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From next week’s column: I’m pissed off
And this is the part where I’m actually calm. Justin Trudeau said he’d support indigenous leaders. He didn’t. Justin Trudeau said he’s a feminist. He isn’t. Justin Trudeau is a…
Federal political leaders, reviewed
So: A Liberal leader who demotes/disrespects competent, respected women who are indigenous or handled important indigenous files, likely because they threaten his celebrity. A Conservative leader who has a taxpayer-subsidized…
Jagmeet Singh and the first Kinsellian Political Rule™
The puzzle that is Jagmeet Singh: what are we to do with you, Jagmeet? Andrew Coyne has a typically thoughtful piece in today’s National Post about the erstwhile New Democratic…
Recipe For Hate: a look at the crime scene
My first book in the X Gang series, Recipe For Hate, is up for another award this year – the White Pine Award – and I’m honoured to be considered…
Ten years? Ten years.
As the new school year begins, I was wondering where I was a decade ago this week. For one thing, I was getting ready to square off in court against…
Donald Trump is an asshole and a you-know-what
Is he a motherfucker, too? For sure. He’s an asshole and a motherfucker. Those are just the facts. So, here’s the song my band did about him. It’s catchy. Sing…
TRUE TALES OF WARREN IN THE WILD
Lady approaches me at Shiatsu place. SHE: I love your hair! What do you do to hold it up? ME: Pardon? SHE: May I touch it? ME: Um, okay. She…
How will I vote in 2019?
Well, if Trump hasn’t killed us all before we get around to voting, this is kind of where I’m at, as 2018 grinds to a close. All pricing subject to…
Kinsella’s year-end Hill Times’ political winners and losers
The year-end political winners and losers column is as clichéd, hackneyed and overdone as it gets. But no one ever accused this writer of being, you know, original. So, heretofore…
Canada already is great, Hudsons Bay, you clueless morons
First spotted at the Bay at Pacific Centre in Vancouver. They were sold there in October, disappeared for a while, and then made a comeback this week. Tone-deaf, stupid, irritating.…
Could Justin Trudeau lose next year? Maybe. Possibly.
Could Justin Trudeau lose? Because, increasingly, some smart politicos – including ones of the Liberal persuasion – are saying it’s possible. Likely, even. Now, “loss,” here, includes loss of the…
Holiday greetings from Daisy Group to you!
By our resident design geniuses, Katie and Zack!
CJN on Judge Dan Moore’s willingness to let the death-threat neo-Nazis go free
Facts unreported to date: this judge let the taxpayer-funded neo-Nazis’ lawyers cross-examine Lisa about her views on abortion this judge let the neo-Nazis’ lawyers question me about the name of…
By-elections, by the numbers
The morning after the by-election in Leeds-Grenville, Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, I know what Gordie and I would have been doing. We would have been going through the numbers.…
38 years ago tonight
My girlfriend Paula Christison had been over, and we’d been studying, then watching something on the little black and white TV we had. My Carleton roommate, Lee G. Hill, was…