Freedom to Read Week 2011 Feb 20-26

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"Freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines are banned at the border. Books are removed from the shelves in Canadian libraries, schools and bookstores every day. Free speech on the Internet is under attack. Few of these stories make headlines, but they affect the right of Canadians to decide for themselves what they choose to read." Freedom to Read website

Here is a selective list of books and magazines that have been challenged in Canada in the past decades. How many you have read?