“Warren Kinsella can have an effect on as many Canadians as The New York Times.”

- Peter C. Newman

“Kinsella is a modern-day Machiavelli...the mastermind who ran war rooms for Jean Chretien and Dalton McGuinty...”

- Sun Media

“I really think that Warren guy is on to something.”

- Stephen Harper

“The top Canadian spin doctor.”

- National Post

“Kinsella knows how to run a winning war room.”

- The Hill Times

“Good news drives out bad, and Kinsella adheres to that golden rule.”

- Pat Gossage, Press Secretary to Pierre Trudeau



It’s early days. But watching NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair destroy himself, as he is now inarguably doing with his anti-West tirades, makes for compelling theatre.

In politics, no wound is ever as deep as the self-inflicted one. And Mulcair — with his stubborn insistence that he is right and everyone else is wrong — has become a case study in political self-immolation.

By now, the nub of his argument is well-known. Our booming resources sector, centred in Western Canada, is artificially inflating the Canadian dollar. The high dollar hurts our manufacturing sector, principally based in Eastern Canada.

A rainbow coalition comprising western premiers, the Conservative government, and the federal Liberal party have excoriated Mulcair for his willingness to pit one region against another. They have hammered him for his cynical attempt to win seats in the East by killing jobs in the West. But the NDP leader is undeterred. If you disagree with him, you are one of Stephen Harper’s “messengers.” If you marshal economic evidence disputing his argument —– and plenty have — he will simply say that “everyone” knows he is right.

Arrogance, conceit and ignorance aren’t anything new in politics. They’re ever-present. But Mulcair’s attack on the region that, more than any other, has helped ease Canada through a grinding global recession is truly breathtaking. It takes political ego and stupidity to a level heretofore untouched by other mortals.





Photo taken by the top-notch Star man, David Rider: Rob Ford – yes, him – at a rally against homophobia. Wow.


The G20 was the biggest abridgment of civil liberties in Canada in a generation. It was a disgrace. It was an outrage.

This report, like all of the other reports, misses the real culprit: the idiot – the bloody fool – who chose to impose the G20 on Canada’s largest city in the first place.

Stephen Harper.


Taken at his big Guelph “townhall,” a few minutes ago. Ouch.


I try and get Rageaholic Tom to calm down. Doesn’t work.