Upcoming program change: for three reasons – the mass murder committed by a white supremacist New Zealand and its fallout; upcoming legal action against the racist Your Ward News in Toronto; and my related decision to shine a spotlight on Maxine Bernier and his alt-right political party – I am
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Warren Kinsella: #LavScam thread: jobs vs. justice
My responses to two thoughtful commenters over on Twitter, below. First one is a thread, the second one isn’t. Thanks. Your thread was interesting. The issue, as I told my @UCalgaryLaw students this week, isn’t how we parse “national economic interest.” Jobs are an important consideration, as @Puglaas herself testified.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam legal: what it means now that PMO has lawyered up
The Globe and Mail has reported that Justin Trudeau and senior PMO staff have now retained independent legal counsel in #LavScam. I’ve helped organizations through legal/comms crises many times. I can tell you this is what this latest revelation means: • their ability to communicate openly about the file comes
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam in twelve words
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Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Globe: Trudeau, PMO staff hire outside lawyers in case RCMP probes #LavScam
Wow. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and senior officials in his office have retained outside legal counsel in case of an RCMP investigation into allegations of political interference in the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin Group. Mr. Trudeau’s communications director, Cameron Ahmad, told The Globe and Mail on Friday that Treasury Board
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The haters and us
When word of the terror attack in New Zealand arrived, I did what many do: I turned on CNN, and I went to social media. Within minutes, I found the murderer’s “manifesto” and the live video of his killing spree within the mosque. Sleep didn’t come easily after that. I’ve
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam Leger shock poll: mon Dieu
The entire rationale for the SNC-Lavalin dirty deal – to risk obstructing justice, and give a corrupt Québec firm a sweetheart deal – was to win seats in Quebec. That’s why Justin Trudeau did it. And it hasn’t won him support in Quebec – it has cost him support. Check
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your morning #LavScam: March 14 edition
The Liberal majority on the “Justice” Committee again voted to prevent Jody Wilson-Raybould from speaking. It didn’t go over well. None of it has gone over well. •Toronto Sun Campaign Research poll: “As for Trudeau himself, Yufest says he now stands at just 29% approval compared to 58% who think
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Innisfil, Ontario.
This photo, more than any poll, makes me feel that this government is going down. And this, finally, is why.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: #LavScam: this is the definition of political stupidity
They adjourned it to BUDGET DAY. They are going to keep covering up – and they are going to fuck up the coverage of their last budget. Unbelievable. #LavScam #cdnpoli #cpc #ndp #lpc pic.twitter.com/Ol1heXdvF0 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 13, 2019
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In today’s Sun! Trudeau’s train-wreck #LavScam press conference
It was vintage Justin Trudeau. There he stood at the prime ministerial podium at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, a battery of Canadian flags behind him, a throng of journalists in front of him. He blinked, all dewy-eyed sincerity. It was Thursday morning, early. He’d just been asked if
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Spoonkymonkey, Arthur Ellis, etc.
Published recently, sent to me this week. Wow.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Dear Ottawa Citizen:
In today’s Citizen, Andrew Cohen states: “Critics note that Wilson-Raybould is applauded – perhaps advised – by the perfervid Warren Kinsella and his wife, Lisa; the latter hugged Wilson-Raybould after her testimony to the justice committee. Warren Kinsella, a Liberal and a consultant, despises Trudeau for blocking his nomination in
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Five things Trudeau can do to stop the #LavScam scandal
A few journos have asked me what I’d do instead in #LavScam. I dislike “what they should’ve done” stories because they assume comms can fix anything. Comms can’t. #LavScam is beyond comms help. Trudeau now needs to do things, not say things. Here’s the five things he needs to do. Call in
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Ten things Trudeau did wrong at his #LavScam press conference
How bad was Justin Trudeau’s early-morning LavScam press conference? So bad CTV Your Morning’s Ben Mulroney asked aloud if the Liberal Prime Minister had made things worse for himself. So bad Bell Media radio host Evan Solomon called Trudeau’s statement “a word salad.” So bad I played a tape of
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: BOOM: OECD Anti-Bribery group investigating Trudeau government
Wow. 11/03/2019 – The OECD Working Group on Bribery is concerned by recent allegations of interference in the prosecution of SNC-Lavalin that are subject to proceedings in the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. The Canadian engineering and construction group is the subject of an ongoing
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Eddie Goldenberg: still an asshole
“I just don’t really see it as a scandal. There is a political correctness here. Nobody wants to go after an indigenous woman minister. It’s become politically incorrect.” That’s Eddie Goldenberg, channeling Sheila Copps and assorted Twitter trolls. Oh, the stories I could tell about some people’s views about indigenous
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: I’m the Liberal MP for [insert riding name], and I want to assure the good people of [insert municipality name] it’s all a great big coincidence
Obviously, political parties everywhere generally — including the Liberals — are no strangers to getting MPs to post messages, but in this case there's a denial. pic.twitter.com/LPbnhGbdzz — Sean Craig (@sdbcraig) March 9, 2019
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