#ONpoli, and the false god of anonymous sources
So, there’s a Toronto Star story this morning about Kathleen Wynne’s political future. By my count, it has five sources in it who are quoted directly, but not named. There…
Warren
One’s a scratching, biting, rutting, unintelligent rodent-like animal
…and the other is the Easter Bunny. Caption of Holy Week, folks, right here.
This week’s column: fall on your sword
White House press secretary Sean Spicer standing at the door to a United Airlines plane, sipping a Pepsi. If a picture is worth a thousand words, and it assuredly is,…
Fox News = bullshit
Fox News @JonScottFNC "To the Muslim community, if you don't want to be portrayed in a negative light don't burn people alive/set off bombs" pic.twitter.com/ouePug6tuF — Yashar (@yashar) April 16,…
Tough piece on the Trudeau-Trump dynamic
But fair. Found here. As regulars know, I’ve written a lot about how there should never be a fine line between supportive and supplicant. Neville Chamberlain was very popular, for…
I can’t stop laughing at this picture
There were some confrontations between Left and Right – or, more accurately, antifa and white supremacists – at Berkeley in the past few days. As my Canadian friend (and Berkeley…
The only question about Trump
Will they be able to impeach before he starts wars in Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea? That’s the only question. The official investigation into relations between Donald Trump and Russia…
I miss mix tapes
So I bought this shirt. (Get yours here!)
A Trump-Russia bombshell must have been coming
…so he made another kind of bombshell, to distract. MOAB: Mislead, Obstruct, Antagonize, Baffle. CNN: Washington – The US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four…
Official protest
Just like John Lennon protested the failure of ‘Cold Turkey’ moving up the charts by sending back his MBE, I am protesting that none of you have turned the Hot…
City councillor targeted with anti-gay hate
And just look at the return address, Frank Addario: it’s your neo-Nazi client’s address. Must be a coincidence. Today I received new homophobic hate mail on #DayofPink. #irony #stopbullyingnow #lovetrumpshate…
BC election: I love good war room stuff
Heh. Guess who made an appearance at @jjhorgan campaign announcement for @bcndp? #bcelxn17 #bcpoli pic.twitter.com/toEWNEqPue — Taran Parmar (@Taranparmar983) April 12, 2017
Opposing hate: an invitation
Got an email and a letter: For the uninitiated, Your Ward News is a neo-Nazi rag a few of us have been fighting for many months. Details here and here…
Help wanted
Choose your next job: — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) April 11, 2017
This is how you do crisis comms, United Airlines
From the York Region District School Board trustees, facing a bit of a challenge of their own. Be proactive Be clear No jargon Take responsibility Say what you are going…
The CPC leadership race: a lose-lose proposition
Now in HuffPo.
Fly the potentially-lethal skies
My recommended ad campaign.
This week’s column: CPC, losers
Can you lose by winning? It’s not a riddle, it’s a fair question. Surveying the wreckage that now litters the Conservative landscape, it’s a timely question, too. Because, make no…
The fake media construct in the age of the Unpresident
Krugman in the New York Times: The attack instantly transformed news coverage of the Trump administration. Suddenly stories about infighting and dysfunction were replaced with screaming headlines about the president’s…
100 years ago today: Vimy
My son is at Vimy today with his St Mike’s classmates – and I know he will always remember the significance of it. More than 3,500 Canadians killed, more than…