2026-10-16 · CBC News
🔮 “It got me worried and I was panicked.”
If the school had warned them and explained what precautions were in place, she said she would have felt safer and could have decided if or how she wanted to interact with him.
The students told CBC they were aware other students had made a formal complaint to McGill’s administration.
University cites privacy laws
CBC asked McGill University whether the institution was aware of the nature of Ewert’s criminal past and current parole status and what security plans, if any, had been conducted before allowing Ewert to attend campus.
In a statement, a university spokesperson declined to answer questions about Ewert’s specific case, citing privacy laws, but said that “criminal background checks are not typically part of Canadian universities' admissions processes. assertive