My biggest tweet ever
I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure this is the most-noticed tweet I’ve ever sent out into the Internet ether. 2,300 retweets 7,100 likes Nearly half a million impressions…
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Column: as with Trump, what if they won by cheating?
It almost seems kind of quaint, doesn’t it? Back when the Conservative Party was running things, the commentariat were apoplectic about something called CIMS: the Constituent Information Management System (CIMS).…
How to deal with online assholes
I’ve been doing this web stuff – it’s a web site, people, not a blog – for almost two decades. At the start, I didn’t have comments – partly because…
Adler-Kinsella: why the Wylie scandal matters
Fifty billion in market value, gone. One of the biggest companies in the world in chaos. Governments announcing probes. And the Trudeau government looking quite nervous. Charles Adler and me…
Dear Mr. Sousa:
Take it from the guy who made the dumb, dumb joke about “baking cookies,” and still (deservedly) hears about it more than a decade later: just apologize. It’ll only get…
Fish where there’s fish
…that’s something I say so much about campaigns that my staff have heard it a billion times. Talk about the stuff voters want you to talk about. Manage the dialogue.…
Mainstreet: PCs “lead in every region”
Mainstreet – who, full disclosure, is one of the polling firms with which Daisy Group does business – dropped a big poll this morning. It’s not good news for the…
Column: will Wynne’s story have a sad ending?
There are all kinds of clichés about how and why governments lose. That they defeat themselves. That they die by degrees. That they become the very thing they had once…
KINSELLACAST #5: resisting the Trump/Brexit agenda!
By popular demand, here’s my Merv Leitch QC Memorial Lecture, delivered at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law. If there’s one section I want to emphasize, it’s this one:…
My Merv Leitch QC Memorial Lecture: opposing intolerance in the Trump/Brexit era
It was a great honour to speak at U of A and U of C this week. The subject matter was – sadly – timely: the rise of intolerance and…
Hate and extremism in the Trump era – today at U of C’s Faculty of Law, live
This afternoon, I will be doing the Merv Leitch Memorial Lecture at my alma mater, the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law. The topic, as the poster says, is the…
Leitch lecture at U of A!
Big crowd for my Leitch lecture at U of A’s Faculty of Law – and, bonus: I got to meet the amazing Kristin Raworth!
Doug Ford in ten tweets
I hate Twitter threads, but I got started and kept going. Here it is. 1. Doug Ford is good news for Andrea Horwath. If Horwath gets out of the political…
I got tired of waiting for PCPO leadership results
So I tweeted stuff. Pro tips, PC friends: If voters see that you can’t run your own house, they won’t let you run the province If you need media coverage,…
In which I praise Trudeau and Trump
Cartoon @ the amazing de Adder. Historic. I have been critical of Justin Trudeau for (a) sucking up to Donald Trump and (b) getting nothing in return. But credit where…
Kevin J. Johnston’s hate tour – let’s cancel it
Late yesterday, I was sent this: The piece of human garbage pictured, on the right, is Kevin J. Johnson. (That’s a swastika on his poster, to the left.) Lately, he’s…
SFH: come hang out with us and win
Look, none of us are as young as we used to be. We don’t hang out in noisy, seedy bars like we used to. We go to bed earlier than…
Column: Justin – enough, already
Dear Justin: You don’t mind if we call you Justin, do you? In other circumstances, we’d call you “Prime Minister,” but – to be perfectly candid – your Indian family…
What to do when a hatemonger says he supports you
Simple. You reject his support. And then you denounce him the clearest terms. To put a fine point on it: Kevin J. Johnston is a notorious Muslim-hating bigot who has…