Ten reasons why the Notley government is really stupid to bar Ezra and The Rebel
Ezra lives for this stuff. In a battle with bureaucrats, he always wins. He always has the last word, and his audience is bigger than you think. Media who dislike…
Musings
Savages – Adore
Boring video, genius of a song: “I understand the urgency of life.” No kidding. There’s Sleater Kinney in here, Siouxsie, Pauline Murray’s Penetration, Bikini Kill. All good, good things. Brit…
In this week’s Hill Times: the first casualty of war
Not that it’s anyone’s business, but I voted Liberal in the last election. The Liberal candidate in our riding, Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, made it easy. Serious, impressive young guy, great C.V.…
20 years ago today. A good day.
Those were the days.
This one struck a chord
PS: Stephen Harper also said it, July 1, 2006.
Possible new @SFHPunks album cover
You like? May be too subtle.
Divisive: the modern political era, figured out
It’s written about at length in today’s New York Times Magazine (go buy it, don’t go online to get it for free). Brilliantly. But here’s the greatest practitioner of division…
The first anniversary of the death of Sun News
Remembered it’s been a year – time flies, eh? As you may recall, I wrote the open letter thing below, and it attracted about 300 comments. Sun News attracted strong…
Sometimes, in my old age, I get tired of facile bullshit
Canada is us, the people. Canada is not governments. Stop saying "Canada is back." We, Canada, never left. #cdnpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) February 12, 2016
The Ottawa Citizen: with a whimper, not a bang
The Ottawa Citizen died yesterday. Oh, sure, there are still some good people there to put it out, for however long. But make no mistake: the marquee newspaper in our…
In his week’s Hill Times: son, not the father
Growing up in Calgary, as I did, there were certain things you just didn’t do. If you didn’t you were just asking for trouble. You didn’t, for instance, ever offer…
Daughters, and St. Joan
Funny story: this morning I woke up, and Joan of Arc was gone. You’ve got to understand: I have worn a (blessed) Joan of Arc medal around my neck every…
ISIS, Trudeau and democracy
You may not like it, but – if you’re a democrat – you have to accept it. That’s how it works. Lots of us opposed withdrawing from the #ISIS bombing…
I love the smell of political revisionism in the morning
Winning campaign managers – John Rae, Don Guy, et al. – make the Sphinx look like a chatterbox. They don’t give interviews before, during or after campaigns. They don’t talk…
Sometimes debates still matter
This is one such time. The emasculation of a puffed-up little prat, from an unlikely source.
This disappearing newspaper stuff
It’s affecting me more than I thought it would. I predicted it, I wrote about it, I analyzed it. But it has hit me – that his big, bad thing…