McGill campus will be shut down to the public for the next three days. From Oct. 5-7, access onto campus and into buildings will require an active McGill ID.
In a message to the campus community, the university says the move was in response to events “being organized from Oct. 5 to 7 that call for significant numbers of people from outside the McGill community to gather on or around the university’s downtown campus.”
It’s the second time in the past few months McGill has shut down campus with little warning to pre-empt pro-Palestinian protests that it fear could result in property damage or other disruptions.
CKUT spoke to pro-Palestine activist Kaina Zarim and associate professor William Clare Roberts about the closures. McGill declined to comment. The statement from McGill about campus access from Oct. 5-7 can be found here.
