Try to ban The Handmaid’s Tale and face the literary scorn of Margaret Atwood , as Alberta’s government learned from its now paused censorship measure.

In a short story published online this past weekend, Atwood slammed MAGA-ish Premier Danielle Smith, “selfish rapacious capitalism,” Ayn Rand fanboys, and the hypocrisy of paying “no attention to what Jesus actually said about the poor and the Good Samaritan and forgiving your enemies.” For former radio host Smith, Atwood saved a special bit of Serena Joy (if you’ve seen the Emmy winning Hulu series that ran from 2017 to 2025, you’ll really get it): “So they lived happily ever after. But while they were doing tha t The Handmaid’s Tale came true and Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job. The end.”

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