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Robocalls and Republicons

03/14/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside The Cons’ somewhat belated talking points about their use of the US voter contact firm Front Porch Strategies in the last election have been all about only using them for townhalls : U.S. phone firm was just for town halls, say MPs  “Jim Ross [Front Porch’s Canadian liaison and Con MP Rick Dykstra’s […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Dean Del Mastro, Elections Canada, Ontario, Rick Dykstra, robocall scandal, U.S., U.S. politics

Harper’s implausible deniability

02/24/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside In writing about the Cons’ dirty tricks robocall election fraud, John Ibbitson muses whether the Cons might just bear some “measure of responsibility” for creating a political climate in which their “rogue” campaign managers impersonate Election Canada officials on Election Day in order to send voters off to the wrong or non-existing polling […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2011 election, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Ontario, robocall scandal, Stephen Harper

So what if RIM failed? Would that be all bad?

12/07/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Mark Evans As an enthusiastic supporter of Canada’s high-tech community, I’m hoping RIM can somehow find a way to revive its flagging fortunes. But the terrible debut of the PlayBook, the modest reception to the BlackBerry 9900, and October’s global network outage has not only put RIM on its heels but caused some industry […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Blackberry, business, Canada, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, RIM, startups

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

Three simple words that can save a life

09/12/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon About ten years ago I saw a young couple throw themselves in front of a subway train at the McGill metro station in downtown Montreal. It was all over in a flash. All I saw was two people on the opposite platform suddenly rush forward, and then the body of one of […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, health, LGBT, LGBTQ, native issues, Ontario

Jack Layton’s bequest to the West

08/22/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher As God’s cruel jokes go, this one’s a doozy. Jack Layton, having built the NDP into the Official Opposition and created a sense of hope for the resurgence of a genuine left in Canada, one that would keep the right from running roughshod over the poor, the middle-class, and those who see […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Jack Layton, NDP, Ontario, Reform Party

The Star and The Mark: open for shilling

08/15/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Shannon Rupp The Toronto Star just announced that you can’t trust a thing you read on their website — although that’s not quite the way they phrased it. Canada’s largest daily has joined forces with TheMarkNews.com, one of those free blogger sites, to acquire a small army of unpaid “community correspondents” to cover Ontario’s […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Canada, newspapers, online media, Ontario, The Mark, Toronto Star

Help yourself to a cupcake, St. Joseph’s

07/09/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Jodi A. Shaw Mayor Rob Ford may have been conspicuously absent from Toronto’s Pride Parade last weekend, but 16-year old Leanne Iskander more than made up for it as parade co-Grand Marshal (along with Michael Bach of Pride at Work Canada). Iskander made headlines in March when she was prohibited from forming a Gay-Straight […]

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

Bill Blair’s G20 alibi

06/27/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside An interview with Andre Marin, Ontario Ombudsman and author of the G20 report “Caught in the Act,” sheds a little light on the blackout surrounding who was responsible for ordering kettling at the G20 a year ago. Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, as we have previously heard, had not heard of the term kettling […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bill Blair, Canada, G20, law, NDP, Ontario, Toronto, Toronto Police Service

SIU tries, tries again to identify G20 cop thug

05/31/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside Oversight – noun 1) the action of overseeing something 2) an omission, the failure to do something Dorian Barton was taking a picture of police horses in the park at the G20 summit in downtown Toronto last summer when he was suddenly knocked to the ground from behind with a riot shield, beaten with a […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Bill Blair, British Columbia, Canada, G20, Ontario, RCMP, Robert Dziekanski, Toronto, Toronto Police Service

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