Celebrate Freedom to Read Week: February 21–27, 2021
Freedom to Read Week is an annual event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom, which is guaranteed them under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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Featured articles from the Freedom to Read Review / All articles
David Eby on British Columbia’s New Anti-SLAPP Law
“Not Recommended”: What It’s Like When a School Board Rejects Your Work
Fifty Years of Defending Queer Expression
Dorothy Macnaughton’s Fight for More Accessible Reading Materials
Featured resources / All resources
Freedom to Read Kits
Bannings and Burnings in History
When the Censor Comes
Challenged Works List
The fact is we are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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Challenges to the Written Word
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. See our Challenged Works section for the real story on censorship in Canada.
Champions of Free Expression
Bienvenue aux francophones!
Sur le présent site, vous trouverez les documents suivants :
» une liste d’ouvrages en français traitant de la censure canadienne;
» une étude bilingue des documents qui n’ont pu être importés au pays ou qui ont été référés à l’Unité des importations prohibées à Ottawa parce qu’ils étaient soupçonnés de constituer de la pornographie ou de la littérature haineuse entre 1985 et 2015;
» une chronologie, divers essais et une compilation de 643 victimes de censure, ainsi que des 1222 titres diffusés en français qui leur ont valu des attaques depuis 1625 au Canada ― l’écrivain Charles Montpetit, lui-même frappé de maintes interdictions, relate les faits saillants entourant chacun de ces cas, et invite le public à lui signaler d’autres incidents en prévision d’éventuelles mises à jour.