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Harper’s enablers at Maclean’s

08/06/2015 by the editor 4 Comments

By Frank Moher We’ve pretty much accepted the fact that, with things like the imaginatively named Fair Elections Act and the early election call, the PM is out to undermine democracy in Canada. We’re to the point that, if Harper announced he was calling off the election and had the Governor-General bound and gagged in a back room […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, CBC, City TV, Conservatives, CPAC, CTV, Global Television, John Tory, journalism, Kenneth Whyte, Maclean's, Mark Stevenson, Omni TV, Paul Wells, Progressive Conservatives, radio, Rogers, Stephen Harper, Ted Rogers, television, TVA

An Idle proposal to Canadian journalists: STFU

01/20/2013 by backofthebook.ca 3 Comments

By Frank Moher Kevin Newman’s interview with Chief Theresa Spence, aired today on CTV’s “Question Period,” illustrated pretty neatly in its first few minutes all that’s been wrong with mainstream coverage of Spence’s fast, and of Idle No More. Newman began by playing social worker to Spence, citing the Chiefs and elders who’ve told her, “You […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, CTV, First Nations, Idle No More, Jonathan Kay, journalism, Kevin Newman, National Post, newspapers, Stephen Harper, television, Theresa Spence

Is CSIS replaying the Arar card?

08/09/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside A leaked 2004 CSIS report from LaPresse on Thursday purports to be a summary of a conversation between Abousfian Abdelrazik and Adil Charkaoui  in 2000 in which they plotted to blow up an airplane enroute between Montreal and France. It has already been enthusiastically repeated across our national press: CBC: CSIS file reveals plot to bomb […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abousfian Abdelrazik, Adil Charkaoui, Canada, Canadian politics, CanWest, CBC, CSIS, CTV, France, Jason Kenney, LaPresse, law, Maher Arar, Ottawa Citizen, terrorism, Toronto Star, U.S.

No Murdoch-style scandal in Canada, you say?

08/03/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside We’ve been getting a lot of stories from our media lately (here, here, and here), assuring us that an equivalent to the Rupert Murdoch scandal couldn’t possibly happen in Canada. Really? No cozy incestuous relationships? No dirty tricks? On March 30, 2009, Stephen Harper, PMO staffer Kory Teneycke, Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, CTV, Kory Teneycke, National Post, newspapers, Patrick Muttart, Postmedia, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Harper, Sun News Network, television, U.S.

Vancouver celebrates for real

05/18/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Bev Schellenberg A year-or-so after the Winter Olympics torch got snuffed out, community spirit is back in Vancouver, thanks to the Canucks. Where the many official attempts to reignite our sporting fervor failed, a simple hockey playoff series has done the trick. Greater Vancouver has decided it will party when it wants to, not […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, CTV, hockey, Olympics, sports, Vancouver

Postmedia: Layoffs? What layoffs?

09/08/2010 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Brian Brennan Television reporter Tom Clark parts company with CTV News, and the network issues a public statement to that effect. Kevin Newman steps down as Global anchor, and his network does the same. But what happens when dozens, perhaps hundreds of print reporters in this country leave their jobs, either voluntarily or otherwise? […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: CanWest, CTV, Edmonton Journal, Global Television, Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, National Post, newspapers, Ottawa Citizen, Paul Godfrey, Postmedia, Toronto Star, Vancouver Province, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times-Colonist

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

Fixing Canadian TV the NHL way

12/22/2009 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher I didn’t think I had a home team in the TV broadcasters vs. TV distributors battle that has been thrust at us in recent months. Seemed like one set of mega-rich corporations pounding on another to see who’ll get to remain the fattest longest. The nut of the dispute, in case your […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Bell Canada, Canada, CBC, CRTC, CTV, Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, Rogers, Shaw Communications, television

The CRTC’s meddling ways

02/27/2009 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher I like a good government intervention as much as the next failed banker, but the current CRTC meddling with the internet should send chills down the spine of anyone who uses the instrument — like, say, you. The commissioners are looking into the question of whether or not internet service providers should […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: CanWest, CBC, CRTC, CTV, Global Television, internet, new media, television

Why is Canadian cable TV so bad?

02/06/2009 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher One of the mixed pleasures of a writer’s vocation is afternoon television. With the advent of notebook computers, one can sit on the couch and do all manner of quotidian things — like writing blog posts — while CNN and NewsNet and A&E dance across the flatscreen. Of particularly morbid interest of […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, CBC, CNN, CTV, television

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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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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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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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