Quote unquote: “Questions are swirling as to why ORNGE officials sought to place a helicopter base at the Oshawa airport and if Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made an attempt to influence the decision. …In June 2011, ORNGE was simply the air ambulance service for Ontario and not an issue of controversy, said
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Warren Kinsella: Tree stump gives finger
Near Son Three’s lacrosse practice. Yes, I am a child.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: At Sun News to discuss today’s big Ottawa story
…And here’s the tweet of the afternoon, offered up by CP’s Bruce Cheadle: It was an arch-enemy.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Laura Jane Grace makes her debut
So much for my concern that she needed to focus on herself, and not the band. She obviously disagrees. Guts like this you rarely see. Amazing.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Ornge and the Cons, a continuing series
You don’t see this gem too often in any of Frank Klees’ pious pressers: Ornge effectively started in at least 2000 (or sooner). You know, when the Cons were the government. [Ornge CEO and founder Chris] Mazza said the use of air ambulances really took off in 2000 after the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Best comment on Baird’s decision to “speak loudly” on Syrian pogroms…
…by someone who knows whereof he speaks. Like he says: too little, too late.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Free solution for Catholic educators worried about “gay-straight alliances”
Promise to stop taking billions in taxpayer dollars. If you dislike what the government’s doing, stop taking government money, okay? You’re welcome.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In today’s Sun: long hot Summer ahead
The youth of Quebec doth protest too much, some say. The protests have been going on in the streets of la belle province for more than 100 days. Thinkers and pundits have attempted to glean their significance, if any. Media from around the world have covered the demonstrations, which started
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The death of broadsheets
Quote: Reeling from a drop in advertising revenue, Postmedia Network Inc. will axe dozens of newsroom jobs across the country and stop the publication of Sunday papers in several of its largest markets. It’s the second time this month the company has announced layoffs, after cutting 25 out of 58
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: We get letters
We get letters. Lately, we’ve been getting letters from New Democrats – all coincidentally anonymous, all suspiciously-similar, most helpfully originating from the National Capital – who profess to be profoundly, deeply hurt/angry/disappointed that Warren has been critical of Thomas Mulcair, their latest anointed saviour. Here’s a summary of their talking
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Welcome to OLO
Your first task: explain why your boss, an erstwhile environmentalist, has a four car garage!
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Next time Angry Tom lectures everyone about the “tar sands”
…show him a picture of his FOUR CAR GARAGE.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In today’s Sun: His Royalness
His Royal Highness The Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Royal
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Kettling kwestion
It’s a hot topic. At the G20 in Toronto, and now with the ongoing demos in Montreal. My question: it’s clearly detention, as defined by the SCC. So why don’t the kettled demand immediate access to legal counsel? If they don’t get it, bring the mother of all class actions.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Boy, lost
I’m a former cops and courts reporter, and I usually read crime stories more than I read politics stories. As such, I’ve been transfixed by the terrible and tragic Etan Patz story. I’m not convinced that they now have the right guy – over the decades, there have plenty of
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My response to Lilley: Glenn Beck is still an anti-Semite
Folks at the Sun News Network have been asked not to go after each other off-air, and we generally observe that. It looks bad. So I was a bit surprised to read this post by Brian Lilley on his blog, stating that I “spew insults,” that I have engaged in
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Menzingers – Nice Things
The video kind of blows, but the song is genius, and the album it comes from is 2012′s best, so far. These guys are now what Against Me stopped being, two albums back.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: On the lesson of Alberta, and Grits
…polls, and pollsters, get things wrong. The Angus Reid Group was one of the pollsters who got things dramatically wrong in Alberta, for instance. That said, this puny online survey is unfortunately highly consistent with a bucket of other ones: the Liberal Party of Canada, led by Bob Rae, hasn’t
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Byline, May 23: on s. 13 and human rights
Lilley and I duke it out on s. 13. I’m right.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Courtney’s cure
I don’t ever post these sorts of appeals, but if my brother Bernie Farber asks me to, I will. Here’s The Cure for Courtney.
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