Blatchford prevented from speaking at U of Waterloo by bike chain locked protesters

Chained by his neck to two female protesters, University of Waterloo doctoral student Dan Kellar was nevertheless in control of the situation at a campus lecture hall last week, as he sat on stage and chanted slogans to prevent journalist and author Christie Blatchford (pictured) from speaking about her new book on the native protests at Caledonia, Ont. Ms. Blatchford, the Governor-General’s literary award-winning writer of Fifteen Days, was slightly delayed by traffic on Friday, and as university spokesman Michael Strickland announced this to the small audience, he was shouted down with calls of “racist, racist, racist.” By the time Ms. Blatchford arrived — “mortified,” she said, at her lateness — campus police had realized the protesters could not be safely removed, given the bike locks around their necks, and so cancelled the speech “due to safety concerns.”

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