Ezra argues: There are tens of thousands of inactive lawyers like me in Canada. They include politicians like Peter MacKay and Thomas Mulcair. Sometimes these politician-lawyers are polite. Sometimes they aren’t. Two years ago, my fellow member of the Law Society of Alberta, an opposition politician named Rachel Notley, compared
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Meets The Truth, Lies To Its Face
Ezra’s back in Dutch with the Alberta Law Society for an alleged breach of their professional standards. He writes in his own defense: To my knowledge the decision to prosecute me is unprecedented. …I’m not even a practicing lawyer. I’m a journalist who happens to be trained in the law. Well,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Golden Age Of Rock & Roll
The world should have ended the next morning. There was really nothing left to say, rock & roll wise.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: It Begins…(The Death Of Rebel Media)
@TheRebelTV @ezralevant @MarissaSemkiw First rat to leave the sinking ship. — Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) July 19, 2015
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: The Great Scarborough Storm Of July, 2015–An Eye Witness Account!!
I was sitting in my favorite workin’ man’s pub in The Scar when it hit! Sideways rain, hail, patio umbrellas falling over! The works! Total fuckin’ Apocalypse! Later, making my way South down Markham road through the wreckage, I saw this! This isn’t the tree that fell at Lawrence and
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Ward News Update
I wrote about this back in May. I said: So there’s an T.O. East End Newspaper called Your Ward News. From what I gather its mostly a direct mail affair; the publisher, a guy named Leroy St. Germaine, has Canada Post deliver it to folks down in Ward 31 (The Beaches). It
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Does Mother Canada Monument Run Afoul Of Aboriginal Title?
A stub of a story here: A report by a Mi’kmaq scholar denounces the controversial Mother Canada statue.The statue is part of a war memorial proposed for a national part in Cape Breton, N.S.Critics say the statue will pave over a pristine part of the Cape Breton Highlands.The Mi’kmaq say
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Countdown To Her Grovelling Apology
Its’ your time, CPC MP Wai Young. 5…4…3…2…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Toronto’s Pan-Am Games: First Impressions
Was hanging around downtown today, and I will say that South American women really really know how to stuff a tight t-shirt. That is all.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Mother Canada Monument In Perspective
I think this graphic (which looks much better when you click on it) makes puts the whole “Mother Canada” statue debate in its proper perspective. Chris Selley is right!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Funny How Things Go: Reflections On Fallen Heroes
No word of a lie, two of my biggest child-hood heroes were Bill Cosby and Woody Allen. In grade four my teacher played an LP of Cosby’s stand-up routine on the last day before summer break because he had nothing more to teach us and it kept us quiet. That’s
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Thar She Blows? Greece Seems To Be Voting No
If Greece says no, then expect negative growth in Canada for the remainder of 2015. If Greece says yes, expect zero to negative growth in Canada for the remainder of 2015. If either Greece says no or Greece says yes, and Chinese stocks continue to tumble, expect negative to really
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: QuAIA At Pride?
They said they that this year they were going to throw in the leather trunks and the feather tickler, as it were. But old Meir says they’re there today: @JohnTory @TorontoPFLAG @PrideToronto You made a promise that if the antisemitic gang QAIA marched that you would not support Pride Parade
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: You’re Not Helping, Kory Teneycke
From Global, earlier today: He’s got to be someone’s useless cousin, right? “Please, sir, if he can’t get a job with the party he’ll either end up in jail or in real estate.” Right? Here’s the full Kory file on BCLSB, for kicks. And my favorite bit from it.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Titus Andronicus Is Back
This one should be a mega hit:And this one, combined with one above, makes me think there might be a bit of drug-type influence on the album. Still pretty good, though. But Patrick Stickles is the best candidate for boy genius out there these days. Stay well , kid. The world
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Short Musical Quiz: Chimp Vs. Sumerian Zither
A Midi recording of the oldest known musical composition (from 1400 BC), which originally would have been played on some kind of dorky harp instrument:The first known drum solo by a chimp:Which do you like better? So far I’m leaning chimp. He reminds me a bit of Mickey Waller, who
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Fourniers Will Fight On!!!
Update (21 June 2015) – Connie Fournier and Mark Fournier, the only remaining defendants in this action have rejected an offer to settle of $1 in damages plus $2,500 costs each that I would donate to charity (outlined below). I suggest people remember this next time they ask for $.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Media Should Be Talking About This
It was in Frank, apparently the one day last month when I was not on the Internet. It’s seedy, a sex scandal, although everything between the two parties appears to have been consensual. And the Minister is a “nice guy”, and anyway it turns out he’s leaving politics. For the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: You Are Not Above The Law, Tom Mulcair
The NDP should pay its bills just like anyone else. Until they form government, and then we all ride free until the banks kill the party. But seriously. Complying with Law would show folks that the New Democrats knows how to pay off debts like responsible people, rather than just
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