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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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19 February 2013

Much Ado About Anne

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A friend asks why I've not weighed in on the Anne of Green Gables cover controversy. To be frank, I feel I've said all I h...
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