Its freedom to read week and the library had a book burning. Placing about 50 odd books on a table that someone had asked to be withdrawn or taken out of some system some where. The display had fire wood on it and if a library patron had not taken one of the items to the counter and asked that it be spared it would have been burned this coming Monday, after freedom to read week was past. The last book saved from the fires happened late morning today. The book was redeemed from the fire by a middle aged First Nations patron who happened to be along with a radio (Q101 FM ) official.

The last book saved was a book by Timothy Findley that dealt with an incident when Army officers raped a fellow officer in the First World War.Titled The Wars, someone had asked that it be withdrawn because it promoted homo sexuality. In some contexts it could be difficult to ask that it be saved from a burning. The jacket cover includes flames of fire.

An member of the RCMP, had asked to have a copy of a book recently removed, as reported by a local paper.

 The Temptress a book close to  and dealing with Women On Top remained on the shelf and was not placed on the table to be saved.

Editors note: The local police are seen as using resentment to extricate information from people; its incredulus that they didn’t know about freedom to read week coming up so soon. We trust that the public library remains a place of intellectual freedom and not constrained by the suspicions of the police.

 Today in History , March 1 1912

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