2019, Ricardo Duchesne and Mark Hecht spoke at the UBC-Vancouver campus at an event hosted by the UBC Students for Freedom of Expression. The event, titled "Academic Freedom to Discuss the Impact of Immigrant Diversity", was met by dozens of protesters claiming that the university should not give a platform to "far right" hate speech. Investigation and retirement In May 2019, The University of New Brunswick announced that it would review further complaints related to Duchesne's public comments and views on race after it was reported that he had written blog posts alleging that immigration was part of a conspiracy to advance white genocide. A group of over 100 of Duchesne's colleagues at the University of New Brunswick signed an open letter of complaint stating that Duchesne’s blog posts, and even at times his classroom teachings, had no merit, and qualified as hate speech that should not be protected by university policies of academic freedom. The Canadian Historical Association also wrote a letter denouncing Duchesne's work in similar terms. In response, Duchesne stated that the signatories did not have "any scholarly background" in immigration or multiculturalism, and that the charge of racism "has been overused beyond reason...and is used against anyone who questions this diversity." His response was disputed, as at least two of the signatories did specialize in aspects of multiculturalism and immigration to Canada. Mark Mercer, president of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship questioned the school's decision to review Duchesne, and argued that Duchesne's work should be protected in the name of academic freedom. The following month, on June 4, 2019, the University announced that Duchesne was taking early retirement. The terms of his settlement with them prohibit him from speaking publicly about the circumstances leading to his retirement. Duchesne had stopped publishing in mainstream academic journals even before his retirement. Since then, he has continued his research and writing as an independent scholar, publishing articles on his Council of Euro-Canadians blog and in Kevin McDonald's white nationalist journal, The Occidental Quarterly.. More recently, he published an extended review of Joseph Henrich's The WEIRDest People, in Mankind Quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal that has been described as the "cornerstone of the scientific racism establishment". Currently he is writing a series of articles on the "superlative accomplishments" of Europeans in all the fields of human endeavor for Postil Magazine. Bibliography "Defending the Rise of Western Culture Against its