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They hate us for our Charter

03/01/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Uncanny resemblance, isn’t it?  Your “values” aren’t looking too good at the moment, Mr Blaney. Having rushed the 62-page omnibus anti-terrorism bill C-51 through Parliament, the Cons are now demanding it be rushed through committee as well. They wanted to restrict expert testimony to three Public Safety Committee meetings — with one of them taken […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abdullah Almalki, BIll C-51, Canada, Canadian Parliament, Canadian politics, Charter of Rights, CIA, Conservatives, CSIS, Dept of Justice and Public Safety, Jean Chretien, Joe Clark, John Turner, Maher Arar, New Democrats, Paul Martin, Public Safety Committee, RCMP, Security Intelligence Review Committee, Solicitor General of Canada, Stephen Harper, Steven Blaney, Supreme Court of Canada, Syria, terrorism, Thomas Mulcair

Unintelligence sources

01/11/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher The Prime Minister, in his role as Chief Scarifier, performed as expected on Thursday, once again using an atrocity for political gain, and to serve his government’s agenda to reduce Canadians’ civil liberties. No surprise there. What was surprising — or, if not surprising, then wall-to-wall evident in the 24 hour news […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 9/11, Canada, CBC, CIA, CNN, crime, CSIS, FBI, France, Globe and Mail, Islam, magazines, Muslims, Paris, parliament, Parliament Hill shootings, RCMP, television, terrorism

Canadians & torture: We like to watch

12/17/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Canada’s collateral fallout from the Senate Intelligence Committee summary on the torture of prisoners at CIA “black site” prisons around the world: A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney’s office said Wednesday that Canada does not engage in, or condone, torture by national security agencies but …  Canada will act on ‘a tip […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abousfian Abdelrazik, Abu Zubaydah, Bruce Carson, Canada, CIA, CSIS, FBI, Guantanamo, Jim Judd, Maher Arar, Omar Khadr, Richard Colvin, Senate Intelligence Committee, Stephen Harper, Steven Blaney, torture, U.S. politics

Microsoft: Team player

07/04/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside Feel free to drop by this Microsoft ad and give it a thumbs down. “At Microsoft, your privacy is our priority.” Indeed. About that … Guardian: How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages • Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism • Outlook.com encryption including Hotmail unlocked even before official launch • Skype worked […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Android, Apple, CIA, crime, Facebook, FBI, Google, government surveillance, internet, Microsoft, National Security Agency, PRISM, privacy, RCMP, Skype, twitter, U.S., Yahoo

Curiously convenient: Canada’s me-too bomb plot decoded

04/29/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Last week, U.S. talk show host Jack Blood offered a dissection of a recent New York Times article about the arrest of two Canadian residents charged with plotting to attack a VIA Rail train. While we haven’t been able to source everything he has to say (we’ve done our best), Mr. Blood is smarter and […]

Filed Under: Curiously Convenient: Canada's me-too bomb plot decoded, Features Tagged With: Al Qaeda, Boston Marathon bombing, Canada, Canadian politics, CIA, crime, FBI, Iran, law, Mexico, North American security perimeter, North American Union, Osama Bin Laden, police, radio, RCMP, terrorism, Toronto, U.S.

To my alleged progressive friends: What are you cheering for?

11/08/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher Since Tuesday evening, alleged progressives in both the U.S. and Canada have been celebrating the re-election of an American president who, in his first term: – Signed the National Defense Authorization Act, the most damaging piece of legislation to US civil liberties since Roosevelt interned Asian-Americans. (During the campaign, a very confused […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2012 U.S. election, Barack Obama, Canada, censorship, CIA, drones, government surveillance, Jill Stein, Mitt Romney, NDAA, Pakistan, U.S., U.S. election, U.S. military, U.S. politics

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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...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

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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