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Editorial cartoonists in Canada occasionally experience censorship and perhaps more often self-censor to avoid getting into trouble with their bosses. But the seriousness of this issue depends on whom you speak to in the profession.

For generations, Indigenous people and Settler Canadians have been like characters in one another’s stories, but they haven’t done the hard work of building a common story. Instead, the Canadian narrative has typically been one of Indigenous erasure while the Indigenous narrative has been largely one of resistance and survival.

The defamation lawsuit is a concern for anyone who speaks or writes about controversy. To help you better understand defamation law, we’ve put together this primer.

In 2015, Alvin M. Schrader marked the fortieth anniversary of the year that he embarked on his career as a librarian and educator. During those four decades, he has been a passionate advocate for the role of the library as a vehicle for free expression, an outspoken critic of Internet filtering and an ardent spokesperson for the inclusion of LGBTQ materials in library collections.

If you want to learn about the evolution of Canadian free expression law over the past 30 years, there is no better place to look than the career of lawyer Brian MacLeod Rogers. His career encompasses defamation and libel law, journalists’ right to protect their sources and the principle of open courts.

In the early morning of July 12, 2013, a fire destroyed the Thistalalh Memorial Library in the island town of Bella Bella, B.C. The community was devastated, but Housty resolved to build a new one.