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Mind your guru, Minister Freeland

02/05/2016 by the editor

By Alison@Creekside The best part of International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland signing the U.S. corporate rights agreement TPP — the Trans-Pacific Partnership — in Aukland, NZ on Wednesday was that it was done here in this gambling casino, and a casino is where the house always wins. In her 2012 book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Chrystia Freeland, corporations, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Japan, Liberals, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, trade, Trans Pacific Partnership, U.S., United States, Vietnam

Curiously convenient: Canada’s me-too bomb plot decoded

04/29/2013 by backofthebook.ca

Last week, U.S. talk show host Jack Blood offered a dissection of a recent New York Times article about the arrest of two Canadian residents charged with plotting to attack a VIA Rail train. While we haven’t been able to source everything he has to say (we’ve done our best), Mr. Blood is smarter and […]

Filed Under: Curiously Convenient: Canada's me-too bomb plot decoded, Features Tagged With: Al Qaeda, Boston Marathon bombing, Canada, Canadian politics, CIA, crime, FBI, Iran, law, Mexico, North American security perimeter, North American Union, Osama Bin Laden, police, radio, RCMP, terrorism, Toronto, U.S.

The security perimeter: It’s Aliiiiiive!

12/13/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Well, it’s back. The “one security perimeter” deep integration SPP/FTAA zombie, now with new and improved emphasis on security. You’re shocked, I’m sure. Like it ever really died. The re-animators just learned not to dig it up and parade it around in parliament too often. “Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for Perimeter […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, Canada, Canadian politics, Mexico, Security, Stephen Harper, U.S., U.S. politics

Lessons not learned: deep water drilling post-Ixtoc

06/15/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Eric Pettifor On more than one occasion watching American news coverage of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, I’ve heard it referred to as the greatest disaster of its kind in US history. One might think it is the worst in world history. One would be wrong. Reuters has published a piece by Robert Campbell providing […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: business, environment, Gulf oil spill, Mexico, U.S.

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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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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...]

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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...]

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...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

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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