Warren Kinsella

Kinsella is the son of physician and medical ethicist Douglas Kinsella, founder of the National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR).{{Cite web|url=http://www.ccac.ca/en/Publications/PUBLICAT/Annualre/Annual01(2).htm|title=National Council on Ethics in Human Research}} He attended Carleton University from 1980 to 1984, earning a Bachelor of Journalism.

In the 1980s, Kinsella was a reporter at the Calgary Herald and later the Ottawa Citizen.{{cite web |title=Warren Kinsella investigates punk, neo-Nazis and murder in first work of fiction |url=https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/books/warren-kinsella-investigates-punk-neo-nazis-and-murder-in-first-work-of-fiction |website=calgaryherald.com |language=en-CA}}

Later, as a lawyer, Kinsella was a partner in the law firm McMillan Binch.{{Cite web|title=Warren Kinsella, Chain Bidco Plc: Profile and Biography|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/3943447|access-date=2020-10-12|website=Bloomberg.com|language=en}} He left the legal firm in 2002 and co-founded the consulting firm, Navigator. In 2006, he left to found his own agency, Daisy Consulting Group, a Toronto-based firm that engages in paid political advertising, lobbying and communications crisis management.{{Cite web|url=http://www.daisygroup.ca/#!whoweare/c1enr|title=WHO WE ARE|website=Daisy Group|access-date=2016-05-28}}

Kinsella served as a media adviser to opposition leader Jean Chrétien's office and as a strategist in the Canadian federal Liberal Party's 1993 election campaign "task force".Jeffrey, Brooke Divided Loyalties: The Liberal Party of Canada, 1984–2008, Toronto: University of Toronto Press page 198 After the Liberals won the election, Kinsella became chief of staff to federal Public Works minister David Dingwall.{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/groupaction/publicinquiry.html|title=Gomery Inquiry: A summary of the testimony|date=June 3, 2005|access-date=2008-09-27|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation}} Lawrence Martin noted in his book Iron Man that Kinsella was accused by Peter Donolo, Chrétien's communications director, of being overtly aggressive and seeing enemies everywhere.Martin, Lawrence Iron Man, Viking: Toronto, 2003 page 240. In addition, Martin noted that many Liberal MPs expressed concern about Kinsella's behaviour. However, Kinsella was a favourite of Aline Chrétien, the Prime Minister's wife, which meant that the complaints were ignored.{{Cite book|last=Martin, Lawrence, 1947-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52877378|title=Iron man : the defiant reign of Jean Chrétien|date=2003|publisher=Viking Canada|others=Martin, Lawrence, 1947-|isbn=0-670-04310-9|location=Toronto|pages=39|oclc=52877378}}

Kinsella ran as a Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election in the riding of North Vancouver but was defeated by Reform incumbent Ted White.

During his last stint as a national campaign headquarters worker during the 2000 Canadian federal election, he appeared on CTV's Canada AM brandishing a purple Barney dinosaur doll to mock what he claimed were Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day's creationist beliefs.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rU0yAugpDVEC&q=warren+kinsella+barney&pg=PA144 |title = The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone who Wants to Win|isbn = 9781550027464|last1 = Kinsella|first1 = Warren|date = October 4, 2007| publisher=Dundurn }} Public affairs consultant Robin Sears in Policy Options used this incident to compare him to American political consultant James Carville and argued that "The Carvillites and their young fans were less concerned with the substance of politics or its impact on citizens' building contempt for politics than with their personal scores."

After the 2000 federal election, Kinsella was a vocal supporter of Chrétien during the intra-party struggle that resulted in Chrétien being replaced by Paul Martin. In Iron Man, Lawrence Martin noted that Kinsella saw Paul Martin and his followers "as almost much an enemy" as the opposition parties, and favored working against the Martin faction. He would work on Liberal leadership campaigns for Allan Rock and Sheila Copps in opposition to Martin. He later admitted to quitting the Liberal Party when then-cabinet minister Herb Dhaliwal had his Vancouver South-Burnaby riding association taken over by the Martin forces in November 2002.{{Cite web|url=http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/01/18/VictorySowedDefeat/|title=A Victory that Sowed Defeat|last=Tieleman|first=Bill|date=2006-01-18|website=The Tyee|language=en|access-date=2019-11-10}}

