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Born in Montreal in August 1960, the son of renowned physician Douglas Kinsella , he has lived in many parts of Canada and in the United States, and is now based in Toronto.

Kinsella is counsel and principal with a Toronto firm called Navigator. Before that, he was a special assistant to Jean Chrétien and chief of staff to several federal cabinet ministers. He has also played a key role in strategy for Liberal Party election campaigns.

Kinsella has written four 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); a best-selling novel, Party Favours (HarperCollins, 1997), originally credited to the pseudonym Jean Doe and considered Canada's answer to Primary Colors; and, most recently, a book about political communications, called Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics (Random House, 2001). He has also been a newspaper and magazine columnist and op-ed writer. In the 1980s he performed in a punk rock band and retains an interest in the genre today.

He ran as a Liberal in the 1997 Canadian election in the riding of North VancouverThe electoral district of North Vancouver includes the City of North Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver. The population of the electoral district is (2001 Census): 128,214 This riding was created in 1986 when the North Vancouver—Burnaby Elector where he lost to Ted WhiteTed White (born 1938) was a science fiction fan who worked as an assistant editor for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the 1968s. In 1969, he became the editor of Amazing Stories and Fantastic a position he held until 1978. He then edited He of the Reform Party of CanadaFor the Reform Party that existed prior to Canadian Confederation see Reform Party (pre-Confederation Reform Party of Canada Founded October 31, 1987 Dissolved March 25, 2000 Into the Canadian Alliance Colours Green The Reform Party of Canada was a conser by a margin of over 9,000 votes.

During the 2000 federal election campaign, while on a political panel on CTV network morning show Canada AMCanada AM is a Canadian breakfast television news show, which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1972. It was created as a response to the popularity of American morning shows such as The Today Show and adopted a similar format initially. Origi, he criticized Canadian AllianceCanadian Reform Conservative Alliance Founded March 27, 2000 Reform Party founded in 1987 Dissolved December 7, 2003Merged with the PC Party into the Conservative Party Colours Green and Blue The Canadian Alliance (in full, the Canadian Reform Conservativ leader Stockwell DayStockwell Burt Day (born August 16, 1950), a Canadian politician. He served as leader of the Canadian Alliance party, before being ousted from that position. He remains a prominent member of the Conservative Party of Canada. Born in Barrie, Ontario, Day h's fundamentalist religious beliefs, particularly his rejection of evolution. "I just want to remind Mr. Day that The Flintstones was not a documentary," he said, before producing a large stuffed Barney toy. "And this is the only dinosaur that recently co-existed with humans." While the stunt offended some, the subtext that religious conservatism might find expression in Day's public policy alarmed other Canadians.

Later the same year, he established a web site, in part to counter the large amount of material circulated on the web by his detractors in the Liberal Party. His "Latest Musings" weblog gained a wide following.

In the 2003 Toronto election, Kinsella was a senior campaign strategist for Mayoralty candidate John Tory.

Kinsella was a loyalist to former Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien and publicly criticized Martin for challenging Chretien's leadership and remained critical of Martin after Chretien announced his resignation and Martin became leader. He currently refers to himself as a "Liberal-in-exile", in protest of Paul Martin's decision to welcome former separatists as Liberal Party candidates in the 2004 federal election. His public disapproval of Martin's work as Prime Minister has run him afoul of the highest echelons of the Liberal Party.

Kinsella and his wife have four children.