After years of stalling, Ezra Levant, KKKate, and Five Foot have all thrown in the legal towel and issued grovelling apologies to Richard Warman over the infamous Cools Post. No word on costs and etc., but in Ezra’s case they will likely be huge, for he insisted that a ton
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: BCLSB EXCLUSIVE: Taped Secret Convo of Evan Solomon With Art Client
The following is a transcript of secretly taped phone conversation between Ex-CBCer Evan Solomon and one of the high-end art collecting guys he was doing deals with. Gives an exclusive look at the whole “upper-end” art community and the shit they get up to. ES: This one here is
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra’s Calgary Anti-Tims Protest: The Money Shot
24 heads clearly visible; one other soul, maybe, holding up the sign next to “#Boycott Tim’s” sign. Ezra has claimed 50 attendees, but he must be seeing double. Get those glasses checked, Ez! PS: Here’s another shot. I count 23 people in this one:
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: NDP On A Roll
They deserve this result: The EKOS poll: @ThomasMulcair picking up all the marbles as @JustinTrudeau fades http://t.co/g8KcxAgEJo #cdnpoli #NDP pic.twitter.com/2bLoHWFDUE — Chris Markevich (@cmarkevich) June 5, 2015 They’ve done a few smart things, and had some good luck. And of course, they are the only party not getting caught in
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sackings At The Sun today
Or Postmedia, or whatever it is. Details here.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: The Gangs Of Scarborough
When I moved out here my car insurance went up about thirty bucks a month. As one of my co-workers said at the time: “They’re worried someone is going to pop a cap in your ride!” So, in the past couple of days there’s been this, and this. And today
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: The Barflies Of Scarborough
So I was sitting in a “Workin’ Man’s” pub in Scarborough. The old East Indian guy by the window was a regular; he occupied my favorite table the whole time he was there, the only table in the place where you could plug in your netbook. After having Vivian the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Such Issues Are Elections Won And Lost
Canada’s economy shrank between January and March, the first contraction in four years and the largest since the 2009 recession as collapsing energy prices prompted a plunge in business investment. The other stuff is trivia. Although this sparked quite a bit of water-cooler talk yesterday afternoon.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Public Enemy In The Morning
A fine way to start the day. Love the fact they’re using a live band.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: New Poll Suggests Ignoring Hippies On Bill C-51
That’s my takeaway, at least. All the raging away on twitter is merely the caterwaul of elderly scenesters trying to relive that golden time when they flipped the bird at a traffic cop and ran away, freak flags lifted in the wind. Also, Scott says this.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: When You’ve Lost The Prison Guards…
…or at least their union….well. I don’t know what happens. But this surely can’t be good news for the Harper gov.: KITCHENER, ON, May 22, 2015 /CNW Telbec/ – Dozens of correctional officers working in Ontario penitentiaries who are affiliated with the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers (UCCO-SACC-CSN) will be
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Rachel Notley Does A Smart Thing
No real budget until fall. Until after the federal election, Alberta treads water. And the federal NDP takes no heat for any unpopular measures said budget might contain. The politics of it can be criticized. Nevertheless its pretty clever.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Sunday Morning Thought
The Real World also drips. https://t.co/zBAEFSfP47 — Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) May 17, 2015 That is all.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: NDP Governments Are Always Fun!
Gawd! This gal from the new Alberta provincial NDP government is giving me flashbacks to Rae Days. Although I don’t think Bob Rae had a death-metal chick in caucus, just some guy that posed topless. Anyway, six months from now her federal counterpart might be Finance Minister. Who knows? Life
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: PCPO MPP Monte McNaughton In Nazi Leaning Local Newspaper?
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 has apparently always been a bit flaky/racist, but
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: That Poll…
Its just one poll, and a preliminary result as well. But pretty damn interesting. And not entirely surprising given Notley’s victory out West. It will be important to see the regionals. Given my previous analysis I would not be surprised if the NdD national number depends heavily on gains in the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Right Wing Mag Sacks Michael Coren!
His problem? The Interim could no longer countenance the guy’s heterodoxy! So: Boom! Coren’s outta there, and apparently being replaced by some dude who will natter on endlessly about Free Speech for unborn babies. Man, its that heterodoxy gets you every time!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Is CBC Hate Speech Story Bullshit?
WK thinks its bullshit, and he’s mostly right. It would be really, really difficult to use CDN hate-speech laws to go after the BDS movement, for reasons he cites. And there is a long chain of inferences leading from the actual facts as stated in the CBC story to the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Patrick Brown’s Piss Poor Prospects
Kid’s already got issues. A PCPO exodus has already started: I’ve been a member of the Ontario PCs more or less continuously since about 1972 and have voted for them in every general election, and in the odd by-election, since then. But I must admit that the selection to lead
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Has Stats Canada Screwed Up job Numbers?
#ldnont has never had a month where 4000 people left the labour force. This month’s data? 5000 gone. It’s an error. @LFPress @KevinLabonte — Mike Moffatt (@MikePMoffatt) May 8, 2015 Same day we got new warnings about bad data in the census.
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