Canadian Republic
May 6th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Canadian Republic
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MAY 6, 2023. Almost by accident we have stumbled across a (for us) especially sensible way of commemorating the events of today back in the old imperial metropolis across the seas. Recently our colleague Randall White completed the last or concluding draft chapter of his political-history work in progress, Children of […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Coronation 2023 in Canada, democracy in Canada Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Apr 10th, 2021 |
By Ashok Charles |
Category: Canadian Republic
SPECIAL FROM ASHOK CHARLES, TORONTO/THUNDER BAY. APRIL 10, 2021 : Canada’s current citizenship oath, with its medieval pledge of fealty to a hereditary monarch, does not meet the needs of a prominent 21st century democracy. In 2019 Canada accepted 340,000 new permanent residents, and is among the countries with the highest levels of immigration. Some […]
Tags: Australian citizenship oath, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian citizenship oath, Canadian republic, Immigration to Canada, recanting Canadian citizenship oath to monarch Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Oct 18th, 2020 |
By Ashok Charles |
Category: Canadian Republic
SPECIAL FROM ASHOK CHARLES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, REPUBLIC NOW/RÉPUBLIQUE DU CANADA, TORONTO/THUNDER BAY. OCTOBER 18, 2020 : That Barbados has resolved to transition from constitutional monarchy to constitutional democracy (see “Barbados To Become A Republic by 2021”) also has relevance for Canada. Explaining the coming changeover, Barbados’ Governor General, Sandra Mason, said : “Barbadians want a […]
Tags: Barbados republic, Beverley McLachlin, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian Bar Association, Canadian head of state, Canadian republic, Christopher Hitchens, Commonwealth of Nations, James Cox, Paul Heinbecker, Peter Gzowski, Sandra Mason Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Jun 30th, 2020 |
By Randall White |
Category: Canadian Republic
CANADA DAY, JULY 1, 2020. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. RANDALL WHITE : As quite recently noted by the counterweights editors, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has urged that the COVID-19 pandemic has given us a “chance to reshape Canada’s future.” In the prime minister’s own words, the coronavirus “has been an unprecedented challenge.” But it “has also been […]
Tags: Brian Slattery, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Charles Roach, D. Michael Jackson, Institute for the Study of the Crown in Canada, John Fraser, Michael Valpy, Philippe Lagassé, polls on monarchy in Canada early 2020, Serge Joyal, Sol Mamakwa Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Jul 12th, 2019 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Canadian Republic
Last Friday – a week ago now – the Globe and Mail published an obituary for “Character actor Sean McCann” who died in Toronto “on June 13 of heart failure at the age of 83.” The Toronto Star and Toronto Sun had earlier published their own commemorations – “Canadian actor Sean McCann dies at 83” […]
Tags: Ashok Charles, Canadian republic, Citizens for a Canadian Republic, Republic Now, Sean McCann, Tom Freda Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Feb 13th, 2018 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Canadian Republic
As an altogether confirmed Canadian republican (not at all the same as an American Republican of course, especially today), I ordinarily do my best to ignore the British monarchy. But two contemporary media events have slightly increased my interest in the subject. The first is Harry Windsor’s forthcoming marriage to the mixed-race (and unquestionably hot) […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Bruce Demara, Canadian republic, David Schurmann, Governor General of Canada, King Charles III in Toronto, Senate reform in Canada, Wade Bogert-O’Brien Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Nov 8th, 2017 |
By Randall White |
Category: Canadian Republic
There seems at least some significant agreement within the Canadian federal punditocracy (which I admire a great deal) that our new former-astronaut Governor General Julie Payette badly blotted her copy book, when she gave spirited opening remarks at the recent 9th annual Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa. I nonetheless feel driven to confess that […]
Tags: Adrienne Clarkson, Canadian head of state, David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, Julie Payette, Lord Monck, Michaelle Jean, presidents of Ireland and India, republic in Canada, Vincent Massey Posted in Canadian Republic |
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May 17th, 2017 |
By Randall White |
Category: Canadian Republic
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017. Toronto, Ontario.  This coming Monday we will celebrate locally what is known here in Ontario (and other Canadian provinces) as Victoria Day.  (In Quebec the same holiday is now more sensibly called  Journée nationale des patriotes.) The holiday is nowadays defined as “the last Monday preceding May 25.” And this entrenches […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Commonwealth realms, Monique Scotti, Opinion polls on monarchy in Canada, Victoria Day in Canada Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Jun 30th, 2016 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Canadian Republic
TORONTO, CANADA. JUNE 30, 2016. Our local and regional stock markets are back, Â and it is starting to seem that the Brexit crisis in the United Kingdom is not going to precipitate a global depression after all. It does nonetheless remain something of a bigger-than-expected political (and no doubt economic) disturbance in the UK itself. […]
Tags: Brexit and Canada, British monarchy in Canada, Canada Day 2016, Canadian republic, Martin Regg Cohn and Canadexit, Stephen Marche on Canadian head of state Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Nov 25th, 2015 |
By Randall White |
Category: Canadian Republic
A few days ago on Canadian TV the always interesting Susan Riley in Ottawa was expressing her delight at the first few weeks of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. For a moment many of us shared her feelings. But then the otherwise excellent Ms Riley could think of no higher way of concluding her praise than […]
Tags: Australian republic, Barbados republic, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Jamaican republic, New Zealand republic Posted in Canadian Republic |
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