Because his team won, that’s why. From my pal Mertl: “The B.C. Liberals are a free-enterprise coalition of federal Liberal and Conservative supporters. Clark hails from the Liberal wing but got impressive support from federal Tories, including former ministers Stockwell Day and Chuck Strahl. Kinsella told Yahoo! Canada News he thinks the
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Warren Kinsella: BC: what went wrong?
Great assessment by Josh Wingrove, done right, right here.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: 140 character Ontario politics prediction
After what happened to BC NDP, the chances of a Spring election are somewhere between slim and none.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: What I am eating for breakfast this morning
Self-excoriating column to follow at lunch.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Mea maxima culpa
I, of all people, should know not to trust pollsters. If BC CTV is right (they just called it for the BC Libs), man oh man did I get it wrong! My sincere, abject apologies. (If CTV is right, that is!)
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Worst. Logo. Ever.
Oh my Lord, this is awful. The old Ontario Liberal logo was amazing – creative, eye-catching and full of meaning. It was also the product of a lot of consultation and research. The new logo, dropped from on high, is terrible. Bland, boring, blecch. I sure don’t see candidates wanting
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: When your spin is on crack
When I first saw this last night – in the midst of the Leafs’ loss, the re-entry of Chris Hadfield and other stuff – I thought it was a social media prank. You know, that the Conservatives were spinning the Liberal Party’s massive win in Labrador as a loss. But
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Mind the Gap: Taking action on income inequality in Canada
From Liberal.ca: Please join us for a lively and enlightening evening with guest speaker Warren Kinsella who will explore the social and economic implications of the disturbing trend toward income inequality in Canada. Warren Kinsella is a lawyer with a broad range of experience as a political consultant. From 1990
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: If you are reading this, I am dead
You want a lede? This is a lede. Wow. If you are reading this, I am dead. How’s that for a lead? Guarantees you read on, at least for a bit. When the Sun’s George Gross died suddenly in March 2008, at age 85, there were few of his contemporaries left
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Guts
I don’t watch her movies, but wow: Angelina Jolie has guts.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Tuesday’s Sun: a victory for Dix (but not the Leafs)
Tuesday is voting day in British Columbia. And, by provincial standards, it’s been a pretty staid affair. For example, the Mounties didn’t raid the legislature — although, they did do that back in 2003, in a criminal probe of bribery and influence peddling involving senior B.C. Liberal staff. Nor were
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Wooooot!
Right on!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: I admire Tim Hudak
I knew that little headline would get your attention! And it’s true. Being the guy (currently) most likely to become Premier if (theoretically) there is an election, Hudak could have chosen the easy course. He could have chosen discretion over valour. He could have jumped on the popular and populist
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Buying ink by the barrel
Everyone knows Mark Twain’s famous maxim: “Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.” In Paul Godfrey’s case, it is actually true: he does buy ink by the barrel. The news that the “new Ontario government” is planning on flushing him, therefore, comes as a bit of a surprise.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Worthington, RIP
R.I.P. He was no fan of yours truly – case in point – but what a career he had! He’d been there to see it all, first-hand. Journalism really doesn’t produce men (or women) like him anymore. It’s a cliche, but it’s true: with Worthington’s passing, it’s the end of
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In Sunday’s Sun: conservative death by numbers
God is dead. Or, at least, he’s irrelevant. So say a growing number of Canadians who, according to Statistics Canada’s just-released National Household Survey, are becoming less and less religious. The numbers are drawn from the agency’s 2011 demographic study and they paint a picture that anticipates an increasingly secular
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Doug Finley
RIP, Doug. Last communicated with him in an email exchange – about rock’n’roll, not politics. That tells me he had his priorities straight. My condolences to his family and many friends.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Adrian Dix is going to win
I don’t have any skin the BC ’2013 game. I’ve got friends in both war rooms, and I think they’ve all run impressive campaigns. Adrian Dix was assisted by the fact that he’s no Glen Clark-style Dipper: he’s a centrist New Democrat, more like Roy Romanow than his former boss.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Nerdling question
I got the new BlackBerry Z10. It’s alright, I guess. Problem: unlike on the reliable old 9900, I can’t figure out how to share Web links on the Z10 directly to WordPress. Any charter members of Team Propellerhead care to help out? This puppy’s got me stumped.
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