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Banned in Canada from 1945 to 1975 under the influence of Smart's family's political power due to its sexual documentation of Smart's affair with a married man. The Naked and the Dead (1948) Norman Mailer: 1948 Novel Banned in Canada in 1949 for "obscenity". [53] Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov: 1955 Novel Banned in Canada in 1956.
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The history of Canada in World War I began on August 4, 1914, when the United Kingdom entered the First World War (1914–1918) by declaring war on Germany.The British declaration of war automatically brought Canada into the war, because of Canada's legal status as a British Dominion which left foreign policy decisions in the hands of the British parliament. [1]
Sign at the Toronto Public Library against censorship. Book Censorship in Canada is primarily limited to the control of which books may be imported. Canada Border Services Agency is able to block materials considered to be inappropriate from entering the country, although this practice has become less frequent since the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was put into place.
Canada was notified by telegraphic despatch accordingly, effective 4 August 1914, [3] and that status remained in effect until 10 January 1920. [4] The War Measures Act, 1914, was subsequently adopted on 22 August 1914 to ratify all steps taken by Canada from the declaration of war, to continue until the war was over. Sections 2 to 6 of the ...
Mchenry, Dean E. "Saskatchewan Under CCF Rule." in The Third Force in Canada (U of California Press, 2020 pp. 206-264. Menkis, Richard, and Harold Troper. More than just games: Canada and the 1936 Olympics (U of Toronto Press, 2015). Neatby, H. Blair. The Politics of Chaos: Canada in the Thirties (1972) online broad scholarly survey; Nicholas ...
One of the most famous ongoing censorship controversies in Canada has been the dispute between Canada Customs and LGBT retail bookstores such as Little Sister's in Vancouver and Glad Day in Toronto. Through the 1980s and into the 1990s, Canada Customs frequently stopped material being shipped to the two stores on the grounds of "obscenity".
Postal censorship is the inspection or examination of mail, most often by governments. It can include opening, reading and total or selective obliteration of letters and their contents, as well as covers , postcards , parcels and other postal packets.