... a few less posts we can't reply to this month 
Evie 
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Oh no! Harpers pulled from Canadian newsstands!
Canada's largest retail bookseller has removed all copies of the June issue of Harper's Magazine from its 260 stores, claiming an article by New York cartoonist Art Spiegelman could foment protests similar to those that occurred this year in reaction to the publication in a Danish newspaper of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
So much for free whatever...
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They seem more concerned about American freedoms up there. I think they've lost sight of their own.
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Three months ago, both chains yanked a small U.S. publication, Free Inquiry, when it reproduced four of the Danish cartoons. That Free Inquiry issue with the cartoons is currently on sale at Indigo.
The U.S. news media have become ?terribly prone to self-censorship,? especially after the events of Sept. 11, 2001, he said. ?There's a more wide open debate [in Canada] than in America.?
Three months ago it WAS America, the Free Inquiry issue banned in US, is available in Canada
After all it IS America.
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The issue has been out for almost 3 weeks, and the last few issues have been pulled by the retailer Indigo/Chapters run by Heather Reisman, for peculiar reasons. Speigelman's article makes it clear that the Jyllands Post, the offending newspaper is a nationalistic and anti-immigrant rag which explains the "Competition" to come up with a cartoon, but at least one of the cartoons actually pokes fun at the Jyllands Post, though the criticism is written on the blacboard of the cartoon in Farsi which explains why the publishers didn't get that they were being made fun of.
The problem is that Indigo Chapters is now in nearly a monopoly position which means that it is often the only outlet in many communities.
None of the above has anything to do with Canada, or its government, but is the retailers decision based on what we don't know. Maybe she was threatened with her stores being bombed.
At any rate that horse has been long out of the barn, and may even be available on line though I haven't checked.
Rob
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