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A group of students from McGill University says the university continues to stymie their efforts to uncover what goes on in certain research labs and is going to great lengths and expense to try to block students from accessing information about its military ties.

Students from Demilitarize McGill, which has been battling McGill over access-to-information requests since 2012, say the latest dispute involves access to almost 9,000 email exchanges which they believe could shed light on the university’s involvement in military contracts.

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In 2012, first-year women’s studies student Cadence O’Neal made a request through the Access to Information Commission for all communications between McGill’s CFD Laboratory — which “specializes in the development of state-of-the-art methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics,” according to its website — and representatives of companies that have military contracts, such as CAE Inc., Bell Helicopter, Bombardier Inc., Lockheed Martin, Textron and General Atomics.