BPC Bulletins

In June 2022, an amendment to Canada’s Criminal Code received royal assent. The amendment, which appeared in Bill C-19, criminalizes Holocaust denial.

In October, a new book appeared in bookstores: Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know by Nadine Strossen.

BookNet Canada has been tracking the interest of Canadians and Canadian publishers in banned and challenged books.

The Ontario Library Association (OLA) and the Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) have expressed concern about attempts to ban children’s books and young-adult books in public schools.

After spending months recovering from an assassin’s attack, Salman Rushdie has returned to writing and giving interviews.

In Montreal, a judge recently sentenced a Nazi to 15 months in prison for repeatedly promoting hatred against Jews.