This is what $70,000 a month gets you
This is pathetic. It’s farcical. And, as I will show everyone next week, it was completely needless. If she had left a year ago – and if she had taken…
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About that huge, huge Globe investigative story: read it
Three things about this extraordinary investigative story. One, it’s behind a paywall because journalists deserve to get paid just like you are. Do you give away your goods and services…
Top ten Wizard excuses for the Wynne Wipeout™
A week to go, and I have already started to hear some of the excuses being road-tested by the Wizard and the Board. They know they are going to lose.…
Hate hits Toronto neighbourhood
Warren Kinsella, a former Liberal strategist, author and lawyer who is currently writing a book about the growth of hate groups among young people, said the posters are concerning, in…
About that “sorry not sorry” ad
Whoever came up with this fetid, squalid, shambolic atrocity should be – in the memorable words of a certain Campaign Wizard™️ – hauled into the village square and pilloried. It…
That’s not a campaign, that’s advanced rigor mortis
The last time a campaign did something this stupid, you may recall, was 2005-2006. That campaign was run by The Wizard™️. And we all remember how it turned out, don’t…
Column: what will Justin do without Kathleen?
What will Justin Trudeau do? When Kathleen Wynne loses, that is. Because she is going to lose the Ontario election. Badly. The reasons are myriad. She leads a wildly unpopular…
Case study: “Deal Duca” and Anybody-But-Wynne
My view, expressed below, is this: the biggest story of the Ontario 2018 election isn’t so much the Orange Crush™ or whether DoFo was the wrong choice. It’s the total…
First Ekos, now Forum!
Wow! Is it all because of Doug Ford? No. It partly is, however. What has really happened here is this: the Ontario Liberal Party vote has completely collapsed. They may…
Warren’s free tips on scandal stuff
So the Wynne Liberals revealed their big, big Doug Ford scandal: he allegedly paid for a few party memberships before he became leader. Big deal. “It’s nothing burger,” one senior…
Can a politician block a citizen on Twitter?
A U.S. court has now said no – in an, ahem, huge judgment, here. Which moves to reprise my column on Canada’s worst-ever minister, Melanie Jolie. Here it is. Dear…
Column: heartless in Gaza
The email arrived at 6:03 a.m. It was accompanied with a little graphic of a flashing red siren, up near the top, presumably to signal its importance. “Take action,” the…
#ONPOLI this hand, that hand
Random thoughts on that startling Abacus poll this morning: On the one hand, the Abacus survey doesn’t entirely take into account regional realities, seat distribution, and turnout – so Doug…
Operation Save the Furniture
My old friend David Akin got in touch with me about study that Global News has put together. Akin and a team of researchers looked at where the three provincial…
Deputy Minister Wynne, we presume
Spoke to CBC’s Mike Crawley yesterday about why Kathleen Wynne is doing so badly. Told him Wynne made herself the only face of this government – that she didn’t ever…
Column: campaigns don’t matter
Now that Ontario’s election is underway – and Quebec’s and New Brunswick’s are in the offing – you’re going to hear this tired old chestnut a lot: “campaigns matter.” Do…