Just saw this. Happening in Northumberland – Cobourg, Brighton, all around there – right now, this week. This is outrageous. Eight hundred kids! Where is the Opposition, where is the other media? This kind of move is insanity – and in an election year, no less. I plan to dig
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Warren Kinsella: Left-Right political dichotomies
Well-written, but based entirely on a false premise. The only people who believe that Left-Right political analysis matters anymore are journalists and politicos. To your average person – to Joe and Jane Frontporch – life just isn’t that cut and dried. A person can favour slashing government spending, but not
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In today’s Hill Times (and tomorrow’s Sun): Mark Adler, the face of Parliamentary irrelevance
Makes you wish we had Ken Dryden again, doesn’t it? Mark Adler, that is. The Conservative York Centre MP was notable only for one thing, before this week. He was the guy who beat Dryden, the respected lawyer, the bestselling author and the former NHL star. That was his
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: I tried to think of something warm. This is what I came up with.
I don’t know about you, but the next person who says to me (a) “Is it cold enough for ya?” and/or (b) “This is a real Canadian winter!” is going to have a three-foot-long icicle driven through their tiny black heart. By me. Sick to death with Winter 2014 as
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: A Raymi the Minx original
Unbeknownst to many, I suspect, she is a very good painter. I purchased the painting below from her some years ago. I have yet to receive it. This is become a bone of contention between Canada’s most read-blogger and me. Periodically, I demand that my painting be liberated from its
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Sunday’s Sun: when you call someone one of the worst things you can call them
Of all the serious accusations that can be made, calling someone an anti-Semite is among the most serious. What is it? The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington – where I have taken ashen-faced school kids on tours, to see the horror that real anti-Semitism causes – is a
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: We get letters: a sports fan writes
And he sure is angry! Drop him a note – tell him how you feel about him! Name G Tryon Email trygor@shaw.ca Subject Olympics Meddler Message I’d like to see you take your big mouth small balls cancel-Sochi message down to the locker room and tell the jocks who’ve given
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Governments defeat themselves
Yep. It’s a real poll, from a real pollster. And it suggests that Trudeau isn’t particularly doing anything – he’s simply doing a good job of not being Stephen Harper. Am I right or am I wrong? Outlier poll? Trend? Justin Bieber? Bueller? Bueller?
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Can you spot the white, millionaire, out-of-touch conservative?
Oh, wait. All of them are. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” ― Oscar Wilde
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Ah, yes, John Tory will be a formidable opponent for Ford Nation
Or, er, perhaps not. From the overflowing “Pictures Worth A Thousand Words” file:
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: When you become a punchline
…when you are a politician, and you become a punchline in a joke – around the world, too – you’re done like dinner. I don’t give a damn what “Forum Research” says: I always believe in the innate wisdom of the electorate. Many more folks are going to vote against
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: A letter from the Jewish Post and News
Hi Warren, I just wanted to say “hats off to you” for calling a spade a spade when it comes to questioning the way CIJA and all the establishment Jews in Canada are falling all over themselves when it comes to praising Harper. I’m going to take my hits as
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In politics, what isn’t on the program is often as interesting as what is
If you were at the sold-out Jean Chretien tribute on Tuesday night, as we were, you would have heard Kathleen Wynne speak – even though she wasn’t on the program to do so. Meanwhile, Paul Martin – who was in the program – surprised some folks by not being there.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: All hail the Ditherer-in-Chief
I love this column. “That Chow person is everywhere! Do something, Rosedalian braintrust!” But the part I loved best? After one anonymous source says he’s in, another anonymous source says, er, not so fast, he might not be. You can’t make this stuff up, folks. John’s anonymous sources are just
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Is this news story antii-Semitic?
Well, using Harper’s definition of anti-Semitism, it is anti-Semitic to single out this delegation for criticism. So, no one say anything about the homophobes and Islamaphobes and loons who are part of it, okay?
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Google Music Timeline: punk world domination is imminent
Well, not entirely. But this cool new Google thingie shows that I was right: traditional rock really does suck, and the weirdo punk/alt stuff I have listened to for decades really is better. The irony, of course, is that I am a punk rock snob and I drop a band
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Happy birthday, Boss
The best part wasn’t necessarily at the dinner, but came earlier, when Lala and me gave him this painting my Mom did for his 80th – from all of the Kinsellas. I hope he finds a good spot for it on his wall!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Rob Ford, wasted again? Plus, a question for 14 Division
The issue isn’t whether Ford would be (a) stoned/drunk in public or (b) mocking minorities in public. That stuff is a given. He’s done it before, he’ll do it again. (He’s done it at the same place, too.) The issue is whether (c) the video is legit or not. I
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