Many of you may recall the story of Lindsay Shepherd, the teaching assistant up at Laurier University in Canada,

who got in trouble after she showed her class a TV Ontario public broadcaster debate between Jordan Peterson and another professor over the use of gender pronouns.

And now she is once again in the news because she has filed a $3.6 million lawsuit against the university.

And one of the claims she's making is that they have made her unemployable and have derailed her career track.

So what's happening with Laurier? Why is she suing? And what else has Lindsay Shepherd been up to?

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The story from the province, teaching assistant sues Laurier University claims attacks rendered her unemployable in academia.

Lindsay Shepherd claims harassment, intentional inflection of nervous shock, negligence and constructive dismissal.

The attacks on her have rendered her unemployable in academia.

She claims and forced her to abandon her career plans for further graduate study and teaching.

The statement of claim which seeks $3.6 million was filed Tuesday in Waterloo, Ontario, and as yet no statements of defense have been filed.

In addition to Laurier, Shepherd's suit names Nathan Rambukana, the professor of the course for which Shepherd was a teaching assistant.

Herbert Pimlot, master's program coordinator and Audrey Joel, acting manager of Gender Violence Prevention in the Diversity and Equity Office.

It describes them as predators who are bullying Shepherd in a disciplinary meeting, a recording of which Shepherd and later released publicly.

In an email statement, Laurier said it received notice of her lawsuit on Tuesday, which it describes as one perspective of a legal matter in pursuit of a financial claim.

Since Shepherd first raised her initial concerns, the university has taken numerous measures to address the matter, including issuing an apology to her the statement reads.

The apology still stands.

In her suit, Shepherd claims she had not even taken a side on the pronoun issue.

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