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From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

06/29/2016 by the editor

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="324"] From ‘The Red Tree’ by Shaun Tan[/caption] Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, the important part is this: every card in the heart suit is worth points, and (just like golf) players want to avoid those points. I played a lot of Hearts as a […]

Filed Under: From "Our Rape Blog": Shooting the Moon Tagged With: crime, Jian Ghomeshi, law, men, police, rape, RCMP, sexual assault, violence, women

Duffy trial: Harper is the tie that binds

04/09/2015 by the editor

By Montreal Simon If Stephen Harper thought he could run away from the trial of Mike Duffy, as he was trying to do on Tuesday at a photo-op in Vancouver . . . Which is about as far away as you can get from Ottawa, and Ol’ Duff’s even more massive photo-op . . . The look […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canadian Senate, Cnada, crime, Duffy trial, law, Mike Duffy, Nigel Wright, Prince Edward Island, RCMP

They hate us for our Charter

03/01/2015 by the editor

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

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

Stephen Harper and Mr. Hyde

01/09/2015 by the editor

By Montreal Simon Even for a man like Stephen Harper with so many screaming voices in his head, it was an astonishing transformation. Something right out of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. One moment he was telling a group of young people in B.C. about how he planned to create gazillions of jobs for them. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, crime, France, Michael Harris, Paris, Parliament Hill shootings, RCMP, Stephen Harper, terrorism

Where’s the video, Commissioner Paulson?

12/06/2014 by the editor

By Montreal Simon Almost as soon as the shooting stopped, and not long after he emerged from his closet, Stephen Harper declared that Canada was under attack by the dark forces of ISIS. And started calling the dead gunman, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, an ISIS terrorist. Even though he was a mentally ill crack addict. And a […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bob Paulson, Canada, Canadian Parliament, Conservatives, crime, Giuliano Zaccardelli, ISIS, Liberals, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, NDP, Parliament Hill shootings, RCMP, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair

“The Province”: Doing it right for the petroleum producers

11/24/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside h/t Waterbaby That’s very good, isn’t it? “Kinder Morgan has solved the NIMBY problem by taking the backyard.” I also liked his debunking of the attempt to de-legitimize protest itself — the argument that “protesters undermine the rule of law by claiming to speak for the whole community.” Hey, here’s one now from […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 24 Hours, British Columbia, Burnaby, Canada, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, civil liberties, Kinder Morgan, newspapers, oil sands, Postmedia, protest, RCMP, Rick Perry, Sun Media, tar sands, Texas, The Province, Trans Mountain pipeline, USA, Vancouver

Because the Mounties said so

10/29/2014 by the editor

By Frank Moher Does Justin Trudeau have a little meter in his pocket that tells him which way to tack on issues of the day? Does he pull it out and the needle tells him “Slightly Left” or “Slightly Right”? Of course he does. It was passed down to him by the previous leader of […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian Parliament, Canadian politics, Commissioner Bob Poulson, crime, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, mental illness, NDP, Ottawa, Parliament Hill shootings, RCMP, terrorism, Thomas Mulcair

Rehtaeh: A father’s questions

09/23/2014 by the editor

By Glen Canning This morning I sat in a Halifax courtroom and listened as one of the young men involved with my daughter’s case changed his plea to guilty. He is guilty of producing child pornography. He is the person who clicked the button on that cellphone, and as simply as that, he ended her […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: child porn, children, family, Halifax, law, Nova Scotia, police, pornography, RCMP, Rheateah Parsons, schools

Warrantless surveillance comes to your phone

05/09/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside Nine out of 12 big telecoms in Canada deigned to reply to Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart with info about their disclosure of customer data to law enforcement in 2011. Law enforcement agencies made 1,193,630 requests for subscriber data in 2011 Or, one request every 27 seconds Three telecom providers alone disclosed information from 785,000 customer accounts […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: business, Canada, Conservatives, CSEC, cyber bullying, government surveillance, Jennifer Stoddart, privacy, privacy commissioner, RCMP, telcos

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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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