Censors are targeting schools: Hardly new but deeply troubling

James Turk; Toni Samek

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2025), Perspectives: Global

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2025)

Censors are targeting schools: Hardly new but deeply troubling

Perspectives: Global

Published 2025-09-10

James L. Turk⁺⁻
Dr. Toni Samek⁺⁻

James L. Turk

Dr. Toni Samek

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Censorship
Book banning
Canada

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Censors are targeting schools: Hardly new but deeply troubling. (2025). Synergy, 23(2). http://www.slav.vic.edu.au/index.php/Synergy/article/view/904

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Turk and Samek, Canadian scholars and commentators, describe the current censorship issues in Canada, their history, and factors that are contributing to the current attempts to ban particular texts in schools.

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