.@realDonaldTrump-haters pre-inauguration self-deception list:

— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 17, 2017

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I’ll be hosting, and these fine folks will be on the panel:

• Desmond Cole, Activist, Author, Journalist
• Bernie M. Farber, ED the Mosaic Institute
• Ihsaan Gardee, National Counicl of Canadian Muslims
• Dr. Karen Mock, Human Rights Consultant, President JSpaceCanada

Tickets are just $10, and $5 for students with ID.  There’s reserved seating, too.

What’s it all about? Well, basically, it’s a recognition that the world has changed (for the worse) since the start of November – as seen here and here and here and here and here and here, in Canada, too – and that we need to start talking about it, and doing something about it.

I think it’s going to be an important discussion.  And I think you should come if you’re in or near the GTA that night.

 

 

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So, The Lobby Monitor asked me about the Aga Khan, helicopter, lobbying, blah blah blah. 

Here’s my response. 

The sponsor is almost always a lobbyist. CIJA, for example, sponsors a great deal of air travel – with MPs from all parties – every year. That never raises any concerns. 

This case shouldn’t either. The Opposition – and some bored pundits – are attempting to manufacture hysteria because they are frustrated by Trudeau’s ongoing popularity. 

There was no other practical and expeditious way to get where he was going. The helicopter belonged to a man who had known Trudeau since infancy, and was not a registered lobbyist. 

Trudeau did nothing wrong, in my opinion. 

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Ironically, I’m at CBC right now. And that’s where I read this.

Other pundits are all but writing Wynne off.

“She has lost that credibility with voters and once it’s gone it’s almost impossible to get back,” said Quito Maggi, CEO of Mainstreet Research.

His firm’s polling in the latter half of 2016 suggested the Liberals would do far better without Wynne as leader.

“It’s not the message, it’s the messenger,” said Maggi in an interview. “Even some of the positives that this government has tried to announce the last six, eight, 12 months have been completely drowned out immediately by the negatives.”

Polls by three different firms in the final months of 2016 put Kathleen Wynne’s approval rating in the range of 13 to 16 per cent. She faces an election in June 2018.

“There comes a point with governments when there may be little they can do to change circumstances, particularly after a party has been in power for a long time,” said Shachi Kurl, executive director of the Angus Reid Institute.

But the team around Wynne is not pressing the panic button — yet.

When your numbers are mired at Mulroney-1992 levels – the lowest one firm has ever recorded for a sitting Premier – it’s time for a big rethink and some big changes. Obviously. This situation has been going on for many months, and it needs to be fixed now if the Ontario Liberals are to avoid many years in opposition.

Wynne has some amazing staff, from Andrew Bevan on down. But I do not feel that she has been well served by her campaign team. At all.

She has some positives – but those well-compensated operatives haven’t been telling people about those positives. She has an impressive policy brain – but they needed to be showing folks more of her impressive heart, too. She is the Premier, and she is supposed to be talking about the big picture – not being hauled out to announce beer sales in every frigging grocery store.

What will Kathleen Wynne do? Will she do as Quito says, and resign to make way for another leader? Beats me. But one thing is certain: what they are doing now isn’t working.

At all.

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Here. 

Still think you should defend him, conservatives?

If you do, you’re as seditious and as dangerous as he is. 

“[NATO is] obsolete, first because it was designed many, many years ago,” Trump said in the Bild version of the interview.

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Daisy is working with a coalition of innocent accident victims, rehab specialists, brokers, medical professionals and insurance folks to push the Ontario government into finally (a) limiting contingency fees (b) controlling referral fees and (c) eliminating litigation financing schemes run by greedy lawyers.

Be prepared for a barrage of social media on same.  Fair warning. I am motivated, baby.

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Check out the boldface. It's a baldfaced lie. #cdnpoli #lpc https://t.co/hyzufjpkXZ

— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 15, 2017

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Placeholder poster until Bjorn gets bailed out. 

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The anti-@realDonaldTrump anthem of this generation. https://t.co/ABQL0MChoN @SFHPunks @HotNasties @ladurantaye @bjornvf3 @AronYeomanson

— Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) January 14, 2017

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I only have 9 letters at the end of my name (LL.B, B.J. Hons.), so I bet Kellie Leitch thinks I’m mentally defective, pretty much.

To wit:

Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is on a crusade against the elites. But it’s not going well for her, and all those letters after her name are partly to blame.

The Prince Arthur Herald has obtained an audio clip of Leitch berating a Conservative Party supporter and using her titles to show her intelligence. Partway into a discussion at an event with young Conservative Party members in Montreal on Thursday evening, Leitch responds to criticism by proclaiming:

“Please understand that I do have 22 letters at the end of my name, I’m not an idiot.”

Her parliamentary profile reads her official title as The Hon. Dr. K. Kellie Leitch, P.C., O.Ont., M.D., M.B.A., F.R.C.S.(C)

There are actually 16 letters after her name. Including “the Hon. Dr.” before her name brings the total to 24.

Please God, please God, make the Cinservatives elect her leader, so Liberals are in power until Justin Trudeau is getting the seniors’ discount at Shoppers. Please.

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