As you can see, The Sun chain of newspapers (now part of Post Media) have decided to kill off the comments section to most of their stories. But all is not lost! …we will continue to post our stories, columns and editorials on social media, including Twitter and Facebook, and
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Cannibalized From Within: The Fate Of Postmedia?
From The Toronto Sun Family blog: If you want to glimpse the future, consider LaPresse, which will no longer be publishing weekdays. One paper a week on Saturdays – otherwise, it’s all on their tablet app.Expect similar things in PM along with the merging of various products. Several sections of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Leap Manifesto: Naomi Klein, Communism, and The Hollywood Hippys
CBC says: “This is a document that was written collectively,” [author Naomi] Klein said, flanked by national indigenous Anglican bishop Mark MacDonald and environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki. Actor Tantoo Cardinal, author Joseph Boyden and newly crowned Mrs.Universe Ashley Callingbull were also at the press conference. …which is good to
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: A Lost Generation Of Scarborough Youth
Was on the bus today, and listening to a couple of young kids talk about rock music. One of them wore a Motley Crue t-shirt, out of teenage irony. Another one thought Alice Cooper was a girl. These kids are doomed. You can’t get through life with this low degree
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: In The Internet Age You Have To Watch Your Fringe Candidates
Nothing wrong with this piece. Candidate fuck-ups are stories finished in a day. But of course, as Tim Powers notes, you lose that day’s news-cycle. There’s a way to think of it in economic terms; the money you spent that day to get your message out has gone up the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Story Of Gerry Bance
From Canadian Cincinnatus, some background:I attended the Conservative nomination meeting, which was held this spring, in order to support my favoured candidate, Paul Egli, a retired and distinguished businessman. In the contested nomination flight, Egli sold about three hundred memberships and felt pretty good about himself. In contrast, Bance sold
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Another Day Spent Off-Message
Conservative candidate Jerry Bance was caught on CBC-TV’s Marketplace in 2012 urinating in a homeowner’s coffee mug and dumping the contents into the sink. I’m betting the guy gets sacked by dawn and Harper takes no questions during tomorrow’s GTA visit.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Life In Scarborough: Scarborough Monday Nights
Stuck waiting for my wife t’other night, I hung around the Markham/Eglinton bus stop. The parking lot of our local Metro turns into the neighborhood meeting spot after dark. Guys toting Goodlife bags get on and off the bus in steady streams, coming and going from the nearby gym and
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Quote Of The Day
Not about polls or the lousy economy, but newsworthy nevertheless: “…as Christian business owners, our personal beliefs will not allow our conscience the freedom to work with a labour union, as we are required by scripture to ‘live peaceably with all men’ and not to use force to gain what
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: On The Theory Of The "Sleeping Electorate"
From ONW’s Susanna Kelly: Most people take two, perhaps three weeks vacation a year.That means that for all the other summer weeks, they’re back at work, starting the day as usual by listening to newscasts in their car during commutes, spending lots of time on their computers and Internet-rigged up
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Robert Jago Soldiers On
I think Robert and I were the first two bloggers in Canadian history to force a candidate to step down for things they’d said on the Internet. But in ’08 Robert only scored one Green (for anti-Semitic comments, I think); whereas I nailed a Tory, a Dipper, and a Tory
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Coming To An Attack Near You
To got with this. Not a good day for the CPC campaign.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Not A Communist: Tom & Maggie
Actually this doesn’t look bad on him. Equivalent to finding out that Harper once played drums in a Hendrix cover band (he didn’t). Not sure there was any reason for the campaign to even formally address a clip that old unless they figured it worked in their favor. And it
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Union Pearson Express (UPX)
Have no fear, #Toronto. There are plenty of open seats available on my #UPX train to Pearson Airport. #onpoli #topoli pic.twitter.com/Fruam7LjaQ — Mark McQueen (@markrmcqueen) August 18, 2015 $27 per trip. Who knows how many mills to build. This means, officially, that every transit line they’ve built in this
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Leger Poll Puts Tories in 3rd
The NDP has 33 percent of the vote, up one point since last month, while the Conservatives are polling at 27 percent, down five points, the Leger research group said.The Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau, the son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, are polling in second with 28 percent
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Gruending On Rinks
Because I haven’t been writing much lately, yet still like to keep a hand in, here’s Dennis Gruending with a nice piece on subsidizing sports teams: The National Hockey League’s Ottawa Senators want to abandon the club’s 20-year-old arena in the suburb of Kanata and rebuild near the city’s downtown.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: 1st Debate: So How’d They Do?
Justin Trudeau Our guy did good. Articulate. Didn’t stumble (though I missed his closing remarks, which I hear weren’t so great). Scored points in the one-on-ones, got off a few good lines: “And then they were 9. And so shall that number be 9.” and etc. Stephen Harper Played defense all
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Pre-Debate Good News Poll, And That Thing With The Tits
Albeit from a company I’ve never heard of (or not heard much of): @RJMcClelland Never heard of those guys. — Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) August 6, 2015 @Bigcitylib2 They don’t poll very often but have been around for at least a few years — Robert McClelland (@RJMcClelland) August 6, 2015 Might write
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Smart Or Stupid? (Mulcair And The Debates)
Mulcair is threatening to pull out of any debate that Harper ain’t at. Already, a tide of outrage is rising on twitter. Democracy is being defiled!!! and so forth. Mulcair would be wise to ignore it. Catering to that tiny sliver of the nation’s citizenry who are immersed in its
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A Short Note On A Long Election
This has risks for all parties. The risks for the 2nd and 3rd parties are obvious. They might run out of dough. But it also has a downside for the CPC. More is not always better when it comes to bombarding the airwaves with attack ads. Once you’ve reached the
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