Citizens of the Vatican, it’s your lucky day!
President Trump says he will suspend immigration from “areas of the world” with “a proven history of terrorism.” So, no more immigration from any other country, including the U.S.! Vatican…
Warren
Adler-Kinsella Show: in which we don’t discuss Brexit, because we didn’t think it would happen
…but we talked about Chretien and other things. There are some surprises in here, if you care to listen.
Winners: racists and the economically illiterate. Losers: everyone else.
WINNERS Racists, nativists and isolationists: There is a reason why Trump, Le Pen and their ilk favoured a “leave” vote: their prospects are always improved when people are divided…
Brexit: fasten your seatbelt, world
Coming up: another vote on Scottish secession, and a push for Irish unification. I mean, why not, right? #Brexit — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 24, 2016 The Parti Quebecois is…
Farewell, Stephen Harper, we barely knew ye
And so it ends, not with a bang but a whimper. Unlike some folks, I don’t hate Stephen Harper. All of my five reasons are personal. When my Dad was…
Lucida Sans Unicode, the final frontier
How weird am I? This weird: the most interesting thing I’ve read in weeks is an analysis of the fonts used in Blade Runner. Story here. The subtitle reads WORLD WIDE…
Hung out with Against Me after our boy’s graduation
Which made it more perfect.
The graduate
He doesn’t quite look like this, tonight, as he graduates from high school – honour roll, Ontario scholar, all that. Got an offer and scholarship from every single university he…
The Fourth Estate, the State, and Grattan O’Leary
From Bruce Cheadle at Canadian Press: OTTAWA—The federal Liberal government has enlisted the independent Public Policy Forum to assess the state of Canada’s struggling news industry as it mulls over…
The Truth is irrelevant
Quote from a fascinating Washington Post piece on Trump’s Muslim-hating strategy: He said it doesn’t matter that isn’t true. “It’s not about that,” he said. “Look, it’s an analogy.” The…
In this week’s Hill Times: stop letting evil/crazy people get guns, for starters
Could Orlando have happened here? Well, we’ve got our share of Islamic terrorists here, of course: the attack on Parliament Hill, and several other attacks in the past decade, have…
It wasn’t the medium, per McLuhan, it was the message
Doesn’t anyone get that? No? Here, take a quiz: It isn’t whether your paid is online or on TV or on whatever, boys and girls. It’s what you say, and…
When you fire your campaign manager mid-campaign
It’s never usually good. I was there on the national Liberal campaign in 1984 when John Turner did it to Bill Lee, and replaced him with Keith Davey. Senator Davey…
Donald Trump, the conservative-killer
This is so awesome. Keep at it, you fatuous douchebag!
Best father-son song of all time
Always makes me think of mine, gone 12 years now. Life goes fast, men. Grab it.
Trudeau’s first Parliamentary session
It was bumpy. They’re a new government, and they often looked like it. C-14, in particular, was not their finest hour. At different points, it was: The elbowgate thing, which…
My view on father’s day
Not bad. That’s Son Four on the left, on the move for True North.