Why is it so much more expensive to live? And, yes, we all know inflation is the highest it’s been in four decades – and, yes, we know that the cost of borrowing has ballooned to levels unseen in nearly three decades. We know all that. The media and the
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Warren Kinsella: My latest: JC, come back
Where have the political leaders gone? The federal ones, that is. The national ones. The ones who are supposed to be leading this country, and other countries. National leadership — in Canada, in the United States, in Europe and in myriad democracies around the world — seems to have disappeared.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the Tories disqualify themselves
“Governments defeat themselves,” said my boss Jean Chretien, and we all nodded. Pause. “But nobody is as good at defeating themselves as the Tories!” And we all laughed. Because it’s true. Chretien knew a thing or two about defeating Tories – over four decades, as an MP or as leader,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My law: the end of law
What if there are no more rules? What if there are no more laws? No more precedents, no more constitutions, no more charters? What if the law just becomes what people in power say it is? That – along with the obvious implications for American women – is one of
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: what if I’m wrong about PPC Pierre?
So, Pierre Poilievre. This space has been somewhat critical of him, you might say. Just a bit. His peddling of World Economic Forum conspiracy theories. His pimping for Bitcoin, which is in a freefall. His unprecedented libels targeting his Conservative Party leadership opponents. His deranged winged monkey supporters, who are
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: rates up, everything else down
Interest rates: Going up. Voter confidence: Going down. On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve did something it hasn’t done in nearly three decades: It raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point. That’s the biggest rate hike since 1994. Anyone who thinks that the Bank of Canada won’t do
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: listen up, fellow Albertans
Dear Alberta: Yes: I was Special Assistant to that dastardly Liberal Prime Minister, Jean Chretien. Yes: I worked on the presidential campaigns of the two Democratic Horsepeople of the Apocalypse, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. And, yes: while I may have grown up in Alberta, I haven’t actually lived in
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the morning after Doug Ford’s big night
Random Ontario election observations, the morning after: Centrism matters: Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford stuck resolutely to the political middle, which — in Canada, at least — is where all the votes are. Liberal Leader Steven Del Duca yanked his party too far to the ideological left. Today, Ford is
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: Doug vs. Pierre
This is a tale of two “Conservatives.” We say “Conservative” in quotation marks to make a point. And the point is this: Doug Ford and Pierre Poilievre may be notionally, nominally “Conservatives.” But they are very, very — very — different. And, for both men, it’s a very big political
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: character matters
When does a politician’s character get revealed? Because, as Ken Dryden once memorably said about hockey, character doesn’t get built by the political life. It gets revealed. Our history is full of those unplanned, unscheduled moments when a leader’s character is revealed. During the October Crisis, when Canadians were terrorized
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: Jason, we badly knew ye
Wither thou goest, Conservatives, in thine dark blue car at night? Sorry to get all Jack Kerouac on y’all, but that little line from On The Road kind of fits, doesn’t it? I mean, after Conservatives committed ritual mass political suicide on Wednesday night — in the Conservative heartland, no
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