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Showing posts with label Freedom to Read Week. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedom to Read Week. Show all posts
01 March 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Selected Salacious Filth Found in a Toronto Controller's Dresser Drawer

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David A. Balfour 1889 - 1956 RIP The joke that is Rob Ford isn't funny anymore, right? We all know where he's heading, the ...
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28 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Condemned by Coren

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How Do You Spell Abducted? Cherylyn Stacey Red Deer, AB: Red Deer College Press, 1996 Newspaper columnists don't always write th...
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27 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Ben Hecht on Front Page …of The Ottawa Citizen

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The Ottawa Citizen , 31 October 1947
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25 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Robertson Davies' Dad Against Censorship (and Misleading Cover Art)

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Senator William Rupert Davies 12 September 1879 - 11 March 1967 RIP For my part, I do not believe this senate has any business at a...
24 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Catherine Seppala, the Book Burning Mayor of Fort William, Ontario

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Catherine Seppala 1907 - 1975 RIP Day Two of Freedom to Read Week, but I consider this the real beginning. Welcome to the working w...
23 February 2014

Freedom to Read Week: Hugh MacLennan's Profane and Vulgar Barometer Rising

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The Calgary Herald , 9 December 1960
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02 March 2013

Freedom to Read Week: Councillor Howard Burrell Worries About Dick Tracy's Shotgun and Hatchet

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The Globe & Mail , 22 March 1949 ( cliquez pour agrandir )
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01 March 2013

Freedom to Read Week: Norman Levine Accuses Canadian Booksellers of Censorship

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The Globe & Mail , 30 May 1959 A baffled reviewer: Jean Swanson in  The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix , 20 December 1958
28 February 2013

Freedom to Read Week: Irving Layton's Defence of Dog Show Girl and Deviate is Not Taken Seriously

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The Globe & Mail , 17 April 1973 I began by attacking the puritanism and the anti-sexuality that was in this country then, ...
27 February 2013

Freedom to Read Week: Embracing Elinor Glyn

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Philip Alexius de Laszlo. Elinor Glyn (1912)                                        Would you like to sin                           ...
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26 February 2013

Freedom to Read Week: The Police Raid Britnell's

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Or maybe not: The Globe & Mail , 10 April 1910 I was familiar with Three Weeks – it was, after all, penned by scandalous semi-...
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25 February 2013

Freedom to Read Week: On Burning Comic Books

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Young minds are so very impressionable, aren't they? How fortunate then that we have dedicated souls like Father B.W. Harrigan and ...
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24 February 2013

Freedom to Read Week: Father Harrigan Moves to Protect Ontario's Girls Against 'Love' Comics

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The Calgary Herald , 18 August 1950 Ah, "love" comics... much better than "sex comics", the term Father Harrig...
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