Title

Author(s) or Editor(s)

Publication Description

Location of Library

Complaint

Result

Best of Drawn and Quarterly

Chris Oliveros (editor)

Adult graphic book

Toronto Public Library

It "contains sex and violence."

Unreported

Cable: The End

David Tischman and Darko Macan

Young adult graphic novel

Okanagan Regional Library System

It contains "disturbing language"; it "should not be in the young adult area."

Unreported

Daddy's Roommate

Michael Willhoite

Children's fiction

Lethbridge Public Library

It is "not a proper role model for children."

Retained in collection

Famous Fred

John Coates and Catrin Unwin (producers)

Video-recording

Kitchener Public Library

Unreported

Unreported

Final Exit

Derek Humphry

Non-fiction book

Lethbridge Public Library

It "promotes suicide."

Retained in collection

Hitler's War

David Irving

Non-fiction book

Kitchener Public Library

Unreported

Unreported

How Did I Begin?

Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom

Sex education book

Okanagan Regional Library System

It provides "too much information" about sex for young children.

Unreported

Look-Alikes

Joan Steiner

A series of children's activity books

Mississauga Library System

They contain pictures of "cigarettes and guns."

Retained in collection for circulation

The New York City Bartender's Joke Book

Jimmy Pritchard

Paperback book

Saskatoon Public Library

It "promotes negative attitudes toward women and ethnic minorities."

Withdrawn from circulation

NOW

Michael Hollett and Alice Klein (editors)

Weekly newspaper in Toronto

Mississauga Library System

The complainant requested the removal of this free newspaper from the library.

Retained for free weekly distribution

Paul Kagame and Rwanda: Power, Genocide and the Rwandan Patriotic Front

Colin M. Waugh

Non-fiction book

Frost Library, York University, Toronto

The complaining student's family was murdered in Rwanda in 1994.

Removed from display but retained in collection

Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy

Scott J. Gill (director)

Video-recording

Mississauga Library System

Unreported

Retained in collection for circulation

Sleeping Beauty

Anne Rice

A series of sexually explicit novels

Okanagan Regional Library System

The complainant requested a warning label for the series and suggested controlled access for readers under 18.

Unreported

The Story of Little Black Sambo

Helen Bannerman

Children's fiction

Okanagan Regional Library System

The book contains the words "black" and "Sambo." The book is "insulting and racist."

Retained in the advanced picture book section for children (aged 6–12 years)

Tadpole

Gary Winick (director)

Video-recording

Kitchener Public Library

Unreported

Unreported

The Winter Rescue

Paul Hutchens

Christian fiction

Okanagan Regional Library System

The book conveys religious intolerance: "Christian is good; non-Christian is bad."

Unreported