Alberta’s premier and education minister held a private meeting in February to discuss school funding and education policy.  Documents released through an access to information request show that attendees included a number of right-wing think tanks and groups involved in a campaign to “conservatize” Alberta school boards, as well as private and religious school associations. […]

Books by Margaret Atwood, Alan Moore, Aldous Huxley, Philip Roth, George R. R. Martin and dozens of other authors will be pulled from the shelves of Edmonton school libraries this fall to comply with sweeping content restrictions imposed by Alberta’s United Conservative government. A list of books produced by the Edmonton Public School Board (EPSB), […]

Internal emails throw light on the sources used by Government of Alberta staff to search for “inappropriate” materials in school libraries, including an index of America’s most banned books and a website linked to the rise in attempts to ban books in the U.S. Alberta’s Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides announced in May the […]