The following is a list of Web sites on intellectual freedom. Each year we update the list by adding and deleting Web sites. Many of the listed sites link to others that provide additional intriguing and useful information and viewpoints. If you wish to suggest other Web sites on this theme, please contact the Book and Periodical Council at [email protected].
- Declarations of Basic Rights
- Legal Regulation of Expression and Information in Canada
- Censorship in Canada
- Censorship of Children’s Literature
- Censorship News and Views
- Canadian Organizations for Free Expression
- U.S./International Organization for Free Expression
- Scholarly Writing on Censorship
Declarations of Basic Rights
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-15.html
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
Legal Regulation of Expression and Information in Canada
Hate Propaganda
Department of Justice Canada, Criminal Code (C-46, s. 318)
http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca
Office of the Information Commissioner
http://www.oic-ci.gc.ca
Prohibited Importations (Literature): D9-1-1 and D9-1-15 Memoranda
Canada Border Services Agency
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca
Supreme court decision on linking to defamatory material (Crookes v. Newton, 2011 SCC 47)
https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/7963/index.do
Censorship in Canada
Canada’s Thought Police
Zachary Margulis
https://www.wired.com/1995/03/canada/
Crash-Test Dummies? Canada’s Experiments with Free Speech
Paul Trout
http://mtprof.msun.edu
General information on censorship in Canada
http://en.wikipedia.org
Report of Sub-Committee on Literature
National Council of Women of Canada
http://www.canadiana.org
Censorship of Children’s Literature
The Censorship of Canadian Children’s Literature, by Iram Khan
http://www.canadiancontent.ca
Judy Blume Talks About Censorship
http://judyblume.com
kidSPEAK
http://www.kidspeakonline.org
Censorship News and Views
MediaSmarts
https://mediasmarts.ca/
Canadian Organizations for Free Expression
Ad IDEM/Canadian Media Lawyers Association
http://www.adidem.org
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
http://www.bccla.org
British Columbia Library Association
Intellectual Freedom Committee
http://www.bcla.bc.ca/ifc
Canadian Civil Liberties Association
http://www.ccla.org
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
http://www.cippic.ca
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
http://www.cjfe.org
Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
http://www.jccf.ca
NewsWatch Canada
https://www.sfu.ca/communication/research/labs/newswatch.html
PEN Canada
http://www.pencanada.ca
Ryerson University’s Centre for Free Expression
https://cfe.ryerson.ca/
Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois
http://www.uneq.qc.ca
U.S./International Organization for Free Expression
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
https://ibooked.no/abffe.html
American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org
American Library Association
Banned Books Week
http://www.ala.org/bbooks
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
http://www.fair.org
Feminists for Free Expression
http://ffeusa.livejournal.com
Free Expression Network
http://www.freeexpression.org
Index on Censorship
http://www.indexoncensorship.org
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
http://www.ifex.org
National Coalition Against Censorship
http://ncac.org
National Council of Teachers of English
Standing Committee Against Censorship
https://ncte.org/get-involved/volunteer/groups/standing-committee-against-censorship/
Reporters Without Borders
https://rsf.org/en
Scholarly Writing on Censorship
Bonfire of Liberties
The Texas Humanities Resource Center
http://www.humanitiestexas.org
Labels, V-Chips, Internet Blockers, Filters, Ratings, Warnings, and Advisories:
Consumer Protection or Censorship Technologies?
Alvin M. Schrader
https://sites.ualberta.ca/~aschrade/censor2.htm
Papers and Publications on Access to Information
Alasdair Roberts
http://aroberts.us
Special Topics: Freedom of Expression in Canada
Constitutional Law of Canada
http://www.constitutional-law.net
Technology and the Politics of Choice: Information Literacy, Critical Thinking, and Intellectual Freedom
Alvin M. Schrader
https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/5bdf9fbc-09c8-42c9-869f-5f883454cf38
Truth, the State, and Democracy:
The Scope of the Legal Right of Free Expression
Gordon Stuart Adam
https://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/679