Musings on Reading Literature
There’s a passage from the novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog (by Muriel Barbery, Europa Editions, 2008, p. 116-117) that so delighted me when I came across it that I…
Musings
Dan Lett: Max Bernier, lawbreaker
“The money shot, as it were, is the moment the Mountie tells Maxime Bernier to put his hands behind his back. The earnest leader of the People’s Party of Canada,…
My latest: the haters
Right off the top, let’s all agree not to use his name. The alleged killer of the Muslim family in London, that is. With some crimes, that’s what the criminals…
Victory in PEC: the statue is gone
From the Picton Gazette: “The ‘Holding Court’ statue of Sir John A Macdonald was removed from Picton’s Main Street Tuesday morning and will be placed in storage while municipal staff…
The hypocrites
Every federal leader is silent when Quebec enacts it’s anti-Muslim legislation, and then expect us to listen to their pious speeches after the mass murder of Muslims in London this…
Unpublished Ottawa: Bill 96’s trampling of human rights
#Quebec's Bill-96: Protecting the #French language; Tonight on #UnpublishedTV at 8 pm EDT… https://t.co/bxjt4uT6Ve #cdnpoli #qcpoli Special guests: @kinsellawarren, @DanielWeinsto17, @msandilands and Peter Biro from https://t.co/Ll7jAq9ZyX Hosted by @EdHandMedia, @james_ogrady…
Honoured
One of my paintings finds a home at the cottage of Andrea Douglas, who made a generous donation to charity to get it! Grateful and honoured.
Bobby
Today is the anniversary of losing him. What a different world it would have been.
My latest: when it comes to dead children, a tweet isn’t enough
Slacktivism. They define that as “the practice of supporting a political or social cause by means such as social media or online petitions, characterized as involving very little effort or…
Habs art
My Habs/Jets series painting. It’s working. (North of Swamp College Road, near Bloomfield in PEC.)
Would you name a street after a Nazi symbol?
Read this story. Sign our petition. We need your help. Guzar and some of his neighbours approached Warren Kinsella, a former journalist, Toronto lawyer and former Liberal Party strategist who…
The Pandora’s Box is opened
Many of you know my views on the author. The fact that I am sharing his essay here should tell you how important this subject is.
Spare me your pious bullshit
Flags at half mast, and earnest tweets, and stirring press releases, mean jackshit when you’re talking about babies and children who were killed with impunity, right? Right? — Warren Kinsella…
Warren’s social media explainer
• LinkedIn: Facebook for old people who are likely dead• Instagram: Twitter for people who can’t spell, look at themselves in the mirror a lot• Twitter: Facebook for angry ADD…