Starting in November 2008, Kinsella worked briefly for Liberal leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff.{{cite web|url=http://www.warrenkinsella.com/index.php?entry=entry081113-113000 |title=Warren Kinsella |publisher=Warren Kinsella |access-date=2013-04-25}}{{Primary source inline|date=April 2013}} One long-time senior Liberal questioned the hiring of Kinsella, calling him a "human shrapnel machine."{{cite news|url=http://www.macleans.ca/2009/04/10/the-prince-of-darkness-is-back-in-the-liberal-fold/|title=The "Prince of Darkness" is back in the Liberal fold|last=Patriquin|first=Martin|date=April 10, 2009|publisher=Maclean's}} Later that month Kinsella apologized for a post in his video blog that jokingly mentioned that his regular Chinese restaurant sold "cat meat."{{cite news|url=http://news.singtao.ca/toronto/2009-01-29/city1233222027d1571825.html |title=自由黨高級顧問金希拉 言論涉種族歧視.袁海耀要求向華社道歉 |publisher=Sing Tao Daily |date=January 29, 2010}}{{cite news|title=Ignatieff's first test|url=http://m.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/ignatieffs-first-test/article1343351/?service=mobile |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |first=Jane |last=Taber}} Kinsella resigned from Ignatieff's campaign in May 2009, citing treatment of fired colleagues.{{cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/olo-bloodletting-prompts-warren-kinsella-to-ditch-war-room/article4353008/ |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |title=OLO bloodletting prompts Warren Kinsella to ditch Liberal war room |first=Jane |last=Taber |date=May 10, 2010}}

Kinsella publicly considered seeking the Liberal nomination for the 2015 federal election in Toronto—Danforth, but ultimately demurred in the belief that he would not be approved as a nominee. He argued that Justin Trudeau's inner circle had played a role in the ouster of Jean Chretien as Prime Minister.{{cite web|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2014/12/11/confessions-of-a-true-grit |title=Confessions of a true Grit|publisher=Toronto Sun |date= December 11, 2014|access-date=2015-01-04}}{{Primary source inline|date=December 2014}} He has been a critic of Trudeau's leadership.{{Cite web|url=https://torontosun.com/news/national/election-2019/kinsella-why-i-cant-vote-liberal-on-oct-21|title=KINSELLA: Why I can't vote Liberal on Oct. 21|website=torontosun}} During the 2019 election, Kinsella sent tweets accusing the Prime Minister of buying drinks for Faith Goldy,{{Cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/election-2019/how-faith-goldy-became-the-most-dangerous-woman-not-on-the-campaign-trail|title=How Faith Goldy became the most dangerous woman not on the campaign trail {{!}} National Post|last1=News|last2=Politics|first2=Canadian|date=2019-09-17|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-12-13|last3=Election 2019|newspaper=National Post }} making false accusations of a suppressed Globe & Mail story,{{Cite web|url=https://www.canadalandshow.com/rumours-of-suppressed-trudeau-affair-story-are-bullshit/|title=Rumours Of A Suppressed Globe Story About Justin Trudeau Are Bullshit|website=www.canadalandshow.com|date=October 8, 2019|access-date=2019-12-13}} and linking to a fake website that advocated Chrystia Freeland as leader of the Liberal Party.{{Cite web|url=https://lactualite.com/politique/non-ce-site-web-nest-pas-celui-dune-ministre-liberale/|title=Non, ce site web n'est pas celui d'une ministre libérale|last=Lopez|first=Camille|website=L'actualité|date=October 17, 2019|language=fr-CA|access-date=2019-12-13}} After the election, Kinsella praised Trudeau by stating that since the election there had been "no stunts, no selfies, no over-saturation".{{Cite web|url=https://ipolitics.ca/2019/11/15/proud-pages-souring-on-scheer/|title='Proud' pages souring on Scheer?|last1=Nov 15|first1=Charlie Pinkerton Published on|last2=2019 5:13pm|date=2019-11-15|website=iPolitics|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-11}}

During the Gomery Commission's inquiry into the Sponsorship scandal, Justice John Gomery was told that Kinsella, while chief of staff to Minister of Public Works David Dingwall, wrote a letter to the department's Deputy Minister, Ran Quail in 1994 requesting Chuck Guité be appointed to review the government's advertising and communications strategy. Quail said he viewed the letter as political interference into civil service affairs, while Dingwall and Kinsella characterized the letter as a request rather than a directive. No finding of any fault was found in Gomery's report relating to Kinsella's conduct.{{cite web |url=http://www.yorku.ca/igreene/gomfactVI.pdf |title= ADMINISTRATION OF THE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM|website=www.yorku.ca |access-date=2021-08-21}}

