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$175,000 to shake hands with the terrorists

05/26/2015 by the editor

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 9/11, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, BIll C-51, Bob Graham, Canada, civil liberties, Conservatives, David Johnston, Governor General, Iraq, Jean Chretien, Saudi Arabia, terrorism, U.S., U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate

International law? We don’t care about no stinking international law.

03/26/2015 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside The Con bench seals laugh and clap at Steve’s joke blowing off the UN and international law because grade six. Harper went on to explain that Canada will be bombing Syria as part of an international coalition, although the US is the only NATO member currently bombing Syria. The other coalition countries bombing […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: bad behaviour, Bahrain, Barack Obama, Canada, Canadian military, Conservatives, international law, ISIS, Jason Kenney, Jordan, Morocco, NDP, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Stephen Harper, Syria, Thomas Mulcair, U.S., U.S. military, UAE, United Nations, Yemen

Leaders of the free world walk into a bar . . .

10/14/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside 4 a.m. A bar. Steve: Just say “I stand with Saudi Arabia” a bunch of times, wait for the press to repeat it, and there ya go. Canada! Fuck Yeah! Comin’ again to save the motherfuckin’ day, yeah … Barry, Tony, Dave: No. No. No. Barry: Look, Steve, I know that “I stand with […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Canada, David Cameron, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Kurdistan, Saudi Arabia, Stephen Harper, Syria, Tony Abbott, Turkey

War: Hey, it worked for Bush

09/29/2014 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside Last week at Goldman Sachs in New York in a Q&A with the WSJ editor, Harper seemed keen to give the impression that the US had taken the initiative and come to Canada cap in hand requesting further military contribution in the fight against ISIS in Iraq: Transcript excerpt : WSJ : “Would you rule […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, Canada, Canadian Alliance, Canadian House of Commons, Canadian military, Canadian Parliament, Department of National Defence, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Rob Nicholson, Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, Syria, U.S., U.S. military, United Nations

A Modest Opinion – Smart move, Republicans

10/18/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Nathaniel Moher All right, truth time, when my editor finally got ahold of me, I was about half-way through a case of Jim Beam. It turns out, just because the American government has decided it doesn’t need to work, doesn’t mean I get to skip work and drink like it’s literally the end of […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Republican Party, U.S., U.S. politics

A Modest Opinion – Celebrating 100 articles of being right 100% of the time

10/01/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Nathaniel Moher Dear loyal readers, I’m sure most of you would like to thank me for all one hundred of the articles I’ve written over the last four years, and so you should. Assuming you just did, I’d like to say, “You’re welcome!” One hundred articles ago, if you had asked me if I’d […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau, PRISM, Queen Elizabeth, Stephen Harper

A Modest Opinion — Syria? More like Syri-ous, am I right, guys?

09/16/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Nathaniel Moher If you’re like me, you’re confused and angered by what’s happening with Syria right now. I mean … we have to learn about another Middle Eastern country that we’re going to attack?! Come on, Obama, I just learned where Iran was, and you guys haven’t even attacked that place yet. One war […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Barack Obama, middle east, Syria, TERRORISTS!!!!!!, U.S., U.S. military, U.S. politics

Al Franken is a big fat criminal

06/12/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Technology and civil liberty experts knew PRISM was a very real possibility. I knew, and wrote about it last August. The National Security Agency (NSA) (star bad guy org. in the Will Smith movie Enemy of the State) has been collecting domestic Americans’ phone and Internet records since at least […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Al Franken, Barack Obama, Bradley Manning, crime, Edward Snowden, George Bush, Glenn Greenwald, government surveillance, internet, National Security Agency, PRISM, privacy, RCMP, U.S., U.S. politics

PRISM is just the beginning

06/10/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By David@Sixthestate.net As you may have heard, the Obama administration has been outed as ambitiously Big Brother-ish, overseeing a National Security Agency surveillance program which essentially scoops user data from every major online source — Facebook, Google, Skype, even Apple — and puts it into the world’s largest personal information database. (This, surprisingly, means Facebook […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, Barack Obama, crime, Facebook, Google, government surveillance, internet, National Security Agency, privacy, Skype, U.S.

A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher’s guide to President Obama’s guide to Fixing the World

02/11/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Nathaniel Moher Over the past few years I have offered up numerous solid ideas to fix the world, and more specifically the United States of America (which, if we’re being honest, probably couldn’t point out the world on a globe). Most of my ideas haven’t been implemented, although they should be, right now, before […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Barack Obama, U.S.

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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

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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...]

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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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