How does bombing targets in Syria, without asking Syria for permission, and continuing to condemn Syria, make us an ally of Syria? #cdnpoIi — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 26, 2015 Opposing the Obama-led international coalition for whatever reason is one thing. But to actually suggest we have now somehow become
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Warren Kinsella: Why the Mike Duffy trial/scandal/whatever won’t topple the government, with bonus ALL CAPS
You all know my views on scandal stuff, but you also know I am a digitized, Internet-based broken record, and possibly not even a person. To wit: scandal-mongering DOESN’T WORK. Cole’s Notes version as to why: The media/politico chattering class call EVERYTHING a scandal, and always append “gate” to the end
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The key sentence in the Competition Bureau decision on Sun-Postmedia acquisition/merger
Right here: “The Bureau also took into consideration the dynamic nature of media markets and the challenges faced by traditional media in adapting to an increasingly digital world.” Shorter version: newspapers need all the help they can get, and we aren’t about to hasten their demise. Knock yourselves out, etc.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In this week’s Hill Times: ten reasons why the Grits and Dippers won’t dance
These are some of the things that happen every four years: leap year, a total solar eclipse, the Olympics, and the FIFA World Cup. Oh, and debate—ad infinitum, ad nauseam—about the Liberals and New Democrats coming together to defeat the Satanic Stephen Harper Conservatives. That, too, happens every four years—and,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: ISIS: read this
This Matthews guy is smart. One expert in genocide and war said the government motion neatly manoeuvred Trudeau into repudiating his own party’s foreign policy legacy. “I think now from a political perspective this is a bigger wedge issue because Liberals were the ones who helped bring about responsibility to
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Pope Francis is the most important progressive leader in the world
And here’s yet another reason why.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: The war against ISIS: write your own talking points
As expected, the Harper government is moving to extend and even expand our participation in the international force targeting ISIS. The Conservatives – with the possible exception of Michael Chong – will be unanimous in their support for that motion. The NDP – with no exceptions that I’m aware of
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Meanwhile, indigenous people say they were born here first, and want Donald Trump to go back to where he came from
…which, clearly, is a European insane asylum.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Your morning moral relativism
If you’re like me, you form judgments based upon a number of variables. You look at the evidence, and you choose. So, you look at the evidence unearthed by the United Nations, which has reported that ISIS is “selling abducted Iraqi children at markets as sex slaves, and killing other
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Pennywise!
I can breathe in this world.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Meerkat and Periscope will change politics
Mark my words. My band did a Toronto show on Thursday night. We played live, and we were seen by a respectable number of people as far away as Australia. I’m told we were among the first bands to ever use this new video live streaming thing in that way.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Steve Ladurantaye adds to his bulging tabloid headline file
A classic.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Political foot-in-mouth disease: when is it an accident, and when is it deliberate?
Michael Harris in iPolitics: The odd thing about about this re-run of the Right of the Living Dead in the CPC is that it represents something that Stephen Harper himself used to view with mortification and alarm. His original inspiration for muzzling MPs came from his days with Preston Manning.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: SFH comes alive!
From left: Davey Snot, Royal Niblet, Steve Deceive and Winkie Smith. Bjorn von Flapjack III? Who cares. We hate him, now. I love Stevie’s Townshend-esque flourish. Classic. Oh, and we made history! We broadcast our show live over Meerkat and Periscope, and got watched as far away as Australia. Cool.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Headline of 2015 so far
Spotted by the ever-vigilant Michael Slavitch.
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: In this week’s Hill Times: it’s 2015, not 1939
In May 1939, the ocean liner St. Louis departed Hamburg with nearly 1,000 Jews onboard. They were heading to Cuba, to escape Nazi persecution. When they arrived in Havana, two weeks later, every Jew aboard was denied entry. The St. Louis’ captain tried again, in Florida. There, too, the Jewish passengers were not
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Whistle while you work
Quote: Like a real dog whistle which produces sound at a high frequency that can be heard by canines but not by humans, dog-whistle politics refers to the use of code words that go unheard or unremarked by most people but which convey a particular — usually nasty, racially tinged
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Ottawa-based guy chimes in
Quote: Warren Kinsella, another Ottawa-based political strategist and former Special Assistant to Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien agrees. “The NDP never wants the Green party there, the Liberals would prefer not to have the NDP there, the Tories would probably prefer to have nobody there. All of them have their
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Moving is worse than…
• Getting kicked in the face by a goat • Leaving a baby on a bus • Having to poop at your friend’s tiny studio apartment • Accidentally drooling while speaking to a Super Model • Being kidnapped by a drug cartel • Swallowing a pill sideways • Week-long Justin
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Ekos: check out BC and Quebec
It’s just one poll, election is far away, blah blah blah. But if those BC and PQ numbers are right, Harper doesn’t have far to go to secure another majority. Wow.
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