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Hard to believe, but I’ve been doing this web site thing - not a blog! - for about 25 years, now. I’m a dinosaur, pretty much. But, prior to their extinction-level end, even dinosaurs evolved. So, I’m evolving. Twenty-five years ago, this web site seriously looked like a 14th Century wood cut (it often read like one, too). My brother said it needed to change. He was the one who conceived the one-eye Warren branding thing at top right, which I’ve kept. It stayed like that for

Trump lost the war. We don’t know all there is to know, agreed. But, of what we do know, it is clear that Iran has prevailed in its war with Donald Trump’s America. When the conflict started at the end of February, Trump told the world that it was all necessary to: remove the Ayatollahs and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from power persuade Iranians to rise up and take control of their country eliminate Iran's nuclear weapons capacity end Iran's support for terror a

Dr. T. Douglas KINSELLA, CM, BA, MD, FACP, FRCPC. Like some men, and as was the practice in some families, my brothers and I did not hug my father a lot. As we got older in places like Montreal, or Kingston, or Dallas or Calgary, we also did not tell him that we loved him as much as we did. With our artist Mom, there was always a lot of affection, to be sure; but in the case of my Dad, usually all that was exchanged with his four boys was a simple handshake, when it was time

We were told the war was necessary to: • remove the ayatollahs and IRGC from power • get Iranians to rise up and take control • eliminate Iran's nuclear weapons capacity • end Iran's support for terror around the globe • create stability in the Middle East None of those things happened. None. Instead, Iran is getting billions. Its homicidal regime is intact, worse than ever before. It keeps its weapons-grade uranium. It gets to keep its proxy armies in Hamas and Hezbollah. It

Rainy day. So, I paint.

One sad, tragic, immutable thing we know: Toronto Police Const. Marc Pinizzotto is gone. That we know. At 5:40 am on Thursday, Marc Pinizzotto stepped into a fourth-floor apartment on Martha Eaton Way near Trethewey Drive, and he was shot once, and he later died. We know that, too. But after that, it is hard to know some important things. Such as: why were he and he others there? Almost immediately after Marc Pinizzotto had his life taken from him, different reasons were offe

Was in Ottawa, ran into a fellow who had my new book. Nice guy.

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CALGARY - The first thing you notice are the Canadian flags. On poles, tacked to garage doors, on makeshift displays, the maple leaf is much more evident than before. If you drive around Calgary’s Southeast, where four rock-ribbed Conservative federal ridings are found, there many more Canadian flags than Alberta flags. It is noticeable. It is also consequential. Albertans generally, and Calgarians specifically, have always had a fraught relationship with Canada. Alberta’s h

...behind Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre? Can you guess? Spotted at Beth Tzedec Synagogue in Calgary.

Back home (really late) from Calgary - but The Schmooze podcast is now out! On all the main platforms. Check it out.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - Where does hate come from? Lots of things. Envy, resentment, ideology, economic distress, ignorance, indifference. I’ve been writing about hate for 40 years, and I can tell you that indifference ranks pretty high up on the list, lately. Mark Carney is a practitioner of indifference. He came to a Toronto synagogue a few days ago - ostensibly to deliver a Prime Ministerial denunciation of the variant of hate that is antisemitism - and he couldn’t once articul

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With Don and Jared and me!

Our documentary, The Campaign, has really only been seen once before - privately, with friends and family, a few weeks ago in Toronto. It was well-received. But it was friends and family. Getting invited to show it at the Tev Aviv International Documentary Festival, as we were this afternoon, was something else entirely. As I sat there in the back row, watching people leave while it was still underway, it occurred to me that The Campaign was always going to be received diffe

First showing of our documentary, The Campaign, at the DocAviv documentary festival! Today!