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News April 8, 2026

Peter Bailey Appointed Senior Fellow of the Centre for Free Expression

Peter Bailey, formerly CEO of the St. Albert Public Library, has been appointed a senior fellow by the Centre for Free Expression (CFE).“The CFE is delighted to welcome Peter Bailey as a senior fellow,” said James L. Turk, Director of the Centre for Free Expression. “His distinguished career in the library world will be invaluable for CFE’s work in promoting intellectual freedom and assisting libraries facing growing demands for censorship.” 
News November 1, 2025

CFE joins call for Carney government to implement better consultation on AI strategy

The Centre for Free Expression has joined 40 other organizations and more than 120 individual experts, human rights advocates, and community representatives across Canada in an Open Letter expressing our opposition to the federal government’s deeply misguided thirty-day “national sprint” public consultation on Canada’s artificial intelligence (“AI”) strategy.
News September 4, 2025

Shannon Moore Joins CFE Working Group on Schools and Intellectual Freedom

Shannon D. M. Moore, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Manitoba, is joining the Centre for Free Expression (CFE) Working Group on Schools and Intellectual Freedom.“Shannon’s work both as an academic researcher and as a teacher in the public school system will be a valuable addition to the group which helps guide CFE’s work in defending and promoting intellectual freedom in schools.”
News August 19, 2025

Anaïs Bussières McNicoll Joins CFE Board

Anaïs Bussières McNicoll, Director of the Fundamental Freedoms Program at the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), is joining the Centre for Free Expression’s (CFE) Advisory Board.