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This Friday, April 10th, 2026 from 11am - 3pm U.S. CT (convert time zone) via Zoom. Join us for this FREE virtual event to celebrate creativity and the human experience.
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Blacklock's is reporting that 7,000 pages was removed from the Library and Archives Canada website, including historical information about the RCMP, initially based on the complaint of one Toronto Star reporter, @JacquesGallant . The Chief Archivist told her staff "outdated historical content no longer reflects today’s context and may be offensive to many." This of course misses the point: Historical writings exist, including views in a previous era. To scrub that is to send history down an Orwellian memory hole in favour of a presumed omniscient interpretation of millennia of human history today. Blacklock's is by subscription only but here's a previous column I wrote on such approaches to the RCMP. https://t.co/5hDpB7TFqv
This seems like a really stupid move.
I grew up going to all kinds of branches of the Hamilton Public Library System.
They were safe places for kids to learn and explore.
This would kill that.
"I don't believe literature is propaganda. I think there is a difference between poetry and propaganda, and children's literature and propaganda." — Ira Wells (@VicCollege_UofT), author of "On Book Banning," tonight at 8/11pm with @spaikin | Producer: @MayaAbramson
"When we refuse to engage with ideas we disagree with... I'nm not only preventing you from speaking, I'm preventing myself from hearing." — Ira Wells (@VicCollege_UofT), author of "On Book Banning," tonight at 8/11pm with @spaikin | Producer: @MayaAbramson
Have public libraries abandoned neutrality to push partisanship?
Michael Dudley, librarian at @uwinnipeg, argues that many Canadian libraries have selectively excluded gender-critical perspectives, thereby stifling public debate on a controversial issue:
https://t.co/n6YCQaJsDz
Latest #HxLibraries#substack, Michael Dudley wrote, "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Professional Pronoun Declarations in Librarianship" https://t.co/M69i6fdfMB
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Join the movement for academic freedom and enjoy 100+ speakers from 70+ universities, including @JohnHMcWhorter, @jennfrey, & @Evolutionistrue to discuss this year's theme:
Truth, Power, and Responsibility.
Latest #HxLibraries#substack, Craig Gibson wrote, "To Think and Act Anew: Part Three: Renewing Libraries as Epistemic and Civic Institutions" https://t.co/5CJFWnLiUg
Latest #HxLibraries#substack, Michael Dudley reads his article from a previous publication, "Confronting Critical Librarianship Episode 2 - Retracing the "Color Line" (pt 1)", https://t.co/xW9hamR54s