Tag: Musings

Last night, a number of people – many of them Jewish, in fact – drew to my attention the tweet below, authored by Sue-Ann Levy.  When I saw it, I was appalled as they were.  I condemned what she said, and I suspect many others will continue to do so.

…and I can tell you that senior Conservatives were quite unenthusiastic about him as federal leader. But that’s that.

Liberal leadership season is upon us! It’s all pretty historic, too. For the first time ever, Grits are lining up to choose leaders in Quebec, Ontario and federally. Never before have the three largest Liberal configurations been holding leadership races simultaneously. Historians will be excited by that, of course, but

Over on Twitter, I made repeated attempts to ask Gerry Nicholls about what Harper did at the NCC, since Nicholls is clamouring about what he didn’t.  He repeatedly refused to answer.  My “responsible communication” defence thus assured, I wrote the following letter to PMO.  I’ll let y’all know when (and

There haven’t been a lot of reviews so far – book pages are becoming a lot less plentiful, sadly – but Matt Price at the Huffington Post gave it a thorough read. Here it is in true blurb style: “[Kinsella] deserves credit for writing this book, period… he is absolutely

I’m moving to Canada! Oh, wait.

Says it all, don’t you think?

Gerry Nicholls is formerly a “senior officer” with the far-right lobby group, the National Citizens Coalition.  Last week, I wrote a column that mentioned in passing Stephen Harper’s time heading the NCC.  Nicholls objected to what I wrote, and apparently sent a letter to the Sun.  Here is what he

Story here. If this bastard thinks we’re going to forget about these women, he’s got another thing coming.

With a $50,000 entry fee, and a $500,000 spending limit – and, most of all, an end-of-January leadership convention – the Ontario Liberal executive is seeking to discourage minor candidates. That’s a wise move, in my view. So who should we pick? I’ll be offering a few considerations shortly. It’s

Can Canadian Liberalism survive? Is the party over? The times are clearly dire, for Canadian Grits. One need only to survey newspaper opinion pages to know this is so. “(There has been) a new round of media and public speculation about the imminent collapse of Canadian Liberalism,” wrote one respected

From longtime friend, Chretien loyalist, and future Prime Minister Chris Collenette, who now resides in the land of my ancestors: Fight The Right takes the Emerald Isle by storm! “Warren: I headed into town today with the family to run a couple of errands and wouldn’t you know that everywhere I

This Conservative government occasionally makes me want to throw up. This is one of those times.

The media who were criticizing Justin Trudeau and his Liberal supporters for a permitting “coronation” instead of a leadership contest? Yeah, well, they’re the same geniuses now criticizing Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal supporters for wanting the Ontario Premier to enter the leadership race, and thereby make it a contest and not

We’ve been asked to play at Strummerfest in K-W, on the tenth anniversary of his passing. Practiced last night. Our ‘Bubbles’ video, for those who care what we still sound like, below. (Oh, and our new LP is being sold everywhere, now.) In part, yes, I am posting this to

Now, then.

Is it ever a good idea to attack the guy without whom you wouldn’t have been elected in the first place? The guy you left high and dry to go to Ottawa? To attack him, a potential leadership candidate, on behalf of a declared leadership candidate? To give high-sounding civics

I don’t recall saying that Trudeau was the only solution. But he’s a great, great guy. Anyway, here I am back in The Charlatan – thirty years after I was an editor there. I grow old, I grow old, etc.

I knew there was a reason why I admire her so much.