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- Warren Kinsella should not be confused with Canadian author W. P. Kinsella.
J. Warren Kinsella, LL.B (born August 1960 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian lawyer, author and political consultant and commentator.
Kinsella is counsel to and a principal of the Toronto consultancy firm Navigator. He worked as a strategy advisor in the Canadian federal Liberal Party's 1993 election campaign "task force", as a special assistant to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, and as chief of staff to several federal cabinet ministers.
Politics
Kinsella's often controversial work as a political strategist have led to his being labelled a "Liberal attack dog", and the "James Carville" and "Prince of Darkness" of Canadian politics. He ran as a Liberal candidate in the 1997 federal election in the riding of North Vancouver where he lost to Ted White of the Reform Party of Canada by a margin of over 9,000 votes.
Kinsella was a vocal supporter of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and criticized Paul Martin for challenging Chrétien's leadership. Kinsella remained critical of Martin after Chrétien announced his resignation and Martin became leader. With respect to federal politics, he refers to himself as a "Liberal-in-exile". He criticized the Liberal campaign several times in the 2004 federal election, and has done the same in the early period of the 2006 election. Kinsella launched a libel action against an Ottawa freelance journalist in January 2006, when the journalist published on his blog that Kinsella was a "key actor" in a "kickback scheme."
In the 2003 Toronto municipal election, Kinsella was a senior campaign strategist for conservative mayoral candidate John Tory. He has also been identified as a top strategist to Ontario Liberal Party leader and Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty.
Writing
Kinsella has written five books: one on international terrorism, Unholy Alliances (Lester, 1992); a national bestseller about organized racism, titled Web of Hate (HarperCollins, 1994, and republished in 1996 and 2001); the briefly best-selling novel Party Favours (HarperCollins, 1997), originally credited to the pseudonym Jean Doe and considered Canada's answer to Primary Colors; and a book on political communications, Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics (Random House, 2001).
His fifth book, Fury's Hour: A (sort-of) Punk-Rock Manifesto (Random House) came out in August 2005. Kinsella played bass and sang in the punk rock band Hot Nasties , which released the Invasion of the Tribbles EP in the 1980s. He now plays bass in another punk rock band, Shit From Hell, with other members of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Web of Hate and Kinsella's vocal opposition to the far right, racists, anti-Semites and white nationalists in Canada have earned him considerable enmity in these communities.
Kinsella has also been a newspaper and magazine columnist and op-ed writer. In late 2000, he established a web site, in part to counter the large amount of material circulated on the web by his detractors. His weblog, Latest Musings, gained a wide following.
Personal
The son of respected physician Douglas Kinsella, Warren Kinsella has lived in many parts of Canada and in the United States and is now based in Toronto. He and his wife have four children. Kinsella is an alumnus of Bishop Carroll High School.