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The Video: Justin Trudeau, actor

02/06/2016 by the editor 2 Comments

In 2007, Justin Trudeau was an actor in the CBC docudrama The Great War, in which he played decorated Canadian soldier Talbot Papineau, and ignored W.C. Fields’ dictum never to act with children or animals. We’ll leave it to viewers to decide if he made the right career move by going into politics instead. As […]

Filed Under: The Video Tagged With: Canada, Canadian television, Justin Trudeau, television, war, WWI

Why I won’t pray for Paris

11/18/2015 by the editor 2 Comments

By Kenneth Brown In the aftermath of the Paris killings, the Facebook world has been, as is only appropriate, afire with opinion, speculation, ire and sympathy. I do not have the kinds of Facebook friends (I’m happy to report) who leap to make bigoted statements about Muslims, or to publicly indulge in revenge fantasy. I […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: bigotry, Christianity, Christians, crime, France, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Judaism, middle east, Muslims, Paris, religion, terrorism, war

ISIS rampages, artists fuss

08/29/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw It wasn’t the first time somebody has died on stage. Two of recent theatre’s great comedians, Dick Shawn (The Producers) and Sid James (pick any Carry On . . . movie) both did final pratfalls that convulsed their audiences –- until the realization dawned that they were never getting up again. Genesius, the […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Conservatives, crime, humans, Iraq, ISIS, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, middle east, NDP, showbiz, Stephen Harper, Syria, theatre, Thomas Mulcair, United Nations, violence, war

A Modest Opinion – It’s been so clear all along

05/15/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Nathaniel Moher Guys, things are getting real in the world right now, and I’m not just talking about the controversial end to “Big Brother Canada .” (Can you believe they wouldn’t let Brady re-vote after she accidentally voted for MacLaughlin instead of Levy? I mean, writing a name on a card is really hard […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Syria, war

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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...]

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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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