Two effective ways of dealing with prejudice, up above and down here
My friends were busy yesterday. My friend Bernie Farber, a veritable force of nature who is presently up to something big, scored a victory against hate yesterday: he and others…
Warren
My publisher so liked what the Toronto Star said about Recipe For Hate, they made it into a graphic
Personally, I like what Publisher’s Weekly and Quill and Quire said even more!
Some of her best friends are Jews
If B.C. Green Party advisor Mr. Spector was still alive, we would send him this about the Trump Party that he, you know, defended. Child molester Roy Moore’s wife: “Fake…
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BREAKING- After a one week suspension Bell Media has fired popular CP24 noontime host Stephen Ledrew for going on FOX News. More to come. — Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) December 11,…
Nazis in libraries: why is this even a debate?
1. Public libraries are funded by the public. 2. They are extensions of government. 3. Governments are explicitly prohibited from facilitating discrimination via their own laws. 4. Libraries can’t EVER…
Does HuffPo protect sexual abusers?
Get this: I sent that column below – the one the Hill Times printed, about sexual harassment on Parliament Hill – to HuffPo. Here’s the response I got from one…
Toronto Star on Recipe For Hate: it’s “of interest to anyone interested in punk culture!”
Hey! The good folks at the Star wrote about Recipe For Hate – thank you, Sarah Murdoch! Recipe For Hate, Warren Kinsella, Dundurn Warren Kinsella is known mostly as a…
Column: why hasn’t #MeToo hit Ottawa?
It’s hit Hollywood. It’s taken down big names in the media. All over Capitol Hill in Washington, too. So why hasn’t the #MeToo movement claimed any of the creeps crawling…
Some of you wanted my opinion on Jerusalem. Here’s my opinion on Jerusalem.
The pathetic irony is that @realDonaldTrump didn’t recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to curry favor with Israelis and the Jewish diaspora. He did it to curry favor with…
I stand with Trudeau
We used to be friends, we had a falling out. And: he has a very different style than my guy, the Shawinigan Strangler. We were the undersell and over perform…
Who is going to win the Ontario election?
CBC News’ guy, Eric Grenier, has poked through the entrails. His column is here. His chart averaging the main provincial pollsters is below. I like people in politics who say…
When the victim becomes the victimizer
Liberal MP Sherry Romanado-Morgan was right to object when Conservative MP James Bezan made a sexual remark to her. So who will speak up for this unnamed person who Sherry…
Andrew Scheer: the smirking face of intolerance?
This is just out in Vice, by the always-impressive Mr. Balgord. And it is astonishing: A senior member of Andrew Scheer’s leadership team helped create an anti-Islam organization during his…
Fourteen reasons
…why we still need effective gun safety laws. 28 years ago. 1 Geneviève Bergeron (born 1968), civil engineering student 2 Hélène Colgan (born 1966), mechanical engineering student 3 Nathalie Croteau…
In today’s Star: whatshername and whatsisname
Here: Prominent Liberal commentator and consultant Lisa Kinsella is “seriously considering” running for the soon-to-be-vacant Ward 32 seat on Toronto council. “I’ve been encouraged to run in Ward 32 and…
Have the Conservatives scored on Morneau?
I don’t think so. It’s been bumpy, to be sure. But – at the end of the day – the Finance Minister is still standing. And the government would still…
Happy 70th, Horseshoe
54. Warren Kinsella, author: “DOA, 2005. Joey ‘Sh–head’ Keithley sat at the Horseshoe bar with me, up by the doors, and he gave me one of his band’s T-shirts: ‘THIS…