Juno News - September 03, 2025


Smith had to issue a “viewer discretion is advised” warning when exposing content in schools


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2 minutes

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180.26297

Word count

425

Sentence count

27

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Misogyny

1

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In this episode, I talk about the book ban in Alberta and why it needs to stop. I also talk about why I think it's a good idea to have porn removed from elementary school libraries and why I don't think it should be in elementary schools.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 OK, I want to move on and talk a little bit about what's happening in Alberta with the schools and the book ban.
00:00:04.800 So a little bit of background on this.
00:00:06.440 Earlier this year, the UCP government and Premier Daniel Smith announced a ministerial order, effective October 1st, 2025,
00:00:13.940 that all K-12 school libraries must remove books with illicit sexual content.
00:00:20.340 And then there will be further restrictions coming in in January 2026.
00:00:24.960 And so there's been a lot of pushback.
00:00:26.360 I know Nahid Nenshi, the leader of the NDP party, really opposes this.
00:00:29.740 And they sort of tried to politicize it, making it seem like, oh, these conservatives, they're bigots, they're trying to ban books.
00:00:34.920 So Danielle Smith came with receipts. 1.00
00:00:37.260 She showed up at a press conference on Friday, showing the press and journalists exactly what she's talking about when she says which books need to be removed from kindergarten classrooms and K-12 schools.
00:00:51.360 So let's play this clip of Danielle Smith on Friday.
00:00:53.300 Look, I think I'm going to have to show the screen here because people aren't kind of getting what it is we're trying to do here.
00:01:03.700 We are trying to take graphic pornographic images out of elementary schools so that kids are not exposed to age-appropriate material.
00:01:13.120 So I'm going to leave it on for 15 seconds.
00:01:15.520 I'm warning you that the content may be disturbing and it's not appropriate for young users.
00:01:21.460 Viewer discretion is advised.
00:01:23.300 I know that the cameras probably can't print it on the evening news tonight without probably facing some kind of broadcast standards council complaint.
00:01:31.960 And I know that I would get delisted from Facebook for showing these kind of images on Facebook because they're pornographic.
00:01:38.120 That is what we are trying to address.
00:01:40.260 There's another one here.
00:01:41.740 Please take a look at it.
00:01:43.180 And I'd invite all of the school trustees to take a look at it, too.
00:01:47.220 We have tried to be as polite about this so that people understand what it is.
00:01:53.520 Here's another one.
00:01:54.320 So you can have another look at the kind of material that we think should not be exposed to young children aged 7 years old.
00:02:02.660 And I think we've got one more that we would like to show you as well.
00:02:05.240 Here is another example.
00:02:07.000 So I don't know how much more clear we could be that what we are aiming to this all began
00:02:13.460 because these were the images that parents were showing us
00:02:17.460 that were accessible to children in elementary school libraries.