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Wynne wins, Sun too depressed to write a new hed

06/14/2014 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

A BoB Short Over there is the Toronto Sun’s response regarding the Ontario Liberal Party’s majority government win on Thursday night. This work of art is a throwback to the one that ran last election on both the Toronto and Ottawa editions of the tabloid, which greeted readers with a simple “We’ve got a Liberal […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian Press, Kathleen Wynne, National Post, newspapers, Ontario, Ontario Liberal Party, Toronto Sun

Lessons for Project Samosa

08/31/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside The publication ban on Project Samosa, the RCMP’s latest salvo in the war on terror, has the media scrambling to get unnamed sources and security experts to augment and substitute for accounts of court proceedings. By a happy coincidence for war on terror fans, this allows for far more pants-pissingly terrorfying conjecture than […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, Canadian Press, CanWest, CTV, Maher Arar, Media, Ottawa Citizen, RCMP, terrorism

A Back of the Book Exclusive Enhanced Photo!

11/22/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canadian Press, George Bush, Stephen Harper

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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...]

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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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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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