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| The Ottawa Citizen, 31 October 1947 |
27 February 2014
Freedom to Read Week: Ben Hecht on Front Page …of The Ottawa Citizen
26 February 2014
Freedom to Read Week: Eight Men Speak
Freedom to Read Week Hump Day. Have you bought your banned book yet? If not, may I suggest Eight Men Speak? Written in 1933, reissued just last year by University of Ottawa Press, it's not so much a banned book as a banned play once – only once – staged as part of an effort to free Communist Party of Canada leader Tim Buck from Kingston Penitentiary. The Toronto Police didn't approve, nor did their Winnipeg brothers.
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| The Globe & Mail, May Day, 1934 |
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| The Ottawa Citizen, 2 May 1934 |
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 all legislating what I or anyone else should read. This is a free country, and we are not the keepers of our brothers' consciences to that extent. It would be going to far to try to tell adult Canadians what they should read… I think we should have confidence in the rising generation and try not to protect them too much. After all, character is formed by overcoming obstacles and resisting temptation.
— William Rupert Davies, 5 May 1953
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| The Globe & Mail, 6 May 1953 |
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