
Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides speaks at a press conference in Calgary on May 26, 2025. Carolina Avendano/The Epoch Times
The Alberta government has temporarily paused the implementation of its standards on sexually explicit content in school libraries, saying the directive needs revision after Edmonton Public Schools released a book removal list that the province says didn’t reflect the policy’s intended purpose.
Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides made the announcement on Sept. 2, a few days after Edmonton Public Schools released an internal list of 200 books it intended to ban.