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From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

06/29/2016 by the editor Leave a Comment

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="324"] From ‘The Red Tree’ by Shaun Tan[/caption] Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, the important part is this: every card in the heart suit is worth points, and (just like golf) players want to avoid those points. I played a lot of Hearts as a […]

Filed Under: From "Our Rape Blog": Shooting the Moon Tagged With: crime, Jian Ghomeshi, law, men, police, rape, RCMP, sexual assault, violence, women

Narendra Modi: Harper’s kind of guy

04/16/2015 by the editor 4 Comments

By Montreal Simon You had to see it to believe it. Stephen Harper welcoming the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Canada. Then travelling on the plane with him to a massive rally in Toronto. Even though Modi is a Hindu extremist, and has been accused of enabling mass murder. Until a year ago, Modi […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: business, Canada, Charles McVety, Christians, Conservatives, corporations, crime, Hindus, India, Islam, Jason Kenney, Kathleen Wynne, multic, Muslims, Narendra Modi, Ontario, religion, Stephen Harper, Toronto, women

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

Our sexist religion is better than your sexist religion

09/07/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By David@Sixthestate.net The Gideons have a strange knack for inciting controversy, and they’ve done it again. Ontario pundits are in a tizzy over a new human rights case filed by an atheist couple whose main purpose seems to be to get religious handouts, like Gideon Bibles, banned from schools. Actually, the case is asking whether […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Ontario, religion, Toronto Sun, women

She shoots, she scores

05/28/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

A BoB short: Paulina Gretzky has cracked Maxim’s list of the world’s 100 most beautiful women. The magazine dubs her “Twitter’s sex kitten” — a reference to the series of racy pictures that Wayne Getzky’s little girl posted to her 25,000+ followers last year before daddy reportedly had a talk with her. She later admitted […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: celebrity, sex, social media, women

Woodworth’s motion aborted

04/27/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon Gawd. What a horrible way to begin my day. All I could think of was Stephen “Woody” Woodworth polishing his big teeth, and preparing for his big day. Even my egg started to look like him, and I hardly dared boil it, in case it should hatch. For who knows when life […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Gordon O'Connor, Stephen Harper, Stephen Woodworth, women

The A word

07/11/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism has released its Final Report — two years in the making — on what co-chair and former Lib MP Mario Silva refers to as the “wave of anti-Semitism we are witnessing in our nation.” A 71% increase. Yet a mere seven months earlier in December, here is the CPCCA’s […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: aboroiginals, anti-Semitism, Canada, Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism, Canadian politics, crime, Israel, Jason Kenney, Mario Silva, Scott Reid, universities, women

Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament

05/05/2011 by backofthebook.ca 8 Comments

By Frank Moher Kevin Annett lives in a small white house facing onto a ramshackle street in downtown Nanaimo, BC. The local RCMP detachment, with its lot full of solid, square cop cars, is just around the corner. Inside, on a watery day in mid-January, the living room is lit only by the gray light […]

Filed Under: Kevin Annett's unfinished testament Tagged With: aboriginals, British Columbia, Canada, crime, Indian residential schools, police, radio, RCMP, religion, Robert Pickton, Vancouver, women

Kevin Annett’s unfinished testament — page 2

05/05/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Continued from page 1 On August 9th, 2010, Annett took a phone call on his long-running radio show, “Hidden from History.” The caller wanted to discuss rumours of police complicity in the murders committed by Robert Pickton. “I have specific evidence of what you’re talking about,” Annett replied. “There’s a man, Les Guerin, he’s a […]

Filed Under: Kevin Annett's unfinished testament Tagged With: aboriginals, British Columbia, Canada, crime, Indian residential schools, police, radio, RCMP, religion, Robert Pickton, Vancouver, women

It’s a stag, not an orgy

04/24/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

by Jodi A. Shaw William and Kate this, Royal Wedding that. Kate Middleton had a Dirty Dancing themed stagette, while Prince William’s bachelor party is rumoured to have had a water theme: speed boats and wakeboarding and a boat-borne pub crawl. Sounds like fun. But while I doubt Will spent a lot of time worrying […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: marriage, men, royalty, women

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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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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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