Douglas Todd: The bogus-journals plot thickens at a B.C. university

The plot intensifies in the fight over academic freedom and bogus journals at Thompson Rivers University.
Concerns are rising about how the incoming president of the Kamloops university, Brett Fairbairn, resigned from his previous position at the University of Saskatchewan after violating the academic freedom of an outspoken professor. The messy 2014 case echoes the growing controversy at TRU over the July suspension of Derek Pyne.
Pyne, an economist, has drawn international attention for his pe