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Southern Manitoba libraries battle defunding attempts over sex-ed content in children’s books

Community member says requests ‘not a censorship issue,’ argues books constitute pornography

It’s been a long year at the South Central Regional Library.

A push that began last summer to remove a few children’s sexual education books from the southern Manitoba library system has since bubbled up into accusations its staff are pedophiles, as well as a campaign to defund the library — leaving some of its exhausted librarians considering quitting, the library’s director says.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-library-challenges-1.6826643