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The Mulcair vote: Unfair but essential

04/11/2016 by the editor

By Frank Moher The NDP’s cashiering of Tom Mulcair as leader is both deeply unfair and plainly essential, at least for anyone who wants to see the Party remain able to influence public policy, and maybe one day win an election. As has been widely remarked, Mulcair was for four years one of the best opposition leaders Parliament […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, 2015 federal election, Bernie Sanders, Canadian House of Commons, Canadian Parliament, Canadian politics, Liberals, NDP, socialism, Thomas Mulcair, U.S. politics

Canadians & torture: We like to watch

12/17/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside Canada’s collateral fallout from the Senate Intelligence Committee summary on the torture of prisoners at CIA “black site” prisons around the world: A spokesman for Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney’s office said Wednesday that Canada does not engage in, or condone, torture by national security agencies but …  Canada will act on ‘a tip […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abousfian Abdelrazik, Abu Zubaydah, Bruce Carson, Canada, CIA, CSIS, FBI, Guantanamo, Jim Judd, Maher Arar, Omar Khadr, Richard Colvin, Senate Intelligence Committee, Stephen Harper, Steven Blaney, torture, U.S. politics

Wright and Frum on the Republican dole

04/23/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside In a week that featured  . . . 1) Nigel Wright being let off the hook by the RCMP for bribing sitting legislator Senator Mike Duffy in spite of weeks of PMO discussions involving over a dozen senior party officials re buying Duffy’s silence, and 2) Senator Linda Frum making the most idiotic and widely-mocked attack on […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: "Fair Elections Act", Canada, Canadian Senate, Conservatives, Elections Canada, Linda Frum, magazines, Nigel Wright, Republican Party, U.S. politics, universities

A Modest Opinion – Smart move, Republicans

10/18/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Nathaniel Moher All right, truth time, when my editor finally got ahold of me, I was about half-way through a case of Jim Beam. It turns out, just because the American government has decided it doesn’t need to work, doesn’t mean I get to skip work and drink like it’s literally the end of […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Republican Party, U.S., U.S. politics

A Modest Opinion — Syria? More like Syri-ous, am I right, guys?

09/16/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Nathaniel Moher If you’re like me, you’re confused and angered by what’s happening with Syria right now. I mean … we have to learn about another Middle Eastern country that we’re going to attack?! Come on, Obama, I just learned where Iran was, and you guys haven’t even attacked that place yet. One war […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Barack Obama, middle east, Syria, TERRORISTS!!!!!!, U.S., U.S. military, U.S. politics

Al Franken is a big fat criminal

06/12/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Technology and civil liberty experts knew PRISM was a very real possibility. I knew, and wrote about it last August. The National Security Agency (NSA) (star bad guy org. in the Will Smith movie Enemy of the State) has been collecting domestic Americans’ phone and Internet records since at least […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Al Franken, Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, crime, Edward Snowden, George Bush, Glenn Greenwald, government surveillance, internet, National Security Agency, PRISM, privacy, RCMP, U.S., U.S. politics

Harper and Porter, international man of mystery

06/04/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside I do hope someone is securing the rights to make a Made In Canada thriller about Stephen Harper’s spy watchdog and his various business associates. I’m referring of course to the Honorable Dr. Arthur Porter, “His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone” and also “Member, Queen’s Privy Council for Canada” for life. Really, this […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Abousfian Abdelrazik, Arthur Porter, Canada, Canadian politics, CSIS, FINTRAC, Montreal, Quebec, SIRC, SNC-Lavalin, Stephen Harper, U.S., U.S. politics

To my alleged progressive friends: What are you cheering for?

11/08/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Since Tuesday evening, alleged progressives in both the U.S. and Canada have been celebrating the re-election of an American president who, in his first term: – Signed the National Defense Authorization Act, the most damaging piece of legislation to US civil liberties since Roosevelt interned Asian-Americans. (During the campaign, a very confused […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2012 U.S. election, Barack Obama, Canada, censorship, CIA, drones, government surveillance, Jill Stein, Mitt Romney, NDAA, Pakistan, U.S., U.S. election, U.S. military, U.S. politics

Friendly Canadian input on the US election

07/14/2012 by backofthebook.ca

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

Robocalls and Republicons

03/14/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside The Cons’ somewhat belated talking points about their use of the US voter contact firm Front Porch Strategies in the last election have been all about only using them for townhalls : U.S. phone firm was just for town halls, say MPs  “Jim Ross [Front Porch’s Canadian liaison and Con MP Rick Dykstra’s […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Dean Del Mastro, Elections Canada, Ontario, Rick Dykstra, robocall scandal, U.S., U.S. politics

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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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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...]

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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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