Was inside the Jian Hing market at Markham and Lawrence on Family Day, looking for Filipino Pork Rinds. They have about 40 different varieties at Jian Hing. I’m not kidding, there’s a whole aisle devoted to nothing but. Filipino Pork Rinds are basically deep-fried pig-skin; you can get them either “fat
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Flying Today
Horrible behavior but it wouldn’t have happened 50 yrs ago because everyone would have had enough leg room. I flew Air Canada Rouge (@AirCanadaRouge) in 2018 and it was like being crew on a WWI submarine. Something has to change.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Toronto The Unready
WTF happened? Did the dispatcher pass out just before the storm hit? Did the plow-guy bust a leg trying to smuggle a hooker into the barracks through a back window? Or did they stop at VP and say Fuck it its Scarborough lets turn around and plow The Bridle Path
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Dr. Jordan Peterson: The True And Real Story
He’s a con artist. He’s got a book, he’s got a speaking tour, and when’s he’s not flogging the book he’s flogging his daughter’s all meat diet to get his army of fan-boys Manly for the next battle in the Culture Wars. Real intellectuals don’t do that kind of thing. Yes
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Stephen Miller and Glue Eating
There has been much ridicule directed at Trump adviser Stephen Miller for an alleged childhood habit of drying glue on his arm, and then eating it . Obviously, I disagree with the guy’s politics but many people don’t realize that glue is just full of glucose (sugar), and therefore mildly sweet in
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Doug Ford Shits The Bed
And its not just the nation as a whole that thinks he’s a right douche-bag. It’s here in Ontario: In Ontario Doug Ford is 24% positive – 51% negative (-27). Once a star, Doug Ford is now a case. It happens to all leaders, but as it ever happened as
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Corbella Column Pulled
This morning The Calgary Herald published a column by Licia Corbella, entitled “Family of jailed Saudi blogger angry over Trudeau”. In it Corbella criticized government’s twitter diplomacy efforts in the Raif Badawi case, directly quoting members of the man’s family. As you will note by clicking through the link above,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: Gulls Before A Storm
So the wife and I spent our evening on the balcony of our condo unit drinking a bottle of wine. We noticed a flock of gulls in the air, surfing the turbulence in advance of a line of storm clouds. These were the same gulls that usually inhabit the roof
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ontario Election Leadership Debate Analysis
I didn’t watch it. I was eating wings in my favorite wings place watching a hockey game. But I was checking my twitter feed occasionally, and this is what I gleaned from it. 1) Kathleen Wynne’s opening pitch speech was good. Something about yeah you hate me but you like
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Canada On Pipelines
” B.C. does not have the power to veto a pipeline, but the poll suggests a majority of Canadians feel the provinces should have the ability to stop a pipeline project if they don’t like it.” From the CBC poll — Frank Graves (@VoiceOfFranky) April 13, 2018
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Doug Ford Shouldn’t Let Andrew Lawton Run For PCPO Nomination in London
Andrew Lawton is running for the Ontario PC party’s nomination in London West. Doug Ford should not let him. For many reasons, but this one is my favorite. Back in 2010 Andrew and some buddies wanted to bring alt-right notable Mark Steyn to London (Ontario). First to the University of Western
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Caroline Mulroney: Off To A Grand Start!
Caroline Mulroney defined energy poverty at #MNC2018 as only an elitist can. “People are living in energy poverty, people have to choose between buying hockey equipment or going out to dinner with their families”https://t.co/AF582tnkGo#PCPO #PCPOLdr pic.twitter.com/RSMtT9dUSm — JohnToryWatch (@JohnToryWatch) February 10, 2018 Serious, though, this is the kind of thing
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra And The Law: A Small Victory?
Ezra Levant’s twitter feed from back in the fall of 2017: Ezra’s twitter feed today, after I sent a series of emails to the Alberta Law Society and then the Law Society of Ontario arguing that, since the guy is no longer a lawyer, he shouldn’t be allowed to go around
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: The Bus Drivers of Scarborough
The lady bus driver on the bus today was wearing a nose-ring. And the TTC let her drive the bus like that. She was a white chick so it couldn’t be a religious accommodation thing. But people will get on her bus and see her nose-ring and think fuck why
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Jason Kenney’s Alberta Victory: An Analysis
The knock against Jason Kenney is he is almost 50 and still unmarried. Is he hiding an “artistic streak”? PS. Just try to jam that pipeline down BC’s throat, tar-miner. There will be hell to pay.That is all.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fire Bill Morneau
He’s a fuck-up, a total 5 alarm fuck-up, fucking up a simple slam-dunk “tax fairness” issue like this. Bye bye idiot-stick! Kick his ass so far, Justin, that it doesn’t land until 2018. That is all.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Not A Good Thing
The short version: at this year’s stampede Calgary Blood & Honour Member (“Leader”?) Kyle McKee got close enough to PM Justin Trudeau to have him autograph what turned out to be a Nazi flag. The long version can be found here. It was the Neo-Nazi idea of a harmless jest, I
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: Paul Bernardo’s Old Neighborhood
Famed serial killer Paul Bernardo graduated high-school from Sir Wilfred Laurier Collegiate, down in The Guild. Apparently they’ve left the picture of his graduating class (him included) on the wall there. I was down in The Guild today and heard a story I didn’t know: that every year the picture
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Barbara Kulazska, Lawyer To The Canadian Far Right, Has Died. Memorial Event Tomorrow
The news can be found here. As you can see at the site, a “memorial event” is to be held tomorrow at the Richview Library in Etobicoke. Tributes will be given by such CDN Neo Nazi-types as Marc Lemire and Paul Fromm. Who knows who else will show up. If
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: The Building Confronts Kitec Plumbing Problem
So the condo corp held a big meeting the other night. They rented a room at the local community center. They’d already sent around a letter so everyone knew what it was about; the building has Kitec plumbing. You can look it up but the stuff was manufactured between 1995
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