OTTAWA — One of the federal NDP’s former rising stars has decided she wants to run for the provincial Liberals in Ontario.Good luck to her. And it shows that Wynne’s OLP is still attracting talent, so good news for them too whether she wins t…
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Federal NDPer Defects To OLP
Good luck to her. And it shows that Wynne’s OLP is still attracting talent, so good news for them too whether she wins that nomination or not.
And, yes, she is still hot.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Brief Note On Kale: Is It Even Food?
I tried some Kale “chips” today at Longos. They were awful, as though somebody had cut up a black garbage bag, battered and then deep-fried it. Like spinach, in other words, but with spinach’s one or two nice flavor notes removed and drops …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Brief Note On Kale: Is It Even Food?
I tried some Kale “chips” today at Longos. They were awful, as though somebody had cut up a black garbage bag, battered and then deep-fried it. Like spinach, in other words, but with spinach’s one or two nice flavor notes removed and drops …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezzrata: When Ezra Levant Was Young And Suey
Someone has posted a trove of legal documents from Ezra Levant’s past, related to a libel case he brought against the University of Calgary student newspaper, back in the day. Human rights lawyer Richard Warman has posted some commentary re this …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezzrata: When Ezra Levant Was Young And Sue-y
Someone has posted a trove of legal documents from Ezra Levant’s past, related to a libel case he brought against the University of Calgary student newspaper, back in the day. Human rights lawyer Richard Warman has posted some commentary re this case on his website. Here I’m just copping my favorite bits:
BigCityLib Strikes Back: On Marie Heinen: A Brief Note
If one person came out the whole Ghomeshi mess unsoiled it was Marie Heinen. Now stupid journalists are asking her if she thinks she’s betrayed the sisterhood and other such nonsense. She shouldn’t have to answer. It isn’t her fa…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Marie Heinen: A Brief Note
If one person came out the whole Ghomeshi mess unsoiled it was Marie Heinen. Now stupid journalists are asking her if she thinks she’s betrayed the sisterhood and other such nonsense. She shouldn’t have to answer. It isn’t her fa…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Sunday Mornings: A Brief Note
Whoever stuck those “play me pianos” in local community centers, where they can be plinked away at by small children with 0 in the way of musical talent at 7 AM on a Sunday, should be clubbed to death with a goalie stick. And the children should …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On Sunday Mornings: A Brief Note
Whoever stuck those “play me pianos” in local community centers, where they can be plinked away at by small children with 0 in the way of musical talent at 7 AM on a Sunday, should be clubbed to death with a goalie stick. And the children should …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant’s Hearing Before Alberta Law Society Has Been…
…postponed while they consider his application to resign. Sounds like he wants to swing a trade; he’ll quit if he exits with a clean slate. In the end, though, he won’t be able to say he’s a lawyer anymore, and he won’t be able to ma…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On That Motion Condemning The BDS Movement
…supported by the CPC and most of the LPC (some dissented, and some more didn’t show for the vote); opposed by the NDP; and therefore ultimately adopted…It’s a stupid thing. Anti-free speech, maybe. Anti-Democracy, Anti-Capitalist, I’d even a…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Josh Gelernter, Science-y Type Guy
He writes, bitching about The Left, Science, The Earth Centered Universe, Climate Change, and all that:People tend to think that proponents of an Earth-centered solar system were nothing but intransigent religious fanatics. In fact, they included scien…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Exclusive: Slowly Dying Media Continues To Slowly DIe!
From Toronto Sun Family blog:Layoffs over at 333 King today. 3 advertising coordinators, and I’m sure there will be more to come before the big move to the National Post building.PS. The new NP “building” isn’t really so much a building as a tent…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Ezra Levant, The Alberta NDP, And Journosplaining
I guess I should say something about this. Alberta’s NDP government decided they weren’t willing to put up with any more disruptions out of kooks from The Rebel (the online HQ of Ezra Levant’s personal death cult), and kicked them out of one of t…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Breakfast At Longos
This morning their store on 7 near Woodbine had a wonderful sample spread. The highlight was surely their pulled pork floating on delicious smoked Oka cheese set atop Nachos. Runner up was a yummy smooth avocado spread, also on Nachos. &nbs…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Energy East, Once Again
DeSmog Blog has a guest post on the Energy East pipeline. I am a huge fan of DeSmog, but I think this post is wrong-headed and ultimately counterproductive. Because it is, at bottom, an a priori rejection of the project before it even …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: Goodbye, Old Car!
So I finally pulled the plug on my ’97 Cavalier yesterday afternoon. I feel OK about it. I’d put a new engine in last February and hoped this would squeeze a few more years out of the thing. But it was like sewing a shiny fresh metal…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Give Alberta Energy East
Sure they’re loud-mouthed cowboys. Sure their cities are crap-holes where the streets all go one-way… to nowhere. Sure their hockey teams have done fuck all for the nation over the last couple of decades. Sure they boast about all t…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Charlie Hebdo: Martyrs For Crap, Part Duh
Disgusting cartoon in Charlie Hebdo (“what would’ve become of Aylan had he grown up? A groper”) via @faizaz pic.twitter.com/iB4myFb1ke— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) January 13, 2016Part 1 here.
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