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Sophie chose

06/16/2015 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh One of the early things I did after ending my daily journalism career of 119 years, besides endless Googling of past Montreal Expo games, was take in the Vancouver public hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in September, 2013. The experience was overwhelming. It’s one thing to read about the unspeakable […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: aboriginals, art, Bill Reid, British Columbia, Canada, education, family, First Nations, genocide, Haida Nation, racism, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Vancouver, Victoria, visual arts

Think the Quebec student strikes aren’t about you?

04/10/2015 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside A one minute time lapse of the start, last week, of the student strike against austerity in Montreal: Austerity — that’s when your government impoverishes its citizens by decimating public services like education and health in order to balance its lining of corporate pockets with tax breaks. “Our services are worth more than your profits” is the slogan […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2015 Quebec student strike, austerity, BIll C-51, business, Canada, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Conservatives, corporations, education, health, law, Montreal, Quebec, Temporary Foreign Workers Program

B’s first day

09/03/2014 by the editor

By Frank Manfredi Today, my youngest started a junior disability program at Queen Victoria public school at Dufferin and King streets in downtown Toronto. I met him at the schoolbus drop off point to support him as he starts at a new school, unfamiliar teachers, and new kids to get to know, befriend, be wary […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, education, family, good behavior, Toronto

United we watch

09/02/2014 by the editor

By Rod Mickleburgh My mother hated Labour Day. For her, a high school English teacher, it was not only a day to pay tribute to workers and unions, but a signal that the lazy, hazy days of summer were over, and it was time to go back to work. Every year, the prospect of facing […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, education, film, labour, movies, unions

Harper needs to ask himself: What would Frank Glenfield say?

05/01/2013 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher A lot of Canadian teachers are rightfully angry at the Conservatives these days — none more so than drama teachers. Barely hours after Justin Trudeau was elected leader of the Liberal Party, the Cons unleashed an attack ad deriding his work experience: as a camp counsellor, white water rafting instructor, and most […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: advertising, Canada, Canadian politics, Edmonton, education, Justin Trudeau, Stephen Harper, theatre

A Modest Opinion – The Art of Getting By

09/11/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Nathaniel Moher I’m sure most of you have heard about the madman Lynden Dorval, an Edmonton schoolteacher who thought it was okay to give students a zero on assignments they failed to turn in. Don’t bother checking your eyes, you read that right! These poor students received a zero out of 100 on assignments […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, Edmonton, education, schools, work

Supreme Court copyright ruling is (amazingly) sensible

07/12/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By John Klein (aka Saskboy) Today’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling on copyright and fair dealing contains some not-so-small victories. In fact, there is so much common sense in it that I can’t help but feel the justices have taken leave of their old-people senses! Copyright expert Michael Geist has this summary: “[…] The clear […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: books, Canada, copyright, education, internet, music, online music, open, Supreme Court of Canada, universities

Edmonton prof schools Omar Khadr

06/30/2012 by backofthebook.ca

A BoB short Former child soldier Omar Khadr has been receiving more than a lesson in international politics while jailed at Guantanamo Prison, awaiting his return to Canada. He has also been studying a curriculum devised by 15 Edmonton academics, led by King’s University College English professor Arlette Zinck. Now 25, Khadr receives lessons in […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, Edmonton, education, Guantanamo, law, Omar Khadr, U.S., U.S. military

Teacher fired for showing class grisly video

06/14/2012 by backofthebook.ca

A BoB short: A high school teacher at Montreal’s Cavelier-de LaSalle High School has been fired for showing the video “1 Lunatic, 1 Ice Pick” to his grade 10 history class. The grisly video, which is available online, is believed to show alleged killer Luka Rocco Magnotta butchering Concordia University student Jun Lin. Students report that […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, crime, education, Lin Jun, Luka Rocco Magnotta, Montreal

Bill 13 and the victory of the bullied children

06/07/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Montreal Simon It seems like it took forever. But tonight bullied children in Ontario are finally a little bit safer. And gay kids have the right to call themselves gay, and form Gay-Straight Alliances. No matter what some Catholic School Boards have to say, or what grotesque homophobes like Charles McVety spew out of every […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, education, LGBT, LGBTQ, Ontario, schools

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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...]

Nathan Cullen

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...]

Stephen Colbert on Late Night set

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...]

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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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