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Flanagan, Porter, Brazeau, et al.: The company Steve keeps

03/03/2013 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside Notable how many of Steve’s patronage peeps are grifters, conmen, or alleged perps. Starting from the left . . . Dr. Arthur Porter, “His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, Republic of Sierra Leone,” also Harper-appointed chair of CSIS watchdog SIRC and lead investigator into CSIS’ treatment of Abdelrazik. Money once paid to former Israeli arms trafficker to sell […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Arthur Porter, bad behaviour, Bruce Carson, Canada, Canadian politics, crime, law, Mike Duffy, Nathan Jacobson, Patrick Brazeau, Rahim Jaffer, Stephen Harper, Tom Flanagan

The Plan

07/17/2012 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher As we enjoy, if that’s the word, the second summer of the Harper majority, I’m pleased to say The Plan is working. The Plan, of course, is the one I hatched back when I was working at Alberta Report in the 1980s. AR, some of you will know, was the conservative newsweekly […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Alberta Report, C-30, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, Preston Manning, Reform Party, Stephen Harper, Tom Flanagan, western Canada

Danielle Smith: standing up for bigots’ rights

04/18/2012 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

Editor’s note: Since Montreal Simon posted on Tuesday about about Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith and her defense of candidate/bigot Allan Hunsperger (see below), another runaway pastor has emerged. Ron Leech, Wildrose candidate in the multicultural riding of Calgary-Greenway, cleverly told a radio station that, as a Caucasian, he can “speak to all the community” […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Allan Hunsperger, Canada, Danielle Smith, religion, Ron Leech, Tom Flanagan, Wildrose Party

Stephen Harper, funny guy

04/04/2011 by backofthebook.ca 2 Comments

By Alison@Creekside In every election now, Stephen Harper’s June 1997 speech to a right-wing U.S. think tank in Montreal comes up. You know the one: “Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term” “the NDP is simply the left-wing agenda to basically disintegrate our society” “the PC party were […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Antonia Zerbisias, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Stephen Harper, Tom Flanagan, women

“Everybody does it,” and other reasons to prorogue democracy

01/12/2010 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Top Ten Reasons to Prorogue Democracy . . . so far: ~ Recalibratin’ Economic Action Plan Pt 2 — but not making any changes ~ We got nearly everything we wanted passed anyway ~ Busy busy busy back home on winter barbie circuit ~ Everybody does it, albeit mostly in the 19th century […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Afghanistan, bad behaviour, Canada, Canadian politics, Conservatives, Stephen Harper, Tom Flanagan

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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...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

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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