I suspect my old friend Brad Lavigne is playing a bit of rope-a-dope in this fun Larry Martin column – after all, which strategist worth his/her salt actually announces their strategy in the morning paper, months before the election? – but it’s a compelling read. Will it work? Well, here’s
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Warren Kinsella: If you thought Election 2015 wouldn’t go neg, think again
Likening opponent to an anti-Semite, attacking an opponent's kids, calling citizens "brown people." Quite the start to the week, #cdnpoli. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 10, 2015 A refresher: John Williamson calling new Canadians “brown people.” Justin Trudeau accusing Stephen Harper of Nazi-era anti-Semitism. Someone on Twitter actually calling Lisa
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Ladurantaye thinks my Hill Times mug shot is edgy
What do you think? (Also, free journalist insider lingo: they call it “head furniture.”)
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Abacus: what do you want in a leader?
Mulcair: serious, competent. Harper: serious, experienced. Trudeau: young, modern. Poll here. What do you think will be the ballot question on voting day? What will it be in the Spring? What will it be in the Fall? Be a pundit!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Michael Zehaf-Bibeau in his own words
So much for the notion that he wasn’t a jihadist, I guess. Examples of folks getting it wrong here and here and here.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Dear Tom: ten reasons why Trudeau is right to support C-51
Dear Mr. Mulcair: Your New Democrats, who won’t commit to scrapping C-51 in the unlikely event they ever attain power, are presently attacking the Liberal Party leader for indicating support for the anti-terror law. You and your colleagues are being wilfully obtuse, and shameless hypocrites, too. Here are ten reasons why
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In the Manning Foundation’s C2C Journal: me!
Link here. Story here: In my limited experience, one’s political origins originate with the The Four Ps. That is: the Place where one grows up; one’s Parents, or parental equivalents; the Politics of the era; and some memorable Personal event. The Four Ps explain, for the most part, why most
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Russian leader flashcards
Russian Leader Flashcards: one not dead, one totally dead. Collect ‘em all!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Joe Clark, phone home: you are hereby forgiven for the lost luggage incident
Because mistaking living Russians for dead ones probably trumps what happened to you on your 1979 world tour, big guy.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Max Yalden, RIP
Very sad. A great and brilliant champion of human rights.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Candidate Bill Blair
Apparently the Conservatives and the Liberals are both courting Chief Kettler. I think that’s nuts. How come? Here’s the pro-police Toronto Sun editorial board, no less, calling him “a scrambling man spinning stories. It makes us think he’s hiding something.” Torontoist called his defence of racial profiling “shameful,” and declared that Blair was
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, Bloggers
So, that court decision, here. The decision is basically incoherent. Fair comment is supposed to be comment, not a statement of fact masquerading as comment, as was the case here. John Baglow, a.k.a. Dr. Dawg, was called a vocal “Taliban supporter.” I’m pretty sure it wasn’t qualified with “in my
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Warnos Confusion Index
I’m sure it makes sense to someone, this “basket of political goods” thing, but it sure doesn’t make sense to me. Anyone else? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: When the chain of command breaks down
I thought it was outrageous then, and I think it’s even more outrageous now.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Hill Times’ front page
There I am down at the bottom, below the dead caribou (aren’t we always?). Photo by Lala, column name by Kate Malloy. “The War Room,” by the by, isn’t just the name of this here bestselling book. It will also be the name of a soon-to-be revealed podcast and TV
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Dear Liberals: This is what you owe Justin Trudeau
[This is an update of a previous entry. It’s needed.] Dear Liberals: In the past couple years, whenever Justin Trudeau has made a bad joke or an ill-considered remark – about Ukrainian protestors, about Chinese dictatorships, about the Boston bombings and root causes, about “whipping out” CF-18s, and so on
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Axelrod on losing the narrative
The Globe scored a bit of coup, and got former Barack Obama (and former Dalton McGuinty!) advisor David Axelrod to talk to them over the weekend. He provided some fascinating insights, among them: “We turned him into kind of an announcer for the government rather than a narrator of where
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Free political advice
Don’t (a) plead for a call from a respected former Prime Minister (b) promise to keep it confidential (c) then tweet about the call, while (d) making it sound like he called you first. Thus, sent along by a brilliant Liberal strategist friend, this morning:
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