Kinsella worked for the Green Party of Canada during July 2019 in the run-up to the 2019 Canadian federal election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.straight.com/news/1265741/elizabeth-mays-brings-kicking-ass-canadian-politics-author-warren-kinsella-help-green|title=Elizabeth May brings on Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics author Warren Kinsella to help Green war room|date=2019-07-12|website=Georgia Straight » Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly|language=en|access-date=2019-09-30}}{{Cite web|url=https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2019/07/12/May-Hires-Kinsella/|title=Why Greens Hired a Fighter, Warren Kinsella, to 'Protect' Elizabeth May|last=Harris|first=Michael|date=2019-07-12|website=The Tyee|language=en|access-date=2019-09-30}} This work was a temporary arrangement and involved "Kinsella setting up a quick-response unit for the Greens."{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2019/07/30/warren-kinsellas-green-party-work-is-done-elizabeth-may-says.html|title=Warren Kinsella's Green Party work is done, Elizabeth May says {{!}} The Star|website=thestar.com|date=July 30, 2019|language=en|access-date=2019-09-30}}

In October 2019, the Globe and Mail reported that Kinsella's consulting firm, Daisy Group, had, according to an anonymous source, been hired by the Conservative Party of Canada to create a campaign attempting to discredit Maxime Bernier and the People's Party of Canada. Neither the Conservative Party nor Kinsella would confirm or deny that they had been working together.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-kinsella-firm-hired-to-seek-and-destroy-berniers-peoples-party/|title=Kinsella firm hired to 'seek and destroy' Bernier's People's Party, documents show|access-date=2019-10-19}} Bernier filed a complaint to the Commissioner of Canada Elections.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bernier-files-complaint-kinsella-campaign-1.5327748|title=Bernier files complaint to elections watchdog over 'secret' campaign to smear his party|last=Harris|first=Kathleen|date=Oct 19, 2019|website=CBC}} On October 19, 2019, Kinsella deactivated his Twitter and Facebook accounts and posted a statement on his website that he is "pulling back from (social) media."{{cite web|url=http://warrenkinsella.com/2019/10/statement/|title=Statement: Warren Kinsella|date=October 19, 2019|website=warrenkinsella.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021024328/http://warrenkinsella.com/2019/10/statement/|archive-date=October 21, 2019}} On October 22, Kinsella called on the Commissioner of Canada Elections to investigate the role that his own firm played.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-kinsella-calls-for-probe-of-his-firms-secret-work-to-seek-and/|title=Kinsella calls for probe of his firm's secret work to 'seek and destroy' Bernier's People's Party of Canada|last=Curry|first=Bill|date=October 22, 2019|website=Kinsella calls for probe of his firm's secret work to 'seek and destroy' Bernier's People's Party of Canada}}

On 29 October 2019 Kinsella said on his podcast that he would not reveal the who hired his company, maintaining that it was protected by solicitor-client privilege but stated the campaign should have been disclosed earlier.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/warren-kinsella-election-apology-1.5336581|title='Seek and destroy' contract against PPC came with strings, Kinsella says|last=Thompson|first=Elizabeth|date=Oct 25, 2019|website=CBC}} On November 2, Kory Teneycke cited Andrew Scheer's handling of the Kinsella story as one reason for questioning Scheer's future as the leader of the Conservative Party.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/11/02/andrew-scheer-reaches-out-to-defeated-tories-as-leadership-speculation-swirls.html|title=Andrew Scheer reaches out to defeated Tories as leadership speculation swirls|last=Boutilier|first=Alex|date=November 2, 2019|website=Toronto Star}} While, CBC revealed, on November 26, 2019, a recording describing Kinsella's contempt of Bernier and identified that Conservative campaign manager Hamish Marshall and co-chair, John Walsh knew about the campaign and were watching. Kinsella is heard telling the staff that they need to "draw blood".{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/project-cactus-kinsella-daisy-ppc-bernier-1.5372715|title=Recordings reveal details of campaign to attack Maxime Bernier, PPC as racists before election|last=Bellemare|first=Andrea|date=November 26, 2019|website=CBC}} After filing a $1 million lawsuit, Kinsella later settled out of court with the source; who was a former Daisy Employee, Aziza Mohammed.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/warren-kinsella-daisy-bernier-conservative-party-scheer-1.5375701|title=Warren Kinsella's Daisy Group settles with former employee accused of Project Cactus leak|date=November 27, 2019|website=CBC News}} On December 8 the Globe and Mail reported that it was a lack of clarity "what other activities were part of the project" and that "The Conservative Party will eventually have to report all of its spending and third-party contracts to Elections Canada".{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-maxime-bernier-hires-former-ombudsman-to-prepare-legal-action-against/|title=Maxime Bernier hires former ombudsman to prepare legal action against Warren Kinsella over racism claims - The Globe and Mail|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|access-date=2019-12-09|last1=Curry |first1=Bill }} While, Kinsella and his firm did not break the Elections Canada Act (which only governs spending), CBC News suggested that story might not end.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/kinsella-bernier-elections-law-1.5421313|title='Seek and Destroy' campaign against People's Party didn't violate elections law, which only applies to financial infractions: commissioner|last=Thompson|first=Elizabeth|date=January 9, 2020|website=CBC News}}

