This is a total fucking disgrace
As predicted. Kathleen Wynne has shoved aside a brilliant young woman – a lawyer and an activist who was prepared to contest the St. Paul’s nomination – to appoint a…
Musings
The “feminist” Ontario Liberal Party
…has come to this. Hearing an amazing, capable woman – a brilliant lawyer and activist too – is being pushed aside so “brain trust” around Wynne can appoint a guy…
Professors Adler and Kinsella, I presume
Plus: well-timed sirens!
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…
Jordon Cooper, RIP
I have been doing this stupid web site for nearly two decades. In that time, I have made the acquaintance of some extraordinary people. Jordon Cooper was one of them.…
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…
I love a parade
Well, fuck face, you wanted a parade. @POTUS #MarchForOurLives pic.twitter.com/tQzvvK3dX2 — Ron Pederson (@RonaldPederson) March 24, 2018
Watch this to the end
At the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, Florida school survivor Emma Gonzalez weeps quietly for the majority of her speech, which lasted 6 minutes and 20 seconds —…
Lonnie James. Um, who?
So, Sam Sutherland wrote a great book about Canadian punk rock a few years back, called Perfect Youth. It’s really good. You can get it here. Chris Walter this year…
Jordan Peterson watch: lies about being “inducted” into a First Nation
Here: Jordan peterson is a University of Toronto psychology professor, bestselling author, culture warrior, YouTube celebrity, and a growing presence in Canadian conservative politics. The one thing he is most…
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…
A. Meet with the police.
Q. On the day the new Your Ward News – that racist, anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying, Islamophobic, women-hating piece of garbage – comes out, what do you do?
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…
Big trouble. Big.
Uh-oh. This is a big, big change in a big, big story. Big, big trouble for #LPC. #cdnpoli https://t.co/jMe5detPJS — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 21, 2018 The Liberal’s just clarified…
Political parties and data mining: a whodunit
Young Canadian Christopher Wylie has been much in the news lately – among other things, for single-handedly hammering Facebook’s market value, and causing lots of political earthquakes in the U.S.…
Lisa and the Senate in today’s Hill Times
Senate among top lobbied institutions in February February fillings show Senate lobbying in 2018 is keeping pace with 2017’s record-breaking year, which tripled historic averages for influencers focused on the…