“Passage of these [lawful access] bills would mean a lot of additional expenditures for new equipment, training and administration for many of our members who do not necessarily have to financial power enjoyed by telecom incumbents…”Progressives te…
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Fox News North DeadPool!
Glen McGregor says that Lilley (By-Line) and The Ez (The Source) aren’t doing bad, …but if you look at the numbers, everyone else is pretty seriously on the bubble. Canada Live is the bodacious but no-talent Ms. Erickson; the Daily Bri…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Google’s Gone Downhill?
So, I use Google, and in particular the Google Toolbar, at least 100 times a day, maybe up to 200 times. I depend on its performance in my professional life, and if its offline then that’s like stealing the Broad-axe from a Viking warrior, o…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fox News North Death Spiral Continues Spiralling Towards Death
..but perhaps a wee bit more slowly.Looks like Theo Caldwell (who?) is out and Michael Coren is in at Sun TV. Once thing about Michael Coren: while I can’t stand his writing, he is a smooth and quite genial talk show host. T…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fox News North In Dutch With CBSC
I’ve never played through the youtube clip of that interview Sun TV’s Krista Erickson did with interpretive dancer Margie Gillis, but I’d already been told that it got the Canadian arts community up in arms. Apparently, more up in arms…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Caledonia Militia Gets New Gig
Gary McHale, Mark Vandermaas, and co. have declared victory in Caledonia. They’ve decided there’s no point in hassling Indians anymore and moved on to greener pastures. More particularly, London Ont., where they’ve been hassling…..
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gov. Radio Ads On The Census
I’ve heard the one they’re running on Q107 a dozen times now. It refers to a “mandatory census form”, but make no distinction between the long and short form. Which means that the gov’s not stupid enough at least to encourage non-…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Nice Little Filibuster, Lets Do It Again Sometime
First off, Stephen Taylor speaks true (or at least trueish, for him):The Liberals were very much absent from the debate. The interim leader and about 2/3 of his caucus were absent from the votes. Mailing it in had a few Liberal partisan friends wonderi…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The 7th Message Gleaned From The Conrad Black Case
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. The whole notion that His Blackness was as guilty as hell comes hard to some people.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Wildrose To Follow Sask. Party On Human Rights?
In a decision that’s already sparking controversy, Wildrose members -including leader Danielle Smith -overwhelmingly voted to disband the Alberta Human Rights Commission, but keep the overarching legislation in place and allow complaints to be dealt wi…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Using U.S. Stock Photos Over CanCon To
…express your solidarity with Ontario workers isn’t the worst thing you could do. But it’s the sign of a shoddy campaign.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Hudak’s Proposed Changes To OHRT Would Drive Up Costs
From Ontario News Watch, human rights lawyer Andrew Pinto:Critics of the system, citing a backlog of 4,000 cases, have said they want the tribunal run more like a court. But the rules of evidence used in courts could require complainants to…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: NDP Filibuster: The Street Has Spoken
Or at least my wife, long-time Liberal, saying: “You know, I’m proud of Jack.” Indeed. Lots of piss and vinegar out of the NDP in the Canada Post showdown. Meanwhile the Liberals come across as a bunch of old white guys that need to sleep, when they’re…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: E&E Distances Itself From Peiser, GWPF And AGW Denialist Movement
E&E = Energy And Environment, the climate change denialists journal of choice. Peiser = Benny Peiser,up until recently co-editer of the journal, but now also working for the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), a…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Spammers Have No Friends
A pretty picture that computer scientists are using to identify spammers. Each dot is a purported IP address that has sent/recieved hotmail messages. Normal folk are likely to be “enmeshed” in the resulting network–with both incoming…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Who Says "The Right" Doesn’t Use Human Rights Tribunals?
Here’s a story from Lifesite about Damian Goddard, whose messages on twitter in defense of “true marriage” allegedly got him fired from Sportsnet, taking the matter to the CHRT. Presumably, he will argue that he was discriminated again…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Senate Reform In A Nutshell
“I think it’s pretty simple, he might not even want this form of Senate reform, but it appeals to his base in the West,” said Prof. [Ned] Franks. “You’ve got to remember the ‘Triple E Senate,’ which is a Canadian brand of tooth paste as f…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Emptiest Of Empty Threats
He’s going to stiff Westerners over their precious Triple-E? Not likely. He’s going to open The Constitution, followed a minute later by every group with complaint (legit or not) demanding that their complaint be dealt with now its open? If Senate Refo…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Conservative MP Deletes Offensive Tweets
Yesterday, Tory MP Bob Zimmer for Prince George-Peace River made a number of really stupid comments re the closure of the Marine Rescue Centre in St. John’s, NFLD., basically joking that shutting down a service that many regard as life-saving was a f…
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