A lot of AI discourse masks the fact that it is the result of a series of policy choices. Despite the government evoking Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “there is no alternative,” we do have a choice. And we should be serious about what that choice is.
A guide to standing up to book bans and beyond, and how to protect and strengthen public education in Canada
Jody Mason
Jody Mason is a Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. Her research examines how the book and associated ideas about literacy and self-improvement have helped to elaborate Canada’s settler-colonial logics, both domestically and internationally. Her third book, Books for Development: Canada In the Late Twentieth-Century World, was published by McGill Queen’s University Press in 2026.

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