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How Alberta is bringing American book bans to Canada

Far-right Christian nationalist groups imported U.S. censorship tactics to target literary classics and LGBTQ+ stories.

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Jeremy Appel
Sep 16, 2025
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Alberta education minister Demetrios Nicolaides became the public face of the UCP government’s efforts to ban books. (Alberta Newsroom/Flickr)

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