Tag: Musings

You'd be forgiven for thinking the United States is not a serious country anymore. #USPolitics pic.twitter.com/cEYtHdEbaz — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 5, 2017

Get a load of this. Visitors planning getaways to the U.S. might have to relinquish their cell phone contacts and passwords under new ‘extreme vetting’ procedures being developed by the Trump administration. The tightening could even be applied to longtime allies who are part of the State Department’s Visa Waiver program,

The Soldiers of Odin is a rapidly-growing far-Right anti-refugee, anti-immigrant racist organization now found across Canada.  Experts call them a terror group.  More on them here and here. The Jewish Defence League is a far-Right group that has itself been classified as extremist by the FBI for many years, and its

So: The Liberal vote was down in Markham, and the Tory vote was up. Liberals won big in Ottawa-Vanier, which is the safest Liberal seat in the galaxy.  But it was the Dippers who came a (distant) second.  Tories ran third. The Grit candidate in Stephane Dion’s riding – and

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

“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,

Half the success in an office environment is never hitting "reply all." — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 3, 2017

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

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

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

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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. 

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

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

Typical exchange with @emmakinsella95. No comment from @lisakinsella.  How we roll. 

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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

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

…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