Margaret Atwood can relax. Her seminal work, The Handmaid’s Tale, won’t disappear from Alberta school libraries.

However, Canada’s famous author might be a tad annoyed when she figures out she’s been used as a pawn in this book ban brouhaha raging across the province.

It started in May, after parent lobby groups complained about graphic novels featuring sexually explicit material being available in some elementary school libraries.

After checking four publications, Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides ordered them removed and told school boards to ensure similar explicit material met the same fate.

Reading the content, it’s understandable why he did so. But Nicolaides should have remembered that everything’s political nowadays, so naively opening up the issue instead of concentratin

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