2018: the coming provincial and municipal elections
My former Sun colleague Antonella Artuso got in touch with me to seek my opinion on the coming Ontario and Toronto elections. Her story is here. And my full response…
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Globe and Mail: Recipe For Hate “shines…Kinsella nails it…absorbing, jarring and raw”!
Wow! This is a great way to end 2017. And, I am honoured. The Globe and Mail has reviewed Recipe For Hate – and they like it! Their review: Recipe…
The best and worst of Canadian politics in 2017
It’s a cliché, sure. It’s hackneyed and overdone, true. It has been done a million times, agreed. But it’s fun: the columnist’s year-end political winner/loser list! And, this year, regular…
I can’t comment on this
But the fact that I’m posting it here should tell you plenty. From Canadian Lawyer Magazine: Toronto lawyer Warren Kinsella has settled a claim he launched against a Twitter subsidiary…
Joe Strummer, gone so long, gone too soon
The sticker affixed to the London Calling album shrink-wrap, 38 years ago this month, boldly declared that the Clash were “the only band that matters.” If that is true –…
The Ballad of the Social Blemishes, 40-plus years later
Forty-seven years. Forty-seven years ago tonight, the Social Blemishes – me, Ras Pierre, Rockin’ Al and a few others miscreants – took to the makeshift stage in the gym at…
Watch this Rosemary Barton exchange with Justin Trudeau. Wow.
It is truly something else. Among other things, it means that Trudeau needs to get better prepared before he scrums again on this mess. And it means CBC needs to…
Trudeau broke ethics rules?
Yes. So says the Ethics commissioner: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke multiple federal ethics rules when he accepted a ride on the Aga Khan’s private helicopter and stayed on his…
Best and worst of Canadian political 2017
For my bestest-ever editor, the Hill Times‘ Kate Malloy – who oversees one of the few truly still-successful newspapers in Canada, by the by – I’m doing my clichéd year-end…
Booklist: Recipe For Hate “explodes off the page…a dark and engrossing tale”!
Wikipedia: “Booklist is a publication of the American Library Association that provides critical reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages. Booklist’s primary audience consists of libraries, educators, and…
Premiers: who’s up, who’s down, who cares
I don’t put much stock in Angus Reid’s little Premier’s popularity poll thing, and neither should you. I think the Reid folks do it mainly for fun, and to get…
Hill Times calls Recipe For Hate one of the best books of the year!
Here’s today’s front page: And here’s the interview Laura Ryckewaert did with me:
Donald Trump is a white supremacist
He is. I’ve been writing about the racist Right for more than 30 years – and fighting them as a lawyer, or as a political activist, for almost as long.…
DoFo Hoho NoMo
You can’t shine Shinola, Ramona. Nice Ford Nation bumpersticker, BTW. A poll suggesting Doug Ford trails Mayor John Tory by single digits ahead of next fall’s election is “flawed” and…
I asked when #MeToo would hit Ottawa, and then it did
A few days ago, I wrote a column – which the Hill Times published, but HuffPo refused to, because they didn’t want to do anything that might identify the sexual…
OH MY GOD I AM SO HAPPY
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Two effective ways of dealing with prejudice, up above and down here
My friends were busy yesterday. My friend Bernie Farber, a veritable force of nature who is presently up to something big, scored a victory against hate yesterday: he and others…
Column: why hasn’t #MeToo hit Ottawa?
It’s hit Hollywood. It’s taken down big names in the media. All over Capitol Hill in Washington, too. So why hasn’t the #MeToo movement claimed any of the creeps crawling…
I stand with Trudeau
We used to be friends, we had a falling out. And: he has a very different style than my guy, the Shawinigan Strangler. We were the undersell and over perform…