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British monarchy in Canada ’
Dec 16th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 16, 2022. The main course here is just a list of what this morning’s cw editors meeting picked as the top four counterweights articles from the first quarter of 2022. As a preliminary soup course, however (so to speak), here are some very quik introductory notes on : (1) the […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, common people, Conservative Party of Canada, Democracy in 2022, Doug Ford, Freedom Convoy 2022 in Canada, G.D.H. Cole, India and China border clash, J.J. McCullough, Justin Trudeau, libertarian socialist, monarchy and elitism, people of Ontario, Pierre Poilievre, Raymond Postgate, South Tibet, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 29th, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, TUESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2022. John Kerrigan, the Cambridge University literary scholar (and convener of the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies), has just published a more than 7000-word discussion of one movie (Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast”) and 15 recent books about Ireland today, in the October 20, 2022 issue of […]
Tags: British Empire and Commonwealth, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Commonwealth of Nations, Governor General of Canada, Governor General of Irish Free State, Ireland as British dominion, Irish Free State, King-Byng Crisis, Michael Collins, Michael Higgins, President of Ireland, Republic of India, Republic of Ireland, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Wolfe Tone Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 27th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. OCTOBER 27, 2022. “History has many cunning passages” (T.S. Eliot). And in one of them, in the Canadian House of Commons, yesterday’s very clear defeat of a Bloc Québécois motion to sever ties with the “British monarchy” could somewhat ironically prove the effective first step on a long inevitable journey to […]
Tags: Bloc Québécois, BQ motion on monarchy in Canada, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Governor General of Canada, Indigenous peoples of Canada, Spencer Van Dyk, Yves-François Blanchet Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 22nd, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 2022. Like a few others (as best I can tell) I think I am finally ready to express my ultimate personal disappointment in PM Justin Trudeau. I say this while remembering that just over a year ago I wrote about “Why is so much […]
Tags: 338Canada, British monarchy in Canada, Chantal Hebert, Charlie Parker, Chrystia Freeland, Freddy Gardner, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Léger, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre, political polling in Canada fall 2022, Supply and Confidence Agreement, Washington Monthly, who will speak for Canada, Wilfrid Laurier Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Sep 28th, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2022. Andrew Cohen is “a journalist, professor of journalism at Carleton University and the author of Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours That Made History” (and The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are). Back in the middle of June last […]
Tags: Andrew Cohen, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, David Moscrop, elite and mass culture in Canada, Globe and Mail, J.J. McCullough, King Charles III, Ottawa Citizen, Washington Post Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 18th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. SEPTEMBER 18, 2022. The extravaganza following the death of Queen Elizabeth II has been especially concentrated in the old imperial metropolis across the seas. And there as well the Queen’s state funeral tomorrow will begin at 11 AM BST (or 6 AM EDT here in North America). Whatever else, all this […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian Citizenship Act 1947, Canadian flag 1965, Canadian republic, Commonwealth realms, Constitution Act 1982, Governor General of Canada, John Pearson, Larry Zolf, parliamentary democracy in Canada, Queen Elizabeth II funeral, Vincent Massey Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 2nd, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, 2 JUNE 2022. [UPDATED 6 JUNE]. This is the first day of the official celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th or platinum anniversary of what no less than the Toronto Star has called “her journey as the longest-serving monarch in British and Canadian history.” (One might quibble about […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Globe and Mail, India, Ireland, Parliamentary democracy, Percy Robinson, Toronto Star Posted in In Brief |
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May 28th, 2022 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, ON THE EDGE OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD IN BUCKHORN, ON. K0L 0C1. 28 MAY 2022. There was a time when I thought of the Globe and Mail as Canada’s newspaper of record.. Then a retired engineer I knew who had worked on the Avro Arrow cancelled his […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canada's National Newspaper, Canadian republic, Democratic and Authoritarian state, diverse Canadian people, Franz Neumann, Globe and Mail, Prince Charles Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 30th, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, 30 MARCH 2022. Strictly by accident, I was in Richmond, Virginia at the time of the wedding of the mother and father of the William who just recently completed “an eight-day tour of Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas during which he and wife Kate were celebrated but also […]
Tags: Bahamas, Belize, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Governor General of Canada, Jamaica, parliamentary democracy in Canada, Virginia, William and Catherine Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 29th, 2021 |
By Dominic Berry |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM DOMINIC BERRY, MAN ABOUT MAIN STREET, GRAND BEND, ON. JUNE 29, 2021. It’s been hot enough here lately. But not quite like : “Extreme heat warnings remain in place over much of Western Canada as a historic heat wave that has shattered 103 all-time heat records across BC, Alberta, Yukon and NWT moves […]
Tags: Adam Shoalts, British monarchy in Canada, Canexit, Climate change, extremely hot weather in Canada, Harold Innis, Harry Belafonte, residential schools in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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