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FREEDOM TO READ WEEK, February 26-March 3, 2012
Freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines are banned at the border. Schools and libraries are regularly asked to remove books and magazines from their shelves. Free expression on the Internet is under attack. Few of these stories make headlines, but they affect the right of Canadians to decide for themselves what they choose to read.
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NEWS AND OPINIONS
February 17, 2012 — Freedom to Read Week: Why It Matters! Focusing Attention on Our Right to Choose
October 19, 2011 — The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that hyperlinking to defamatory material on the Internet does not constitute publishing the defamatory material itself.
June 15, 2011 — Hill's Book of Negroes causes stir in Netherlands, CBC News, June 15, 2011
May 18, 2011 — Parents from the Bluewater District School Board want The Wars by Timothy Findley removed from all classrooms in the district.
April 11, 2011 — The American Library Association has announced its annual list of challenged books.
February 16, 2011 — For Immediate Release
NewSouth Books' plan to publish a sanitized edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is still provoking comment in Canada. One issue is whether such books should be used in public schools.
In India, Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey is the target of a censorship attempt. Mistry is an acclaimed Canadian novelist, and Such a Long Journey was published in 1991.
- Graeme Smith, "Censorship battle rages in India over Mistry novel," The Globe and Mail, October 15, 2010
- Prachi Pinglay, "Booker author Rohinton Mistry in Mumbai university row," BBC News, October 19, 2010
- Prafulla Marpakwar, "CM says book contains 'bad language'," The Times of India, October 20, 2010
- "High command not on same page as Chavan," The Times of India, October 20, 2010
- Sunaina Kumar, "Activists slam university on Mistry book ban," India Today, October 20, 2010
- In Canada's National Post, Ron Nurwisah reprints Rohinton Mistry's reaction and links to YouTube video: "Rohinton Mistry lashes out over Mumbai University’s book banning," October 29, 2010
- In The Hindu, Vinaya Deshpande also reprints Mistry's reaction: "Rohinton Mistry protests withdrawal of book," October 20, 2010
- The Hindustan Times posted this editorial: "Freedom of expression isn’t something we value"
- In the Hindustan Times, Samar Halarnkar comments: "Who's your daddy?" October 20, 2010
- In The Times of India, Aroon Tikekar comments: "What a mess Mumbai Univ is caught in," October 20, 2010
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"It is too late in the day to stop men thinking. If allowed to think they will speak. If they speak they will write, and what they write will be printed and published. A newspaper is only a thought-throwing machine, a reflex of the popular mind. If it is not, it cannot live. We are not disposed to send our proof-sheets to anyone to correct." — Amor de Cosmos (1825-97), British Columbian newspaper editor, in The British Colonist (1859), after the governor of British Columbia, Sir James Douglas, attempted to suppress the newspaper
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