Archive for October 2024

Will three of the four provincial governments in Western Canada soon be in the hands of New Democrats ?? Certainly not, it turns out !!

Oct 29th, 2024 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, CANADIAN PROVINCES NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2024. The final count on the October 19 BC election results is now complete.. In round numbers : David Eby’s BC NDP has 45% of the popular vote and 47 seats in the BC Legislative Assembly (where a bare majority is also 47 seats) ; John […]

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Is America ready to start singing Beyoncé’s new song? … Canadians are praying every night that the answer is yes!

Oct 26th, 2024 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO . SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2024. The counterweights editors were wrong when they heard that “Randall White’s first short-short post” will cover BC election results, on Canada’s Pacific coast. (These results are still to come — I’ll return on this front Monday … or Tuesday.) Meanwhile, I am here a […]

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Necessity is the mother of an at least temporary counterweights invention

Oct 24th, 2024 | By | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2024. [UPDATED OCTOBER 25: see below]. An at least temporary technological disaster has befallen our counterweights site. It is apparently not altogether uncommon. And our (not very expert) local staff will be working to fix the technical issues over the next (perhaps longish?) while. For the moment the […]

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Wouldn’t it be nice if on Nov 5 Kamala Harris’s Democrats could do something like Susan Holt’s Liberals in Canadian province of New Brunswick on Oct 21??

Oct 22nd, 2024 | By | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2024. New Brunswick, some might stress, is the third smallest province in the present Canadian confederation. It is also the second largest province in Atlantic Canada, with a population — 854,355 as of the Third Quarter 2024 — somewhere in between the two Dakotas in the USA. To […]

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Warren Harding — once thought America’s worst president — wasn’t as bad as Donald Trump (and then let’s get real on Canada’s constitution again, very gradually)

Oct 15th, 2024 | By | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2024. What to say in the midst of assorted disturbing numbers for the great cause of the free and democratic society in the USA today? Even if Michael Moore now (or still?) believes the Harris-Walz Democrats will win in the end on November 5. And more to the […]

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The long future of Liberals and New Democrats in Canada : will Harper/Poilievre Conservatives finally get the progressive opponent they want?

Oct 6th, 2024 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK,TORONTO. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2024. It still seems hard to know just where Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet is going with the “Bloc’s demand to increase old age security (supported by the CPC and the NDP so far).” According to our local (Liberal) MP here it “is too expensive and poorly targeted.” […]

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APPENDIX : On Constitutional and Related Issues in Canada

Oct 1st, 2024 | By | Category: Heritage Now

The public policy proposals discussed below reflect just one ordinary voter’s opinions, many of which may never see any practical light of day in the darker real world of Canadian politics. The proposals try to pay some attention to what has gone before — in the spirit of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s “Only a person who knows the past […]

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