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Almost-end-of-summer, long weekend political bits and pieces: ** Crickets. That’s what you will hear if you are waiting for a public inquiry into Chinese interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal general elections. Crickets. Towards the end of the last Parliamentary session, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau famously dangled the prospect

Punish him. Make it hurt. When this writer — an aspiring painter — heard that someone had thrown paint on Tom Thomson’s masterpiece Northern River, I was very angry. It happened this week. A man came to the National Gallery in Ottawa and smeared pink paint across the front of

BOSTON – A few years back, Jean Chrétien said this: “A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven.” Get that? It’s quite a few years later, and I still

 Dear Mr. Poilievre: Not to get all conspiratorial, here, but we need to talk. About, you know, conspiracies. All cards on the table, big guy: the country has had its fill, and then some, of Justin Trudeau. From coast to coast, old to young, male to female and all

 Weird, weird, weird. “For the well-being of our children, we ask that you respect our and their privacy.” That is a quote. That is what Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire wrote, in both official languages, when they announced their separation on August 2. Some commentators, this one among them,

BEST BIRTHDAY WISHES EVER #gabbagabbahey https://t.co/Bdrnp05bQt — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 11, 2023

One has been caught making remarks that are intolerant and sexist. He’s facing multiple criminal prosecutions. The other has similarly gotten into trouble for words and behaviour that are sexist and racist – and he’s been found guilty of violating two federal statutes while in power. We are speaking, of

Leave the unelected ones out of it. Many of us – most of us, if you believe the statistics – have been through it.  It is sad.  It is painful.  It is like death without dying, almost. And the last thing anyone needs, when going through a marital split, is to have the

Been through it. Everyone should leave the kids (and her) out of it. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/0zli6LxvK0 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 2, 2023

Bigot. That word – along with its corollaries, racist, sexist, hater, et al. – get thrown around a lot, of course.  It happens so often, these days, that those words have lost all meaning.  Like they say: if everyone is a racist, then no one is a racist. But Erica

KINSELLA COLUMN by Warren Kinsella Name ten federal cabinet ministers. Just ten. It’s not a lot. Ten represents just a quarter of Justin Trudeau’s cabinets in recent years. So, name ten. But you can’t, can you? You’re not alone. Few can. With the exception of weirdos like media political columnists

In our hearts, we know: the only certainty in life is death. It comes for every one of us. The uncertainty of the hour of death is also a source of grief in our lives, someone said, and they’re indisputably right. That death is coming, on whispering feet, and we

KINSELLA, Lorna Emma Bridget. Artist, loving mother, grandmother and wife. Born in Montreal, July 7, 1932; died in Toronto, Ont., July 15, 2023. Daughter of Irene (Danaher) Cleary; survived by loving sister Saundra Cleary; pre-deceased by cherished siblings Eddie, Mickey, Carol, Gail and Irene. Married T. Douglas Kinsella MD, CM,

Tonight's Yeats. The final night, I think. pic.twitter.com/tT3TjmEF1M — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) July 14, 2023