1. Censorship in Canada - When the Censor Comes
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1996
   Developed primarily for teachers, librarians, booksellers and others who disseminate the printed word, this guide offers basic information about dealing with would-be censors. Researched and written by Sandra Bernstein for the Freedom of Expression Committee of the Book and Periodical Council.
2. Challenged Books List
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2004
   A partial list of books subjected to censorship attempts in Canada from the early 1980s to 2003.
3. Chomsky.Info
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
4. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1994
   A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
5. Don't Incite Censorship
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2007
   Free speech for everyone but bigots is no free speech at all.
   
6. Fame & Fortune Online
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
7. Feminists Against Censorship
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   A group of feminist academics and campaigners who fight censorship from a feminist perspective. They believe:
   1) Censorship is a dangerous tool that is primarily used to suppress dissent from those who would challenge oppression by society and the state, and particularly victimizes minorities.
   2) Censorship is used by those in power as a way to avoid dealing with serious, intractable problems in society that require real, imaginative action, and are not solved by banning words and images.
   3) Women must have recourse to free expression in order to explore the truth of our own experience and sexuality that has been forcibly hidden from us for millennia, and the state must no longer be permitted to interfere with this discourse.
   4) Censorship can never eliminate evil ideas, and so the best answer to bad speech is more speech.
   5) Censorship gives unacceptable powers to the police to invade our privacy and harass individuals who they find threatening although they pose no threat to others.
8. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
   Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
   
9. Free Speech For Me - But Not For Thee
   How the American Left and Right Relentlessly Censor Each Other
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1992
   Hentoff is a passionate believer in free speech who recognizes that if speech is truly to be free, we must protect the expression even of ideas we abhors. He catalogues with equal disapproval the efforts of both the right and the left to censor speech they don't like. While being sympathetic to those who object to allowing bigots, racists, pornographers, atheists, and others of many stripes the right to lay out ideas that one group or another finds repugnant, he makes both an intellectual and an emotional case for allowing everyone to have their say, no matter how much this may offend some. He points out that suppressing speech doesn't get rid of the underlying thought, but merely drives it underground and gives it the benefit of martyrdom.
   
10. Free speech for me - you shut up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The right to express offensive views is at the very heart of the princple of free speech.
    
11. Free Speech in a Plural Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    The argument against free speech is really an argument in defence of particular sectional interests. And that is the best reason for rejecting restraints on speech. We can build a plural society in which free speech provides the means of engagement and dialogue between different parts of society.
    
12. Freedom to Read Week
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Freedom to Read Week encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their commitment to intellectual freedom.
13. Gag Rule
    On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation. A call to action in defense of one of the most important liberties, the right to raise our voices against the powers that be, and to have those voice heard.
14. Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    One of the world's leading repositories of original, challenging, controversial and intelligent writing on free expression issues. Documents free expression abuses in scores of countries world wide.and reports on censorship issues from all over the world.
15. Progressives shouldn't be begging the police to take more power
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    The last thing we need is to hand the police even more power to decide what we are allowed to see or read.
16. Protect the Freedom to Shock
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    Far from being the cornerstone of a diverse, plural society, the refusal to give offence shows respect neither for oneself nor for others. Respect for oneself requires self-belief, a willingness to take a stand, to be unpopular, to refuse to see oneself as a victim easily disturbed by provocative beliefs. Respecting others means not ignoring them but engaging with them by putting them on their mettle and challenging their ideas and arguments. Without heated, entrenched debate a plural society becomes but a hollow shell.
    
17. The Right to Offend
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Humans do have a right to offend other humans, especially in presenting dissent from the views with which many people seem to be very content. This includes those views called religious.
18. Rights and Liberties
    Introduction to Volume 9, Number 2, of the Connexions Digest (Rights & Liberties issue)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Civil liberties and human rights appear as a key dimension in almost every other field of social justice and social change, but those who seek a freer and more just society cannot rely on the state to achieve their goals.
19. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
20. Women and Censorship - Letters to Index on Censorship
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Reader comments on pornography and censorship.

Experts on Freedom of Expression in the Sources Directory

1. Amnesty International, Canadian Section
2. Canadian Authors Association
3. Connexions Information Sharing Services
4. Professional Writers Association of Canada
5. Fame & Fortune