Has peace been restored? Has the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario come back to its senses? There was a wonderful shot on Global Television last night of a lone television reporter standing vigil on King Street in front of the Albany Club in Toronto. The sheen of that heavy wooden
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Canadian 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 readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Ontario PCs: The Morning Line.
It’s a muddy, cold day at the track but thankfully this race is not too long. The candidates for the leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party will be At Post before you know it. Tanya Granic Allen: 20 to 1 Why anyone would want to put up a $125,000
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Welcome to Canada, where Omar Khadr has more rights than Patrick Brown….
Ontario pay attention, you are about to witness the complete and utter hijacking of democracy in this province. Word is out that the committe charged with green lighting candidates for the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party, that they are going to deny Patrick Brown permission to run for the
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Patrick Brown cleared his name and joined the leadership race…
Okay, first things first, full disclosure. I do not know Patrick Brown, I have never met the man. Likewise I do not know and have never met any of the other leadership candidates. I have also taken out a one year membership in the PC Party of Ontario, something I
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 readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Food for ‘enquiring minds.’
If this writer told you that Ontario Progressive Conservatives might not all be on the up and up, you would likely brush it off as fake news from a raving liberal. Okay, I will give you that. Brush me off as you wish. (Which is why I rarely bother to
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 readingMontreal Simon: Patrick Brown and the Fabulous Con Clown Show
I always knew the Ontario PC's leadership race was a Con clown show. But who knew it could be THAT funny?I knew Patrick Brown could play a really good mummy. But who knew he could also play a really scary Con zombie?Read more »
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: “Patrick! Come back!”
In the iconic western, Shane, the gunfighter rides off into the prairie night and the movie ends. I had no idea that Ontario Conservative MPP Patrick Brown would come back. I have written about the reality that running to replace himself is his only road to redemption but why would
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Righting policy on the right.
Former Tory Leader Patrick Brown thought he had it made last November. He had the policy for the 2018 provincial election nailed down. He had what he thought was a wonderful book that could grace the coffee tables of the province with a great picture of him on the cover.
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 readingCanadian Soapbox: CTV News – The Donald Trump of Canadian journalism
CTV News has announced that they, “stand behind their reporting” of the Patrick Brown story and that attacks on their journalistic practices are, “groundless and wrong“. Really? They can stand behind their reporting all they like but they don’t get to decide if criticism of their journalistic practices is without
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Out of the limelight for Patrick Brown.
Have you heard that old politicos just fade away? Younger ones are noisier. For example, take Barrie’s favourite son, Patrick Brown. If you hitch your horse in front of any of the many saloons on Barrie’s main street, you are welcome inside but you best not say too loudly that
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Steve Paikin and Patrick Brown – Why the double standard? #MeToo
I do not know Patrick Brown or Steve Paikin. Dealing strictly with the facts I know that both have been accused of sexual misconduct. In the case of Brown the accusations have been made anonymously, while Mr. Paikin’s accuser has revealed her identity. What I am repeatedly hearing with regard
Continue readingCanadian Soapbox: Why Caroline Mulroney must be removed fom the PC leadership race…
In poltics and in other arenas even the appearance of a conflict can cause serious problems. And with the way in which Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party is undergoing a leadership race, the PCs should not even be allowing Caroline Mulroney to run for the job. Not now certainly, although
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Patrick Brown, Doug Ford, and the Collapse of the Con Castle
It's hard to believe that just over two weeks ago Patrick Brown was the king of his Con castle.And getting ready to bury Kathleen Wynne's Ontario Liberals in the next provincial election.He had chiseled the rough edges off his Cons, made them look like a bluish version of the Liberals,
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: And now there are three.
Even in this shortest of all leadership races, it is too early to produce a morning line on the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party contest. How are you expected to consider workouts and past performance for this mixed bag of candidates? And when you only have three—so far—you have to wait
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Brown’s fans fight for fairness.
How do you petition public opinion? How many signatures on Facebook would impress the hoi polloi? Would you send the results to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook? Just how do you defend against accusations handled entirely within the court of public opinion? Talking to one of the people behind the
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