By the numbers
New popular vote totals from AP: • Clinton 65,124,828 (48.2%) • Trump 62,652,263 (46.3%) • Johnson 4,457,409 (3.3%) • Stein 1,429,050 (1.1%)
Warren
Two big things to do with democracy
One in Ottawa, one in Toronto. The federal one: The government should develop a proportional voting system and hold a referendum to ask Canadians whether they want a new system,…
President Troll
Son Four and I were listening to CBC radio on the way back from the Raps game (we beat the Grizzlies, but kind of didn’t deserve to), and some brilliant…
Santa Klaus
A Klaus Nomi tree decoration. I have lived long enough to see it all. Click Klaus to see even more, passed along to me by my hipster daughter. Ho ho…
Shitface von Clownstick’s bold move
Putting your family in charge of your businesses is the very definition of conflict of interest, you moron. #uspoli @realDonaldTrump — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 30, 2016
Pipeline
There’s this take on pipelines, as related by the Ventures: And there’s this take which I would have related on CP24 if they hadn’t cancelled to talk about the Ontario…
On the CBC: ten reasons why I like it
A dishonest non-entity who is running for the Conservative Party leadership has a strategy: to yank every fire alarm she comes across. Her latest stunt? Kill the CBC. She’s lying,…
Donald über Alles: Trump Virus spreads in Toronto
From InFocus at York University: Neo Nazi Publication “Your Ward News” appears at York University; Administration Promises Action Students from the Israeli Students Association (ISA), a CAMERA-supported group, recently discovered…
Serious question
Society has become more understanding of mental illness. But what if the mentally ill person is about to become #POTUS? What then? — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 29, 2016
This week’s column: God save Justin Trudeau
Grateful, relieved, happy. That’s what not a few of us felt when Donald Trump “won.” (I put “won” in flying quotes because, as various experts have now noted, there’s an…
Trump Reich
…that’s the working title of my next book. It’s the sequel to Web of Hate. And my sense is that I’m going to have no shortage of source material. Steve…
Apparently there are many Castro critics at this year’s Grey Cup
So, Tip O'Neill's truism comes to mind: never get introduced to the crowd at sporting events. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/Ry9N2l6c4D — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 28, 2016
Trudeau, Castro, condolences and memory
Right. Two word response: Donald Trump. This is the new era. A politician can say anything, now. We have a national memory of five minutes. https://t.co/0tkwA2IiA4 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
Castro
Summarized brilliantly by the paper that could do it best, the Miami Herald:
Ontario politics tweet of the week
The @samoosterhoff jokes must stop. He's an elected MPP and deserves the respect we normally show to 19 yr olds living at home. #onpoli — Alan Carter (@ACarterglobal) November 25,…
It’s Forum. But, holy crap. Also, change chosen.
So: Approval of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her government is so low the Progressive Conservatives are in supermajority territory, a new poll shows. The Tories would snap up 70…
It’ll be a White Christmas somewhere, at least
I wondered how much snow I’d gotten up at the cabin. So I checked the security camera. Now I know.
Postmedia: the Guild of Vampires always feed themselves first
If this doesn’t make every journalist in Canada puke, I don’t know what will: Amid another year of dramatic restructuring at Postmedia Network Canada Corp., the company’s five most senior…
If they put a toll on political bullshit, they’d make way more money
So, this: Toronto Mayor John Tory is set to endorse a controversial introduction of road tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway to raise $300 million a year…
Donald uber Alles: now in Toronto
In our neighbourhood, too. Anti-Semitic graffiti 'stopped me in my tracks,' Toronto resident says https://t.co/6aLqMjVCM6 pic.twitter.com/7A8zUQvij1 — CBC News (@CBCNews) November 24, 2016