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 […]

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2023. We are inspired on this blue-Monday adventure by the creative use of recycled website articles as adroitly practised by the London Review of Books. Eg, “Fortress Conservation … Writing about conservation and land ownership in the LRB archive.” On some accounts our thoughts were pushed in this […]

RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023. When I first moved into the east Toronto waterfront neighbourhood where I still live — many, many years later — I went to the Remembrance Day commemoration (Veteran’s Day in the USA across the lake), at the cenotaph by the edge of a local park (or […]

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 […]

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 […]