Censorship is HARD:

The internally distributed list … was in response to a provincial government directive to identify books that are not age-appropriate and remove them from school library shelves. But the list included titles like The Handmaid’s Tale, The Color Purple, The Godfather and Jaws. Books from authors like George R. R. Martin, Sarah J. Maas and Maya Angelou are also on the list. 

Margaret Atwood was scathing:

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Here's a piece of literature by me, suitable for seventeen-year-olds in Alberta schools, unlike — we are told — The Handmaid's Tale. (Sorry, kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies.)

John and Mary were both very, very good children. They never picked…

— Margaret E Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) August 31, 2025

The whole thing is a microcosm of safety and censorship, the same thing has happened in the United Kingdom with the online safety act – except that here the “oh, fuck” moment has been muted and will be stretched over the next decade because there is so much investment in the demand that something must be done.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-premier-smith-edmonton-public-schools-banned-books-1.7621238