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Avoiding the fate of the nanny

08/02/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher The Conservatives were once a respectable party. That was way back when they were the Progressive Conservatives, though their alleged progressivism didn’t have much to do with it, as they were never all that progressive. Instead, they were respected for a certain stalwartness and decency, even by their opponents. Leaders like Robert Stanfield and Joe Clark may […]

Filed Under: Politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Bill C-38, Canada, Canada Revenue Agency, Conservatives, F-35, Joe Clark, omnibus bills, Peter MacKay, Preston Manning, Progressive Conservative Party, Reform Party, Robert Stanfield, Stephen Harper

CBC’s diminished news world

04/07/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher The CBC cut some more jobs last month. Where’s the news in that, you say? It was just 140 jobs, you say? Just a droplet in the bloodletting of 1500 jobs projected to be lost by 2020? Well sure, but besides the fact that another swack of people are out of work, […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Canada, Canadian Senate, CBC, CBC News, CRTC, digital media, Jean-Pierre Blais, Naheed Nenshi, online media, Pierre Juneau, PMO, Reform Party, Stephen Harper, Toronto, Vancouver

Behind Steve’s Nobel nomination

09/02/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Not content with awarding Stephen Harper their Gold Medallion human rights award and pledging to create a Stephen Harper Centre for Human Rights, B’nai Brith Canada announced on Friday that they will nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. From their statement: Moral clarity has been lost across much of the world, with terror, hatred and […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: anti-Semitism, B'Nai Brith, Canada, Canada Christian College, Canadian Alliance, Charles McVety, Conservatives, Frank Dimant, fundamentalism, Gaza, Israel, Jason Kenney, Reform Party, religion, Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, The Jewish Tribune, United Nations

The Plan

07/17/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweekly […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta Report, C-30, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, Preston Manning, Reform Party, Stephen Harper, Tom Flanagan, western Canada

Jack Layton’s bequest to the West

08/22/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher As God’s cruel jokes go, this one’s a doozy. Jack Layton, having built the NDP into the Official Opposition and created a sense of hope for the resurgence of a genuine left in Canada, one that would keep the right from running roughshod over the poor, the middle-class, and those who see […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Jack Layton, NDP, Ontario, Reform Party

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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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