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NationBuilder comes to Canada

02/04/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Ten years ago the Cons bought CIMS, their Constituent Information Management System, and began stuffing it with our phone numbers and adding smiley/frowny faces beside our names and whatever other info they could glean about us. The other parties had their own lesser versions. Most of us first took notice of CIMS when we […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: 2015 federal election, advertising, Canada, Facebook, LinkedIn, Malaysia, Manning Centre, mobile phones, social media, Stella Ambler, twitter, U.S., Venezuela

Coup in Canada? Who’s asking?

01/07/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Ottawa Citizen: Some say PM could justifiably shut down Parliament in crisis: survey A small but growing minority of Canadians says the prime minister would be justified in closing down Parliament and the Supreme Court in the face of ‘very difficult times,’ according to a survey” What a fabulously leading survey question! Who wants […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Canada, Canadian Parliament, Conservatives, Environics, Global Television, Industry Canada, Ottawa Citizen, polling, Postmedia, Supreme Court of Canada, U.S.

War: Hey, it worked for Bush

09/29/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Last week at Goldman Sachs in New York in a Q&A with the WSJ editor, Harper seemed keen to give the impression that the US had taken the initiative and come to Canada cap in hand requesting further military contribution in the fight against ISIS in Iraq: Transcript excerpt : WSJ : “Would you rule […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, Canada, Canadian Alliance, Canadian House of Commons, Canadian military, Canadian Parliament, Department of National Defence, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Rob Nicholson, Stephen Harper, Stockwell Day, Syria, U.S., U.S. military, United Nations

A Modest Opinion – Concrete proof we need more birth control

07/16/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Nathaniel Moher The Supreme Court of the United States, or SCOTUS as they like to be known (not to be mistaken with scrotum, the word I see, and now you’ll see, every time you look at the acronym SCOTUS), recently declared (like an old southern belle) that US employers can refuse to cover birth […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: business, religion, scrotums, U.S.

A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Saving the World, Pt. 8: Space Edition

05/04/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Nathaniel Moher All right, guys, I’ve spent a long time trying to save the world, and let’s be honest, we’ve probably lost that battle. So, in this edition of Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Saving the World, I’m switching my focus from saving the world to saving space. Or, more specifically, the space program . […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: aliens, James Cameron, NASA, space, U.S.

I’m sorry I celebrated Phelps’ death. Oh, wait, no I’m not.

03/21/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon It seems only right that the day Spring finally arrived, was also the day that Fred Phelps finally departed. Fred Phelps — the founding pastor of a Kansas church known for its virulently anti-gay protests at public events, including military funerals — has died, the church said Thursday. And I must admit […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: bad behaviour, bigotry, LGBTQ, religion, U.S.

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 — Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World, Pt. 7

11/03/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Nathaniel Moher To be honest guys, I’m not too sure if my world-fixing services are really needed at the moment. I mean, look at the USA; they successfully fixed their government by themselves – after nearly causing a default and forcing 800,000 employees to stop working (or, as the Republicans put it, “Take a […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Jim Beam, The World, U.S.

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.

A Modest Opinion – Smart move, Republicans

10/18/2013 by backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Nathaniel Moher All right, truth time, when my editor finally got ahold of me, I was about half-way through a case of Jim Beam. It turns out, just because the American government has decided it doesn’t need to work, doesn’t mean I get to skip work and drink like it’s literally the end of […]

Filed Under: Modest Opinion Tagged With: Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Republican Party, U.S., U.S. politics

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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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