Free the two Michaels
Write to them. Support them. Help them. Michael Kovrig Beijing No. 1 Detention Centre 501 Dougezhuang County, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100021 Michael Spavor Dandong Detention Centre Jingu Village, Zhenxing District…
Musings
Merry Christmas, we mean it, maaaaaan
I give you my annual best-ever Christmas song. You’re welcome.
My latest in the Sun: who gets the vaccine first?
Who goes first? Assuming Canada gets enough of the COVID-19 vaccine anytime soon — a big assumption, given Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s admission that we won’t — who gets to…
Pandemic prediction
From yesterday. I have no doubt that Canada will receive some vaccines soon. I equally have no doubt that it will be nowhere close to as many vaccines as our…
When you bought your car or your house, did you know what day you’d get it?
Of course you did. Every first-year law student knows that a key element of every contract is when the contract will be fulfilled. This statement by a Minister of the…
Max Bernier’s lawyer apologizes
“The manner in which my January 14, 2006 blog entry was worded made it seem that Mr. Kinsella had been a party to illegal conduct when this was clearly not…
If you watch anything today, watch this
The Premier of Manitoba. And this is so, so powerful. Amazing. “If you don’t think COVID is real, right now, you are an idiot…I’m the guy who’s stealing Christmas to…
#TBT: the Hot Nasties, 1977
TBT: super-old shot of Hot Nasties Nuclear Age Kinsella and Ras Pierre Schenk in Calgary in 1977 or so. We don’t heat our practice space, maaaaan!
If your government denied you clean water, what would you do?
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller drinks water at a press conference today. Which thousands of the Indigenous people he claims to serve still cannot do.
My latest in the Sun: the pandemic “process”
A process. That’s what the Deputy Prime Minister calls you getting the vaccine that will keep you from getting sick, or maybe even dying. “A process.” Chrystia Freeland, who is…
Twenty years of www.warrenkinsella.com
Twenty years! I don’t know exactly the day, because I didn’t bother to write it down. And the Wayback Machine website isn’t all that precise. But it does indeed seem…
My latest in the Sun: the vanishing vaccine
Politics is all about symbols. Ask Jimmy Carter. Remember him? He was one of the very few one-term presidents. Usually, presidents get elected for two terms. It’s pretty hard to…
Yo-yo Ma is a godlike genius
Just read the interview with him in the New York Times Magazine. He’s just brilliant. Full interview here. Snippet here: Do you think music is fundamentally good? That’s a good…
Gobble gobble
One has a flabby neck, is unattractive, makes unintelligible sounds, and has a very small brain. The other is a turkey. pic.twitter.com/nWavtNMMWf — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 28, 2020