In February 2020, Bernier launched a lawsuit against Kinsella alleging defamation by branding Bernier a racist, in relation to the 2019 election.{{cite news |work=National Post |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/peoples-party-leader-maxime-bernier-sues-political-pundit-for-defamation |title=Maxime Bernier says pundit Warren Kinsella branded him a racist, sues for defamation |first=Michelle |last=McQuigge |date=5 February 2020 |quote=In his statement of claim, Bernier says those descriptions damaged his reputation and subjected him to public scandal and embarrassment.}} The lawsuit sought an admission of defamation and $325,000 in damages. In November 2021, the court dismissed the lawsuit, based on Ontario's Anti-SLAPP legislation, determining that it was not proven that the defamation concerns outweighed the importance of protecting free speech.{{cite news |last1=Curry |first1=Bill |title=Bernier order to pay $132,000 in legal costs after failed defamation case over Project Cactus |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-maxime-bernier-ordered-to-pay-132000-in-legal-costs-after-failed/ |access-date=15 March 2022 |date=14 March 2022 |publication-date=5 March 2022 |location=Toronto |page=A2}} Bernier was ordered in February 2022 to pay $132,000 in legal costs to Kinsella.

{{CANelec/top|CA|1997|North Vancouver (electoral district)|North Vancouver|percent=yes|change=yes|expenditures=yes}}

{{CANelec|CA|Reform|Ted White|27,075|48.86|+8.85|$63,443}}

{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Warren Kinsella|18,806|33.94|+2.87|$62,704}}

{{CANelec|CA|NDP|Martin Stuible|5,075|9.15|+2.77|$11,938}}

{{CANelec|CA|PC|Dennis Prouse|2,740|4.94|-11.00|$14,159}}

{{CANelec|CA|Green|Peggy Stortz|982|1.77|–|$173}}

{{CANelec|CA|Independent|Dallas Lindley Collins|365|0.65|–|}}

{{CANelec|CA|Canadian Action|Wayne Mulherin|203|0.36|–|$1,359}}

{{CANelec|CA|Natural Law|Ken Chawkin|162|0.29|-0.59|}}

{{CANelec/total|Total valid votes|55,408|100.0  }}

{{CANelec/total|Total rejected ballots|167|0.30}}

{{CANelec/total|Turnout|55,575|71.83}}

{{CANelec/hold|CA|Reform|+2.99}}

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Kinsella was a long time supporter of Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, and was a fixture in Ontario Liberal Party election campaigns while McGuinty was leader. The Hill Times stated that Kinsella was the individual that branded Ontario Progressive Conservatives Leader John Tory's promise to publicly fund faith-based schools during the 2007 election "into a Canadian version of Nixon's racist Southern strategy".{{Cite web|url=https://www.hilltimes.com/2007/12/17/kinsella-thrives-in-war-room-where-stakes-are-high-speed-and-nastiness-useful/9473|title=Kinsella thrives in war room where stakes are high, speed and nastiness useful|date=2007-12-17|website=The Hill Times|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-11-10}} He would apologize for a blog post during the campaign suggesting that Progressive Conservative MPP Lisa MacLeod would rather bake cookies than be seen with farm activist Randy Hillier; MacLeod would later use the remark as the humorous title for a cookbook.{{cite news| url=https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/2007/07/26/kinsella_to_stay_despite_unfortunate_comment.html | work=The Star | location=Toronto | title=Kinsella to stay despite 'unfortunate' comment | first=Rob | last=Ferguson | date=July 26, 2007 | access-date=March 27, 2010}}

