Author: Warren

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Text exchange between Son One and me. We Kinsellas are unimpressed by movie stars.

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

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.

Good pick.  And here and here and here are some reasons why.

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

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

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?

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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

What the Hell?

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

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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My God, my God, I love reading interviews with the Gallaghers.  Here’s Noel: How about Miley Cyrus? Are you a fan? I think there’s a trend, unfortunately, in the game, at the minute, of girls desperately trying to be provocative or desperately trying to – in inverted commas – “start

…we should never give up on eliminating violence against women: • Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student • Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student • Nathalie Croteau (born 1966), mechanical engineering student • Barbara Daigneault (born 1967), mechanical engineering student • Anne-Marie Edward (born 1968), chemical engineering student

Many moving tributes to Nelson Mandela this morning, and many of them describing how he was their spark: to oppose racism, to oppose oppression, to oppose totalitarianism. I was involved in anti-racism stuff  before I had ever heard Mandela’s name – in the Calgary punk scene, with movements like Rock

Well, it always is until it isn’t. Not much else Jason can say, really.

…well, okay, their ‘Gallery of Songs Inspired by Rob Ford’ chart, that is. But we’re SFH, and we’ll take whatever we can get. Click on the image to see what else they’ve got on their chart! And buy our Ugly Pop 45 when it’s out! (And yes, single girls, that’s

Also located in last night’s rummaging through a closet.  From a gig we played at Calgary’s Union Hall, opening for DOA.  Here it is.  Download, fold, spindle or mutilate, as you desire. Oh, and the swearing is by, er, Ras Pierre. Shame on him.