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G20: Why didn’t police stop the Black Bloc?

06/29/2010 by backofthebook.ca 5 Comments

By Alison@Creekside A photojournalist followed and filmed 75 to 100 Black Bloc for 90 minutes and 24 blocks as they rampaged through the streets of Toronto smashing windows and torching police cars while police looked calmly on from several different locations:   Why was this rampage allowed to happen? Police say they had already infiltrated […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, G20, Ontario, police, Toronto

The G20: were the burning police cars bait cars?

06/28/2010 by backofthebook.ca 7 Comments

By Alison@Creekside Video to left: Protesters amuse themselves playing with the sirens and lights in two police cruisers inexplicably driven into the crowd and then abandoned in the middle of the street. Calling in to dispatch, making airplane noises on the mike for the crowd, and handing out tickets — it’s all rather jovial. Kid […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, G20, Ontario, police, Toronto

Widespread police misbehaviour, illegal activity at G20

06/27/2010 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Frank Moher While mainstream news coverage of the G20 was dominated on Saturday by footage of burning police cars and vandals smashing windows, video of police misbehaviour, breaches of law, and plain old abuse emerged overnight on the internet. I’ve gathered some of it below. For a more complete picture of the G20 than […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, G20, Ontario, police, Toronto

Above the yellow zone: the secretary’s diaries

06/26/2010 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Tara Hughes Our office stretches high above King and University, one block north of the G20 cage. Friday Jun 18th: The Company transfers all staff to the Mississauga office for the week of the G20. They decamp this afternoon, couriering computers amidst grumbling and moaning. As the only part-time employee, I do not go with […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, G20, Ontario, police, Toronto

The G20: A Charter-free zone

06/25/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside The G8 Free Speech Farm — only a short, leisurely eight kilometer hike from the G8 site.. Meanwhile at the G20 downtown, the government of Ontario has designated the sidewalks and public spaces five meters from the security fence a Charter-free zone. How’s your legalese? A guard or peace officer, (a) may require […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, free speech, G20, G8, Ontario, police, Toronto

Goldman Sachs McGuinty

05/12/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Ish Theilheimer at Straight Goods wonders why there has been no public outcry about McGuinty’s decision to hire Goldman Sachs to come up with a privatization blueprint for 49% of Hydro One, Ontario Power Generation, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, and the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. The LCBO, OLG, Hydro One […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canadian politics, Dalton McGuinty, finance, Goldman Sachs, Ontario

Harper and the coalition of sharks

12/02/2008 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By guest blogger Frank Moher One thing of which you can be certain: if you’re a western Canadian prime minister, they will eventually try to get rid of you. They, of course, being the central Canadian political operatives and parties who regard it as their congenital right to run the country. It happened to Diefenbaker, […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2008 election, Alberta, Bloc Quebecois, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, elections, Jack Layton, Liberals, NDP, Ontario, Stephane Dion, Stephen Harper

Why we don’t vote

10/15/2008 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Because of our ridiculous and highly undemocratic first-past-the-post system, the party that most Canadians do not want is forming a government. According to Fair Vote Canada, this stupid, stupid system wasted millions of votes, distorted results, severely punished large blocks of voters, exaggerated regional differences, created an unrepresentative Parliament and contributed to a record low […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2008 election, Alberta, Bloc Quebecois, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, elections, Green Party, Liberals, NDP, Ontario, Quebec

Proportionately better

10/09/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By guest blogger Alison@Creekside Just exactly what is it about the above chart that’s so fucking difficult to understand? The first line is the percentage of votes for each party. The second line is the number of seats awarded them by our current First-Past-the-Post system. The third line is how those votes would have been […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Globe and Mail, Mixed Member Proportional, MMP, Ontario, Ontario election

Iraq in Ontario

09/06/2007 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

There is at least one difference between Americans building up justifications to invade Iraq in order to grab its natural resources and Europeans invading Canada several hundred years ago to harvest the natural resources here. We are significantly more polite about it. Plus, we have decided to forget that we did it. As I write […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: aboriginals, Canada, First Nations, Iraq, Ontario

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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...]

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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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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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