Posts Tagged ‘ Ottawa ’

Catching up with Pierre Poilievre — how a guy born and raised in Calgary became an Ottawa region MP and likely next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada

Jul 19th, 2022 | By | Category: In Brief

ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, TUESDAY 19 JULY 2022. For the longest time I have done my best to ignore Pierre Poilievre (“he pronounces it ‘paul-ee-EV’”), current frontrunner in the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race (to be decided this coming Saturday, September 10 — now less than two months away). It was […]



Freedom Convoy 2022 in Canada — a Tale of Two Protests

Feb 12th, 2022 | By | Category: In Brief

NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, 12 FEBRUARY 2022. As the third weekend of protests in Canada alleged to have been inspired by trucker complaints about COVID-19 policy settles in, at least one thing seems increasingly clear. There have certainly been (and still are) somewhat different protests in different parts of the country […]