Available at Biblioasis. Come check out our new Freedom to Read Window display. |
Even in what is a free country by world standards, and as the Canadian Book & Periodical Council observes, books and magazines are still 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.
Freedom to Read Week is an annual event organized by the BPC (and in the US by the American Library Association), which encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom as guaranteed under the Charter. We hope you'll join us. Thursday Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m., Milk. Open mic is first-come, first served.
For a list of banned & challenged classics you can visit the BPC's Freedom to Read page here, or the ALA's banned books page here.
Freedom to Read Week is an annual event organized by the BPC (and in the US by the American Library Association), which encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom as guaranteed under the Charter. We hope you'll join us. Thursday Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m., Milk. Open mic is first-come, first served.
Liliana Heker, who has just spoken about her experience with censorship under the Argentine State to Taryn Boyd of the LPG. |
For a list of banned & challenged classics you can visit the BPC's Freedom to Read page here, or the ALA's banned books page here.
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