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Lise's avatar

Well, sadly one need not read Orwell's brilliant classic, 1984 to see what is unfolding. Just turn off the MSM, walk out the door, and take it all in. What a disgraceful period of history this is for Canada, the UK, Australia, and all the woke countries hooked on their Ministry of "Truth". And shame on Ontario for their cancel-culture actions. Disgusting.

darlene duerks's avatar

Has no one mentioned to them if you don't know history you are doomed to repeat it?!

Anonymous's avatar

This is easy to fix; REMOVE those that removed the books.

Stephen Martin's avatar

It's not good enough to simply pause this purge. Anyone involved needs to be fired. You can't have people this messed up influencing children.

William Stewart's avatar

OK...

Premier Fraud....

Where fore art thou.

Another Board needs to be taken over.

BIG TIME.

Of course they banned 1984.

It's their playbook.

Also perhaps in that collection Fahrenheit 451?

Franz Kafka's avatar

"WhereFord art thou?

Alex's avatar

Those who control the past, control the future.

I lived in USSR for 30 years. They "deselected" and "updated" history facts routinely every 3-5 years with some history facts turning 180 degrees. What an eye opener was for me in 1993 when I came to Canada, to read and explore history again in a free country! And now I am living through "USSR.2", or current Canada. Hypocrisy. Lies. Brainwashing. Propaganda instead of free media. Double standards everywhere. Crime. Disgusting people hiding behind government positions with titels " Honorable", shamelessly getting rich and robbing people. And unfortunately most people either don't care, don't see, or already endoctrinated with no return point. Very sad.

Franz Kafka's avatar

The USSR never had an abundance of mediocre, crap books like the West does. And it never banned its very best - Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov etc on down the line.

I note that NOT ONE of the novels banned is Canadian. But then that is self-explanatory.

Jim McMurtry's avatar

Peel school board uses the Orwellian word “deselection” to remove Orwell’s books 1984 and Animal Farm.

“Among the purged books…are William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Hamlet, Macbeth, To Kill a Mockingbird, and multiple Harry Potter novels.”

Reading literature was the best part of school for me as both a student and teacher.

DEI zealots in schools are the equivalent of the Taliban.

Janet Buhler's avatar

And yet, removing pornograph-c books is censorship!

How is something like this allowed to happen! Fine them the value of the books! People need to be fired!

BarryB's avatar

This is a frightening development, furthering the sharp decline of Canada into the muck of Socialism and then, Communism. The Liberals have put up a very high wall against the majority of Canadians who want no part of it. Carnage and the complicit media will make sure the Conservatives will never have a chance to tear that wall down.

Please, prove me wrong!

I studied "Animal Farm" in grade school several decades ago. Now, it is coming true!

Rob Ollerenshaw's avatar

How about banning the school boards, and keeping the books?

Doug Stephens's avatar

This nonsense by libraries is still going on? - oh right, it's Ontario

John Bradley's avatar

Welcome to 1984. Do you think that the government is not complicit. They are the ones leading the way. Calandra will only take over a board when they are exposed as corrupt and the people spread the news. Ford and his cronies need to go before our society completely collapses.

Allby's avatar

More woke activism by the teachers who think they know better than the parents on how to raise the children

Ruth semple's avatar

There are no words! Ontario continues to lead this nation in it's downfall...

Concerned Male's avatar

WOW, just like Nazi Germany in the 30's. What's next, a big bonfire to burn them?

Mike Robinson's avatar

It is no secret. While there are surely sensible people on these school boards that are dismayed with what is happening, there are more radical activists, not only hellbent on destroying our history, they are rewriting our history to suit themselves. In this particular case, those responsible for the destruction of all those books need to be removed from the board!