This week’s column: God save Justin Trudeau
Grateful, relieved, happy. That’s what not a few of us felt when Donald Trump “won.” (I put “won” in flying quotes because, as various experts have now noted, there’s an…
Musings
Trump Reich
…that’s the working title of my next book. It’s the sequel to Web of Hate. And my sense is that I’m going to have no shortage of source material. Steve…
Apparently there are many Castro critics at this year’s Grey Cup
So, Tip O'Neill's truism comes to mind: never get introduced to the crowd at sporting events. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/Ry9N2l6c4D — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 28, 2016
Trudeau, Castro, condolences and memory
Right. Two word response: Donald Trump. This is the new era. A politician can say anything, now. We have a national memory of five minutes. https://t.co/0tkwA2IiA4 — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)…
Castro
Summarized brilliantly by the paper that could do it best, the Miami Herald:
Ontario politics tweet of the week
The @samoosterhoff jokes must stop. He's an elected MPP and deserves the respect we normally show to 19 yr olds living at home. #onpoli — Alan Carter (@ACarterglobal) November 25,…
It’s Forum. But, holy crap. Also, change chosen.
So: Approval of Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her government is so low the Progressive Conservatives are in supermajority territory, a new poll shows. The Tories would snap up 70…
It’ll be a White Christmas somewhere, at least
I wondered how much snow I’d gotten up at the cabin. So I checked the security camera. Now I know.
Postmedia: the Guild of Vampires always feed themselves first
If this doesn’t make every journalist in Canada puke, I don’t know what will: Amid another year of dramatic restructuring at Postmedia Network Canada Corp., the company’s five most senior…
If they put a toll on political bullshit, they’d make way more money
So, this: Toronto Mayor John Tory is set to endorse a controversial introduction of road tolls on the Gardiner Expressway and Don Valley Parkway to raise $300 million a year…
Donald uber Alles: now in Toronto
In our neighbourhood, too. Anti-Semitic graffiti 'stopped me in my tracks,' Toronto resident says https://t.co/6aLqMjVCM6 pic.twitter.com/7A8zUQvij1 — CBC News (@CBCNews) November 24, 2016
Two million more votes, plus: rigging the vote
There’s this: And then there’s this: Experts Urge Hillary Clinton to Challenge Election Results https://t.co/DciHTSivZ2 via @intelligencer — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 23, 2016
Donald über Alles: the Trump virus spreads to Calgary
Blood and Honour is a thirty-year-old neo-Nazi organization that started in the U.K., and was founded by Ian Stuart Donaldson of Skrewdriver. Combat 18, meanwhile, is a mainly skinhead organization…
This week’s column: pinned to the wall
My family member is pinned to my wall, like an insect. It’s a bit clinical, perhaps, but it’s apt. Ever since Donald Trump shocked the world, and rode a wave…
OREA: at the #OREAPAC16 conference today
With the erudite and brilliant Chad Rogers, the charming and brilliant Kathleen Monk, and some guy brought in to refresh their water glasses. On one point we all agreed: the…
This lunatic, who is going to be the most powerful person on Earth…
…is complaining about a comedy show being mean to him. Seriously. I’d love to be able to joke about him having access to the nuclear codes, but I just can’t.…
Ch-ch-changes: why the best candidates sometimes lose
My take, in today’s Hill Times: Warren Kinsella, a former assistant to Mr. Chrétien and now a Hill Times columnist, said sexism played a role in both Ms. Clinton’s and…
Donald Uber Alles: Manitoba
Trump Virus spreads: now at the University of Manitoba this week. Spotted by Prof. Helmust-Harry Loewen.
Vote now, vote often
If @realDonaldTrump asks @JustinTrudeau to welcome him in Canada, Trudeau should: — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) November 20, 2016
Donald Uber Alles: neo-Nazi rag returns
We’ve been getting many messages from very upset people, from Niagara to Whitby, telling us that the Your Ward News pro-Nazi filth is landing in their mailboxes again. We know…