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Facts, and other dispensable truths

03/19/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher So, this one should have been easy. At a star chamber-style military trial, the Pentagon releases the transcript of testimony by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, purported Al-Qaeda mastermind, in which he admits to a laundry list of atrocities and would-be atrocities. Not only was he responsible for the 9/11 attacks, it says, but […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 9/11, 9/11 conspiracy theories, 9/11 Truth, CBC, Globe and Mail, journalism, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Linden McIntyre, National Post, U.S.

Babies and non-smokers first

01/21/2007 by backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

Marnie Ko One week ago, I sat in a packed walk-in medical centre with my child, waiting restlessly to see a doctor on a Sunday. I had hoped the clinic would be faster than the nearest hospital, and while our visit was urgent and could not wait until a weekday, it was not a life […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Canada, health, health care, medicine, U.S.

Peace, 10 minutes at a time

01/07/2007 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

There is a way through the mess in Iraq. But it will require patience and impulse control, something that — like my kids — Americans currently seem to lack. It will require talking to people who dislike each other intensely. Americans have been able to do this in the past: Nixon opened China and Reagan […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian politics, Iraq, middle east, U.S.

Publish the damn book

11/21/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher Rupert Murdoch has spoken, and now O.J.’s book and TV interview are gone. The Juice has been squeezed out. And everywhere, of course, newly-minted moralists proclaim that The Right Thing Has Been Done. Not since Mel Gibson’s drunk driving arrest has so much fatuity been heard in one 24 hour period. Of […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: bad behaviour, books, O.J. Simpson, publishing, Rupert Murdoch, television, U.S.

How the new media elected the Democrats

11/09/2006 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Frank Moher The real winners of the American election are the new electronic media who, through relentless pounding of a sort only they can do, impressed upon voters just what a mess their country had become. I’m talking about online magazines like Salon, which, unlike many a journalistic johnny-come-lately, knew that the Iraq war […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, new media, online magazines, online media, online video, Salon, Stephen Colbert, U.S., U.S. election, youtube

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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...]

Trudeau on quantum computing

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...]

Rick Meyers in Nanaimo Pride Parade

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...]

Stephen Colbert on Late Night set

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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