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Sen. David Richards: Amid Book-Banning Trend, the English Language Itself Is Now the Culprit

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Sen. David Richards: Amid Book-Banning Trend, the English Language Itself Is Now the Culprit
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Sen. David Richards
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Ontario’s Peel District School Board, those wonders who are systematically removing treasured books from library shelves, might watch the movie “Storm Center,” starring Bette Davis as the middle-aged librarian who is destroyed because she refused to take a single controversial book off her library shelf.
Sen. David Richards
Sen. David Richards
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David Adams Richards is an award-winning novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and poet based in New Brunswick. He has won the Governor General’s Literary Award in both the fiction and non-fiction categories and he is a winner of the Giller Prize. He is a member of the Order of New Brunswick and the Order of Canada, and was appointed to the Senate in 2017.
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