Since I was a kid – since this day in 1972, in fact, when I started writing a daily journal – I have always taken note of April 4, and said to myself: “April 4. Dr. King.” Today, 49 years ago, Martin Luther King was murdered by a racist in
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Warren Kinsella: This week’s column: are you gay?
“Are you gay?” It was 1983 or so, and my Carleton journalism professor, Roger Bird, had asked me if I was gay. I was surprised. “Is that an issue?” I asked him. “If you are writing an investigative series about gay people in politics, I think it is,” Bird said,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The only good advice I can ever give you
Half the success in an office environment is never hitting "reply all." — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 3, 2017
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: What should Wynne and the OLP do?
Following the latest poll – showing the Ontario Liberal Party in third place for months, and behind the PCs in Toronto – I asked folks for their comments. I received a deluge. Dozens and dozens of comments, here and via email – from MPPs and political staff who did not want
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Their dishonest “president”
Quite the Los Angeles Times editorial, the first in a series. Read it here. It was no secret during the campaign that Donald Trump was a narcissist and a demagogue who used fear and dishonesty to appeal to the worst in American voters. The Times called him unprepared and unsuited for
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Beau Dick, RIP
He was a Kwakwaka’wakw hereditary chief but also an extraordinary artist. Lisa and I have his work prominently placed in our home – and I came really, really close to having his Hands of Creation placed on my arm, in ink. (I didn’t – you need permission to do that, as
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: This was released forty years ago today, and it is actual art, still
Every track, every note, every groove is perfect. Ras Pierre and me desperately wanted the Hot Nasties to be as cool as Television. Never were.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: This morning’s April Fools thing, and the two best responses
My new job: some big news https://t.co/MDvZpfaq5K #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 1, 2017 @kinsellawarren Doesn't Lisa already run Daisy? — Lisa Raitt (@lraitt) April 1, 2017 Welcome aboard. This is going to be fun. https://t.co/ghksh96HoR — Gerald Butts
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: My new job: some big news
Some of you were wondering why I abruptly travelled to Montreal on Thursday. Well, now that the appropriate approvals have been concluded, I can reveal I was there to meet with Justin Trudeau to finalize discussing – and ultimately accept – a position in his office. The working title is
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Kinsella family text exchanges: a continuing series
Typical exchange with @emmakinsella95. No comment from @lisakinsella. How we roll.
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Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Dear #ONPOLI: Seven seats? Seven?
It’s Forum. It’s early. It’s voodoo seat projection. But: The poll found not only would the Liberals suffer a crushing defeat in the election, they would also lose official party status. The poll suggests voters would elect the Progressive Conservatives with a huge majority at 43 per cent support, while the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Are you gay?
That’s the question k. d. lang asked Jason Kenney: You're gay aren't you? @jkenney — k.d. lang (@kdlang) March 29, 2017 She asked it because Kenney had proposed outing Alberta kids. That’s right, kids. Just one of the fiery responses that elicited – plus background – is here. Is the newly-selected
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: X: Recipe for Hate
…sounds like a Kellie Leitch campaign rally, doesn’t it? But, no, it’s Dundurn’s page about my new book, found here! Here’s the cover. If you are so inclined, you can bookmark it, so you can purchase the thing in paperback and digital download, over and over! Amazon, too! Also, I’m
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Alykhan Velshi et al.
I don’t know how many mainstream news outlets covered it, but I wanted to note that Alykhan Velshi – the Conservative genius who worked for both Stephen Harper and Jason Kenney on their party’s (now apparently discarded) efforts to reach out to minority communities – has been named Ontario PC leader Patrick
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Free Pussy Riot!
As musical historians will note, SFH was always way ahead of the curve on the whole anti-Putin thing. This morning, Son Four spotted this on South Park (when he probably should’ve been getting ready for school), and thought he should bring it to our attention. From Season 16, Episode 13:
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Anti-Racist Canada: Leitch speaks to hate group
Here: Ron Banerjee and Rise Canada Hate Group Meets With Kellie Leitch …Banerjee also operates Twitter accounts for both Canadian Hindu Advocacy and Rise Canada in which he celebrates the deaths of Muslims and Sikhs, post misogynistic diatribes against women, and attacks the LBTGQ community. The post assumes the reader
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Trump is right. Yes, I just wrote that.
My column in HuffPo. Clip and save.
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