Censorship

3 June 2010

Glad Day

The enterance to Glad Day bookstore in Toronto.

Glad Day was founded in 1970 and has been operated out of an apartment, a shed, and now a second floor on Yonge Street near but not in the Village. And now, it might be closing.

12 April 2009

#amazonfail

Image: The Amazon.com logo.

I found out today (via Twitter, obviously), that Amazon has decided it’s okay to be homophobic. Many books with LGBT content have had their Amazon sales rankings removed over the last couple days. According to this post, Mark Probst (who wrote The Filly) emailed Amazon and received the following in response: In consideration of our…Read More

20 February 2009

Freedom to Read

Freedom to Read 2009 poster.

Next week (Feb. 22-28), Freedom to Read is celebrating their 25th anniversary. Freedom to Read is part of the Book and Periodical Council, and discusses censorship issues in Canada. The following is taken from their position statement: “As writers, editors, publishers, book manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and librarians, we abhor arbitrary interpretations of the law and…Read More