Author: Warren

Place your bets! Comments are open! NDP ahead by three points! Liberals ahead by four points! We don’t have a clue who is ahead, but we’re going to use up 804 words to give you the impression we know, when we actually don’t, not in the slightest! My gut, which I

We wonder: What decision would #LPC and #NDP make now, if they could do the #ISIS decision all over again? #cdnpoli http://t.co/KUiZtl70iw — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 3, 2015

Lisa disagrees with me, but I don’t think I’m going to have the privilege – and that’s what it is, a privilege – of writing a regular column in a big newspaper for much longer. Times, as everyone knows, are tough. And there are far better writers/thinkers than me. I’m

That’s what he was known as, back in university days: Rusty. Many of us were at Carleton, and he went to Queen’s, but we all knew each other through student politics. He was the head of the Ontario Young PCs, and I knew a lot of those guys. They basically

Not because she’s just celebrated two years as Premier, or because she has done a very good job in very difficult circumstances. Not because I was part of her “kitchen cabinet,” back in the day, at the behest of my friends Sheila Ward and Jackie Roach. Not because of Sudbury,

Here’s the thing: I’ve met, and interviewed, real fascists. Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, you name it: I’ve gone face-to-face with most of them. Ernst Zundel, Jim Keegstra, Terry Long, Richard Butler, David Irving, Klan leaders, and on and on. For Web of Hate, and for Unholy Alliances before it, I have

What politicians think about the new anti-terrorism law, in an election year, is almost completely irrelevant. Because, put simply, it is an election year. Stephen Harper and his Conservatives are competitive, again, because their approach to the security file is closely aligned with what the electorate want. Polls taken in

This one: #SuperBowl: the end. pic.twitter.com/QDjNDQXYN8 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 2, 2015 Amusingly, one of my other most-retweeted tweets also related to sports. Needs to be in every rink. #hockey pic.twitter.com/WQO1P2GgB6 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 17, 2013

To suggest that Justin Trudeau has repeatedly broken his promise to have open nominations – in his very first speech as leader, no less – isn’t in any way news. His promise has been broken so many times – here and here and here, inter alia – it is farcical.

What politicians think about the new antiterrorism law, in an election year, is almost irrelevant. What matters is what SCC thinks. #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 1, 2015

That’s what Raymi calls the really nasty ones – vomments. Fits. Got a really nasty one from someone who has apparently been nursing a grievance for 30 years. Thirty years! Tried to write them to respond. But the email was fake, and the email address too. Cowards are as cowards

A light just went on in my tiny cranium. Whichever way things go, the Conservative narrative comes out a winner. Things going great? You can only credit Harper. Things really suck? Only Harper has the experience to get us back on track. It’s evil genius, but genius, no less. Comments

When I told one of the advisers to Justin Trudeau why I supported the International effort against ISIS/ISIL – and when I pointed out that I agreed with right-wing extremist warmongers like Barack Obama, Lloyd Axworthy and Bob Rae – I was told Messrs. Axworthy, Rae et al. were “traitors”

Going on @SunNewsNetwork with @LisaKirbie to say how amazing it is all #cdnpoli campaigns run by brilliant women – Telford, McGrath, Byrne. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 28, 2015

Either way, it’s veering all over the road. The anti-terror legislation isn’t tabled, yet, so no one outside a small circle within the government actually knows what is in it. Even though I – along with Lloyd Axworthy, Bob Rae, Gen. Romeo Dallaire and many other Liberals – support the

I have never played a video game. Never. I just never got the hang of it, or was too busy, or whatever. It looked stupid, frankly. I bought my sons video games, however. I could tell the games were violent, of course, because they all are. But I told them

Parliament is back in session, and so too Question Period. Nobody would dispute that the former is a crucial part of the way in which we govern ourselves.  But the latter? It’s more than irrelevant – it is arguably harmful to our democracy. To suggest such a thing is heretical,

But they’re fun. Here’s CBC’s latest, which you can take with several gargantuan grains of salt.