Kinsella supported Sandra Pupatello in the 2013 Liberal Party of Ontario leadership convention that chose a successor to McGuinty.{{cite news|url=http://www.torontosun.com/2013/01/14/to-curse-may-be-pupatellos-blessing |newspaper=Toronto Sun |title=T.O. Curse may be Pupatello's Blessing|first=Warren |last=Kinsella |date=January 14, 2013}} The leadership was won by Kathleen Wynne. Kinsella was sharply critical of Wynne's campaign during the 2014 Ontario election, and subsequently.{{cite news| url=http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/29/how-coalition-became-a-bad-word | newspaper=Toronto Sun | location=Toronto | title=How coalition became a bad word | first=Warren | last=Kinsella | date=May 29, 2014 | access-date=February 4, 2014}}

On October 31, 2019, the Globe and Mail reported that a spokesperson for Autistics for Autistics (A4A), an Ontario Autism advocacy group, threatened litigation against Kinsella after warning Kinsella's Daisy firm over a suspected connection between free media training provided by his firm and the Ontario government led by premier Doug Ford.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-opposition-urges-ford-government-to-release-contract-with-kinsellas/|title=Opposition urges Ford government to release contract with Kinsella's Daisy Group|access-date=2019-11-05}} Kinsella stated that his work was unrelated with strategic advice and media training provided to Minister of Children, Community and Social Services Lisa MacLeod and her political staff in March 2018 over the restrictions to the provincial autism program. While House leader Paul Calandra, who was asked by reporters if he would release the contract, stated that Daisy' firm services was for social assistance not autism{{Cite web|url=https://ipolitics.ca/2019/10/31/kinsella-says-he-never-discussed-meetings-with-autism-advocacy-group-with-ford-government/|title=Kinsella says he never discussed meetings with autism advocacy group with Ford government|last1=Oct 31|first1=Victoria Gibson Published on|last2=2019 4:45pm|date=2019-10-31|website=iPolitics|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-05}}

Kinsella advised John Tory in the 2003 Toronto mayoral election.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/toronto-election/2018/08/10/john-tory-casts-his-lot-with-controversial-campaign-strategists.html|title=John Tory casts his lot with controversial campaign strategists {{!}} The Star|website=thestar.com|date=October 2018 |language=en|access-date=2020-01-11}}

In 2014 mayoral election, Kinsella assisted Olivia Chow's campaign. On August 20, 2014, Kinsella tweeted "Is John Tory's SmartTrack, you know, Segregationist Track?", and posted a photo featuring Tory and an edited speech bubble stating that Jane/Finch and Rexdale were intentionally excluded from the plan.{{cite news| url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/warren-kinsella-accuses-john-tory-transit-plan-of-segregation-apologizes-1.2741775| work=CBC News | location=Toronto | title=Warren Kinsella accuses John Tory transit plan of segregation, apologizes | date=August 20, 2014 | access-date=March 3, 2015}} Kinsella apologized for the incident. Daisy Consulting later announced that they had fired Chow as a client due to remarks regarding Kinsella.{{cite news| url=http://www.torontosun.com/2014/09/20/doug-fords-the-wild-card | newspaper=Toronto Sun | location=Toronto | title=Doug Ford's the wild card | first=Adrienne | last=Batra | date=September 20, 2014 | access-date=March 3, 2015}} After a Twitter showdown between Tory's strategist Nick Kouvalis; Kinsella sued Kouvalis for $100,000 libel suit over tweets that Kinsella alleges were slanderous.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/toronto2014election/2014/10/24/former_chow_strategist_suing_tory_official_for_100k.html|title=Former Chow strategist suing Tory official for $100K {{!}} The Star|website=thestar.com|date=October 24, 2014 |language=en|access-date=2019-11-10}}{{Cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/toronto/warren-kinsella-serves-libel-notice-over-tweets-by-john-tory-strategist-implying-he-was-fired-from-chow-campaign|title=Warren Kinsella serves libel notice to Tory strategist for tweets implying he was fired from Chow campaign {{!}} National Post|last=Toronto|first=Posted|newspaper=National Post |date=2014-08-30|language=en-CA|access-date=2019-11-17}} Kouvalis was later reported by the Toronto Star as the person responsible for bring Kinsella as an advisor to John Tory during the 2018 Toronto mayoral election.{{cite news| url=https://www.thestar.com/news/toronto-election/2018/08/10/john-tory-casts-his-lot-with-controversial-campaign-strategists.html| title=John Tory casts his lot with controversial campaign strategists| first1=Jennifer| last1=Pagliaro| first2=David| last2=Rider| date=October 1, 2018| website=thestar.com}}

