Alberta's book-ban backfire - How a libertarian got sloppy and banned some literary classics (The Line)
The classics are now safe in Alberta, thankfully, having been rescued at the last minute by the very government that imperilled them in the first place. On Monday, after spending over a week taking a beating, the government said that the ban would be narrowed to illustrations and pictures of sexual acts, not written descriptions. So that’s that. The Handmaid’s Tale remains library safe in Alberta. The bizarre journey to Monday’s announcement may not be a curriculum-worthy parable, but this whole sad affair is certainly a cautionary tale about how one government managed to badly bungle what should have been a simple issue and an easy political win. It didn’t have to be this way ... CLICK HERE for the full story