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Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “transformational agenda”

06/08/2011 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him ” a success story” like the softwood lumber deal would “shore up” his ability to stay in office without appearing to “sell out to […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canadian, Canadian military, Canadian politics, Conservatives, North American security perimeter, Security and Prosperity Partnership, U.S., WikiLeaks

The census dilemma

05/16/2011 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Do we fill it in nicely to show our solidarity with StatsCan and their important data-gathering, currently under siege by the Cons, or do we fill it in using really big crayons and attached pictures of cluster bomb victims to protest its having been farmed out once again to war profiteer and surveillance/espionage […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Lockheed Martin, Security and Prosperity Partnership, Statistics Canada, U.S., US military

Wikileaked: The “incremental approach” to CanAmerica

05/10/2011 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside I guess everyone has their favorite US Ambassador to Canada. Mine has always been Paul Cellucci, who once suggested building huge aqueducts to carry Canadian water to the US and worried in 2008 that the election of Obama would “imperil the future economic integration of the continent.” Last month WikiLeaks released one of Cellucci’s […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, Canada, Canadian politics, North American Union, Security and Prosperity Partnership, Stephen Harper, U.S., WikiLeaks

Rumours of its death . . .

09/28/2009 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Just three months shy of 2010 — the date by which the Canadian Council of Chief Executives originally projected the goals of the SPP would be completed — some people have been mourning and others celebrating for years already. The SPP is dead  (a short history): Oct. 10, 2007 “The Security and Prosperity […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, economics, Paul Manly, Security and Prosperity Partnership, Stephen Harper, U.S.

Your water is our water

06/15/2009 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Bob alerts us to this CBC headline : Canada, U.S. will renegotiate Great Lakes water treaty “Canada and the United States will renegotiate the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday in Niagara Falls, Ont.“Clinton, who was joined by Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, crossed the border for […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, environment, Security and Prosperity Partnership, U.S., water

BC’s watershed election

04/27/2009 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside “Environmental blah blah” is how retiring NDP MLA Corky Evans describes the privatization of B.C.’s waterways under the guise of addressing climate change. So-called “green” run of river hydro projects, also known as independent power projects or IPPs, divert water into a pipe several kilometres long and then into a turbine before returning […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: alternative energy, British Columbia, Canada, climate change, David Suzuki, elections, environment, global warming, Liberals, NAFTA, NDP, Security and Prosperity Partnership, U.S.

Stephen Harper, conspiracist

04/19/2009 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Once upon a time the NAFTA Superhighway/Trade Corridor was just a conspiracy theory. Then it was a gleam in Manitoba Premier Gary Doer’s eye. From his 2007 Speech from the Throne : “Manitoba is also taking a major role in the development of a Mid-Continent Trade Corridor, connecting our northern Port of Churchill […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Manitoba, NAFTA, Security and Prosperity Partnership, Stephen Harper, U.S.

They stand on guard for we

03/22/2008 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

We are so obsessed with the lunatic antics of George Bush that we forget to monitor the more boring yet equally dangerous (at least, to us) actions of our own government. Last month, on Valentines Day, the Canadian and US militaries signed an agreement allowing the armed forces from one nation to support the armed […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, NAFTA, Security and Prosperity Partnership, Stephen Harper, U.S., U.S. military

Harper’s one-man band

03/18/2008 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

by guest blogger Alison@Creekside Gomery says Canada is on the road to “one-man government.”Ya think?! From Buckdog : Parliament isn’t working due to Liberals sitting on their hands From Hill Times : Legislation isn’t passing due to Cons filibustering committees. Con candidates and MPs are muzzled, government-employed scientists must get statements about their work vetted […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Liberals, Security and Prosperity Partnership, Stephen Harper

Plumping for the SPP

02/18/2008 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By guest blogger Alison@Creekside After it became clear that the main result of the Security and Prosperity Partnership meet-up in Montebello was to alert Canadians to the fact that their country’s sovereignty was in deep shit, deep integration’s best friends were unanimous in their tough love advice to the ailing SPP’s enablers. Tom d’Aquino of […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Conservatives, economics, NAFTA, National Post, Security and Prosperity Partnership, Stephen Harper, U.S.

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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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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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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...]

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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