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“Dear Mr. Harper . . . you’ve underestimated us.”

10/19/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

Mary Cleaver posted this open letter to Stephen Harper on facebook earlier this month. This election, backofthebook.ca endorses Mary Cleaver. Dear Mr. Harper, I live in BC with my husband and two little girls. I grew up in Calgary and have many friends and family members there. I’m white and in my early 40s. One […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 federal election, Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Canada, Canadian military, Canadian politics, CBC, climate change, Conservatives, economy, First Nations, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, immigrations, oceans, poverty, science, Stephen Harper, veterans

BC Liberals win: Why am I not surprised?

05/15/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By David@Sixthestate.net I’m not terribly interested in speculating, at least for the moment, about why the pollsters would be devastatingly incorrect — again — about a provincial election campaign, this time in British Columbia. My guess is that in this case it has something to do with young people not voting, but again, the answer […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, climate change, crime, environment, science

The birds of Spring

05/06/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon The birds have been flocking back to the island as they do every spring. Flying in from south of the lake, on their way north. But this year I’m not as glad to see them, as I usually am. Because this year they can’t help reminding me of what’s going on in China. The outbreak […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, China, Conservatives, disease, health, health care, medicine, science

The man who predicted Sandy

11/02/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) I find the current political and media climate in Canada to be insufferably stupid. Despite there being excellent, professional journalists everywhere, there are many more time/space fillers who skew the public’s perception of what is going on and what really matters. One thing the media has been terrible at is […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, climate change, Hurricane Sandy, nature, New York City, science, weather

Warp speed is possible . . . if we don’t fry first

09/24/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By David@Sixthestate.net You may remember, as I do, how quickly even the most fervent anti-science hyper-skeptics went into fits of excitement over the announced discovery of the Higgs boson earlier this summer. I doubt any of them could tell you what a Higgs boson is, beyond the fact that some wag once called it “the […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: climate change, NASA, National Post, science, space exploration

A Modest Opinion – Why do scientists keep lying to me?

06/19/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Nathaniel Moher Listen, I live by only a few certainties when it comes to my health. One, that eggs are bad for me. Two, that drinking 12 shots of Jim Beam a day makes me more interesting. And three, that if you don’t drink eight glasses of water a day you will die of […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: science

“Frankenfish” caught; Burnaby residents stop shouting “AIEEE!”

06/09/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

A BoB short: BC’s monster fish has been caught and killed. Dubbed “Frankenfish,” the two foot long snakehead was first spotted on May 13th in a Burnaby pond. An invasive species native to China, the fish is a so-called “top-level predator” with the hellish potential to destroy entire ecosystems. In 2004, a lake in Maryland […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: biology, British Columbia, Burnaby, Canada, environment, nature, science

Designer Worms

08/12/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

by Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. Crusher. In reality, of course, […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: science, television

Antimatter contained for 17 minutes; hello Vulcans

06/06/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

by Eric Pettifor Canadian researchers (and others, but we’ll focus on lauding our countrypersons) at CERN near North Battleford, Saskatchewan (ok, CERN is really in Switzerland, but it should be in Saskatchewan) have managed to capture and contain antimatter for a whopping 17 minutes (layperson friendly description here). You realize, of course, that this means […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Canada, CERN, science, space exploration

Enough with the gay mice

04/12/2011 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Jodi A. Shaw Yet another study of homosexuality has been released, this one suggesting that a neurotransmitter is the remote control for sexual preference in mammals. Yi Rao, a neuroscientist at Peking University, and his collaborators engineered male mice unable to produce serotonin, who then demonstrated a preference for other male mice. The mice […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: lesbians, LGBTQ, religion, science, sexuality

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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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