Apparently, I should be dead
So, I should be dead. There I was on the 401 outside Woodstock, driving back to TO in the fastest lane. The highway was clear and smooth. No potholes or…
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Column: when you lie down with dogs
The short, stout woman bobs through the crowd like a hungry dog, jockeying for position at a dish of meat. She screams and yells, waving a plump finger in the…
Death of a monster
Two Canucks on the mid-terms campaign trail. The elderly woman approached us at the corner of Wythburn Road and Mardale Avenue, in South Portland. She squinted at us. We’d seen…
Boy, nobody saw this coming
@MaximeBernier to set up his own right wing party #cdnpoli #CPC18 https://t.co/Cly7wkQfkc — Robert Fife (@RobertFife) August 23, 2018 Said no one. What does it say about Consevatives? It says…
The Conservative Party’s new heroine
From next week’s Hill Times column: The Storm Alliance are led by a former Soldiers of Odin leader, Dave Tregget. Like David Duke did for the Ku Klux Klan forty…
Column: Sir John A. was a racist
BOSTON – What never moves and never talks, but is too often racist? Statues, of course. They’re lifeless. Down here in America, but also back home in Canada. Statues paying…
Donald Trump isn’t the only one who wants to build a wall
Jennifer Keesmaat’s vision for Toronto, not exactly as pictured. There are 67 days until Election Day, and Jennifer Keesmaat still has this up. She slept on it, apparently, and she…
On Sir John A., and Sir John A. statues
From next week’s Hill Times column, which I’m still trying to cobble together, like a monument of sorts: If you disagree , a challenge. Imagine, for a moment, you are…
Column: when monsters oppose you
Canada is in a social media war with Saudi Arabia. It’s not a real war – at least not yet. Real wars involve bullets and bombs and bodies. This one…
KINSELLACAST 25: Warren on Trudeau and the Danforth – and Lisa on being a single welfare Mom
Better late than never! The segment with Lisa is something. Listen in.
Column: where was he?
Where was he? The Prime Minister of Canada, I mean. When Canada’s biggest city needed him – when the millions of people who live and work here were feeling anguished,…
Toronto Tax™
Listened to a bit of the interview of NDP mayoral candidate Jennifer Keesmaat this morning on John Moore’s indispensable radio program. She said she favours a Toronto sales tax. I…
Change vs. More of the same
That was the frame in the epic 1992 Clinton vs. Bush matchup. I talked to James Carville about it for my book The War Room. Snippet here: In 1992, the…
Column: the bloody play without end
After the shock wears off – after it’s replaced by anger and fear and then sorrow – we continuously end up in the same intellectual cul-de-sac: what can we do?…
Thoughts on the aftermath
From next week’s Hill Times column: Everyone plays their assigned role, like we are trapped in some grim kabuki play that always, always ends the same way. The gun nuts…