BPC Bulletins

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has provided a new list of publications that the agency detained at the border or barred from entering Canada.The newest list covers the second quarter of 2025 (i.e., April, May, June).The CBSA’s officers typically review the publications on the list and then ban some publications as obscene or as hate propaganda.You can view and download the PDF copy of this list here.

In April 2025, administrators at the University of Prince Edward Island demanded that Christopher Griffin, an artist in residence, take down a painting because it offended two U.S. professors.When he learned of the university administrators’ demand, Griffin quit his unpaid job and protested the university’s censorship. The university subsequently backed away from its demand.REPORTAGE

A new book is in the market: Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fight for Democracy by Ronald J. Deibert.

In the small town of Valleyview, Alberta, social conservatives are campaigning to rid the public library of books about sexual minorities.The campaign received Canada-wide attention on February 7, 2025, when CBC News publicized the results of a major investigation.But the struggle between the social conservatives and their critics has not ended. The mayor and town council still have plans to reduce library funding, shut down the current library, and open a smaller public library in a K–12 school that has not been built.REPORTAGE

Bänoo Zan, an Iranian-born poet in Toronto, has won the Freedom to Read Award of the Writers’ Union of Canada.PRESS RELEASEThe Writers’ Union of Canada announces the award:Poet and Presenter Bänoo Zan Wins Freedom to Read Award | The Writers' Union of CanadaREPORTAGEIn Quill & Quire, Cassandra Drudi reports:

In Ontario, Campaign Life Coalition is campaigning against the use of elementary school books that focus on sexual minorities.