Anti-Black Racism and the Theatre

In recent weeks, journalists have reported publishers’ decisions to rewrite the works of James Bond author Ian Fleming and children’s author Roald Dahl. And some ecologists and biologists have suggested replacing certain scientific terms to make them less “harmful” to society. REPORTAGE Ian Fleming

In the House of Commons, NDP MP Leah Gazan has proposed drafting a bill to ban the denial of genocide in Indian residential schools.

In Quebec, several editorials, op-eds and columns have denounced as censorship the provincial government’s request that schools refrain from “promoting” the young-adult novel Le garçon aux pieds à l’envers by renowned author François Blais because, in one chapter, an “evil spirit” is said to have prodded a teenage character to sip a lethal dose of gasoline.