By Montreal Simon It seems only too tragic that just 10 days after being sworn in as Prime Minister, after promising to restore our Canadian values, and bring back sunnier days, Justin Trudeau should be hit by the darkness of the Paris massacre. Only too ironic that the son of Pierre should have to choose so soon […]
Margaret Atwood and The National Post: We’ve been there
In honour of Margaret Atwood’s temporary banning by The National Post, and subsequent re-posting in helpfully edited form, we offer backofthebook.ca editor Frank Moher’s “On being disappeared by the National Post,” originally published on January 5th, 2010. By Frank Moher I knew when I submitted my last book review to The National Post that it might […]
$175,000 to shake hands with the terrorists
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 […]
Unintelligence sources
By Frank Moher The Prime Minister, in his role as Chief Scarifier, performed as expected on Thursday, once again using an atrocity for political gain, and to serve his government’s agenda to reduce Canadians’ civil liberties. No surprise there. What was surprising — or, if not surprising, then wall-to-wall evident in the 24 hour news […]
Why I am a disappointment to J. Kelly Nestruck: Part 2
By Frank Moher In the last episode of “Kelly and Me,” I wrote about an exchange via twitter with the Globe and Mail theater critic J. Kelly Nestruck, in which he expressed his disappointment in me for supposing that we might not have the full story of what happened on 9/11. That was over a […]
Why I am a disappointment to J. Kelly Nestruck
By Frank Moher I had an interesting conversation with the critic J. Kelly Nestruck recently, if an exchange on twitter can be called a conversation. I am in the habit, on September 11th of each year, of posting to facebook and twitter a message along the lines of: The best way to honour the victims […]
Man of Steel: 9/11 with a chaser
By TJ Dawe In Man of Steel, Metropolis sure takes a pounding. Building after building after building gets a super-person thrown through it. Many collapse. Superman fought the same villain — General Zod (and cohort) — in Superman 2 (1981), including a battle in Times Square, but the worst property damage there was a smashed […]
Toews plays Gitmo jailer
By Montreal Simon It’s a Canadian horror story. A young boy is taken from his Toronto home by his Jihadi father to a place he never should have been. He is riddled with shrapnel, shot twice in the back. The bullets exploding out of his chest and exposing his beating heart. He is taken to […]
The Protocols of Jonathan Kay
AMONG THE TRUTHERS By Jonathan Kay Harper Collins 368 pages, $32.99 hardcover, $25.99 ebook Reviewed by Frank Moher On the evening of Saturday, June 26, 2010, Jonathan Kay headed out on his bike into the streets of Toronto to see what was up with the G20. What he saw, he wrote early the next morning […]
9/11’s happy ending
By Frank Moher The Americans who gathered outside the White House and at Ground Zero last night, waving their inevitable flags to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden, were touching in their desire to see an end to the nightmare that has been made of their lives and their country in these last nine-and-a-half […]
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