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From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

06/29/2016 by the editor Leave a Comment

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="324"] From ‘The Red Tree’ by Shaun Tan[/caption] Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, the important part is this: every card in the heart suit is worth points, and (just like golf) players want to avoid those points. I played a lot of Hearts as a […]

Filed Under: From "Our Rape Blog": Shooting the Moon Tagged With: crime, Jian Ghomeshi, law, men, police, rape, RCMP, sexual assault, violence, women

Rehtaeh: A father’s questions

09/23/2014 by the editor 2 Comments

By Glen Canning This morning I sat in a Halifax courtroom and listened as one of the young men involved with my daughter’s case changed his plea to guilty. He is guilty of producing child pornography. He is the person who clicked the button on that cellphone, and as simply as that, he ended her […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: child porn, children, family, Halifax, law, Nova Scotia, police, pornography, RCMP, Rheateah Parsons, schools

Vancouver’s dark flaw

09/23/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Jim Henshaw I spent a couple of days in Vancouver this week and on a sunny day, it’s probably the most beautiful city in the world. It ain’t half bad looking on a rainy day either. And as the locals say, “Wait twenty minutes” and you can observe it either way. It’s hard not […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: books, British Columbia, cities, crime, drugs, police, poverty, urban life, Vancouver

Growth op

05/29/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

A BoB Short Despite new laws regulating the production of medical marijuana, including limiting grow ops to industrial areas, some jurisdictions remain unmoved in their opposition to the burgeoning industry. After six companies in Sudbury, Ontario applied for commercial licences to grow medical marijuana within the city, local police chief Paul Pedersen got a little, […]

Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Canada, crime, drugs, law, medicine, Nanaimo, police, Sudbury

RCMP SWAT the Elsipogtog

10/19/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside What was the point of this exactly? Sending in snipers in camo with dogs to crawl through the grass towards a group of unarmed people blockading a road because they fear the wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary of a Houston, Texas exploration company is setting up to frack their land. Oddly enough, Canadian law supports the […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, business, Canada, economy, First Nations, fracking, law, New Brunswick, police, RCMP, U.N., U.S.

Curiously convenient: Canada’s me-too bomb plot decoded

04/29/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Last week, U.S. talk show host Jack Blood offered a dissection of a recent New York Times article about the arrest of two Canadian residents charged with plotting to attack a VIA Rail train. While we haven’t been able to source everything he has to say (we’ve done our best), Mr. Blood is smarter and […]

Filed Under: Curiously Convenient: Canada's me-too bomb plot decoded, Features Tagged With: Al Qaeda, Boston Marathon bombing, Canada, Canadian politics, CIA, crime, FBI, Iran, law, Mexico, North American security perimeter, North American Union, Osama Bin Laden, police, radio, RCMP, terrorism, Toronto, U.S.

Changing the channel on Justin

04/23/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside On Thursday, three days after the Boston Marathon bombings, the Cons still had an opposition day scheduled for Monday — a day on which the opposition parties set the day’s agenda. But then on Friday, an hour after learning that Justin Trudeau would spend it introducing his “Backbenchers’ Spring” motion, Government House Leader […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Boston Marathon bombing, Canada, Canadian politics, Candice Bergen, Conservatives, Francis Scarpaleggia, G20, G8, Justin Trudeau, law, Liberals, NDP, Peter Van Loan, police, S-7, Stephen Harper, terrorism, U.S., Vic Toews

Amanda Todd’s avengers: not Anonymous enough

10/18/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Frank Moher As much as one would like to see some sort of justice for Amanda Todd, the 15-year old BC girl who took her life last week after years of cyber-bullying, what’s gone down on the internet in the last few days is truly disturbing. On Monday, someone purporting to be part of […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Amanda Todd, Anonymous, British Columbia, Canada, internet, police, RCMP

Twitter tale: Civil liberties at the Grand Prix

06/10/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

Wearing a red square was enough to get you turned away from the site of the Montreal Grand Prix on Sunday, and perhaps forced back into a nearby Metro station. Police also conducted random searches on subway platforms, and some riders were not even allowed to exit the trains. One who managed to do so […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Montreal, Montreal Police Service, police, Quebec, Quebec protests, Quebec student strike

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

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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...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

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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