Vic? Seriously?
Dear #onpoli: Just got out of teaching my @UCalgary law class and learned #PCPO picked Vic Fedeli. Um, when your party’s problem is out-of-touch guys who don’t get it, you…
Musings
Good morning, class
I’m home in Cowtown, prepping for the millionth time for Law 599.02. Intimidated does not begin to describe it. But current events assist me. The objective of the course is…
A woman tweeted this at me last night about Mr. Hehr
People noticed. Good.
#MeToo and #PCPO
Patrick Brown is gone. And he had no option. The Ontario PC leader at first emotionally denied the allegations, and said he would fight them in court. A few hours…
The Ontario bombshell
I know these three guys. I admire them. I trust them and their judgment. This says it all. It’s true. . And my weeks-ago prediction that the #MeToo movement would…
Professor Kinsella, I presume
I am heading to Calgary tomorrow – to start teaching at my alma mater, the University of Calgary Faculty of Law. I am going to be teaching communications to second…
Wondering why the haters are getting bolder?
Neo-Nazi “newspapers” being delivered to thousands of GTA residents. The Klan passing out leaflets in B.C.’s interior. The homicidal Combat 18 getting active in Calgary. Alt-Right postering on Manitoba university…
Column: when the Internet becomes a mob
In the social media era – in our mad rush to judgment – people get ground up and spat out. Happens all the time. Happens too often. Ask Aziz Ansari,…
The book I will write one day
I fantasize about writing a novel in which the main character knocks cell phones out of the hands of distracted people who are walking towards her. She would be regarded…
We get letters
And the looser appreciates every single one!
Where we were a year ago
Right now, Lisa and me are in the US, trying to get back to Canada. Trump said he’d run the government like one of his businesses, and he sure did…
Laura Miller wins!
We’re way down here in Florida, but we have friends in courtroom 125 in frosty Toronto. And the result is in: Judge Timothy Lipson has ruled that Laura is not…
Maximum Rock’n’Roll: new SFH album is “solid punk rock”!
Holy crap! Maximum Rock’n’Roll is the bible of punk and hardcore – and they like the new SFH record, Kinda Suck! …straightforward punk rock…melodic and catchy, just like the Canadians…
Sorbara out
This had been a long time coming, I’d been told. There were several campaign managers but no single campaign strategy. There were other problems, too. Credit where credit is due:…
Neo-Nazi hate rag: Canadian Jewish News has the latest
A quick summary, also provided to Paul at CJN: the Criminal Code charges for promoting hatred against women and Jews are going ahead with a hearing in February the criminal…
John Tory deserves credit for getting Toronto this far
Pretty impressive, whatever happens next. Huge @JohnTory win. 'Toronto the only Canadian city on Amazon short list of HQ2 candidates' #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli https://t.co/Xykqh6Pv2e — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 18,…
Do all Jewish people look alike?
Quebec’s bigoted securities regulator certainly thinks so. Check out this shocking Graeme Hamilton report in the Post: MONTREAL — Rabbi Momi Pinto has a beard and wears a yarmulke, just…
Crying hate wolf
The attack on the Muslim girl was made up. Among other things, that means it will make it a lot harder for real victims of hate crimes. A total disaster.…