The Town of High River has proclaimed this week is 'Freedom to Read Week'.
The annual event across the country encourages literacy, tolerance, knowledge, and a love of reading.
The Town proclaims in a statement that "endorses the objectives of Freedom to Read Week, and recognizes, reaffirms, and defends the rights of the citizens of the Town of High River individually to decide what they will or will not read; and calls on all residents to actively work to achieve these objectives, and in so doing ensure the Town of High River continues to be a Freedom to Read zone in which the freedom to read and the right to seek information will not be violated."
The FreedomtoRead.ca website states, "Freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines are banned at the border, and schools and libraries are regularly asked to remove books and magazines from their shelves. Few of these stories make headlines, but they affect the right of Canadians to decide for themselves what they choose to read. See our Challenged Works section for the real story on censorship in Canada."
