Tag: Musings

A dishonest non-entity who is running for the Conservative Party leadership has a strategy: to yank every fire alarm she comes across.  Her latest stunt? Kill the CBC. She’s lying, of course.  She was previously in power for many years, and did nothing – absolutely nothing – about the CBC.  In

From InFocus at York University: Neo Nazi Publication “Your Ward News” appears at York University; Administration Promises Action Students from the Israeli Students Association (ISA), a CAMERA-supported group, recently discovered copies of the virulently anti-Semitic Your Ward News being distributed on official newsstands throughout York University. The publication was found

Society has become more understanding of mental illness. But what if the mentally ill person is about to become #POTUS? What then? — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 29, 2016

Grateful, relieved, happy.  That’s what not a few of us felt when Donald Trump “won.”  (I put “won” in flying quotes because, as various experts have now noted, there’s an excellent chance that the bilious billionaire actually lost the presidential race, but “won” because industrious Russian hackers nudged 100,000 votes

…that’s the working title of my next book. It’s the sequel to Web of Hate. And my sense is that I’m going to have no shortage of source material.  Steve Bannon on excluding African Americans from voting: "Maybe that's not such a bad thing."https://t.co/L4zbY8X2rN pic.twitter.com/4yTpY8hK8e — Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) November

So, Tip O'Neill's truism comes to mind: never get introduced to the crowd at sporting events. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/Ry9N2l6c4D — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 28, 2016

Right. Two word response: Donald Trump. This is the new era. A politician can say anything, now. We have a national memory of five minutes. https://t.co/0tkwA2IiA4 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 27, 2016 So: The Canadian Prime Minister praised Castro in a statement a twenty-something wrote and no one  really

Summarized brilliantly by the paper that could do it best, the Miami Herald:

The @samoosterhoff jokes must stop. He's an elected MPP and deserves the respect we normally show to 19 yr olds living at home. #onpoli — Alan Carter (@ACarterglobal) November 25, 2016

So: Approval of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her government is so low the Progressive Conservatives are in supermajority territory, a new poll shows. The Tories would snap up 70 of the 107 seats at Queen’s Park if an election were imminent, the Forum Research phone survey of 1,184 people

I wondered how much snow I’d gotten up at the cabin. So I checked the security camera. Now I know. 

If this doesn’t make every journalist in Canada puke, I don’t know what will: Amid another year of dramatic restructuring at Postmedia Network Canada Corp., the company’s five most senior executives were awarded nearly $2.3-million in retention bonuses. The payouts, which are outlined in company disclosures filed on Wednesday, are

So, this: Toronto Mayor John Tory is set to endorse a controversial introduction of road tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway to raise $300 million a year for his cash-starved government, the Star has learned. Tory is expected to make the daring declaration in a luncheon speech

In our neighbourhood, too. Anti-Semitic graffiti 'stopped me in my tracks,' Toronto resident says https://t.co/6aLqMjVCM6 pic.twitter.com/7A8zUQvij1 — CBC News (@CBCNews) November 24, 2016

There’s this: And then there’s this: Experts Urge Hillary Clinton to Challenge Election Results https://t.co/DciHTSivZ2 via @intelligencer — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 23, 2016

Blood and Honour is a thirty-year-old neo-Nazi organization that started in the U.K., and was founded by Ian Stuart Donaldson of Skrewdriver. Combat 18, meanwhile, is a mainly skinhead organization that has been responsible for murders and assaults targeting non-whites around the globe (the “18” is the numbers of he alphabet

My family member is pinned to my wall, like an insect. It’s a bit clinical, perhaps, but it’s apt. Ever since Donald Trump shocked the world, and rode a wave of white resentment and rage into the Oval Office, I’ve been thinking a lot about my relative. He used to

With the erudite and brilliant Chad Rogers, the charming and brilliant Kathleen Monk, and some guy brought in to refresh their water glasses. On one point we all agreed: the outcome of the next Ontario election remains elusive.  (When cabinet ministers do stuff like this, you understand why.)   Chad

…is complaining about a comedy show being mean to him.  Seriously. I’d love to be able to joke about him having access to the nuclear codes, but I just can’t.  This is precisely was Hillary warned everyone about. If the Doomsday Clock isn’t fully at midnight by the end of

My take, in today’s Hill Times: Warren Kinsella, a former assistant to Mr. Chrétien and now a Hill Times columnist, said sexism played a role in both Ms. Clinton’s and Ms. Chow’s defeats, and that the campaigns of Mr. Martin and Mr. Prentice were simply “badly run.” However, he said