Censorship News
September 29, 2010 — Vampire Series Tops List of ‘Challenged’ Books in Canada. In the Toronto Star, Chloe Fedio reports on book challenges in Canada.
February 14, 2010 — BPC Wins Les Fowlie Intellectual Freedom Award
February 11, 2010 — Canadian Writers Honour Alan Borovoy with 2010 Freedom to Read Award
February 11, 2010 — Public Events Planned Across Canada in Support of 2010 Freedom to Read Week
January 24, 2010 — Freedom of Expression Update
December 22, 2010 — Supreme Court of Canada Creates New Libel Defence
Censorship News 2009
October 2009 — Parents challenge Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird in public schools in Toronto.
January 17, 2009 — Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale challenged in Toronto school.
BPC FoEC: Supreme Court of Canada Creates New Libel Defence
The Supreme Court of Canada has established a new defence against libel: "public interest responsible journalism."
The CanWest News Service reports:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2370515Kirk Makin of
The Globe and Mail reports:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/supreme-court-hands-victory-to-media/article1408613/Tonda MacCharles of the
Toronto Star reports:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/741834--supreme-court-backs-press-in-major-libel-ruling?bn=1Because of the ruling, two newspapers in Ontario will get new libel trials.
The CBC reports:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/12/22/supreme-court-libel-responsible-journalism-citizen-star.htmlIn the
National Post, Janice Tibbetts reports:
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2368056
To Kill a Mockingbird
Since October 5, when the story broke, several journalists have filed news stories about the latest parent challenge to Harper Lee's
To Kill a Mockingbird in public schools in Toronto.
In the
Toronto Star, Kristin Rushowy reports:
www.parentcentral.caIn the
National Post, Natalie Alcoba reports:
www.nationalpost.comIn the
Toronto Sun, Don Peat files a second, shorter report:
www.torontosun.com
Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale challenged in Toronto school
- Complaint spurs school board to review novel by Atwood, Toronto Star, January 14, 2009
- Atwood novel too brutal, sexist for school: Parent, Toronto Star, January 16, 2009
- Why books are taught, Globe and Mail, January 17, 2009
- School board says it's taking complaint about book seriously, Toronto Star, January 17, 2009
- Atwood review not novel, letter to the editor from Ron Brown, past chair, Freedom of Expression Committee, Book and Periodical Council, Toronto Star, January 17, 2009
Censorship News 2008
Nancy Fleming Passed Away in Toronto, February 25, 2008.
Derek Finkle to Receive Freedom to Read Award from The Writers' Union of Canada.
Deborah Ellis will be Open Book Toronto's March Writer in Residence.
Results of the Canadian Library Association's Survey of Challenged Publications (2007)
The Canadian Library Association's Advisory Committee on Intellectual
Freedom, in partnership with the Book and Periodical Council's Freedom of
Expression Committee, has developed an annual survey to investigate
challenges to books, magazines and DVDs in Canadian libraries. The results
of the second survey are now available. [More...]
"Canadians Fighting for Their Right to Read," The Lance, February 13, 2008. An interview with Emily Sinkins, Chair of the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council on challenged books and Freedom to Read Week.
