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Harper’s G20 follies

11/17/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon OMG. I see Stephen Harper has stolen the spotlight at the G20 summit, by going dictator to dictator, with Vladimir Putin. Stephen Harper told Russian President Vladimir Putin flatly that he needs “to get out of Ukraine,” when the two met at a Group of 20 summit of major economies in Brisbane. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Australia, Canada, climate change, G20, Russia, Stephen Harper, Tony Abbott, Vladimir Putin

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

A Modest Opinion – Russia to America: Spy on this!

08/05/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Nathaniel Moher As most of you are now aware (unless of course, you don’t have the internet, in which case, you have nothing to worry about anyway), the United States government is spying on anyone who happens to use a cell phone, or the web (which means, I sure hope that the Amish aren’t […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Edward Snowden, government surveillance, National Security Agency, Russia, U.S.

Pavel Bure: Love at first shot

11/14/2012 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Mark Leiren-Young When Pavel Bure sat down in the stands beside me, my brain vanished as if he’d snapped it away with his lightning fast wrist shot. This was training camp, 1992, just after he won the Calder Cup for Rookie of the Year, becoming the first Canuck ever to win an NHL Award. […]

Filed Under: Culture, Leiren-Young Tagged With: Canada, hockey, NHL, Russia, sports, Vancouver, Vancouver Canucks

Airshow Mackay and the Red Barons

08/02/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Frankly I don’t think we can be expected to write a whole new blogpost every time Flying Ace “Airshow MacKay” and his trusty sidekick Woodstock Kory climb up on top of the Con doghouse to fight off the Red Baron yet again in the Arctic, so this time we’re just going with what […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian military, Canadian politics, Kory Teneycke, Liberals, Michael Ignatieff, Peter MacKay, Russia

Let’s not be naive about the Arctic

08/28/2008 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Stephen Harper is right to speak sternly about Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic despite the fact that no other country has recognized our claim to it. Even in Canada, people say retarded things like “let the Russians have it so that the Americans can’t”. I am gobsmacked by such naivete. As much as the Americans […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Arctic, Canada, Russia, U.S.

Politics and energy make history

08/10/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

Canadians have such high hopes for the rest of the world. We are bright eyed and naive. Some of us propose that perhaps if we are very hardworking and ethical, and make symbolic gestures of disapproval, that terrorists will stop butchering people in Afghanistan, or shooting women who dare to learn to read. And the […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, Arctic, Canada, Putin, Russia

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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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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [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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Triumph of the drama nerds

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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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

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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