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Freedom to Read Kit

Freedom to Read 2006
Current Censorship Issues in Canada

Freedom to Read Kit 2006In this edition: News Bytes – Forbidden Zone: How Journalists Censor Themselves – Susan Swan in Conversation – Net Threat: Regulating Web Content in Canada – Storytime Blues: Challenges to Children's Books – Harry Potter and the Right to Read – Get Involved: Ideas for Educators – and more...


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The 2006 Freedom to Read Kit features a new poster by award-winning designer David Wyman.

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Credits
Editor: Elizabeth Raymer
Consulting Editor: Franklin Carter
Design: Reva Pomer
Poster Design: David Wyman
Contributors: Marsha Boulton, Ron Brown, Bob Carty, David Cozac, Eric Drooker, Michael Geist, Barbara Grossman, Carol L. MacKay, Madeleine Mant, Roger D.McConchie, Leslie McGrath, Aaron Milrad, Annie Na, Paul William Roberts, Ken Setterington

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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