Archive for March 2025

Blue Jays 2025: The Final Flight of Vladdy & Bo…or Another Crash Landing…

Mar 26th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. MARCH 26, 2025. Calling the 2024 Toronto Blue Jays anything less than a disaster would be generous. This was a team built to contend—at least in theory—but instead, it collapsed in historic fashion, ending with a dismal 74-88 record, finishing dead last in the AL East for the […]

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“It all made me think that not everything in Canada is hopeless right now” (even if the British monarchy is no defense against Donald Trump’s Putinesque rhetoric!)

Mar 16th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, CANADA’S CAPITAL FROM 4 ½ HOURS WEST. TOWN OF EAST TORONTO, ON. SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2025. So in Ottawa this past Friday, March 14 Mark Carney was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Canada, along with the other 23 members of his new leaner federal cabinet, at the head of his […]

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Conservative lead in Canada has dropped from 26 to 3 points in six weeks .. what’s behind it? .. Justin Trudeau? .. Donald Trump? .. but also Mark Carney?

Mar 6th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2025. [UPDATED MARCH 9, 11 PM ET — scroll to bottom]. Justin Trudeau’s press conference in Ottawa this morning warmed our Canadian hearts. The CTV News written report is somewhat misleadingly headlined “Trudeau vows to not be ‘caretaker’ PM, gets emotional at one of his last events.” The […]

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