Author: Warren

This report is consistent with this analysis. Both are highly disturbing, and both suggest that we are at the beginning of a very long struggle. I won’t even bother to add that restricting ourselves to a humanitarian role is foolhardy, because sensible folks know that already.

Ce jour, en 1980, Pierre Trudeau a gagné un gouvernement majoritaire, ayant annoncé sa retraite que quelques semaines auparavant. #CDNpoli — Daisy Group (@DaisyGrp) February 18, 2015

Here’s what the bright Mr. Grenier says on CBC’s web site this morning. But what do you guys think? Last week, Lala and me had a long-overdue dinner with two of the smartest political folks I know. We decided to wager on the outcome of the 2015 election, region by

Ronald Zajac, right here. Read.

Just sayin’. You can (should) read the whole piece. But these bits I found interesting: If anything, Adams’s inclusion on the Trudeau team has more to do with a dogged Liberal quest for deterrence on the field of dirty tricks than with making inroads in voting intentions. And: Conservative spin

Finally, someone says what I’ve been labouring to say about pornography for years. Full link is below the quote: BOSTON—“Fifty Shades of Grey,” the book and the movie, is a celebration of the sadism that dominates nearly every aspect of American culture and lies at the core of pornography and

A: If you’re a criminal defence lawyer, you dance a jig, and then skip down to court to secure a mistrial, that’s what! Not sure it's a good idea for a Justice Minister to call the accused "murderous misfits" before trial.#cdnpoli http://t.co/2zsN4a2AmN — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 14, 2015

So says no less than Pope Francis, in response to ISIS’ barbaric killing of 27 Egyptian Christians: “The Pope departed from the script of an address on Monday to emphasise the unity of all Christians regardless of the sect they follow. “Their only words were: ‘Jesus, help me!’ They were

When we were home in Calgary, during the NEP, someone burned the flag we had up on the roof. “What should we do?” I asked my Dad, as we stood looking at what was left. “Get another flag,” my Dad. “And we keep getting them until they stop.” Not going

…what’s remarkable isn’t the subject matter, or the fact that it used B-roll of people who left the network almost four years ago, or that I wore a sweater Lala detests, in public, on TV. No what’s remarkable is this marks the first-time appearance of Canada’s Best-loved Political Dog, Roxy™,

I was on Twitter, past midnight, reading some of the things people were saying about the network’s demise. There was a lot of gloating and awful stuff being said. I slept for four hours, then got up to watch the network disappear. They showed a promo for Pat Bolland’s show,

Political people are all the same. Whenever they get into big trouble – whatever their party, whatever their ideology – they go through Five Stages of Political Denial, sort of like Kubler-Ross’ Five Stages of Grief. First, they pretend there isn’t a problem. Thus, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau announced Monday

It’s true. There are some good people there, and I feel very bad for them. They worked hard. They were good to me, too, over the past four years. My views were almost always at odds with theirs, but they kept asking me back anyway. Not sure what is happening

That’s what they called it, in the Watergate days: ratf**king.  No less an authority than Wikipedia defines it as “an American slang term for political sabotage or dirty tricks.”  Donald Segretti, forged letters, false accusations, nasty leaks, that sort of thing: ratf**king. Which brings us, in a circuitous fashion, to

Look, I’m no fan of what Justin Trudeau did this week.  Most real Liberals aren’t, either. As I will opine in a column on Friday, he should have: Welcomed Eve Adams to the party; Said she was going to sit as an independent; Said she would be welcome to run for

Navdeep Bains, former Liberal MP and Justin Trudeau advisor: “[Adams] will be subject to [the] same rules as anyone else in terms of a green-light vetting process and the nomination process. The same rules will apply to her, for sure.” Gerald Butts, Justin Trudeau advisor: Dimitri Soudas’ “role with LPC is

I don’t know what’s worse: accomplishing nothing that is notable in your life – or accomplishing something when you are young, and never again repeating it. Such were my reflections, yesterday, when I got word through my agent that a big U.S. TV series wants to buy the rights to two

Worth a read, though I’m biased. Right here.

BREAKING: Announcing my plan to cross office floor to chat with members of #NDP & #CPC. I will then return to my desk. Thank you. #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 10, 2015