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News Reports and Commentary Selected by Franklin Carter of the Book and Periodical Council’s Freedom of Expression Committee.   Lydia Perovic, a journalist who moved to Canada from Montenegro in 1999, considers the health of free expression in Canada today.

News Reports and Commentary Selected by Franklin Carterof the Book and Periodical Council’s Freedom of Expression Committee.   In an Ontario courtroom, a judge recently ruled against several anonymous defendants who had posted defamatory messages on the Internet.

News Reports and Commentary Selected by Franklin Carter of the Book and Periodical Council’s Freedom of Expression Committee.   Cancel culture: condemning and isolating individuals whose opinions are deemed improper; pressuring institutions to cancel speaking engagements of people whose views some regard as insensitive, hateful or wrong-headed. — Sara Horowitz

News Reports and Commentary Selected by Franklin Carter of the Book and Periodical Council’s Freedom of Expression Committee.   In Ottawa, the Library of Parliament recently removed two poems from the website of the parliamentary poet laureate.

News Reports and Commentary Selected by Franklin Carterof the Book and Periodical Council’s Freedom of Expression Committee   In Quebec, the Court of Appeal has ruled on a dispute that pits a comedian’s freedom of expression against a singer’s freedom from discrimination.

News Reports and Commentary Selected by Franklin Carter of the Book and Periodical Council’s Freedom of Expression Committee