McClelland & Stewart excises racial epithet from a story in the new Kanata Classics version of Alistair MacLeod’s Island
Better not to include it in this series at all than to include it in even a mildly bowdlerized form.
Don’t call it a ban: Alberta government follows through on threat to have books removed from school libraries
The Bible and other religious texts will be exempt from the order.
Content warning: Some thoughts on the Alberta government’s new initiative to police content in provincial schools
The term "explicit sexual content" is often code for gay, lesbian, or trans content.
Alberta provincial government announces new policy to ensure “age-appropriate” material in school libraries
“I’m shocked this is happening in Canada.”
Move fast and break things: Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir offers a harrowing, highly personal peek behind the curtain at Meta
If there's one thing that's certain about Wynn-Williams's highly personal, often scathing narrative: it's going to make a blockbuster movie.
Goodreads and prior restraint: Bloom Books pulls an upcoming romance novel after criticism from early readers
Most often, what these censorious online voices demonstrate is not moral rectitude but a complete inability to understand how to read fiction.
Freedom to Read Week 2025: The Washington Post vs. Jeff Bezos
If a billionaire is in a position to dictate how the media does its job, there is no free press to speak of.
Freedom to Read Week 2025: Ulysses by James Joyce
Joyce's novel is now widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century.
Freedom to Read Week 2025: When Everything Feels Like the Movies by Raziel Reid
Barbara Kay took to the pages of the National Post to complain about the government having "wasted tax dollars on this values-void novel."
Freedom to Read Week 2025: On the enduring importance of standing up against attempts to suppress books
As we are witnessing on a global scale, it is all too easy to lose the essential freedoms we in a democratic society take for granted.