Boy Blue in Waiting.
It seems the news hounds and pundits have made up their minds: they expect Pierre Poilievre, MP from Carleton, to be ready to accept the conservative crown after Erin O’Toole…
January 2022
Plague Convoy Gets Support From Premier and O’Toole
Canada’s capital is occupied by white supremacist, anti-vax protesters who’ve urinated on the National War Memorial, stood on the Unknown Soldier’s tomb, flown Nazi and Confederate flags, and even desecrated…
Kenney Condemns (sort of) the Actions of the Freedom Convoy
I didn’t want to write about the Freedom Convoy, aka the yahoos who converged on Ottawa to protest the federal government’s truckers vaccine mandate (and everything else covid related) and…
The Cons and the Parliament Hill Horror Show
It was always going to be an ugly spectacle, an assault on the values that make this country great. A Con convoy demanding the end of vaccine mandates that are…
The Rabble Cries For Truth
Problem is, only their ‘truth’ is acceptable. H/t Johnny Fondue Recommend this Post
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Eric Topol charts how vaccines to date have continued to provide essential protection against the Omicron COVID variant, even as people with…
New one. On the parkway, heading to Bloomfield.
New one. Better than watching some jerks on TV. pic.twitter.com/YE3jwo44TT — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 30, 2022 The post New one. On the parkway, heading to Bloomfield. first appeared on…
Lunatic Fringe?
I’m a bit of a social media addict, but I quietly wandered away from Facebook last summer when too many people I know in real life were making fun of…
Far-right convoy extremists have shown us what they really are: selfish, entitled, grown children. It’s time to show them who we are.
Far-right grown babies demand ‘freedumbs’ in Ottawa yesterday I don’t always agree with everything Althea Raj writes, but good for her today to tell this truth: “(Un)vaccinated protesters on the…
Canada’s militant working class history
Pickets at the Moncton Hospital during the New Brunswick public sector general strike in June 1992. Photo from Provincial Solidarities: A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour by…
The Morning After: The First Day of Whatever the Hell That Was
In the past I’ve written some of these “Morning After” pieces to discuss elections, debates or more normal political things. It was an approach I always felt worked well for…
Facebook cancels my Facebook account
@facebook has now restricted my account for posting of news photos of the extremism being expressed in Ottawa. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/dryXTTkJD8 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 30, 2022 The post Facebook…
KINSELLACAST 195: Lilley, Mraz on Freedumb – plus Weakerthans, New Pornographers & Hot Nasties!
The post KINSELLACAST 195: Lilley, Mraz on Freedumb – plus Weakerthans, New Pornographers & Hot Nasties! first appeared on Warren Kinsella.
About That Convoy … Protest … Whatever
As we speak a bunch of anti-mask/vaxx/generally pissed off with govt types are clogging things up in Ottawa. Frankly, this is a bunch of loudmouth idiots who have fallen down…
Covid Journal, Jan 29 2022 ‘What The Truck’ Edition
Is it possible that Covid is exposing larger, looming corporate issues in our society, like what crowdfunding sites should be forced to do with money raised from questionable sources or…
A Sad History
This week, the United States Supreme Court takes up cases against the affirmative action programs at Harvard University and, my alma mater, the University of North Carolina. Paul Butler writes…
memories of great-aunt betty
An important family matriarch passed away this week, at the age of 96. Betty MacDowell was my partner Allan’s great-aunt, his father’s mother’s sister. She was one of the warmest,…
Freedumb
With this, the people who went to Ottawa to protest Justin Trudeau have re-elected Justin Trudeau. #cdnpoli https://t.co/5SvUJjYwDN — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 30, 2022 The post Freedumb first appeared…
Two Cups of Tea and Slivers of Time
The other day I recorded a short video for the (free!) online Caregiving Essentials course that I facilitate at McMaster University Department of Continuing Education. I was talking about self-care.…
Don’t Bet on a Minority.
Politicos and observers are doing some wishful thinking to believe there is likely to be a minority government after Ontario’s June provincial election. Voters are faced with three major party…