Canada's online magazine: Politics, entertainment, technology, media, arts, books: backofthebook.ca

Politics, tech, media, culture and more, from a Canadian point-of-view

Google+
  • Politics
  • Media
  • Culture
  • Science and Tech
  • Living
  • Arts and Books
  • Features
  • The Video
You are here: Home / Archives for Canada

Right to the heart

10/28/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh And so it ends, as it almost always does in baseball when you embrace a team, with heartache and a taste of bitterness. After a magical, three-month run that delivered such delirious thrills and joy to me and millions of others across the country, the Toronto Blue Jays are gone, leaving players […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: baseball, Blue Jays, Canada, sports, Toronto

Katrina’s campaign journal: And on the 72nd day . . .

10/20/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

With this sixth installment, we conclude Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. Our thanks to Katrina for keeping our readers’ spirits buoyed with her enthusiasm and humour throughout. Previous installments can be read here. By Katrina Kairys You win some. You lose some. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Arif Virani, Canada, Canadian politics, Katrina's campaign journal, Liberals, Montreal, NDP, Toronto

I voted strategically. I shouldn’t have.

10/20/2015 By the editor 35 Comments

By Frank Moher Don’t get me wrong. I’m glad the Wicked Witch is dead, and may now return to his true calling running far right-wing lobbying organizations and sitting on the boards of oil companies. However, I voted strategically to ensure that happened, and, even though the local candidate I voted for won, I am […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Elizabeth May, Green Party, Liberals, Mixed Member Proportional, multiculturalism, Nanaimo-Ladysmith, NDP, Paul Manly, proportional representation, Stephen Harper, strategic voting, Thomas Mulcair

“Dear Mr. Harper . . . you’ve underestimated us.”

10/19/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

Mary Cleaver posted this open letter to Stephen Harper on facebook earlier this month. This election, backofthebook.ca endorses Mary Cleaver. Dear Mr. Harper, I live in BC with my husband and two little girls. I grew up in Calgary and have many friends and family members there. I’m white and in my early 40s. One […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Canada, Canadian military, Canadian politics, CBC, climate change, Conservatives, economy, First Nations, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, immigrations, oceans, poverty, science, Stephen Harper, veterans

Katrina’s campaign journal: 20-somethings for democracy

10/13/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

We continue Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. Previous installments can be read here. By Katrina Kairys “Do we happen to have a sledge hammer? Nope? I guess I’ll have to go grab one tonight.” I give Mira a confused look. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Katrina's campaign journal, Liberals, Montreal, NDP, Quebec, youth

Harper and the spawn of the Great Satan

10/12/2015 By the editor 1 Comment

By Montreal Simon Oh dear. I see that Stephen Harper had to take the day off on Saturday. No doubt to try to recover from the brutal effects of the long campaign he inflicted upon himself. And get a full spa treatment. Because let’s face it he needs one … Every day he looks more bagged […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Conservatives, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, NDP, Stephen Harper

A beloved gentleman of the theatre

10/11/2015 By the editor 2 Comments

By Jim Henshaw David Bolt was the first professional actor I ever met. I was studying theatre at the University of Regina and he was working for the Globe Theatre doing one of their gruelling tours, taking plays to remote gymnasiums and church basements in the dead of Winter. He undertook that cold and uncomfortable […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Canada, entertainment, Ontario, Regina, Saskatchewan, theatre, Toronto

Dear Canada: We gave you Stephen Harper. We’re sorry.

10/07/2015 By the editor 6 Comments

By Frank Moher Dear Canada, Western Canada here. We gave you Stephen Harper. And we’re just writing to say we’re sorry. We know it’s a little late in the day. But it’s something we really need to square with you. It’s true that Ontario gave him to us, back when Harper was 19 and moved out […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", 2015 federal election, Bill C-45, BIll C-51, Calgary, Canada, CBC, civil liberties, Conservatives, environment, First Nations, Quebec, Revenue Canada, Stephen Harper, western Canada

Katrina’s campaign journal: Election buzz

10/01/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Katrina Kairys This is part four in Katrina Kairys’s series on getting to know Canadian politics from the ground up, by volunteering during the 2015 federal election campaign. You can also read installments 1, 2, and 3. With less than three weeks until the election, the federal campaign is coming to a boil. Canadians […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Katrina's campaign journal, Liberals, Montreal, NDP, Quebec

Harper’s flying monkeys (and the man behind the curtain)

10/01/2015 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon I must admit it is getting a bit grim out there. Fall has finally arrived, it’s getting colder and darker, the skies over this ghastly Harperland are filled with flying monkeys. Stephen Harper is a frenzy urging them on to destroy his enemies, with his poisonous wedge issues. And of course this is […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Conservatives, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, Lynton Crosby, Naheed Nenshi, NDP, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • …
  • 74
  • Next Page »
Google

Follow Us!

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • RSS
  • Twitter

RSS CBC News

  • 'Worst kind of thievery': 2nd Halifax artist's work stolen to profit off national tragedy
  • Bono's anti-poverty group needles Trudeau for lacking gender equality plan
  • 'Ecosystems are unravelling': Another B.C. caribou herd could be lost forever
  • Alberta alienation from rest of Canada surges once again, poll suggests
  • N.L. premier removes cabinet minister amid bullying allegations
  • Expect an economic boost from the household robot — more upgradeable than the iPhone: Don Pittis
  • Police officer in 'revenge porn' case sues over distribution of intimate images
  • Rush order for 31,000 smartphones signals return of 'March Madness' budget rush
  • Code Orange: How Toronto's Sunnybrook hospital knew how to handle Monday's van attack
  • Canadian Transportation Agency investigating Sunwing after receiving 89 complaints involving 23 flights
  • It wasn't a 2013 collapse, but this Game 7 loss to Bruins was close
  • Former coach, ex-Mountie gets 6 years for sex-related assaults
  • Trudeau and Scheer debate free speech and summer jobs - and get nowhere
  • WestJet pilot union launches strike vote
  • Bank of Canada says economy 'finally positive', rates to rise



Recent Posts

  • Fort McMurray: Shopping time!
  • From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon
  • Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking
  • The fish hotel
  • Hatred on an Alberta golf course
  • The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”
  • My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade
  • Our selective sympathy
  • The Water Bomber, The Frogman and The Great Canadian Novelist
  • Komagata Maru: The story behind the apology

Tags

9/11 Afghanistan Alberta bad behaviour books British Columbia business Canada Canadian military Canadian politics CBC celebrity computers Conservatives crime environment family film G20 Globe and Mail internet Jason Kenney journalism Justin Trudeau law Liberals Maclean's music National Post NDP newspapers oil sands online media Ontario Quebec RCMP religion sports Stephen Harper television theatre Toronto U.S. Vancouver women

Archives

Pages

  • About
  • Privacy

Copyright © 2018 ·News Pro Theme · Genesis Framework by StudioPress · WordPress · Log in