Author: Warren

Campaigns matter, of course, per the cliché. Bien sur. But the picture that is emerging from the last few weeks of polling is distorted. Am I wrong? Am I right? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? #LPC numbers artificially inflated by Atlantic. #NDP numbers artificially inflated by Quebec. #CPC? Pretty competitive everywhere. #cdnpoIi

…on money or the ethnic vote. But, God knows, you can’t stop people who should know better from peddling dangerous fantasies. 

…would have been happy about this day. When he was dying, in fact. He told us to “sue those tobacco companies.” And someone did.  In a ruling described as “historic” by one lawyer, a Quebec judge has ordered three major cigarette companies to pay $15 billion to smokers in what

The Post: Such teenagerish behaviour is not particularly unusual for the veteran watchdog. Indeed, Marin has gotten in a number of public spats on Twitter, which occasionally end with him “blocking” his critics. He once wrongly identified a police officer he believed to be the source of of antagonistic social

“WK-if your goal is to drive His Highness crazy, you are doing a good job. OO office update: Surveillance seriously being increased. They are trying to find out who leaked his email but they have nothing but intimidation tactics. There were 3 leaks of the email that I know of

He’s a nice guy, but I don’t think his departure matters too much.  Things hadn’t been going particularly well for some time – see here and here and here and here. There’s plenty more, but I think everyone gets the point: this guy was never going to have the political

Aren’t we handsome? Left to right: Steve Deceive, Winkie Nuclear Age Smith, Bjorn von Flapjack III. Missing: Davey Snot.

Quote: So watch out for door to door fraud by this despicable hate group. Danforth Music Festival and Beaches Blues Festival are owned by Leroy St. Germaine, the same waste of skin who owns and publishes Your Ward News. If they come to your door asking for money, you might

And there is a reward for his safe return! (Well, actually, there isn’t. There’s a reward if he doesn’t return. Ever.)   

if you reappoint this guy, you need help.  Signed, Ontario   

The multiple instances of defamation notwithstanding – and my lawyer tells me we can, and should, sue and that we’d win – what I found most astonishing, here, is that Andre Marin has disclosed confidential information about a complaint I made to his office many years ago, and he has

But God help you if you actually say that out loud. I mean, Olivia Chow may pretend that she doesn’t know you! “David Hulchanski, a professor of housing and community development at the University of Toronto, has spent years documenting how Toronto evolved from a mixed-income city to an increasingly

Fittingly, it took a small-town radio station to ask The Question. It came on Dave Glover’s drive-time show on CFWN in Northumberland. “What,” I was asked, “do you think about Postmedia’s purchase of the Sun Media newspaper chain?” “Thank you for asking that question,” I told Glover and his co-host.

By Elise Hategan, who knows what she is talking about: “…And then comes this – news that a hateful, xenophobic rag called Your Ward News, put together by a network of nutcases and old Heritage Front members, one of whom none other than Gary Schipper himself (under the alias of

Hoo boy do I ever have a bit of news on Canada’s most ridiculous Ombudsman!

Here’s what Senior Statesman Ed Broadbent says: The polling done by the Broadbent Institute shows Canadians support those ideas. “Time after time, we find on almost every issue, a majority of Canadians are social democrats,” he says. “On tax policy, on (the) Canada Pension (Plan), a whole range of issues

When someone says something "changed everything," you know something didn't. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 26, 2015

The good news for Liberals: they have a way to make fun of that new CPC ad. The bad news for Liberals: that old Manitoba campaign ad worked – my very good friend Hugh (sadly) lost.

The former ignores Trudeau, the other is mainly about him.  One tries to be positive, the other is less preoccupied with all that.  Both, however, strongly suggest the election campaign is underway. First, Team Orange:   It’s not bad, but it isn’t particularly great, either. You forget about it a