BPC Bulletin: Challenges to Library Books in Canada
News Reports and Commentary Selected by Franklin Carter of the Book and Periodical Council’s Freedom of Expression Committee.
This summer, writers explore challenges to library books in Manitoba, British Columbia and Ontario.
REPORTAGE
In the Penticton Herald, Dave Baxter reports:
Prairie Rose School Division hears call for book ban | Spare News | pentictonherald.ca
COMMENTARY
In Maclean’s, Richard Beaudry comments:
I help librarians handle book bans. Here's why it's getting worse. - Macleans.ca
John Carpay of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms writes:
Courage in the face of school board censorship | Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (jccf.ca)
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