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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

The debate: Blow by blow, tweet by tweet

08/06/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Elizabeth May, Green Party, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, NDP, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair

Trudeau stands up

03/10/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon The other day I wrote a post where I asked, or begged our progressive leaders to elevate their game. To go big or go home. And make the struggle to defeat the Harper Cons a larger struggle to save Canada and its values. And I have to say that last night in […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Canada, Conservatives, Elizabeth May, Green Party, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, McGill University, multiculturalism, NDP, racism, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair

Parliament shooting: What the leaders said

10/23/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

Stephen Harper: “My fellow Canadians: for the second time this week, there has been a brutal and violent attack on our soil. Today our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Cpl. Cirillo was killed today — murdered in cold blood — as he provided […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Conservatives, crime, Elizabeth May, Green Party, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, NDP, Ottawa, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair, violence

Harper and FIPA: Sell-out on a Friday afternoon

09/15/2014 by the editor 3 Comments

By Montreal Simon He waited until late Friday afternoon to announce that the Cons had ratified their controversial trade deal with China. Hoping that most people wouldn’t notice. Ottawa confirms it has ratified a foreign investment treaty with China, more than two years after the controversial agreement was signed, as CBC News first reported Friday. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, business, Canada, Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, China, Conservatives, Ed Fast, Elizabeth May, Enbridge, Enbridge Pipeline, FIPA, First Nations, Green Party, international affairs, International Trade, law, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oil, oil sands, Stephen Harper, tar sands, trade

Problem: Too much democracy. Solution: Fair Elections Act.

02/11/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside “What problems are the Conservatives really trying to solve with bizarre Fair Elections Act?” asked Andrew Coyne in an excellent column two days ago. I’d like to pillage that question and expand on it a bit. Problem: Investigation into election fraud in 2011 Election, 33 months ago, being rushed along at dangerous breakneck […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, Andrew Coyne, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Dean Del Mastro, Elections Canada, Green Party, Liberals, Marc Mayrand, NDP, voter suppression

Trudeau’s coat tails won’t get the Liberals elected

04/15/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher I joined the Liberal Party in order to vote in the leadership thing. Having done so, I will now duly unjoin. The idea of me being a Liberal is ridiculous. I am sufficiently an Albertan (albeit ex) of a certain age (getting on) to regard the Liberals as the party of the […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Elizabeth May, First Past the Post, Green Party, Joyce Murray, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, Nathan Cullen, NDP, proportional representation

Will Canada’s Progressives defeat themselves?

11/29/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon In the growing darkness of Harperland, it’s hard to know what’s the truth, what is illusion, and what’s just another Big Lie. But sometimes the truth is so blinding, like a fire in the sky, that it’s impossible to ignore it. Or to live, like so many Canadians, in a state of […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bloc Quebecois, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Green Party, Liberals, NDP, Stephen Harper

The Plan, Part Deux

07/25/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I hoped it would when I was a young journalist in Alberta in the 1980s. The Harperites are doing what they can to […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Canadian politics, Elizabeth May, Green Party, Liberals, NDP, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, separatism, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair

Friendly Canadian input on the US election

07/14/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By David Taub Bancroft The sun is shining. The flowers are blooming. We are in a year that is divisible by four. I think we all know what that means. In a matter of months, our American friends will once again start hanging chads or whatever it is they do to hold a presidential election, […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2012 U.S. election, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Green Party, health care, Jill Stein, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, U.S., U.S. election, U.S. politics

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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...]

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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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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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