An award-winning Indigenous author is questioning the Durham District School Board’s decision to pull one of his books from library shelves. The board claims it contains content that could be harmful to Indigenous students and their families the very same groups the author wrote the book for. Morganne Campbell has more on “The Great Bear” and the controversy around it.
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