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Buddy’s back and the Kids never really left

02/21/2014 by the editor 3 Comments

By TJ Dawe “The Colbert Report”‘s decision to send Scott Thompson’s Buddy Cole character to Sochi to cover the Winter Olympics was perfect, not only because it’s been great to have Buddy back — on Wednesday night he almost got arrested while “protesting” that he couldn’t get a drink — but because it reminds us […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, Canadian television, comedy, Kids in the Hall, Olympics, Scott Thompson, Sochi, Sochi Olympics, television

A Modest Opinion – The true Olympians

02/20/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Nathaniel Moher The Olympics are well underway. Olympians are doing Olympic things, getting bronze, silver, and gold medals (that they will be able to melt down and trade once the economy collapses thanks to you freeloading poors! Sorry, I’m still on about that — but seriously, you guys grind my gears!). And sure, it’s […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Olympics, Sochi, sports

Sochi: On the one hand, Brian Burke. On the other, Dick Pound.

02/05/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Dave Brindle This story has moved like an intercontinental ballistic missile. Target: Russia’s law that began the persecution, imprisonment, vicious violence against, and murder by thugs of LGBTQ people in Russia. The international gay community retaliated by putting its finger to the button and it is not going to back down. The bomb, however, is […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Brian Burke, Canada, civil rights, Dick Pound, hockey, International Olympic Committee, LGBTQ, Olympics, Russia, Sochi Olympics, sports, U.S., Vladimir Putin

G20: The morons who came in from the cold

11/28/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside The JIG is up.  An RCMP “joint intelligence group” —  comprised of federal, provincial and municipal police — infiltrated activist groups prior to the G20 and Vancouver Olympics in what they call “one of the largest domestic intelligence operations in Canadian history.” Constable Bindo Showan of the Ontario Provincial Police, one of the two principal undercover Ontario spies, is a […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, G20, Olympics, Ontario, OPP, police, RCMP, Toronto, Vancouver

The Vancouver riot: thugs are not anarchists

06/20/2011 by backofthebook.ca 5 Comments

By Frank Moher Memo to Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu: idiots and anarchists are two different things. I know being a political scientist isn’t a prerequisite for becoming a cop, not even the top cop, but playing the “anarchist” card last week, as you did in defending your force’s handling of the Stanley Cup riot, […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, hockey, Olympics, police, sports, Stanley Cup, Vancouver, Vancouver Canucks

Vancouver celebrates for real

05/18/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Bev Schellenberg A year-or-so after the Winter Olympics torch got snuffed out, community spirit is back in Vancouver, thanks to the Canucks. Where the many official attempts to reignite our sporting fervor failed, a simple hockey playoff series has done the trick. Greater Vancouver has decided it will party when it wants to, not […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, CTV, hockey, Olympics, sports, Vancouver

India’s Commonwealth Games: Let the kvetching begin

09/22/2010 by backofthebook.ca 3 Comments

By Frank Moher Hello India. Canada here. Just chiming in to say, in a spirit of Empire solidarity: Ignore the critics of your upcoming Commonwealth Games. The keeners who arrive early will always find something to gripe about. We speak from experience. In the days before our Winter Olympics, all sorts of rude people, who […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, India, Olympics, sports, Vancouver

At the Paralympics, patriotism kicks in

03/16/2010 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Bev Schellenberg Already the patriotic glow has started to fade for some, but not for the 60,000 people who filed into BC Place Stadium for the Paralympic Opening Ceremonies. My 12-year old daughter, disappointed at our not being able to afford the $175 minimum price tag per person for the Opening and Closing Olympic […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Canada, Olympics, Paralympics, sports, Vancouver

Mittens, love gloves and other Olympics memories

03/03/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Bev Schellenberg The Olympics are over, but the memorabilia is here to stay. Vanoc reported that, by midway through the 2010 Games, it had already reached its $50 million sales goal, double the amount that merchandising brought in through the entire 2006 Winter Olympics.  Three million cute red Olympic mittens alone were sold by […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Canada, Olympics, sports, Vancouver

8.8. And that’s not an Olympics score

02/28/2010 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Jodi A. Shaw For the last week, Canadians have been shaking with excitement over Canada’s triumphs in the Olympics in Vancouver. And over the past few days, I’ve found it difficult to have a conversation with anyone that doesn’t involve talking about hockey. Today at the grocery store a complete stranger cornered me in […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, Chile, Olympics

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