Author: Warren

I used to be the courts and cops reporter for the Ottawa Citizen. I watched Don Bayne do his thing, up close, many times. When Mike Duffy made the decision to retain Bayne, he made a very smart decision. Here’s just one reason why. In his cross with the Senate

Many, many of you have asked what goes on every Thursday night at the SFH studio sessions. Well, okay, none of you have asked that, ever, but let’s imagine for a moment that a few of you had.  And, equally, let’s imagine that you had said: “O Warren, in those regular

So says one poll, here. So here’s what I say about why that may be so. From my speech to Alberta Liberals, this weekend, and the Hill Times, next week: “[Prentice’s budget] is a barf bag of incoherence. It raises taxes and user fees, and it slashes government services – all at the

This is so frigging awesome. Can you see John Tory doing this, ever? Maybe a Pat Boone Day, but not something like this. Oh, and Lala: give me back the Bikini Kill T-shirt you stole. [SHAMELESS PLUG: you can read more about Riot Grrls in my book Fury’s Hour, helpfully

Growing up, I just wanted to be a reporter. That’s all. I started my own newspaper when I was nine; I worked at them all through elementary school, junior high school, high school, university and the Bar Admission course. I’ve been a reporter at the Ottawa Citizen and the The

Shinan’s dispatch from the front in Tee Dot. Fun writing here. John Tory, a placid, Bloombergian figure who hails from one of Canada’s establishment clans, eventually grabbed the prize, but not without one perennial gum stuck to his shoe—Rob Ford ran for, and hung on to, his former council seat! 

In the long and storied history of Canadian politics, has there been anything – anything at all – as consistently disgusting and repellant and loathsome as the Canadian Senate? Has there been any political institution that has been so deserving of being dragged into the public square, and executed for

Unlike the Ferguson, Missouri cold-blooded murder of Michael Brown, this cold-blooded murder has been entirely caught on video – and it shows a black man, Walter Scott, running from a white cop, Michael Slager.  Who shoots the unarmed Scott in the back multiple times. And kills him. This was murder,

You were the first political party I joined, back in 1980. I did so because you were the only sane political party around. Thirty-five years later, you still are. Wildrose will sell itself for a few trinkets, and think government shouldn’t do anything. The NDP hate Alberta’s main job-creator, and

An election cometh! So cometh to our event!    

Recorded on this day in 1963, a veritable gift from God Herself. Listen, know, and heed The Word: G, C, D.

Since I was a kid – since this day in 1972, in fact, when I started writing a daily journal – I have always taken note of April 4, and said to myself:  “April 4.  Dr. King.” Today, 47 years ago, Martin Luther King was murdered by a racist in

I’ll say. Canadians think we’re in a recession – but the overall trend favours the Conservatives. Canadians don’t like the direction in which the country is going – but the overall trend does not favour the Liberals or their leader. And so on. Peer at this chart. What it says

But, boy oh boy, are some people going to be experiencing serious indigestion in Ottawa this weekend.

Quote: PHILLIPS, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday ordered mandatory water use reductions for the first time in California’s history, saying the state’s four-year drought had reached near-crisis proportions after a winter of record-low snowfalls. Mr. Brown, in an executive order, directed the State Water Resources Control Board to

Among other things, she has personally done more to hasten the – long overdue, long necessary – euthanization of the so-called Red Chamber than any person in recent memory. Among other things, too, her real name is Nancy Jackman. She doesn’t like to be called that, but that’s her real

Has a new LA too! "@davidakin: Newly independent @jameslunneymp expected to speak in #HOC today after #QP” #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/w4y9Axys0j — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 1, 2015

Quote: WINDSOR, Ont. — A black man found a noose on his truck and another near his work station at an auto plant that is being retooled in this southwestern Ontario city. The victim, in his late 40s, was shaken but declined to speak about the incidents, officials said Monday.

In a week and a bit, the trial of Mike Duffy will commence. Official Ottawa will be agog, apoplectic and absorbed—via Twitter, via Facebook, via regular breathless and live televised reports, issued from just outside the battlefield, i.e., the Ontario Court of Justice, at the Ottawa Courthouse on Elgin Street.

I don’t want to make a big deal out of this, but I figured I’d let folks know that  we have gone our separate ways. Have agreed to be friends, etc. All of that. But, after nearly six great years, it’s time to move on. And that’s all I’m going