“The fluoridation of drinking water could be eliminated, with impacts on dental health,” says the multi-million $ KPMG that report Rob Ford ordered up to help him cut T.O. services.Actually, I’ve been told that a few city councillor’s ha…
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Venues Cancel On Lord Monckton
No longer a big draw in the U.K, Climate Change Denier Chris Monckton (3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) has spend the last couple of summers touring the former colonies. This summer, he’s back in Australia. But there’s a wee pr…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: How Minister For The Environment Peter Kent Got Hacked: He Clicked On The Ass!
An explanation of the Peter Kent Facebook hack:Actually, that’s thanks to a well-known weakness in the FB apps API. It ends up allowing people to post a link to an external website, and then have that link automatically share that link on the person’s …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Peter Kent’s Facebook Page Hacked!
…link posted to porn site:At least I am assuming it was hacked. But not by me, I would hasten to add.Source.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: I Want One
…because one of these:
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Pop Genius Alert: tUnE-yArDsl
A bit like a Latin inflected MIA, but MIA raps while even on this live recording you can tell Merrill Garbus has a kick-ass set of pipes. If she doesn’t become a huge star, then there is no justice.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Alas!
Canadian Jews lose their sanest, most progressive voice:Effective July 1st, the Canadian Jewish Congress is discontinuing its activities. Canadian Jewish advocacy will be handled by the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA). In the nea…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Royals In Calgary: Notes On Body Language
Note the male royalty guy (Charles? Wally?) in both pics. His pose in the .jpg below is saying: Surely you jest? The one below can be interpreted as: No… fucking…way!The princess chick looks like she’s basically closed her eyes and…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Canada Possesses One Of The World’s Tallest Midgets!
Same difference. On, and don’t talk to the Aussies’s about small armies.Meanwhile, Kelly McParland says we should be proud of our failure.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Census Info Already Degraded
Stats Can will take any piece of crap you’re willing to send them:OTTAWA – Census officials are settling for incomplete long questionnaires in the final push of the 2011 collection period.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: For Those Keeping Track
From David Gollob, Director of Communications, Canadian Human Rights Commission: The Commission did not accept any complaints under section 13 in 2010.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tory Anti-Tobacco Law Proves Useless
I wrote surprisingly alot about Bill C-32, which banned the sale of flavoured tobacco products targeted at children. Cigarillos, basically. It turns out to be a fairly meaningless stab at populism:Bill C-32 requires that cigarillos less than 1.4 …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Canadian Hindu Advocacy = 2 Skinny Hindi
…Naresh Patel and Ron Banerjee, so their promise to erect “massive pickets” outside Valley Park Middle School, which brings in an Imam for Friday prayer services , can safely be met with wild gales of laughter. As for whether the…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fox News North Update! Lieberman Replaces Caldwell
Sun News Network weekend anchor Caryn Lieberman will be the new host of a weekday program called Right Now.The show, which will air weekdays from 1 p.m.-3 p.m. EST, will focus on, quite literally, what’s happening right now.The evening slot that previo…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Scientists Swapping Data: Climate Scientists About As Open As Other Scientists!
This paper is based on a survey of scientists from various disciplines in regards to their hopes/dreams/fears/bitches whines/complaints re data sharing in their particular discipline. Having read it through, I don’t see anything too shoc…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Die Media Die: Theo Caldwell’s Internet Presence Is Threatened
Since Fox News North sacked him, he’s on the verge of being deemed not notable Someone please help:Or, on the other hand, if nobody bothered to improve, source, or rename the page, it would disappear as though it never had been, which might repli…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Did Dykes Doom Pride Parade?
Actually, this will be interesting. Technically, they’ve dodged the city’s dictates, as they are not QuAIA. h/t to Shaidle’s hubby.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Pro-Palestine Dykes March At Pride!
…and there’s councillor George Mammaliti who, as promised, has come to photograph the dykes in their anti-Israel perfidy. Don’t think his services are needed, with City TV around, but an A for effort.Apparently, Meir Weinstein and the JDL are s…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fraser Institute Editorial Advisory Board Largely Dead
I have noticed this in a previously with other right-wing think tanks, but as the gentleman at The 6th Estate has noted on several occasions, several people on the The Fraser Institute editorial advisory board have long passed…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Your Daily Nazi: News For Jews!
1) The Dykes and Trans People for Palestine aren’t the Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, but they do plan to march during Pride week, and they will … be using the term “Israeli Apartheid” in our signs, banners, and messaging.But they’re not…
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