Here. The draft order seeks to create wholesale exemptions for people and organizations who claim religious or moral objections to same-sex marriage, premarital sex, abortion, and trans identity, and it seeks to curtail women’s access to contraception and abortion through the Affordable Care Act. The White House did not respond
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Warren Kinsella: Let slip the Persian dogs of war
War is coming. Trump is going to declare war on Iran. Seems pretty obvious. And, if he’s counting on all the Executive Order fuss being forgotten, as a result, he’d be right.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Maybe I was too quick to thank Twitter
Got this beaut while we were away. This woman hangs out with assorted West Coast Far Right kooks and periodically offers to rat them out. Anyway. Reported it and a couple other bon mots to Twitter. No response, no action. I’m getting the impression the crazies feel empowered these days.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: I vote this was a good decision
Here: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is abandoning his long-held promise to change the way Canadians vote in federal elections. In a mandate letter for newly appointed Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould, Trudeau makes it clear that electoral reform – once top of mind for the Liberal government – is no
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: I think Kellie Leitch thinks we’ve all forgotten about this.
We haven’t. It will go down as one of biggest mistakes in Canadian political history.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Highly-scientific poll: what should Trudeau say and/or do about Trump?
You know my view. At a certain point, I’ve suggested, silence becomes complicity. Moreover, he’s promised to come after us on a myriad number of issues – trade, military alliances, security – so crossing our fingers and hoping he doesn’t notice us for the next four years is a fool’s
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister.
Will the Canadian government now formally protest the White House's lies about the Quebec City massacre? Why not, if not? #cdnpoli #uspoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 31, 2017 Background here, for the supplementary question(s).
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: This week’s column: silence in the face of injustice is…our nation’s capital!
ABOARD WESTJET 2766 – Dear Justin, Tom and a Conservative player to be named later: Up here in the clouds above Canuckistan and Trumpland, jetting South, we cannot help but think of you. A few days ago, you see, my wife Lisa and daughter Emma travelled to Washington, D.C. with
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Look who is in this week’s Hill Times opposing Trump!
Three Kinsellas, no less – Emma, Lisa and some old punk guy.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Maximum disruption, promise made and promise kept
Observing terrible events from a great distance – you might say we are On The Beach in more ways than one – I’d like to offer up a couple observations about the Unpresident. One relates to my time in politics, and one come from the period when I was an active journalist.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Quebec City
Murdering people at prayer is deeply evil. Assassiner les gens à la prière est profondément méprisable. #Quebec — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 30, 2017
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Thank you Twitter – and to our friends who complained, too
“Jordanwalter75” is a Trumpkin who tweeted last night that he hoped a terrorist killed us and our kids. I complained to Twitter, as did not a few others. They shut him down in record time. And, just now, I got this. Impressed.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Trump wants to look at our cell phones, so I decided to help him out
Here: Trump administration officials are discussing the possibility of asking foreign visitors to disclose all websites and social media sites they visit, and to share the contacts in their cell phones. If the foreign visitor declines to share such information, he or she could be denied entry. To save him
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Jesus was a refugee
In the past year or so, in this space, nothing has enraged the so-called “Christian Right” more than my suggestion that Jesus Christ was a refugee. It rendered them apoplectic. It enraged them. Some days, I spent hours blocking these “Christian” trolls who would go on to vote for Trump.
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