If, like me, you are a retired senior to whom the fates have been reasonably kind, you have the luxury to contemplate the world around you at your leisure. If you are at all engaged in the larger world, however, that contemplation is rarely relaxing or enjoyable. You have seen
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Politics and its Discontents: The Simpsons Have His Number
Those whose memories extend beyond last night’s hockey scores may recall that in 2011, while he was a Toronto city councillor, Doug Ford proposed an ‘exciting’ vision for that city’s waterfront: a monorail, a megamall, and a giant Ferris wheel,: “What we’d like to do is have a monorail system
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Seeking Sanctuary
Sometimes, living in Canada’s most populous province is embarrassing. Anyone know a remote mountain top I can retreat to? These letter-writers define my problem: In light of the recent PC leadership convention that saw the resurrection of the anti-abortion faction, the denial of climate change, the renewal of the “no
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Ontario’s Conservatives looking like a Multi Level Marketing scheme….
If you’ve ever been to a presentation for a company like Amway or Melaluca, then you likely understand the appeal of someone like Doug Ford. The script is fairly simple, some guy (invariably a man) gets up in front of a room full of people hoping to get rich, and
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Doug Ford Wins Ontario PC Leadership With Chants of MOGA
Trumpism has come to Ontario. The highly unpopular movement in the US fueled by social conservatives has reared its head in Ontario politics last night when controversial PC leadership candidate Doug Ford won the Progressive Conservative leadership amidst social media chants of Make Ontario Great Again (MOGA which is ripped
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Unity at all costs? Ontario PC choice of Doug Ford as leader shows need for principled conservative division
PHOTOS: Doug Ford in 2014 (Photo: Bruce Reeve, Creative Commons). Below: Toronto’s calamitous mayor Rob Ford, who died in 2016; second-place Ontario PC candidate Christine Elliott, who has not yet conceded the victory to Doug Ford; Alberta Opposition Leader Jason Kenney; and U.S. President Donald Trump. (Photos: All from the
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: What to do when a hatemonger says he supports you
Simple. You reject his support. And then you denounce him the clearest terms. To put a fine point on it: Kevin J. Johnston is a notorious Muslim-hating bigot who has been charged with hate crimes. Doug Ford must denounce him and reject his support – now. More about Johnston’s hate
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Andrea Horwath will be Ontario’s next premier – remember where you heard it first, Albertans
PHOTOS: Andrea Horwath, leader of the Ontario NDP. Below: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, sometime Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader Patrick Brown, the late Jim Prentice when he was PC premier of Alberta, and former Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak. (All photos except those of Mr. Prentice and Ms. Notley are
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Brown Out In Ontario PC Leadership Race And Recap Thus Far
Patrick Brown decided today that he was ending his candidacy for the Ontario PC Leadership race due to death threats and harassment his family received, and also due to his mother apparently being hospitalized because she can’t handle the stress of her son’s public life. This abrupt end to Brown
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Why does Vic “Feel Her Up Fedeli” still have a job? Bombshell news…
Welcome to the matrix my friends. I’ve never actually seen any of the Matrix movies from start to finish, but if I understand the premise correctly the idea is that what we, “the sheep” see as reality, that its all really just an illusion, designed to control and manipulate us.
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Fair minded Ontario PC members should vote for Patrick Brown…
In legal circles you’ll sometimes come across the expression ‘fruit from the poison tree’. In the Patrick Brown case the poison came from a story that came out January 24th from Bell Media news outlet CTV. I’m not going to rehash it in detail, the story was such a piece
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Caroline Mulroney – Burning down the PC house?
Caroline Mulroney is running for the leadership of Onatrio’s Progressive Conservative Party, following in her father’s political footsteps. Conservatives interested in the long term viability of the Ontario PC Party may want to consider the history, the similarities are striking. For younger readers Brian Mulroney was the last Progressive Conservative
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Am I still standing with Patrick Brown? Read and find out…
I just got off the phone with my brother, a long time member of Ontario’s PC party. He wanted to know if, in light of recent revelations, I still supported Patrick Brown’s bid to reclaim the leadership of the party. I wrote a blog post on February 16th that’s been
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Patrick Brown in pictures
One is creepy. One is arguably…you know what it is. There’s more of this sort of hung out there, I’m told. After last night’s blockbuster Globe and Mail story – which suggested he had schemed to get a big payment from a man who would get a coveted PC nomination
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: Did Patrick Brown scheme to sell off candidate spots?
And did he plot to put the resulting many thousands in his own pocket? Check out this stunner Globe and Mail story. It is simply incredible. . Former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown was in talks to sell an interest in a restaurant he partially owns and some Aeroplan
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: On Political Prostitution
As the spectacle of political prostitution plays out in the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race (Carbon tax? Absolutely not!) (New efficiencies – not new taxes!) Star letter writer Norah Downey of Midland appears to have taken the full measures of the candidates: PC party sitting down to eat itself alive,
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: It was my party, and I’ll destroy it if I want to
I fixed today’s Toronto Sun cover. #onpoli pic.twitter.com/UEEPhbGhCh — Lisa Kinsella (@lisakinsella) February 18, 2018
Continue readingWarren Kinsella: It’s all over before it’s started (updated)
As predicted: his strategy is to destroy his former political home. He’s doing that. This turns the PC Party of Ontario into a running joke. Their leadership race becomes a farce. All that can save them now is another young woman coming forward to tell her story. Will she? UPDATE:
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Has The Ontario PC Party Opened Up a Pandora’s Box With Brown?
Since the Patrick Brown scandal broke on CTV, there are a lot of unanswered questions about the allegations surrounding Brown’s accusers of sexual misconduct, to the role both the party and the reporting by CTV News. In a two part interview with Global TV which played out over two days,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Parochial Post?
While I realize that a post about Ontario politics is likely of little interest to those living elsewhere, I believe what has happened in my province serves as a solid object lesson about the creeping privatization of public assets. I have written in the past about Premier Kathleen Wynne’s betrayal
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