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“You had one job.” In mainstream culture, the first known use of the phrase happened 25 years ago, in a remake of the comedy heist film Ocean’s Eleven. The character played by Don Cheadle and his team of robbers set off some explosives to open a big safe. The door pops open, and a delighted Cheadle dances into the vault. As he does so, an alarm goes off. Says an irritated Cheadle to his colleagues: “You tossers! You had one job to do!” That, or “you had one job,” entered the

Use your thumb for the clouds, my Mom said. It was the pandemic. My life had blown up, I was living with two labs in an old farmhouse on an island, and nobody was allowed to go near anyone else. I didn’t have another book in me. My band couldn’t get together to play. I had given up writing for newspapers. So, I decided to paint again. An ex hadn’t let me put my art up on the walls, so I stopped painting. But now the ex was gone. So I dug out some paint and brushes and sat dow

Lee and me in London, December 2025 I met Lee G. Hill in the first week I was at St. Bonaventure Junior High School in Calgary. That was 50 years ago. We became friends right away - along with Dan Nearing and Pierre Schenk and Pat O'Heran and Bill Corcoran and others - because we liked a lot of the same things. Beatles, movies, counterculture stuff. We were misfits, I guess. We started something called the Non-Conformist News Agency, which we used as vehicle to satirize every

I've been writing about racism and bigotry for 40 years. I've written half a dozen books and hundreds of speeches and columns about the subject. I've been lucky enough to win awards for my work. So, when a white man accuses minorities of being "barbaric," my opinion is that he is a racist and a bigot. And he should never be allowed to hold public office. #topoli

Front page, as it were, in the Times of Israel! Quote: "Shortly after the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, Warren Kinsella began noticing what he considered the fingerprints of a professional propaganda campaign. A Canadian political strategist who has worked for decades in war rooms advising prime ministers and political campaigns in Canada, the United States and Israel, Kinsella makes that case in his new book, “The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antis

Our Prime Ministerial frequent flyer was on the road again, this week. One wonders if he leafed through Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book on the plane. There’s a memorable passage in it: “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting is really cooperating with it.” As such, the places Mark Carney visits are interesting. At the NATO Summit, Mark Carney spent time with Turkey’s President, Recep

...hopefully I did better than the guy who previously was on that stage. More than 200 people there, with more on a waiting list. Every copy of The Hidden Hand sold, and more copies pre-sold! Here's a video of my talk. Let me know your thoughts.

Look: bad people do bad things. True in politics, true in real life. In politics, being bad or doing bad things isn’t always fatal. Bad people sometimes win. Donald Trump, Richard Nixon et al. It happens. But people who are good - or who claim to be good - shrugging about a bad person doing bad things in politics? That shouldn’t happen. Justin Trudeau, for example. He wore racist blackface and was alleged by a woman to have groped her. He hid both until they leaked out. For m

Today is her birthday. She led a long and good life, yes, and I believe – per my faith – she is with my Dad now, the love of her life. Yes. But I still so miss her, miss them, every single day. People will tell you it gets easier, with the passage of time. But they’re not telling you the truth. It mostly doesn’t. She was an artist and a creator and the best mother you could possibly imagine. As Moms go, she was without equal. Her absence leaves a hole in the sky and in every

Canada and America both had birthdays this week. Theirs was more consequential. Not, however, in the way that birthdays are supposed to be: not with lots of joy and singing and celebrations of achievement. America alights in its 250th year with none of that, really. No discernible joy, no proper celebrations, no singing by anyone you would ever want to hear. Uncharitable as it may sound, America slides into its 250th year like a dead and decomposing whale on a remote beach s

I don't quite understand how these things are calculated, but I'll take it. After two months and a bit, The Hidden Hand is still a number one bestseller on a couple Amazon lists, and in the top ten on another. (Now in its second printing, too.) Don't get it, but very grateful to all of you who have picked it up. And, like I say, I'm not complaining.

What is it to be a Canadian? Perhaps the best way to answer that is to describe what isn’t Canadian. What is unwelcome here. On the day after Canada Day, we know this: we know that Canada is not a place to come to with hate in one’s heart. It’s not a place to bring bigoted creeds from afar - beliefs that cause division and discord. Canada is not a place where lawlessness is favoured or desired. It is not a place where the rule of law should be ignored without consequence. Ca

...by Chris Reed, here. "Shrewd...Kinsella is keenly alert to the strange convergence of the far right and radical left, which share a rhetoric that denies Jewish legitimacy. The Hidden Hand traces how the nation’s demographics, vulnerability to foreign interference, institutional weakness and political reluctance have left it badly exposed. A country that prides itself on pluralism, Kinsella argues, has become disturbingly susceptible to anti-Jewish intimidation and foreign

Heading West out of Jerusalem. New one. (For Lee.)

Israel National News, has reviewed The Hidden Hand, and called it "excellent...admirably detailed and fact-based...presented in a clear, straightforward and highly readable style." Not bad! Review here.

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