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Omar Khadr: A Child Soldier Comes Home

09/30/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon It has been a seemingly endless nightmare, a horror story not only for Omar Khadr, but also for the country that let him down so shamefully. But at least he is finally home. From cbc.ca: “Omar Khadr has been returned to Canada and is being held at a maximum-security prison in eastern […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Ontario, U.S., U.S. military, Vic Toews

Our sexist religion is better than your sexist religion

09/07/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By David@Sixthestate.net The Gideons have a strange knack for inciting controversy, and they’ve done it again. Ontario pundits are in a tizzy over a new human rights case filed by an atheist couple whose main purpose seems to be to get religious handouts, like Gideon Bibles, banned from schools. Actually, the case is asking whether […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Ontario, religion, Toronto Sun, women

The Plan, Part Deux

07/25/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Previously on The Plan, I explained why, despite the depredations of the current federal government, the Canadian political universe is unfolding as it should — or at least as I hoped it would when I was a young journalist in Alberta in the 1980s. The Harperites are doing what they can to […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Calgary, Canada, Canadian politics, Elizabeth May, Green Party, Liberals, NDP, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, separatism, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair

Bill 13 and the victory of the bullied children

06/07/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

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

Dad arrested for kid’s drawing gets apology

06/06/2012 by backofthebook.ca 3 Comments

A BoB short: Police in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario have apologized to a man they believed to be dangerous after his daughter drew a picture of him shooting a gun at bad guys. In February, Jessie Sansone, 26, was arrested at his four-year-old daughter Nevaeh’s school for possession of a firearm. A teacher believed there might be […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, family, kids, Kitchener-Waterloo, law, Ontario

Bad news bears

06/04/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

A BoB short: It’s been a bad year for bears so far in Canada — and not so great for the humans they encounter, either. A black bear that knocked over a man lounging in his hot tub in Whistler, BC on Sunday has been shot and killed. According to an RCMP press release, the […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: animals, British Columbia, Canada, nature, Ontario

RIM: An ex-insider on what will happen next

06/01/2012 by backofthebook.ca 5 Comments

By Ruth Haworth The Globe & Mail revealed earlier this week that Research in Motion is planning large layoffs in the next couple of weeks, probably more than 2,000 of its 16,500 worldwide workforce. I got out just in time: I resigned from RIM so recently that my last day was this week and I […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Blackberry, Canada, Kingston, mobile phones, Ontario, Research in Motion, smartphones, Waterloo

When will Bill Blair do the right thing?

05/18/2012 by backofthebook.ca 4 Comments

By Frank Moher How is it that Bill Blair is still Toronto’s Chief of Police this morning? How is it that, in the wake of the damning OIPRD report on the “policing” of the G20 summit in 2010, he hasn’t stepped down? How is it he isn’t waking up in his PJs at home this […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bill Blair, Canada, crime, G20, Ontario, police, Toronto, Toronto Police Service

Why Mulcair is winning

05/16/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon OK. So I was wrong. When Christy Clark became the latest Con stooge to denounce Thomas Mulcair,  for simply pointing out that the Dutch Disease is killing our manufacturing sector, I said it could only mean one thing. Big Oil and its Con puppets were scraping the bottom of the barrel. But […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, Christy Clark, Conservatives, Liberals, Mike Duffy, NDP, oil sands, Ontario, Pamela Wallin, Saskatchewan, Stephane Dion, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair

Robocalls: The seven deadly ridings

04/26/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Allison@Creekside As a follow up to my earlier chart showing Steve’s Margin of Victory in ridings with the closest vote margins, I’ve adjusted it to include only the seven being contested in court for voter fraud and added two columns of polling data from an EKOS research paper based on a recent phone survey […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Council of Canadians, Elections Canada, Green Party, Liberals, Manitoba, NDP, Ontario, robocall scandal, Saskatchewan, Stephen Harper, Yukon

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