…start with the auctioning of : “Emergency Measures” (Sono Nis, 1976). “‘Emergency Measures’ establishes John Baglow as one of the few North American poets with vision, intelligence, wit, linguistic equipment and technical competence to command serious reading and response anywhere on Earth. In any language.” ~J. Michael Yates A rare
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: KerMotherFuckin’Flooey!
Danielle Smith, up in flames. Gals, we only keep rulin’ cause you keep believing our lies. And by the way Jim Prentice does us old white guys proud. He looks blank, he moves slow, but in reality he’s slick as snot.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Fear Mongering A Bust For CPC
Or at if its moved the dial at all in the latest Abacus poll its been in the wrong direction; the LPC is a wee bit ahead in this one. I’m not entirely surprised. People might agree with the government re the Niqab, but still see through their rhetoric and
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: You’re Not Helping
I am conflicted re Bill C51. Michael Geist is a pretty smart guy; the information sharing provisions do seem overly broad. But since the Snowden revelations never impressed me (its all meta-stuff about spies spying), I sometimes find myself wondering if at least some of the complaints over C51 are
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Lawrence Solomon, Anti-Vaxxer: Part Bazillion
Enter Lawrence Solomon. You remember Lawrence Solomon, don’t you? He’s what I referred to last summer as a rising star in the antivaccine movement. A conservative columnist for the Financial Post, when first we met him he was complaining about a “conservative failure of skepticism” on vaccines because, apparently, conservatives
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Help Out With Dr. Dawg’s Legal Bill
Richard Warman has launched an Indiegogo campaign to help pay some of the legal expenses Dr. Dawg incurred during his legal battle with the Fourniers and others at FreeDominion. You can find out more about it here. They’ve collecting about $400 in a couple of hours. And I too will
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tommorow’s Tory Bozo Eruption?
Radio show host Bill Murdoch worries #Niqab wearing #terrorists might sneak into citizenship ceremonies. Lead. @cbcasithappens— carol off (@caroloffcbc) March 17, 2015 Sure he’s retired. And when you do that the mind immediately starts to go. And he was always a bit nuts; this is the guy that wanted to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: My CBSC Complaint Against Sun TV Fades Quietly Away
Curses! I inquired today, thinking maybe there was still a chance to give Ezra one last kick in the ass as he was going out the door. But apparently the CBSC has no authority over broadcasters after they go TU; they have to let my complaint slide. Ah well. I’ve
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The National Post Should Fire That Anti-Vaxxer Prick
National Post columnist Lawrence Solomen is now running an anti-vaxxer website. You can see it here. This is from the “About us” section: VaccineFactCheck, headed by Lawrence Solomon, is a project of Consumer Policy Institute. The “Consumer Policy Institute” is also just more Solomon, another part of his “Energy Probe”
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Mike Godwin (of Godwin’s Law) Give’s Trudeau Speech Thumbs Up!
He didn’t like Blaney’s response quite so much. Read that bit here.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Trudeau’s Speech: The Reaction In The Jewish Community
CIJA offers some mild approbation, and repeats a Kenney talking point from here. B’nai Brith is mildly perturbed.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: O Glorious Justin!: Trudeau’s Speech
“It is a cruel joke to claim that you are liberating people from oppression by dictating in law what they can and cannot choose to wear”— Paul Wells (@InklessPW) March 10, 2015 I didn’t hear it live, but all accounts say its old-timey Liberalism. So people will yell about it.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Richard Warman Vs. David Icke: Warman Wins Again
From Richard’s website: DAVID ICKE SETTLES LIBEL ACTION5 March 2015British conspiracy writer David Icke and co-defendants have paid Canadian human rights lawyer Richard Warman $210,000 CDN (117,000 GBP) in damages and legal costs to settle a libel action against them.In 1999-2000, Warman had worked with various Jewish and anti-racism groups
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Book On Pope Francis
Dennis Gruending judges. The result: Pope F is pretty good when it comes to gays, the poor, and the Climate (very good there, actually, IMHO). Not so good when it comes to wymen. Also hasn’t done much to roust out the Church Pedos. But better than the last guy, who
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Anti-Turbine Families Can Suck It Up
There’s no way you are going to initiate a legal action without having been told what the costs might be if you lose. And if your case is a constitutional challenge based on a “novel reading of the law”, you have almost certainly been told in addition that the chances
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Harper Gives Exclusive Interview To CostCo Magazine, Gets Bumped From Cover By Sarah Style
What’s more hilarious? @pmharper giving an “exclusive” interview to @costcocanada, or that it’s not the cover story? pic.twitter.com/79nYDyKWpv— Elias Makos (@eliasmakos) February 26, 2015 And they say Justin lacks gravitas.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Note On New Poll From Ipsos Reid
BOOYAH! BOOYAH! BOOYAH!! VICTORY OR VALHALLA!!!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: IPCC Chair Rajendra K Pachauri Steps Down
The right thing to do, whatever the truth of the sexual harassment charges against him. And in this case it was starting to look like there might have been some fire under all that smoke.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Very Little Separates The Parties On Bill C-51
A twitter argument I had with NDP MP for Newton – North Delta Jinny Sims: She retreated then, knowing perhaps that her ass had been kicked. But the bottom line is that before the bill’s inevitable passage the NDP will do a little dance like this, and the LPC will do
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: Mormons In The Storm
Waiting for a bus that had got stuck behind a line of plows this afternoon, way out in Scarborough, I ran into a couple of Mormons who were using the occasion to proselytize at the TTC stop. “Have you ever had a chance to read The Book of Mormon?” one
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