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Good News! NEB bans oil spills over $950 million!

12/20/2013 by backofthebook.ca

From The Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel: “In the unlikely event of a large oil spill . . . we found that the adverse effects would not be permanent and widespread.” And just in case you aren’t convinced of this by reading it just the once, the National Energy Enbridge Board repeats it […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Enbridge, National Energy Board, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oil, tar sands

Solidarity whatever

12/10/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Rod Mickleburgh These are strange days, indeed, for public sector unions. Big developments, not always happy ones, are everywhere. Yet the dearth of labour reporters and collective yawns from editors and the public alike have combined to obscure groundbreaking events that would have dominated front pages not so long ago, when unions were considered […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alison Redford, British Columbia, business, Canada, Christy Clark, Conservatives, labour, Tony Clement, unions

Flaherty’s magic surplus

11/13/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Montreal Simon Well in case you thought that the Con regime was nickel and diming veterans, and killing good jobs all over the country, because they absolutely HAVE to slay the deficit. Or as Jimbo Flaherty warned us: We could find ourselves in a big black hole, the economy is fragile, the global risk is huge […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Jim Flaherty, Stephen Harper

Oil sands doc is on key

10/18/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Rod Mickleburgh A guy walks into a bar . . . That’s pretty much how film-maker Charles Wilkinson came to make his seductive documentary, Oil Sands Karaoke, about, of all things, a karaoke contest in the heart of you-know-what country, Fort McMurray. After being distinctly underwhelmed by two earlier forays during the Vancouver International Film […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, film, Fort McMurray, music, oil sands, Vancouver

Calgary’s artists rebuild

07/08/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Mark Leiren-Young As I was driving away from Calgary it started to rain. I was on my “C Canada tour,” promoting my new book in Cochrane, Calgary, and Cranbrook. The Calgary event was a reading at Pages — a funky bookstore in the type of funky neighbourhood that doesn’t exist in the minds-eye view […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books, Leiren-Young Tagged With: Alberta, books, Calgary, disaster, music, theatre

This is exactly the time to talk about climate change

06/24/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) The Prime Minister infamously implored people to not “commit sociology” when Chechen-American thugs blew people up in Boston. The PM’s point was that he didn’t want people analysing the root causes of terrorism, out of supposed respect for the distant victims. With another deadly tragedy playing out in Alberta, there […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Alberta, Calgary, climate change, disaster, environment, global warming, nature, oil, oil sands, weather

Sweet City Steve

06/10/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Some people have complained that the new red, white and blue paint job on the Prime Minister’s airplane makes it look too American. Others have complained that the colours are too much like those of the Conservative Party. However, some of us know that the do-over is really an homage to the […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Alberta, art, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Stephen Harper, western, western Canada

Klein wasn’t called “King Ralph” for nothing

04/01/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Steve Weller I was listening to a call-in radio show on CBC, about the death of former Alberta Premier Ralph Klein. I listened to the glowing reviews until I felt like vomiting, and turned the radio off. You see, I lived in Edmonton through the Ralph Klein years, and I am frankly sickened to […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Calgary, Canada

Idle No More: The overnight YouTube roundup

12/22/2012 by backofthebook.ca

The Idle No More movement approached critical mass yesterday, as tens of thousands of First Nations people and their supporters rallied across Canada, and as far afield as New Mexico and Ukraine. Many of the peaceful protests, featuring round dances and drumming, struck at the very heart of the dominant culture — shopping malls. Others […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, BC, Bill C-45, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, First Nations, Idle No More, Manitoba, native issues, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon

Artists for the rainforest — and reality

12/10/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Art is at the forefront of a raging energy debate in Canada. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline – you know, the one that would travel 1,000 kilometres from Alberta to British Columbia’s coast, delivering oil to be pumped into tankers taller than monuments, destination: Asia — has created a small boom in art-not-just-for-art’s […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Alberta, BC, business, Canada, Enbridge, Enbridge Pipeline, visual arts

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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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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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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...]

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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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