Warren Kinsella

This is a weird column

Warren — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:12:42 +0000

But you’ve got to admire his willingness to make a pile of predictions, willy-nilly, with nary a qualifier in sight. This is a columnist operating without a safety net, folks, and it’s a wondrous thing to behold.

In today’s Sun: Mulcair is a disgrace

Warren — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:09:59 +0000

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.

In today’s Sun: Message this, Angry Tom

Warren — Sat, 19 May 2012 05:00:37 +0000

What a week newly minted NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has had!

Ever since he donned his tinfoil hat and started hollering at passersby, quite a few of us have started to worry about him. There he stood on Parliament Hill, shaking his fists at the heavens, gnashing his teeth and rending his garments. Sounding crazier than Charlie Sheen on a bad day.

Angry Tom ranted about “Dutch disease.” He raved about how Alberta and Saskatchewan are bad places, run by bad people. He brayed and screeched about how anyone who had the temerity to disagree with him — and there are a growing legion of them — were “messengers” of Stephen Harper.

Angry Tom scared away small children. He terrified the tourists. But he was undeterred. His position was “irrefutable,” he said, and “everyone” agrees that manufacturing job losses are caused by a high dollar, which is caused by surging energy exports, particularly from Alberta.

Well, no.

Woot! Borys wins!

Warren — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:05:08 +0000

Take that, Con cheaters!

Woot!

Rob Ford edges into the new Century

Warren — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:52:34 +0000

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

G20: the real culprit

Warren — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:50:36 +0000

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.

Hudud

Warren — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:01:56 +0000

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

Canada Live, May 16: Mulcair is dumb, Oreos aren’t, and Ont. PC sexism

Warren — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:42:43 +0000

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

What am I about to do on the Sun News Network set?

Warren — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:40:59 +0000

Carter’s Tips

Warren — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:11:28 +0000

Check ‘em out!