As anyone who has read my ongoing analysis of Canada’s Group of 7 painters must realize, I don’t know much about art. But I do know my way around uncompromising assholes. Painter Lucian Freud was one, and his death today les…
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Jason Kenney Blows Off Bishops
…says lawyer up if you don’t like law. Also, the CPoC is still officially against section 13. Not that the government plans to act.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: One Last Time To The Barricades!
If the Torys really want to scrap the gun-registry, then lets give ’em one last fight, at least drive their approval numbers done for awhile (which always happens when the gun-registry issue comes up). Because why not? Valhalla awaits…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fraser Institute No Longer Employing Dead To Peer Review FI Reports
After much prodding from the Sixth Estate, the Fraser Institute has kicked the last stiff from their editorial advisory board. Somehow I have the feeling this will have no salutary effect on the quality of their publications.
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Anonymous to release NOTW, Sun emails.Fire…them…all. And jail the rest.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Cadborosaurus, You Have Crushed My Soul!
The long-awaited footage of the Alaskan Cadborosaurus is just a freakin’ wave. Discount the guys in the video. They’re fishermen, after all. I hate you, Caddy! I hate you!Background here. But I can write no m…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Not Helping
From the ARPA website:An old ARPA article from 2009 has been getting a lot of attention in Ontario over the past few days in light of comments about Tim Hudak and whether he is pro-life. In light of that, we checked back through our old emails from two…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Flip…FLOP!
When he was running for the PC leadership in 2009, Hudak told the Association for Reformed Political Action he is pro-life and had signed petitions calling for the defunding of abortions. Hudak said today he “may have” signed a petition in that regard,…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Manufacturing Bullshit
Jean Goodwin teaches English somewhere in Iowa. She’s also written a paper about the “manufacture” of consensus in the IPCC reports on climate change. Its crap, but its a typical variety of crap, and so possibly interesting for that reason….
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Nice Guys
Bernie Farber, running for Liberal MPP up in Thornhill, has a good column in Shalom Life, touting the Ontario Libs accomplisments in health-care.Dennis Gruending, whose excellent blog explores the interconnections between Pulpit and Politics has a…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Media Steps Back From Brink?
Glenn Garnett, Sun Media’s VP of editorial, has agreed to meet with Ontario Press Council reps and “discuss” their decision to pull out of the regulatory body.Funny that Sun Media would make their decision in the midst of the News Of The World Sca…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The State Of Climate Change Denial In Australia
The target is Hans Schellnhuber, advisr to the German government:. My Australian is a bit weak, but a loose translation of the guy in the clip is: “Before you begin, Mr Schellnhuber, I would like to present you a gift … I’d like to present…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Question Of The Day
A question which, incidentally, has no good answer. And, by the way, defunding abortion is not a decades old position, as Hudak staffer Jacob Bloom has suggested (in a tweet he seems to have deep-sixed, so he probably has realized that by now); i…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Not Again
Connie and Ed have launched an appeal of the decision which ended their last appeal, and which ordered them to turn over to Richard Warman documents related to the anonymous posters who allegedly defamed Mr. Warman. The legal fees are piling…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Things Which May Be Connected
Kate’s Butt.Sun Media’s decision to pull out of the Ontario Press Council:The Toronto Sun must be getting too many complaints about its decision to publish that embarrassing Kate Middleton photo. The Sun has apparently removed the picture from it…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sun Old-Timers Respond To Sun Media Decision To Pull Out Of Ontario Press Council
Makes sense. Why would a newspaper chain with ethics that are often questioned by readers volunteer to be challenged by a body that investigates reader complaints?Forget the “political correctness” canard. This decision is economic. I…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Lindsay Blackett Out As Alberta Tory Leadership Candidate
Apparently, his decision was made last month, but done in so low key a fashion that nobody in the MSM noticed. Meanwhile, Mr. Blackett has issued a ringing defense of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, this in advance of using t…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Have You Seen These Trees?
If you have, you’re looking at Gatineau Hills, by Group of Seven painter Frederick J. Varley, which was stolen from the Canadian Fine Arts Store. Please wrestle it from the thief, run away, and call police from a safe place.As to the …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: New Ontario Liberal Ad
I actually like this one. For one thing, it accentuates Tim Hudak’s propensity to dorky expressions. Secondly, the reviews really have been that bad. The ad doesn’t even get to Chris Selley’s assessment of the PCPO fiscal plan: we can…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: NDP Moves To Stiff Ex-Gay Org
Delegates with Canada’s newly-minted official Opposition, the New Democrat Party (NDP), passed a resolution calling on the government to revoke the charitable status of groups that support those seeking to overcome same-sex attraction at their …
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