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May 27, 2025 39 mins

Danielle Smith's UCP is targeting school library books it deems "graphic and age-inappropriate". The government is surveying the public before rolling out new standards ahead of the next school year. 

2:30 | Max Fawcett, lead columnist at Canada's National Observer, says there's more to this story than "banning books". What do YOU think?

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22:00 | Remember Mike Hanson and Dave Morin? They're back after completing TEN marathons in TEN days in TEN provinces, raising ONE MILLION DOLLARS along the way! 

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