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Mar 6th, 2024 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2024. Yesterday’s announcement of the state funeral for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (1984–1993) from present Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2015–20??) is suitably couched in high-minded language : “Brian Mulroney devoted his career to serving Canadians. He was an extraordinary statesman and distinguished politician, respected both here at […]
Tags: Brian Mulroney, Canada and South Africa, Canadian political history, Canadian politics, Children of the Global Village, Goods and Services Tax, Holly Doan, John Diefenbaker, Kim Campbell, Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords, Nelson Mandela, Peter C. Newman, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Randall White, Stephen Lewis Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 1st, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2024. I recently found two articles from The Tyee on the current state of government and politics in Canada’s Pacific Province unusually intriguing. The opinion polling still seems to be suggesting that David Eby’s high-flying New Democrats will probably win a second majority […]
Tags: BC election 2024, British Columbia politics, Canadian politics, David Eby, First Nations in BC, Indigenous reconciliation in BC, Land Act in BC, Nathan Cullen, New Democrats in BC, Reconciliation and Land Act in BC, Resource Stewardship in BC, US election 2024 Posted in In Brief |
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Jan 16th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2024. The day before yesterday polling guru Philippe J. Fournier @338Canada urged that in the world of Canadian federal politics : “For those counting, this is the 6th consecutive month the Conservatives have been leading the Liberals by double-digits … That’s a stretch longer than Sheer’s lead […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Conservative lead in Canadian polling, Harold Innis, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Liberal-NDP Supply and Confidence Agreement, Opinion polls in Canada, Pierre Poilievre Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 18th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2023. Without a shred of doubt the single biggest event of the new year just ahead for those of us living north of the Great Lakes (and the 49th Parallel and various points east and so on) will be the US federal elections on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Doug Ford, Ontario politics Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 29th, 2023 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. 28/29 NOVEMBER 2023 — 441ST ANNIVERSARY OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S MARRIAGE TO ANNE HATHAWAY. [UPDATED 2 DECEMBER : SEE BELOW]. In my last appearance on this sideroad of the vast electronic highway I ended by alluding to Bonnie Crombie, whose initial fate as possible Ontario Liberal Party leader will be […]
Tags: Bonnie Crombie, Canadian politics, Charles Peters, Detroit River, Greg MacEachern, Gregg Easterbrook, Peter Berry, Washington Monthly, William Shakespeare marriage, Windsor ON Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 8th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023. Two stories in the news the day before yesterday seemed to summarize the current somewhat crazed state of Canadian politics — at a time when much worse is going on elsewhere in Marshall McLuhan’s global village. Sticking with the CBC News site (strictly for convenience), the […]
Tags: Canadian federal election 2025?, Canadian politics, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Ontario politics, Pierre Poilievre, Senate reform in Canada, Yves-François Blanchet Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 1st, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2023. Well, to start with, Happy Day After Halloween 2023. Which may or may not be a good time to at least start trying to contemplate the latest news about “singer-songwriter, musician and social activist” Buffy Sainte-Marie. (Whose first big hit single was “Until It’s Time For You […]
Tags: Brett Forester, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian politics, Geoff Leo, Harold Innis on First Nations, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Linda Guerriero, Métis Nation of Ontario, Multicultural and multirtacial Canada, Roxanna Woloshyn Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 21st, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023. The October 18 Angus Reid polling report, “Majority — including two-in-five past Liberal voters — say Trudeau should step down,” underlines what now seems an unavoidable winter of discontent for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. From one deep-background angle, on the 338Canada list […]
Tags: 2025 Canadian election, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, conservative mood in Canada 2023, F*** Justin Trudeau, good-looking prime ministers, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre, Progressive leader Justin Trudeau Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 9th, 2023 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. 8/9 OCTOBER 2023 — CANADIAN THANKSGIVING. [UPDATED OCTOBER 10]. In my last appearance on this sideroad of the vast electronic highway in the 2020s I suggested : “As genuinely crazy as it may be, some sort of second American Civil War may also just be inevitable.” That was back […]
Tags: Angus Reid premier ratings, Bonnie Crombie, Canadian politics, Donald Trump in Canada, Doug Ford, Greenbelt in Ontario, Mike Schreiner, Ontario politics, Rob Ford, Wab Kinew Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 12th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 2023. I did not know Hugh Segal personally. I never met him face to face. The closest I came was when my real-world acquaintances among Ontario bureaucrats urged that some document under discussion betrayed the Hugh Segal touch. I have, on the other hand, read and even […]
Tags: Brian Mulroney, Canadian politics, Doug Ford, Greenbelt in Ontario, Hugh Segal, Hugh Segal's sad death, Ontario politics, Paul Martin, Senate reform in Canada, William Davis Posted in In Brief |
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