1) Its not great news for the LPC. Though federal NDP leader Angry Tom is entirely without The Notley Charm, some residual glow from her victory will surely fall upon him. Trudeau’s Liberals now face a reinvigorated party on their left. Although see below.2) Its not great news for the
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: Today, A Curse Was Laid Upon Me…
…by a little old lady in Sunday-Morning-Churchy gear. She was walking towards my bus shaking her fist at the sky. When it slowed to pick her up, she pointed and began hurling imprecations. Naturally, the driver accelerated away quickly. In spite of this, I hope to have a pretty good
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ontario Sex Ed Curriculum As A Federal Issue
When I first read that Team Trudeau was blaming its recent slide in the polls on the new Ontario Sex Education curriculum, I didn’t buy it. But Lo!, here is Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne suggesting that this is indeed the case: “That, by the way, is going to be an
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The New Abacus Poll…
…gives the Tories an 8 point edge nationally. This can be won back, but given the CPC’s $ advantage pre-campaign, I wouldn’t be surprised if it holds up until the writ drops and its worth the LPC returning fire with advertising of their own. And when I say it can
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: HOLY FUCKING SHIT! Rob Ford To Run For CPC Against Bill Blair?
OMG!!! OMG!!!OMG!!! Sooo @towhey says that Doug Ford talked this morning about Rob Ford running against Bill Blair for Scarborough Southwest federal seat— Siobhan Morris (@siomo) April 26, 2015 So the CPC would counter Justin’s marijuana legalization position by running a crack smoker? Hard to imagine. But we can always
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Alta Liberal Leader David Swann: I’ll Just Lay Here And Bleed, Thank You Very Much
If you can’t vote Liberal, vote for someone else? That’s his message? Not: we’re Liberal and we’ve got great, progressive ideas? No! It’s: WE’RE LAME! KICK OUR ASS! PLEASE! BETTER YET: KILL US! WE’RE TIRED OF THE WHOLE FUCKING TAWDRY SPECTACLE!!! And that’s the kind of message that gets your
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Hard Luck Campaign For Minister Penis…I Mean Denis
Just some notes recycled from twitter: @davecournoyer @a_picazo Prentice to self: “I’ll just call an early election. What can possibly go wrong?”— Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) April 25, 2015 And: @a_picazo @davecournoyer This is same guy had to deny he defaced his own signs to read “penis” for “denis”. Rather poor luck
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: New LPC Ad Is Pretty Clever
They’ve bought space during some of tonight’s hockey games, apparently. Probably for just a night or two, and then they’ll hope The Net spreads word a bit further. They’ll get good media coverage out of it. It’s clever and positive and on point. Just one shot in the battle, but
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: NEW NANOS NEGATES NERVOUS NELLY-ISM!!!!
As you may know, Nanos does internal ballot tracking every week. Based on the four week rolling average, the Liberals are at 34 per cent, the Conservatives at 29 per cent, the NDP at 25 per cent, the Greens at eight per cent and the BQ at four per cent.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ostrander Point Wind-Farm Case Goes Back To Tribunal
The decision is here. Put briefly, the case will now get bounced back down to the Ontario ERT, where Ostrander Point Wind Energy will have a chance to convince the tribunal that their proposed remedy, a series of fences and gates that will block public access to the roads around the wind-farm,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Brown Retort
Since Patrick Brown looks set to become PCPO leader, its good to start looking for sources of intel on him now. The Brown Retort has material on the PC MP that I hadn’t heard. From the latest post (a couple of months old now): In a photo submitted to The Brown Retort…a
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Oh Alberta! NDP Way In Front?
Even the pollsters involved don’t quite buy it. And they are using “google surveys” to compile their results, so make of that what you will. As an aside, sure he’s wildrose but I’ve met Derek Fildebrandt once or twice and he seems a decent enough fellow.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: What’s Going On In Alberta (Federally)?
From that EKOS poll: And of course we pros form the base of the Liberal Party. Lawyers, doctors, hit-men (and women!), dentists, Real Estate Agents, private security specialists, Where the local culture is not rich enough to support a large professional class, the LPC does poorly.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Die Media Die: Toronto Sun Rumors
Sun Staff outta 333 King by end of ’15. National Post to become a tabloid: I remember serious rumblings 2-3 years ago that PM management wanted to turn the Post into a tabloid. One of the hurdles, of course, would have been that Canada already has a chain of urban tabs….But
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On Canada’s Role In The War Against The Islamic State
Despite the warrior rhetoric from some of our politicians, Canada is not a robust military power. We do, however, have experience and credibility — although it has been diminished recently — in diplomacy, humanitarian assistance and the resettlement of refugees. There’s about 26 or 27 nations in the anti-ISIS coalition,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Is Ezra Pulling Down His Duffy Interviews?
This fellow thinks he did: @davidakin Why did Ezra delete his 2012 Sun interviews with #Duffy? e.g. http://t.co/69klWXtzp9— Deep Climate (@DeepClimate) April 9, 2015 I was skeptical, so I asked: @Bigcitylib2 @davidakin Neighbouring episodes from 2012/07 are still there http://t.co/tMDbCqX1n8 e.g.http://t.co/fBCr2ILiTk— Deep Climate (@DeepClimate) April 9, 2015 The interview he’s
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant Out 72 Large
…for costs brought about by losing the defamation case brought against him by Khurrum Awan: Meanwhile, some interesting bits of info emerged from the Duffy trial. One is this daily itinerary forFebruary 8, 2010: A meeting for pizza with Ez and the PM’s wife. Also this: Repeated appearances in the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Best Thing I’ve Read On ISIS
It’s run by Saddam’s old gang from the Baath party. The best bit: Rayburn questions whether even some of the foreign volunteers realise the extent to which they are being drawn into Iraq’s morass. Some of the fiercest battles being waged today in Iraq are for control of communities and neighborhoods
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: BCLSB Exclusive: James Lunney’s Principles Of Evolution
CPC MP James Lunney has quit the party so as to more freely pursue and elaborate his own theory of biological change. He spoke in the HOC yesterday afternoon, but was rudely cut off before he could fully state his beliefs. However, an opposition “source” found the full text of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Just A Forum Poll
Takes them until par 8 to finally, grudgingly admit that the LPC is still slightly ahead: The Liberals under Mr. Trudeau were the first or leaning choice for 34 per cent of the survey’s respondents, compared to 31 per cent who said they would or would likely vote Conservative and
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