Just as we watched drug poisonings and Narcan training spread across American libraries before becoming more common in Canada, I suspect religiously-motivated book banning requests (and religious board
RIP Loretta Lynn. Not sure if its true but I read that this trailblazing songwriter had more of her songs banned from radio airplay than every other male
I am a huge fan of scientific knowledge that help justify my potty mouth! (And my kids are clearly geniuses as they named their band, “The Shits”!) 😉
I’m not sure what I’ve been listening to or what I’ve done wrong in my life generally but had to chuckle when this song I never heard before
I always enjoy trying to come up with something creative for a FTRW display at my library and this year was no different. Going back to what
Shea and I have been showing the kids a lot of our favourite movies from when we were growing up – “Dirty Dancing” to “Adventures in Babysitting”
Through my work with the Writers Guild of Alberta, I became involved with the Calgary Freedom to Read Week Committee. I can’t find it online now but my
I posted this song in June 2019 with only a brief reference to the controversy around the song’s contents which evoke incest and rape. But I thought it
I’m a huge Freedom of Expression guy and think Freedom to Read Week should be a highlight of every librarian’s calendar. I don’t think I managed to do
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