Tag: Musings

Who could it be? What Toronto City Councillor wrote that his/her residents have "a grade 2 understanding" of issues? #topoli #onpoli pic.twitter.com/cXzAl7PpIM — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 19, 2017

You’ve probably seen this by now, but it still makes me spit my morning covfefe all over my desk. Here’s the Unpresident: Crooked Hillary Clinton now blames everybody but herself, refuses to say she was a terrible candidate. Hits Facebook & even Dems & DNC. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.  A half century.  Incredible. I don’t remember it coming out, on June 1, 1967.  I was six, and we were living in Dallas.  Much later on, I recall, certain songs would start to leave a mark – Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Within

…and if elections were all about who had the most to spend, Ross Perot and Pete DuPont would’ve been president.  But, still. This is extraordinary. Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives raised more than $16.1-million through political donations in 2016, a record haul that far outstripped the governing Liberals as the parties prepare

Link here.  Story: Former Ontario ombudsman André Marin has been ordered to pay $68,000 in legal costs to the provincial legislature and the Office of the Ontario Ombudsman. The Superior Court of Justice ruling comes after a judge quashed Marin’s wrongful dismissal lawsuit against his former employers in March. Marin has been ordered to pay

Two heroes, killed by a hater.  This was hard to read.

From Michael Coren’s carefully-researched piece in the new NOW magazine: “Scheer’s religious faith is especially significant. He is a traditional Roman Catholic, the son of a deacon. He is an opponent of abortion, equal marriage, trans rights and euthanasia. He voted against Bill C-16, which adds “gender expression or identity”

Just got this note from an old friend, who himself happens to be one of the best lawyers in Canada: Warren, you see this? You’re being nominated for top 25 most influential lawyers in Canadian Lawyer mag in the Human Rights, Advocacy and Criminal category for your work getting that

It hasn’t been mixed or mastered yet, and the engineer actually cuts the song off at the end.  But it’s rather Hot Nasties-ish, I must say. The addled Gregorian chant at the start? It’s an inside joke, like the whole band is.

Fun story in the new Maclean’s, here. I blabbed about how we made sausages. So shoot me. Kevin Bosch, research director for the Liberal Party, wore a blue dress shirt on Saturday and a Conservative-branded nametag like everyone else. His partner, Braeden Caley, the Liberal Party’s communications director, slinked at the

I first discovered the wonder and mystery of Frank Carter ten years ago, when in Britain to see the Sex Pistols’ latest filthy lucre tour.  Frank was on the cover of the NME, because he was the coolest person in the world.  I was intrigued. Bjorn and me and some other

The Pope is at it again: he met with Justin Trudeau and took another glum photo https://t.co/rux2b1a5OP pic.twitter.com/Xk4oWSajXZ — BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) May 29, 2017

Now in HuffPo!

Story here. The knuckle-dragging, red-necked Landowner loon Jack MacLaren should have been kicked out of the Ontario PC caucus long ago.  He’s an idiot. He, and his “Trillim Party” are irrelevant, now.  But this statement MacLaren made in that video will linger for a long time: “We have lots of things

TORONTO—Smirk. The economy. Justin Trudeau. Free speech. His deceased mother. ISIS. On every subject, no matter how sad or serious, Andrew Scheer would smirk. It was, well, weird. His rictus was so off-putting, we started to forget what he was actually saying. Which, for him, was pretty fortunate. Minutes after

To wit: “Barton: But do you, yourself, believe [in gay marriage]? Scheer: I, it’s, look, I don’t – it’s absolutely – our party dealt with this issue in Vancouver and, you know, there was a specific policy plank in our platform, and I think members decided, a lot of social

The #CPC just selected the evil Richie Cunningham. #cpcldr pic.twitter.com/TpNUv5PlEF — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 28, 2017

Seriously: we all know #CPC members mostly hate @JustinTrudeau. But Canadians mostly don't. They need a new strategy. Seriously. #CPCldr — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 27, 2017

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