I wish someone would pay me for this stuff
https://twitter.com/kinsellawarren/status/970101758222651392?s=21
See? I have a tie!
Tks, @kinsellawarren for an amazing lecture, and a wonderful visit generally. But next time, lose the weather. OK? Please? @lisakinsella – you’d have been pleased; he scrubbed up nicely for the day. @UCalgaryLaw pic.twitter.com/WXTB9SEBUS
— Ian Holloway (@LawDeanHolloway) March 15, 2018
Hate and extremism in the Trump era – today at U of C’s Faculty of Law, live
This afternoon, I will be doing the Merv Leitch Memorial Lecture at my alma mater, the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law.
The topic, as the poster says, is the explosion in hate and extremism post-Brexit and post-Trump. And what we, in a civil society, can do about it.
It’s open to the public and it starts around 12:20 Calgary time in Murray Fraser Hall. If you can’t attend, I will try to broadcast it on Facebook Live.
Um
Can someone in Canadian media explain why no Canadian media are covering this?
Kinsellacast is on Google Play Podcast Music Thing
Wednesday at U of A and Thursday at U of C’s Faculties of Law!
I’m in Edmonton Wednesday, and Calgary Thursday, to give the Merv Leitch Lecture at U of C’s and U of A’s Faculties of Law. It’s a great honour.
The lectures are open to the public and you are welcome to attend. Hope to see you there!
Kinsellacast now on iTunes!
Doug Ford in ten tweets
I hate Twitter threads, but I got started and kept going. Here it is.
1. Doug Ford is good news for Andrea Horwath. If Horwath gets out of the political equivalent of the witness protection program, that is. #onpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2018
2. Kathleen Wynne is Hillary Clinton to Doug Ford’s Donald Trump? Not really. Here’s why. #onpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2018
3. Depicting Doug Ford as a racist like Trump won’t work. Ford Nation has always had huge – huge – support among new Canadians who share his views on taxes, cultural change and pointy-headed urbanites.
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2018
4. Going after Doug Ford because he allegedly sold weed three decades ago won’t work either – given that Ontario’s government this week started aggressively marketing the selling of weed. By Ontario’s government. #onpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2018
5. Going after Doug Ford because he’s a politically incorrect, rough-around-the-edges guy with a paunch won’t work. Ontario is full of politically incorrect, rough-around-the-edges guys with a paunch. #onpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2018
6. When the downtown media and the urban commentariat go after him, as they will, it plays into Doug Ford’s hands. “See?” he will say. “They’re not just mocking me. They’re mocking you, too, Joe and Jane Frontporch.” #onpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2018
7. Doug Ford is not the city councillor he once was. Back then, he had a brother who was a drug addict and who was always in trouble. Defending his brother, he’s told me, was his entire focus. His brother is now gone, and he *has* changed. #ONpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2018
8. The people who say Doug Ford doesn’t represent the real Ontario don’t know the real Ontario. To them, Ontario is what they drive through to get to their cottages on the weekend. #ONpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2018
9. Doug Ford voters aren’t just angry. They feel they’re the forgotten – that they don’t matter to those of us who live downtown and make all the decisions all the time. Ford’s voters love him because he won’t forget them. #onpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2018
10. Jean Chretien, Bill Clinton, Ralph Klein, Mel Lastman, Brad Wall and so on – they were all smart guys (who hid how smart they were) and had the common touch (when their opponents didn’t). Doug Ford is like that. Underestimate him at your peril. #ONpoli
— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) March 11, 2018
I got tired of waiting for PCPO leadership results
So I tweeted stuff.
Pro tips, PC friends:
- If voters see that you can’t run your own house, they won’t let you run the province
- If you need media coverage, and all opposition parties do, messing up your leadership convention’s media coverage is a really bad idea
- If you think the networks won’t pull the plug on you, you are dreaming in Technicolour