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A choice between emotion and reason

11/16/2015 by the editor

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 […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 9/11, Canada, Canadian military, Canadian politics, Conservatives, France, ISIS, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Liberals, middle east, NATO, Paris, Rona Ambrose, Saudi Arabia, Stephen Harper, Syria, terrorism, U.S. military

Debating Libya

06/14/2011 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside “He simply will not last very long,” Harper said of Muammar Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most of the country, including the capital. Today Parliament will debate Steve’s resolution to support […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canadian military, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Iraq, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO, oil, Stephen Harper, U.S. politics

The missing Olympic boycott

02/22/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside Thirty years ago in 1980, Canada joined the U.S. in a 64-country boycott of the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. On Feb. 15, under cover of wall-to-wall Olympics news, Canada joined 15,000 coalition troops in Obama’s assault on the town of Marjah in Helmand province, the biggest offensive since […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, Canadian military, NATO, Olympics. Vancouver, women

The occupation of Afghanistan: “Useless.”

09/22/2009 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside “A bit useless” is how 23-year-old Private Jonathan Couturier, the 131st Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan, described the Afghan “mission” that took his life. If we are to have standing armies, the very least we can do, the absolute minimum responsibility we have to them, is not send them off to die […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 9/11, Afghanistan, Canada, Canadian military, NATO, U.S., U.S. military

Ass-raping for freedom and prosperity

08/08/2009 by backofthebook.ca

By Alison@Creekside When Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan complained about young boys being kidnapped and sodomized by Afghan soldiers and interpreters inside Canadian Forward Operating Base Wilson in Kandahar, they were informed by their superiors to look the other way because it was a “cultural difference.” One reported incident of “cultural difference” left a young boy […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Canada, Canadian military, human rights, NATO, torture, U.S., US military

International man of muckups

01/19/2008 by backofthebook.ca

The thing about Trudeau was that we were never ashamed of the guy on the international stage. Sure, he flipped us the bird in Western Canada. Sure he performed a pirouette behind the Queen of England, but that was a big moment for us. He was a pugnacious prick most of the time and built […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, NATO, Stephane Dion

Afghanistan: Oh well then

12/04/2007 by backofthebook.ca

By guest blogger Alison@CreeksideA few days ago a NATO air strike killed 14 Afghans sleeping in tents beside the road they were building in Afghanistan. Afghan officials said they were road workers at a construction site and NATO claimed they were Taliban at a training camp. Their employer, an Afghan-Korean construction company, said that all […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Canada, NATO

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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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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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