Ontario, I Am Ashamed and Embarrassed
This morning, Ontario, I am ashamed of you. Ontario, you had an opportunity to do the right thing, and chose — deliberately chose — not to. I am ashamed and…
Musings
#ONpoli election night in tweets
Del Duca losing in his own riding. Again. #onpoli — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) June 3, 2022 Holy crap @CTVNews declares PCs won. That’s five minutes sooner than I predicted. #onpoli…
Daisy’s #onpoli predictions
…and this is the best team Daisy Group has ever had, by the by. Honoured to work with them. The world famous Daisy Election Challenge is back! Our team's predictions…
My latest: Doug vs. Pierre
This is a tale of two “Conservatives.” We say “Conservative” in quotation marks to make a point. And the point is this: Doug Ford and Pierre Poilievre may be notionally,…
Art wall dilemma
Art wall verdict: too much art, not enough wall. pic.twitter.com/0FSTWB7bPz — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 31, 2022
Right v. Left in Modern Politics
There’s a lot of palaver on social media about right v. left (or left v. right if you are so inclined), with webs of comments about the differences between these…
The Internet: a vanity press for the deranged
I’m not nearly as alarmed as @PierrePoilievre will be to hear that I am traveling with him. #cdnpoli #cpc @ClintonDesveaux pic.twitter.com/sLeohYvqrC — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 30, 2022
Ouch
When in government Steven Del Duca had tried to pull a fast one on the Members of LiUNA, burying a draconian piece of legislation in the budget to strip our…
Marsh marigold moment
New one. Marsh marigolds. May tweak it. pic.twitter.com/h9jQqF7cdu — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 25, 2022
Power’s back on at the cabin.
And my security camera caught a pretty awesome moment.
Bradford on brainless Beach bastards
@BradMBradford speaks for a lot of us here. Enough is enough. #topoli #onpoli https://t.co/OweniJCxOA — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 25, 2022
My latest: character matters
When does a politician’s character get revealed? Because, as Ken Dryden once memorably said about hockey, character doesn’t get built by the political life. It gets revealed. Our history is…
Doug’s party vs. Pierre’s party
@fordnation will win a majority, and likely a bigger one, because: 1. He exceeded expectations in the pandemic 2. He isn’t angry3. He is a *progressive* conservative On each point,…
#ONStorm report
#ONStorm thread: paddling on the lake, sunny, calm. Skies got dark and still. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) May 21, 2022
The Book of Knowledge: 3
Back in the Mesozoic of my life, I came across a quotation from Giacomo Casanova that, as far as I can remember these days, went “No man can know everything,…
The Book of Knowledge: 2
Last post I mentioned I had rescued a set of encyclopedias from the dumpster at the end of this year’s Mother Of All Yard Sales (MOAYS; an Optimist Club event).…
My latest: Jason, we badly knew ye
Wither thou goest, Conservatives, in thine dark blue car at night? Sorry to get all Jack Kerouac on y’all, but that little line from On The Road kind of fits,…
The Book of Knowledge: 1
When I was growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, having an encyclopedia in your home was the bee’s knees, to use my grandmother’s phrase. It was a sign of…