Dear CBC: what I know, what I don’t
I didn’t know Reese Fallon. I may have met her, once, when Beaches-East York MP Nate Erskine-Smith – who did know her – held an anti-racism event in our neighbourhood.…
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Death on the Danforth
Lisa and the kids and I live a few blocks from where it happened last night. We know the Danforth – that’s what it’s called here, “the Danforth” – quite…
In defence of Twitter
Maggie Haberman, the terrific New York Times reporter who is the bane of Donald Trump’s existence, is quitting Twitter. She writes about it in today’s Times, here. “Twitter has stopped…
KINSELLACAST 23: Warren and Lisa drive in! They talk politics! Police! Punk! Pulchritude!
Sound levels were off, a bit, but you get what you pay for.
What Kathleen Wynne is owed
Steve Paikin is a nicer guy than me. As seen here, he is urging people to forgive Kathleen Wynne’s disappearance from the legislature. I am not so forgiving. The Ontario…
Column: before the #TreasonSummit ends, @realDonaldTrump has already won
When we have all been reduced once again to ashes – when the web site you now peer at is reduced to digital dust – thinkers will think, as thinkers…
Maximum Rock’n’Roll calls new Hot Nasties EP poppy, “not abrasive” and kind of like Joe Strummer!
Maximum Rock’n’Roll is the premier punk rock magazine, and has been for decades. It is the punk rock non plus ultra. And MRR has reviewed the first Hot Nasties record…
Donald Trump is the winner
A bit from next week’s Hill Times column. Comments are open. Donald Trump won. He beat us all. He has dominated the politics of this era like no other, standing…
Is Trump right on NATO?
Donald Trump has said – and this week, in Brussels he will say yet again – that Canada and other nations don’t pay our way in NATO. He will say…
Column: Trudeau is losing
Could Justin Trudeau lose the next election? Well, sure he could. In strictly existential terms, you are always facing political death. The distance from hero to zero is very slight.…
I believe her. I don’t believe him.
She says it happened. He says it didn’t. I believe her. He used to say believe the victims, too. So: can he continue as Prime Minister? Should he? He’ll try…
If it wasn’t “inappropriate,” why apologize?
Because it was inappropriate. OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave his most detailed response yet Thursday to an 18-year-old allegation he groped a female reporter, confirming he had apologized…
Maximum Rock/n’Roll calls new Hot Nasties EP “simple, catchy, do-it-yourself, life-sized punk rock”!
Maximum Rock’n’Roll – MRR for short – is the bible of the punk rock movement. It is the non plus ultra of punk. And MRR has called the new Hot…
If Justin Trudeau was a client
Both of us find that laughable, believe me. So there’s at least one thing we agree on. Something on which we likely wouldn’t agree is this: the problem caused by…
Column: he did it
Anonymous. The message landed, as these sorts of things do so often, via Twitter on June 6, 2018. “Hi Warren,” it read. “Do you know about this B.C. community paper…
An open letter to new Ontario PC MPPs, ministers and staffers
Dear folks: Welcome to the big leagues. You’ve worked hard to get to today, so enjoy every minute. It’s all downhill from here, believe me. Five tips, gratis. One, you…
#MeToo and #Trudeau
A snippet from next week’s Hill Times: Only two things matter, at this point. One, how has Justin Trudeau responded to the woman’s allegation in the Creston Valley Advance? That’s…