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Pierre Poilievre ’
Apr 14th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Ottawa Scene
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. APRIL 14, 2023. Wiser heads than ours have remarked that Canadian federal politics today reflects the consequences of “proportional representation” elections without actually having proportional representation. Stephen Harper’s new Conservative Party of Canada had one majority and two minority governments between 2006 and 2015. And now Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party of […]
Tags: 338Canada, Canadian election 2025, Eric Grenier, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau's future, Liberal-NDP co-operation in Canada, non-aggression pact between Liberals and NDP, Philippe J. Fournier, Pierre Poilievre, proportional representation in Canada Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Dec 26th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 26, 2022. Before rushing into the Top 4 counterweights stories in the third quarter of 2022, we just want to note an intriguing piece posted today on the Nunatsiaq News site, called “Reflection: Mary Simon tour a rewarding reporting experience … Jeff Pelletier looks back on covering Governor General’s Nunavik […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Governor General of Canada, Inuit hospitality, Jeff Pelletier, Kansas, Mary Simon, Pierre Poilievre, Pope and Indigenous Canadians Posted in In Brief |
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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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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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Jul 19th, 2022 |
By Randall White |
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 […]
Tags: .Stephen Harper, Anaida Galindo, bilingualism in Canada, Calgary, Conservative Party of Canada, Fair Elections Act Canada, Federal Accountability Act, John Geddes, Leadership race Conservatives, Ottawa, Pierre Poilievre, right-wing attack dog Posted in In Brief |
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Jul 9th, 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. 9 JULY 2022. The only immediate conclusion we up here in the Kawartha wilderness can draw is that some prominent Conservatives in Canada really do not like Patrick Brown. He was replaced as Ontario PC […]
Tags: Ali Velshi, BOJO on Trump's Big Lie, Boris Johnson resigns, Conservative leadership race in Canada 2022, Conservative Party of Canada, David Letterman and Boris Johnson, Debbie Jodoin, Don Martin, Ian Brodie, Patrick Brown, Pierre Poilievre, UK election 2019 Posted in In Brief |
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