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Don’t Be Those Jerks

07/20/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten This week in rape news: Some fine men in Edmonton decided to fight back against all those terrible women who lie about being raped, and take back the innocence and purity of the one night stand. The group Men’s Rights Edmonton plastered posters around the University of Alberta campus in retaliation for […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, crime, Edmonton, men, violence against women, women

Ambrose disappears Sisters in Spirit

11/15/2010 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside Last week APTN News reported that not only does the Cons’ new missing persons initiative entirely bypass Sisters In Spirit, the very group which initiated research into the nearly 600 missing and murdered FN women and girls in the first place, but SIS can no longer use the SIS name or continue their […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: aboriginals, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Rona Ambrose, Vancouver, violence against women, women

Telling me I’m more vulnerable makes me so

05/22/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Jodi A. Shaw Today, for the first time in my life, I was concerned for my safety based on my gender. Working in a northwest Calgary neighbourhood, I was informed by a resident that a “perv” had reached inside a woman’s bedroom window (in a house just down the street) and fondled her breasts […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Calgary, crime, men, violence against women, women

More Olympics double-standards

02/22/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside On Valentines Day, 2,000 to 4,000 people marched through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in the annual Women’s March for Missing and Murdered Women. A memorial march — not a protest — it is organized and led by women of the DTES to remember the hundreds of aboriginal women who have gone missing or been […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: aboriginals, Canada, Olympics, Vancouver, violence against women

In nobody’s yard except the pig farmer’s

01/23/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

So whose problem is the surreal level of violence against Aboriginal women in Canada? I am so monumentally pissed that I am ready to fire everybody, including the organizations run by Aboriginal women. It seems like nobody — absolutely nobody — is bringing their lunch pail to work on this problem. On Monday, October 4, […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: aboriginals, Amnesty International, Canada, violence against women, women

Fathers For Stupidity

10/23/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Morons from a group advocating for fathers’ custody rights, Fathers For Justice, could not have picked a stupider place to lobby than the International Conference on Violence Against Women in Montreal. What could the two issues possibly have in common? How could one issue possibly impact another, unless the fathers in question meant to lobby […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, violence against women

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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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