When in government Steven Del Duca had tried to pull a fast one on the Members of LiUNA, burying a draconian piece of legislation in the budget to strip our members of their rights and hand them over to his former employer. And he would do it again@StevenDelDuca NOT a
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Warren Kinsella: Marsh marigold moment
New one. Marsh marigolds. May tweak it. pic.twitter.com/h9jQqF7cdu — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 25, 2022
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Power’s back on at the cabin.
And my security camera caught a pretty awesome moment.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Bradford on brainless Beach bastards
@BradMBradford speaks for a lot of us here. Enough is enough. #topoli #onpoli https://t.co/OweniJCxOA — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 25, 2022
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: Doug’s party vs. Pierre’s party
@fordnation will win a majority, and likely a bigger one, because: 1. He exceeded expectations in the pandemic 2. He isn’t angry3. He is a *progressive* conservative On each point, the #CPC fail: they’re angry, they ain’t progressive, they went nuts in the pandemic. #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #ONStorm report
#ONStorm thread: paddling on the lake, sunny, calm. Skies got dark and still. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 21, 2022
Continue readingScripturient: The Book of Knowledge: 3
Back in the Mesozoic of my life, I came across a quotation from Giacomo Casanova that, as far as I can remember these days, went “No man can know everything, but every man should attempt to.” For many decades, I didn’t know the source, or whether it was misquoted, misattributed,
Continue readingScripturient: The Book of Knowledge: 2
Last post I mentioned I had rescued a set of encyclopedias from the dumpster at the end of this year’s Mother Of All Yard Sales (MOAYS; an Optimist Club event). I didn’t explain what I saved and why, but I’m here to explain, and to show. Bear with me. First,
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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When I was growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, having an encyclopedia in your home was the bee’s knees, to use my grandmother’s phrase. It was a sign of sophistication and learning, of culture and wisdom. And being reasonably well-off, because encyclopedias were not inexpensive. I can still hear
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: get wasted, get violent, get away with it
We Canadians like to feel superior to the Americans. The Yanks regularly give us reasons to feel superior. There’s their fetishization of all manner of guns, which results in mass-shootings, 693 of them last year alone. Then there’s their schismatic politics, which saw a racist groper elected to the White
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Ontario election debate in tweets
I find it amusing that @TVOKids1 is on just before the #onpoli leaders’ debate. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 16, 2022 I want to provide scintillating commentary on the #onpoli debate, but I’m not sure if anyone besides me and @brianlilley are watching. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 16, 2022
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Warren’s great reset
What’s wrong with wanting to reset the world? War, disease, despots, starvation, climate upheaval and more. I don’t know (or care) what reset the people in Davos want, but I’m all for resetting a world as fucked up as this one. https://t.co/ZAt8UwlRFZ — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 16, 2022
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: boffo box office? Not so much
Can you picture it? If Cecil B. DeMille was still around, and he was directing a big-screen re-do of his 1958 epic, The Ten Commandments, Stephen Harper would be cast in Charlton Heston’s role of Moses. He’d be great at it, wouldn’t he? The much-missed Senator Doug Finley would be
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The Reformatory debate in tweets
I am entertained by the feedback that is already dominating the #cpcdebate — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 12, 2022 OMG this thing has the production values of a high school musical. #cpcdebate — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 12, 2022 Poilievre likes the word freedom. I would like the freedom to
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My latest: the smart, Indigenous female lawyer vs. SlapMineNutsMC
How would you choose, if you were the leader of a feminist political party? In Sault Ste. Marie, an experienced and respected Indigenous lawyer — who is female — wanted to be the Ontario Liberal candidate in the 2022 election. She grew up on the reserve, and put herself through
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