Posts about censorship

Because sometimes, laughing is the only way to keep from screaming. Read More  

Book banning has been accelerating in the USA for several years now, and their National Coalition Against Censorship has some excellent resources that can help Canadians fight for the freedom to read.  Read More  

In July 2025, Alberta’s education minister, Demetrios Nicolaides, issued a ministerial order that threatened to ban hundreds of books from the shelves of school libraries here in Canada. For Julie and I, the alarm bells went off immediately—we had ... Read More  

I don’t talk much about politics on the internet, because it often results in a non-stop ticket to Crazytown. But Canada is having a federal election this fall, and we need to talk about the politics of science. There ... Read More  

A lot of authors who are smarter than I am have written some brilliant protests against the newly-launched Clean Reader – an app that replaces “naughty language” in books with “less objectionable” words and phrases. Introductions to the debate ... Read More