On November 16, 2018 the OPP charged Mark Grimes along with outgoing city councillor Justin Di Ciano for allegedly filing false campaign expenses for the 2014 municipal elections, contrary to the Municipal Elections Act.{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-councillors-charged-by-opp-1.4908588|title=2 Toronto city councillors charged with alleged campaign finance violations|last1=Lancaster|first1=John|date=November 16, 2018|work=CBC News|access-date=November 16, 2018|last2=Rieti|first2=John|language=en-CA}}{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2018/11/16/etobicoke-councillors-grimes-and-di-ciano-charged-with-elections-act-offences-over-2014-campaign-expenses.html|title=Etobicoke Councillors Grimes and Di Ciano charged with Elections Act offences over 2014 campaign expenses|last1=Pagliaro|first1=Jennifer|date=November 16, 2018|work=Toronto Star|access-date=November 16, 2018}} In order to fight the allegations, then-councillor Di Ciano and Grimes hired the firm of strategist Kinsella to compile a "research" dossier on him and political foes such as CBC News. A few months later, Grimes faced litigation by Kinsella for allegedly failing to pay invoices for services rendered by Kinsella's Daisy Group.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/di-ciano-grimes-kinsella-lawsuit-allegations-1.5183813|title=Toronto councillor peeved over CBC stories was privately 'threatening' reporter, lawsuit alleges|date=June 24, 2019|access-date=October 30, 2019}}

In 1997, Kinsella published the novel Party Favours, a thinly veiled roman à clef about the Chrétien government similar to the 1996 American novel Primary Colors."Political punk". The Globe and Mail, August 20, 2005. The novel was initially credited to "Jean Doe","Author of Party Favours keeping identity a secret". Toronto Star, September 17, 1997. with Kinsella only later revealing himself as the real author.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}}

Macleans associated "Prince of Darkness" with dirty politics because "His political books are thick with tales of dirty tricks and nasty business in Ottawa's corridors of power, and he is an admitted and most gleeful practitioner of both."{{Cite web|url=https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-prince-of-darkness-is-back-in-the-liberal-fold/|title=The "Prince of Darkness" is back in the Liberal fold - Macleans.ca|website=www.macleans.ca|date=April 10, 2009 |access-date=2019-12-13}}

Kinsella runs a blog that is famous in Canadian political circles for Kinsella's on-and-off feuds with other bloggers, including one with columnist Ezra Levant that prompted Kinsella to initiate a defamation suit claiming $5,000,000 in damages.

In March 2019, Kinsella started as a Toronto Sun columnist. After, it was revealed Kinsella's consulting firm worked with the Conservative Party. Canadaland reported that Sun management did not respond to questions about whether they were aware of Kinsella doing paid work on behalf of the Conservatives, but a spokesperson for parent company Postmedia stated in an email that "Postmedia is unaware of any financial arrangement that Warren Kinsella might have had with a political party while writing a column for the Toronto Sun. If we had been aware of such an arrangement, we would have disclosed that relationship, as is our standard practice."{{Cite news|url=https://www.canadalandshow.com/warren-kinsella-postmedia-seek-and-destroy-ppc/|title=Kinsella, Postmedia, And The Paid Campaign To "Seek And Destroy"|last=Goldsibe|first=Jonathan|date=October 21, 2019|work=Canadaland}}

• Unholy Alliances (Lester, 1992)
• Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network {{ISBN|0-00-638051-4}} (HarperCollins, 1997)
• Party Favours (HarperCollins, 1997)
• Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics (Random House, 2001)
• Fury's Hour: A (sort-of) Punk-Rock Manifesto (Random House, 2005)
• The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants to Win (Dundurn Press, 2007)
• Fight the Right: A Manual for Surviving the Coming Conservative Apocalypse (Random House, Oct 2 2012)
• Recipe for Hate (Dundurn, 2017) (fiction)

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• [http://www.warrenkinsella.com Official website]

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