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Hatred on an Alberta golf course

06/20/2016 by the editor Leave a Comment

For years I have been warning that hatred kills. Like it did in Orlando last Sunday. Or like it did in Britain last Thursday. When the gentle, decent Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death by a another cowardly bigot. And I’ve also warned that the same poison was spreading in Canada. Where […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta New Democratic Party, Brian Jean, Britain, Canada, crime, Ezra Levant, GLBT, GLBTQ, Justin Trudeau, Rachel Notley, U.S., violence, Wildrose Party

My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

06/12/2016 by the editor 3 Comments

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, across the water from the island I live on. He’s been a celebrity there for a long time, first as the city’s […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, crime, gun violence, LGBTQ, Nanaimo, Pride, U.S., violence

The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

04/17/2016 by the editor Leave a Comment

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 campaign of Bernie Sanders. Despite winning a string of primaries and attracting overflow crowds to his speeches, Sanders can’t seem to inspire any mainstream journalists to […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Andrew Coyne, Bernie Sanders, Canada, CBC, Democratic Party, Halifax, Halifax Chronicle-Herald, immigration, journalism, Justin Trudeau, New York City, newspapers, Nova Scotia, Rosie Barton, U.S.

Mind your guru, Minister Freeland

02/05/2016 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside The best part of International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland signing the U.S. corporate rights agreement TPP — the Trans-Pacific Partnership — in Aukland, NZ on Wednesday was that it was done here in this gambling casino, and a casino is where the house always wins. In her 2012 book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Chrystia Freeland, corporations, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Japan, Liberals, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, trade, Trans Pacific Partnership, U.S., United States, Vietnam

The Cons’ American coaches

08/03/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Back in June in Ottawa, PM Stephen Harper and House Leader Peter Van Loan quietly met with Scott Walker, the anti-SSM anti-abortion anti-union Wisconsin governor whose imminent 2016 Republican presidential candidacy is already teetering atop a pile of Koch Bros. dark money. When Glen McGregor reported on the meeting, PMO spokesey Stephen Lecce came out of […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: American Majority, Canada, Koch Brothers, Loan, Manning Centre, Peter Van Loan, Scott Walker, Stephen Harper, Stephen Lecce, U.S.

Gay allies: Are you really on side?

07/16/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Dave Brindle We’re in the middle of Pride season. The biggest of the top 10 festivals – Toronto, New York and San Francisco – are over now, but that leaves Montreal and Vancouver still to come in Canada, and a host of smaller ones around the world. They’re everywhere these days. Port Alberni, BC, will […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canada, civil rights, Facebook, family, GLBT, good behaviour, law, marriage, Pride, sex, sexuality, social media, Supreme Court, U.S.

All singing, all blogging, all farming

06/07/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw For a long time (and for all I know it’s still there) –- there was a lop-sided sign just off the highway as you headed north and left the urban comforts of Toronto for the countryside. It was rough and hand-painted and said simply, “If you had something to eat today, thank […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: agriculture, farming, food, GMO, U.S.

$175,000 to shake hands with the terrorists

05/26/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher You’re liable to hear quite a bit today and for the next few days about the Governor General’s $175,000 plane flight to Saudi Arabia to offer condolences on the death of King Abdullah. That’s because it’s the perfect story for an election year, along with the widening Senate scandal and Pierre Poilievere’s weekend […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 9/11, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, BIll C-51, Bob Graham, Canada, civil liberties, Conservatives, David Johnston, Governor General, Iraq, Jean Chretien, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate

Allen Ginsberg, photographer

04/21/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rod Mickleburgh I met William Burroughs once. It was during my magical year in Paris (sigh). I’d read in Libération that morning that the legendary icon of the Beats would be at the City of Light’s annual Salon du Livre at the Grand Palais. I thought ‘”What the hell,” and went down to catch […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: books, British Columbia, celebrity, literature, Paris, photography, poetry, U.S., Vancouver

International law? We don’t care about no stinking international law.

03/26/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside The Con bench seals laugh and clap at Steve’s joke blowing off the UN and international law because grade six. Harper went on to explain that Canada will be bombing Syria as part of an international coalition, although the US is the only NATO member currently bombing Syria. The other coalition countries bombing […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: bad behaviour, Bahrain, Barack Obama, Canada, Canadian military, Conservatives, international law, ISIS, Jason Kenney, Jordan, Morocco, NDP, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Stephen Harper, Syria, Thomas Mulcair, U.S., U.S. military, UAE, United Nations, Yemen

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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...]

Trudeau on quantum computing

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...]

Stephen Colbert on Late Night set

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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