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Shattering Stephen Harper’s Legacy

09/02/2015 by the editor 1 Comment

By Claudio D’Andrea At a slim 124 pages, Mel Hurtig’s latest book, The Arrogant Autocrat: Stephen Harper’s Takeover of Canada, doesn’t leave him much track to bulldoze the Conservative prime minister’s record. Instead this series of short chapters is like a bobcat that levels the mess that “The Harper Government” has made of our country. […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: 2015 federal election, books, Canada, Conservatives, Liberals, Mel Hurtig, NDP, Stephen Harper

Margaret Atwood and The National Post: We’ve been there

08/22/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

In honour of Margaret Atwood’s temporary banning by The National Post, and subsequent re-posting in helpfully edited form, we offer backofthebook.ca editor Frank Moher’s “On being disappeared by the National Post,” originally published on January 5th, 2010. By Frank Moher I knew when I submitted my last book review to The National Post that it might […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 9/11, books, Canada, censorship, Douglas Kelly, journalism, Kenneth Sherman, Margaret Atwood, Mark Medley, National Post, newspapers, Stephen Harper

Allen Ginsberg, photographer

04/21/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh I met William Burroughs once. It was during my magical year in Paris (sigh). I’d read in Libération that morning that the legendary icon of the Beats would be at the City of Light’s annual Salon du Livre at the Grand Palais. I thought ‘”What the hell,” and went down to catch […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, British Columbia, celebrity, literature, Paris, photography, poetry, U.S., Vancouver

The book of Heather

03/05/2015 by the editor 1 Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh Like many Vancouverites, I presume, I have a love-hate relationship with the big box Chapters bookstore downtown at Robson and Howe. Stocking the main floor with almost everything BUT books, bringing in the flag-waving American Girl franchise to what is supposed to be a Canadian bookstore, and, worst of all, the shameful […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, British Columbia, business, Canada, Chapters, cities, Heather Reisman, Indigo, toys, Vancouver

Harperism, from Hayek to Koch and Coyne

10/07/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Neo-liberalism: trickle-down, deregulating, deunionizing, globalizing free market privatization of government. When Stephen Harper was studying under the “Calgary school” in the 80’s, he became so enamored with the neo-liberalism of Austrian philosopher Friedrich von Hayek — guru to Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, the Chicago boys, the IMF, and the WTO — it formed the basis […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Andrew Coyne, Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Aurea Foundation, Barrick Gold, books, Brian Lee Crowley, Calgary School of Public Policy, Canada, Charles Koch, conservatism, Conservatives, Donald Gutstein, economics, Fraser Institute, Frontier Centre for Public Policy, International Monetary Fund, Jim Flaherty, Kenneth Whyte, labour, Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Manning Centre for Democracy, Margaret Thatcher, Martha Hall Findlay, Michael Walker, Michel Kelly Gagnon, Mont Pelerin Society, Montreal Economic Institute, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, Nigel Wright, Peter Holle, Peter Munk, Ronald Reagan, Stephen Harper, Trans Pacific Partnership, unions, World Trade Organization

Vancouver’s dark flaw

09/23/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw I spent a couple of days in Vancouver this week and on a sunny day, it’s probably the most beautiful city in the world. It ain’t half bad looking on a rainy day either. And as the locals say, “Wait twenty minutes” and you can observe it either way. It’s hard not […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: books, British Columbia, cities, crime, drugs, police, poverty, urban life, Vancouver

Eating like your ancestors

06/11/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

BY TJ Dawe It’s Farmer’s Market season, and that means it’ll be that much easier to shop and eat locally, and in season. Fresh fruits and vegetables are unquestionably good for you, but some are better than others. How can you tell which ones? By buying and reading Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: books, food, health

Quidditch, Canadian style

06/01/2014 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

A BoB Short: Twenty-eight athletes from across the country will be dusting off their broomsticks to represent Canada as they host this year’s International Quidditch Association (IQA) Global Games, the international championship of a sport taken straight from the pages of Harry Potter. IQA’s style of quidditch differs from its fictional counterpart in a few […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: books, British Columbia, Burnaby, Canada, literature, sports

The Alice Munro effect

10/10/2013 by backofthebook.ca 5 Comments

Alice Munro has won the Nobel Prize for literature. In the Sept. 15, 2001 edition of Saturday Night magazine, Frank Moher, backofthebook.ca’s editor, wrote with tongue only-slightly-in-cheek about the great volume of short story collections published in Canada, perhaps inspired by having the great Ms. Munro among us. His suggestion for a short-story moratorium did […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, Canada, fiction, literature, Nobel Prize, publishing, writing

Calgary’s artists rebuild

07/08/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young As I was driving away from Calgary it started to rain. I was on my “C Canada tour,” promoting my new book in Cochrane, Calgary, and Cranbrook. The Calgary event was a reading at Pages — a funky bookstore in the type of funky neighbourhood that doesn’t exist in the minds-eye view […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books, Leiren-Young Tagged With: Alberta, books, Calgary, disaster, music, theatre

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

Rick Meyers in Nanaimo Pride Parade

My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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