Author: Warren

So sayeth Peter MacKay: “It was like a morgue,” Justice Minister Peter MacKay told reporters Wednesday morning after the weekly meeting. “Someone said it was like – it’s Albertastan now.” Just a hunch, but I’m betting some folks at Justice are looking at the little blinking light on their phone,

#abvote alliterative why: bogus budget; caca campaign; diverse demographic; economic exigency; lousy leader; debate debacle; change chosen. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 6, 2015

But mainly Justin.  The party of Peter Lougheed in third place: never thought I’d live to see that.  (Oh, and all my Calgary high school teachers who called me a socialist? Suck it.)   

Lousy product, lousy service, lousy prices. I don’t often offer unsolicited advice on businesses you should use, but you should stay away from this one with a ten foot pole. They’re in Whitby and they’re not worth your time or money.

…not that anyone ever listens to me about these things.    

It was Summer, around 4 a.m.: Dr. John Booth, a veterinarian, awoke from his sleep with a start.  A man dressed in black was standing over him, pointing a gun at his head.   “What’s your name?” the man in black yelled. “Who else is in the house?”   Booth’s wife,

Here. This is much needed, and particularly in Toronto’s east end. A group of neo-Nazis and white supremacist have apparently become very active there, and are even making use of the Postal Service to disseminate material that promotes everything from Adolf Hitler to the Heritage Front.  More to come on

Everyone got it wrong in Alberta’s 2012 election – well, almost everyone – so they’re all hedging their bets this time.  CBC numbers guy: Seven polls were published between Thursday and Sunday, and all of them told the same remarkable story. The New Democrats were awarded between 37 per cent and

To all long-suffering staff in the office of the “Ombudsman” Kid Kodak Marin: you can post here anonymously. No one will ever know your name, me included.  Comment, in particular, on the despotic reign of Andre Marin – lots of people at Queen’s Park come on this web site, many times a

1. He never loses.  2. He loves beating guys who (a) don’t tell the truth (b) don’t know when to shut up.    

I don’t believe in heroes, per the song. But if I had one from my Carleton J-school days, it would have been Joe Scanlon. With his blunt assessments, with his dry humour, he drove many of my classmates crazy. But to me – just arrived from Calgary, wearing homemade punk

May 15 at the Garrison in Toronto! Tickets right here. (Kind of a big deal for us old farts, so we’d be honoured if you could come.)    

…is one in which the vultures running American junk bonds determine what Canadians can read. I’ll have plenty more to say/reveal on this in the weeks to come – but suffice to say that Sun News is going to end up in CCAA soon enough, because these Americans don’t give

Seems like just yesterday – the Daisy Group opened its doors on May 1, 2006, on Yorkville.  Our very first visitor, on the very next day? The best Liberal Party leader since Jean Chretien: Stephane Dion. Lots of changes since that day, on which I was simultaneously scared and excited.

Great job, Team JT.   

It’s almost irrelevant. You can’t be accused of “bribing” someone you have already fired.

Just got word: I won’t be back at the Sun papers. They wanted to make a change, and I was one of the changes. I wasn’t surprised, at all. They’ve brought in someone who is close to CEO to be the “Liberal” voice, and I wasn’t very close to the

…although, truth be told, a significant number of them are likely robots, as Tim Powers pointed out in Ottawa on Monday.  But Katy Perry and Justin Bieber better watch out – I’m in their rear-view mirror.

When polled, voters will always say that they dislike attack ads.  Always. But political attack ads are like car crashes on the side of the highway.  Nobody likes those, either, but everyone always slows down to take a look, don’t they?  As reviled as they may be, attack ads are

That said, my greater source of personal concern, outrage and sympathy beyond this particular case is focused neither upon one night’s property damage nor upon the acts, but is focused rather upon the past four-decade period during which an American political elite have shipped middle class and working class jobs