Archive for March 2024
Mar 28th, 2024 |
By Rob Sparrow |
Category: Sporting Life
SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. MARCH 28, 2024. When the Toronto Blue Jays finished their 2022 season, they made a determination that the status quo wasn’t acceptable. To that end, both a strategic and cultural shift for the Blue Jays in 2023 featured a vastly different style compared to many of the teams […]
Tags: Alek Manoah, Baseball in Canada, Bo Bichette, Daulton Varsho, Edwin Encarnacion, George Springer, Jordan Romano, Jose Bautista, José Berríos, Josh Donaldson, Kevin Kiermaier, Ross Atkins, Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto Blue Jays fans in Seattle, Troy Tulowitzki, Vladimir Guerrero Jr, World Series 2024??, Yusei Kikuchi Posted in Sporting Life |
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Mar 26th, 2024 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON, CANADA. TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2024. We now know that : “General elections will be held in India from 19 April 2024 to 1 June 2024 to elect the 543 members of the 18th Lok Sabha. The elections will be held in seven phases and the results will be announced on 4 […]
Tags: Congress party bank account frozen in India, democracy around the world in 2024, democracy in India today, India and Canadian republic, Indian election 2024, Rahul Gandhi sentenced to prison Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 14th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2024. Last night I heard an eminent CTV host urge that many (mostly Conservative) provincial premiers want the Liberal federal government to change its carbon tax policy. Doesn’t this mean (the implication seemed to be) that the federal government should do just that? This reminded me […]
Tags: Alberta, Canadian politics, Catherine McKenna, Constitution Act 1867, Constitution Act 1982, Dale Smith, Danielle Smith, Doug Ford, federal-provincial relations Canada, Justin Trudeau, provincial premiers and federal government in Canada, Steven Guilbeault Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 12th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2024. Individual polls vary on exact numbers. But by almost the middle of March 2024 all polls have been saying for some time that it is very hard to see how the Justin Trudeau Liberals could “win” a fourth Canadian federal election in a row, in […]
Tags: Canadian federal election 2011, Canadian federal election 2015, Canadian federal election 2024??, Canadian federal election 2025, Canadian politics, Jack Layton, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Liberal-NDP Supply and Confidence Agreement, Pierre Poilievre, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair Posted in In Brief |
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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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