Alberta is going back to the drawing board with its policy for school library books after the Edmonton Public School Board released a list of 200 books it intended to remove to comply with the directive.

Minister of Education Demetrios Nicolaides, in an email on Sept. 2, informed school boards throughout the province that they should cease work to implement the policy as he would be making revisions to it.

"I will be revising the order immediately to ensure that our classic literary works remain in school libraries," said Demetrios, in a post to social media platform X.

The policy was set to begin in October with full implementation set for Jan. 1, 2026. It was being implemented to remove books with pornographic images and other age-inappropriate books from school shelves.

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