Archive for April 2025

Is Canadian vote April 28, 2025 really “the most important election of our lives”??

Apr 21st, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. , MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2025. The 2025 Canadian federal election, which may or may not be “the most important election of our lives, ” will take place exactly one week from today. It says a lot about how short, sweet, and sometimes more or less elevated a campaign it has been […]

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What Donald Trump’s (almost) latest Canada talk finally means north of the old undefended border ..

Apr 14th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2025. Bill Maher has been surprised that the crazy public Donald Trump we see on TV and so forth is not the real Donald Trump you meet when you have dinner with him at Mar-a-Lago. Unlike Mr. Maher I am a Canadian, born and raised. I have […]

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Crazy Trump tariffs — how are we going to get through the rest of 2025, 2026, 2027, and most of 2028? In Canada Mark Carney could be one answer ..

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

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2025. Nothing captures the bizarre concoction of arrogance and ignorance shown by both President Trump II and so many who work for him as the 10% US tariff they have foisted on two islands near Antarctica, inhabited only by penguins (and some of their friends, the […]

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