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On October 8th, in the middle of Banned Book Week, I had the privilege of seeing the documentary film, The Librarians, and then moderating a panel discussion with the filmmaker Kim A. Snyder and two remarkable women, Courtney Gore and Becky Calzada who are featured in the film.
Having been so widely ridiculed for its first Ministerial Order banning all books with “explicit sexual content” from all school libraries, the Government of Alberta just issued a
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.”