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Mar 24th, 2020 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Canadian Provinces
GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MARCH 24, 2020. I want to stress that I like the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who comes on TV somewhat before lunch these days, from the porch just outside his current democratically ordinary-looking residence in “Rideau Cottage,” to tell us where our Canada-wide fight against the COVID-19 pandemic stands. I’m not averse either […]
Tags: Charlie Parker, COVID-19, Duke Ellington, FDR, Frank Sinatra 1946, Irving Berlin, Jack Fulton, Justin Trudeau, Make America Great Again, October Crisis 1970 Canada, Pierre Trudeau, Rudy Vallee Posted in Canadian Provinces |
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Oct 7th, 2019 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. OCT 7, 2019, 12:30 AM ET. According to CBC Poll Tracker analyst Éric Grenier, as updated on October 6, 2019 at 11:34 AM ET : “Though the gap remains insignificant, the Liberals have moved ahead of the Conservatives in the national polling average for the first time since February.” (And on the same […]
Tags: Boris Johnson magnetic personality, Brexotics, Canadian election 2019, Donald Trump and Roy Cohn, Enoch Powell and Boris Johnson, Ferdinand Mount, Justin Trudeau, Liberal lead in 2019 election?, Thomas Kielinger, William Davies Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 1st, 2019 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
[UPDATE ON ELIZABETH MAY’S MARCH 1 DEMANDS BELOW. UPDATED AGAIN MARCH 10 ; AND YET AGAIN MARCH 30 : For March 30 update scroll straight to end of this page — where there are also now updates for March 31 and April 2]. What it still seems most sensible to just call the SNC-Lavalin Affair […]
Tags: Anne with an "e", Bruce Anderson, Bryan Leblanc, Clerk of Privy Council Canada, donna flick, Elizabeth May, Frank Graves, Gerald Butts, Intolerant Centrist, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Justin Trudeau, Katie Telford, Nancy Eaton, Neil Macdonald, Pacific Scandal, Pierre Trudeau, Rob Silver, SNC-Lavalin Affair, Stephen Taylor, Walter Bagehot Posted in In Brief |
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Feb 15th, 2019 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
[UPDATED FEBRUARY 18. SEE BELOW]. On Valentine’s Day 2019 it is hard to know just what to make of the first prime minister of the 1867 confederation of British North American Provinces now known as Canada. (Well … my thoughts here are actually being posted just after Valentine’s Day, but that’s just because I’m a […]
Tags: 2019 election in Canada, Alex Boutilier, Andrew Scheer, Bryan Leblanc, David Hamer, Henry Adams, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Justin Trudeau, Ontario politics poll early 2019, Pacific Scandal in Canada, politics and hatred, Sarbjit Kaur, SNC-Lavalin Affair, Thomas Walkom Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Mar 23rd, 2017 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
Last week the irrepressible Preston Manning had an article in the Globe and Mail on how “Canada’s elites could use a crash course in populism.” He cited  Tom Flanagan’s Waiting for the Wave and W. L. Morton’s The Progressive Party in Canada as useful reading for any elites actually wanting to take the course he […]
Tags: C.B. Macpherson, Charter of Rights, Chief Pontiac, Justin Trudeau, Louis Riel, populism in Canada, Preston Manning, rebellions in Canada, S.M. Lipset, Tom Flanagan, W.L. Morton, William Lyon Mackenzie Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 11th, 2016 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
Now that PM Justin Trudeau’s excellent adventure in Washington, DC is fading into the sunset, other thoughts have begun to cross our collective minds. To take just one case in point, one interesting thing about supervising a so-called Canadian political blogazine for almost 12 years (since the late summer of 2004 in fact) is that […]
Tags: Alexandre Trudeau, and Chief Jody Wilson-Raybould, Harjit Sajjan, Irving Layton on PE Trudeau, Justin Trudeau, Mélanie Joly, Mohamed Harkat, Pierre Trudeau Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 28th, 2012 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
We still don’t know for dead certain that Justin Pierre James Trudeau will be throwing his hair into the ring. But eminent Ottawa journalists have reported “Mr. Trudeau is expected to announce next week [Tuesday, some especially bold scribes are saying] that he is a candidate for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.” And, […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Chantal Hebert, Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau can win for Liberals, Liberal Party of Canada leadership convention 2013, Liberal-NDP co-operation in Canada, Sophie Gregoire, William Pitt Elder and Younger Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 12th, 2010 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
Ever since we acquired our new site design more than a year ago now, in the summer of 2009, we have been looking for pages to fill out the bar just beneath the masthead. We started with just “Home,” “About,” and “Links.” Then thanks to a welcome good-news message from Vancouver, late this past spring, […]
Tags: Chen Wei-yi, Chrystia Freeland, Justin Trudeau, Vaughan by-election Posted in In Brief |
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