasing the video of their comments to the media.