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Warren Kinsella: In Sunday’s Sun: your election loss is in the mail
The Evil Empire. Yes, that’s what we called it. Back before the dawn of time, you see, I was chief of staff to a federal cabinet minister. The minister had multiple responsibilities. In private sector terms, he ran the biggest corporation in Canada. Among his responsibilities was Canada Post. Or,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Walk softly and carry a big, big stick for big spenders
Wynne has this incongruity I like: she smiles a lot and is friendly, but she is absolutely brutal when fat-cats start getting reckless with taxpayer-subsidized expense accounts. It’s like a bureaucratic Game of Thrones, and she’s the one swinging the axe. Voters like that. It’s not necessarily a theme to
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: A decade-plus investigation
My, my. You wouldn’t suppose the timing has anything to do with the ongoing Senate scandal, would you? No, of course not. The decade-plus-long delay makes this a joke. If a trial ever takes place, I’ll be amazed.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Ontario politics: should I kill myself, or have an election?
Political courage, someone once said, is not political suicide. Noble sentiment, I guess, but it’s also worth knowing that the author of the statement was Arnold Schwarzenegger (not Camus, who provided the inspiration for this post’s title). Arnold, of course, would subsequently go on to commit political suicide. I thought
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Strummerfest 2013 – tonight in K-W!
SFH and a ton of other bands – plus our newest members, Steve Deceive and Royal Niblit!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Live from the Leafs-Kings game
Text exchange between Son One and me. We Kinsellas are unimpressed by movie stars.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Breaking: the Harper government has just lost the next election
I’m not kidding, either. If this extraordinary story isn’t an Onion-like bit of satire – and I checked, it doesn’t seem to be – the Harper guys are done like dinner. Dead. Justin, here are your talking points: “No wonder they were eager to shut down the House early. If
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Impressions about Justin Trudeau and Justin Trudeau’s mouth
I read this story, and then I re-read it. It’s one of two possibilities. One, it’s a candid and honest admission by Justin Trudeau about one of Justin Trudeau’s shortcomings, for which he deserves credit. Or, two, it’s a bit of pre-conditioning – some inoculation – against future verbal gaffes.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Pope Francis: person of the year
Good pick. And here and here and here are some reasons why.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Dale vs. Ford: …and Ford wins
Rob Ford, who is the scum of the Earth, this week called Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale a pedophile. Quite a few of us immediately suggested that Dale needed to sue. Falsely calling someone a pedophile is among the most serious libels. It is libel per se. When Ford reaffirmed
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Wednesday’s Sun: four Prime Ministers, three parachutes on a plane
So, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and former prime ministers Brian Mulroney, Kim Campbell and Jean Chretien took a plane to South Africa to attend the public memorial for Nelson Mandela. Also on the plane, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair. (Not on the plane, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.) Midway, the plane starts
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Bernie Farber, a lonely province turns its eyes to you
He’s my brother of another mother, so I’m biased. But if Bernie doesn’t run, I will never speak to him again. ’Cause he’d win, no?
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: If a Liberal government doesn’t think it has a duty to look after developmentally disabled children, what exactly does it think it’s supposed to be there for?
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Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Four PMs on a plane
I’m writing an entire column about that flight in this week’s Sun (which will be out on Wednesday, jot tomorrow)! But you can have fun with it, too, right now in comments. Caption contest! Harper: We’re, um, good to go! Chretien: A proof is a proof when it’s proven. And dere’s proveable proof
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Raps trade Gay?
What the Hell?
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: 33 years ago tonight
December 8th, 2010, 2:06 am Thirty years ago tonight, I was a student at Carleton, and Lee G. Hill and I were sharing a room at Russell House in the university’s residence complex. The phone rang. It was my girlfriend, Paula. “Turn on the radio,” she said, breathless. ”I think
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Sunday’s Sun: in which I become the only person in Canada to dislike Chong’s bill
Look, I like Michael Chong, too. In fact, I’ve probably liked the Conservative MP longer than anyone else. Way back in November 2006, when we were being urged by elites to recognize Quebec as a “nation,” Chong objected, and resigned his cabinet seat. In another newspaper, I called him an
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