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The following is a list of Web sites on intellectual freedom. Each year we update the list by adding and deleting Web sites. Many of the listed sites link to others that provide additional intriguing and useful information and viewpoints. If you wish to suggest other Web sites on this theme, please contact the Book and Periodical Council at info@bookandperiodicalcouncil.ca.


Declarations of Basic Rights

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/charter/

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html


Legal Regulation of Expression and Information in Canada

Freedom of Expression
Department of Justice Canada
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/justice2000/libexp.html

Hate Propaganda
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Learning and Development Branch
http://www.rcmp-learning.org/docs/ecdd0084.htm

Office of the Information Commissioner
http://www.infocom.gc.ca/

Prohibited Importations (Literature): D9-1-1 and D9-1-15 Memoranda
Canada Border Services Agency
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/menu/D-e.html


Censorship in Canada

Canada’s Thought Police
Zachary Margulis
http://www.efc.ca/pages/wired-3.03.html

Censorship in Canada
PEN Canada
http://www.pencanada.ca/censor/censor.htm

A Chronicle of Freedom of Expression
Sandra Bernstein
http://www.efc.ca/pages/chronicle/

Crash-Test Dummies? Canada’s Experiments with Free Speech
Paul Trout
http://mtprof.msun.edu/Spr1995/trout.html

Porn Study: Where’s the Harm?
Peter Calamai
gopher://insight.mcmaster.ca/00/org/efc/media/citizen.21sep96

Report of Sub-Committee on Literature
National Council of Women of Canada
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=93412

A Small Sampling of Publications Seized or Detained by Canada Customs
Sandra Bernstein
http://www.efc.ca/pages/chronicle/customs.html


Censorship of Children's Literature

Canadian Children's Literature
(Search the index with the keyword "censorship")
http://ccl.uwinnipeg.ca/

Judy Blume Talks About Censorship
http://www.judyblume.com/censors.html

kidSPEAK
http://www.kidspeakonline.org


Ideas and Information for Self-Defence

The Digital Doomsday Clock
Dov Wisebrod
http://www.cataLaw.com/doom/

Freedom of Expression Links
Sandra Bernstein
http://www.efc.ca/pages/chronicle/censor.html

Guide to Safe Internet Use
Department of Industry Canada
http://www.connect.gc.ca/cyberwise/

Media Awareness Network
http://www.webawareness.org

When the Censor Comes
Book and Periodical Council
http://www.freedomtoread.ca/censorship_in_canada/censor.asp


Canadian Organizations for Free Expression

Advocates in Defence of Expression in the Media
http://www.adidem.org/index.shtml

British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
http://www.bccla.org/

British Columbia Library Association
Intellectual Freedom Committee
http://www.bcla.bc.ca/ifc/

Canadian Coalition for School Libraries
http://www.peopleforeducation.com/librarycoalition/

Canadian Civil Liberties Association
http://www.ccla.org/

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
http://www.cjfe.org

Electronic Frontier Canada
http://www.efc.ca/

NewsWatch Canada
http://newswatch.cprost.sfu.ca/

PEN Canada
http://www.pencanada.ca

Union des écrivaines et des écrivains québécois
http://www.uneq.qc.ca


U.S. Organizations for Free Expression

American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
http://www.abffe.com

American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/

American Library Association
Banned Books Week
http://www.ala.org/bbooks

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
http://www.fair.org/

Feminists for Free Expression
http://www.ffeusa.org/

Free Expression Network
http://www.freeexpression.org/

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Student Association for Freedom of Expression
http://www.mit.edu/activities/safe/safe/

National Coalition Against Censorship
http://www.ncac.org/

National Council of Teachers of English
(Click on "programs" and "intellectual freedom," or search the site for "censorship")
http://www.ncte.org/


International Organizations for Free Expression

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/

Index on Censorship
http://www.indexonline.org

International Freedom of Expression Exchange
http://www.ifex.org


Scholarly Writing on Censorship

Bonfire of Liberties
The Texas Humanities Resource Center
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/literature/bonfire/

Labels, V-Chips, Internet Blockers, Filters, Ratings, Warnings, and Advisories: Consumer Protection or Censorship Technologies?
Alvin M. Schrader
http://www.ualberta.ca/dept/slis/backup/censor2.htm

Papers and Publications on Access to Information
Alasdair Roberts
http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/asroberts/research.html

Special Topics: Freedom of Expression in Canada
Constitutional Law of Canada
http://www.constitutional-law.net/expression.html

Technology and the Politics of Choice: Information Literacy, Critical Thinking, and Intellectual Freedom
Alvin M. Schrader
http://www.learningresources.ab.ca/Freedom.html

Truth, the State, and Democracy: The Scope of the Legal Right of Free Expression
Gordon Stuart Adam
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/jrls/cjc/BackIssues/17.3/adam.html

 

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