KINSELLA – Do voters just tune out Donald Trump’s many sins?
FORGET IT. Two years ago, in a limitless and sunny August when a global pandemic seemed like an impossibility, my daughter and I knocked on doors for the Democrats in [Continue]
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KINSELLA – Mob rule: the Internet at its most thoughtless and hurtful
IN THE SOCIAL media era – in our mad rush to judgment – people get ground up and spat out. Happens all the time. Happens too often. Ask Aziz Ansari, the Muslim [Continue]
KINSELLA – Joshua Boyle’s visit with Justin Trudeau has a simple explanation
NOT SO LONG ago, I was in Vancouver at the same time as Jean Chretien. We decided to get together at a spot in Gastown. It was sunny and a truly beautiful day. Looking [Continue]
KINSELLA – Trudeau Liberals missing in action on Canada Day
CANADA’S 150th birthday has come and gone. Notice anything missing? Like, say, a federal presence. If you live outside of Ottawa, you sure didn’t see much of that. In [Continue]
KINSELLA – The irresistible, undeniable, overwhelming lure of Justin Trudeau
JUSTIN TRUDEAU is going to win the next federal election. We know, we know. The election is far away. He’s broken some promises. His legislative achievements are modest. [Continue]
KINSELLA – Unrepentant as he unravels, Trump is surely done
UNDERSELL AND overperform. Those of us who had the honour and privilege of working for Jean Chrétien knew that aphorism well. It was his mantra and therefore ours, too. It [Continue]
KINSELLA – Prying back the lid on corruption
JAMES COMEY’S big day – the testimony of former FBI director – has been much discussed, debated and dissected. Comey’s testimony before the Senate intelligence [Continue]
KINSELLA – How Donald Trump, and his presidency, can be salvaged
CAN DONALD TRUMP be saved? Most Americans – and most non-Americans – don’t want to, of course. They want him gone: impeached, indicted, imprisoned. Whatever it takes. [Continue]
KINSELLA – Andrew Scheer’s social conservative baggage
SMIRK. The economy. Justin Trudeau. Free speech. His deceased mother. Islamic State. On every subject, no matter how sad or serious, Andrew Scheer would smirk. It was weird. [Continue]
KINSELLA – A tempest in a cultural appropriation teapot
ALL NOVELISTS are liars. Thieves, too. So said the late Mordecai Richler. My friend and I were in the dark at the back at the Bovine Sex Club on Queen West, waiting to see [Continue]
KINSELLA – The rise of the disaffected white working class
TORONTO, Ont. – The guests at the event at the Royal Canadian Military Institute, just down University Avenue from the barricaded U.S. Consulate, were buzzing. Not about [Continue]
KINSELLA – An open letter to Kevin O’Leary: so long, you won’t be missed
DEAR KEVIN O’LEARY: At least Michael Ignatieff moved back here. You know what I mean, Mr. Disembark Tank. You’re just leaving. As expected. Likely as planned. I was [Continue]
KINSELLA – Under the spectre of the presidential warmonger
THE BEARDED Republican regarded us suspiciously. He had been washing his pickup truck (naturally) and listening to country music on the radio (ditto). It was [Continue]
KINSELLA – Fess up to your mistakes, laugh at yourself, then move on
WHITE HOUSE press secretary Sean Spicer standing at the door to a United Airlines plane, sipping a Pepsi. If a picture is worth a thousand words, and it assuredly is, then [Continue]
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