From the Censorship Desk: Toronto-area Catholic school board bans Pullman fantasy trilogy

(Are ideas threatening your dogma? Censorship to the rescue!) After yanking The Golden Compass from its library shelves for review, a Toronto-area Catholic school board has decided to make the removal permanent. At a board meeting Tuesday evening, the trustees of the Halton District Catholic School Board voted to ban the title as well as the remaining two books in atheist author Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy: The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.