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Margaret Atwood and The National Post: We’ve been there

08/22/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

In honour of Margaret Atwood’s temporary banning by The National Post, and subsequent re-posting in helpfully edited form, we offer backofthebook.ca editor Frank Moher’s “On being disappeared by the National Post,” originally published on January 5th, 2010. By Frank Moher I knew when I submitted my last book review to The National Post that it might […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 9/11, books, Canada, censorship, Douglas Kelly, journalism, Kenneth Sherman, Margaret Atwood, Mark Medley, National Post, newspapers, Stephen Harper

Dear CRTC: More Margaret Atwood won’t save Canadian TV

03/19/2015 by the editor 2 Comments

By Jim Henshaw A decade of boneheaded moves by Canada’s broadcast regulator, the CRTC, were the original inspiration for my  blog. And over its life I’ve repeatedly weighed in on just how dim-witted or out of touch our CRTC Commissioners have been with their decisions. The last was a couple of months ago with the first […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Apple TV, Canada, Canadian culture, Canadian film, CRTC, Jean-Pierre Blais, Margaret Atwood, Netflix, online media, television, writing

Atwood at her dystopic best

09/30/2009 by backofthebook.ca 3 Comments

YEAR OF THE FLOOD By Margaret Atwood McClelland & Stewart 448 pp., $32.99 Review by Rachel Krueger Margaret Atwood is at her haranguing best when she’s whipping up appalling futures for us all. She’s had several career missteps when her agenda has written cheques that her skills can’t cash, but The Year of the Flood […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, Margaret Atwood, McClelland & Stewart

Yann Martel’s two-man book club

06/20/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher In my previous post to this section I said I’d be back in seven days with my thoughts on Yann Martel’s bibliophilic jihad against Stephen Harper. That was, er, um, six weeks ago. But hey, who hasn’t been following the Paris Hilton news coverage 24/7? In any event, in the interim a […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, Canada Council, Canadian culture, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Harper, Yann Martel

Margaret Atwood has a nightmare

05/03/2007 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Frank Moher Some of my fellow writer-types are being particularly irritating these days, and not in a good way. It is, of course, part of an artist’s job to be irritating some of the time, as, for example, the Dixie Chicks were about George Bush’s war. By the time Americans got through being irritated […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, Conservatives, Liberals, Margaret Atwood, Stephen Harper, Yann Martel

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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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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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