Archive for May 2025

Australian election 2025 has some striking similarities with Canadian election five days before (compliments of current strange politics in USA)

May 5th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

GREG BARNS SC. HOBART, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, PERTH, AUSTRALIA. MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025. Newly minted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberals have something in common with the winner of Australia’s national election on Saturday, Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party (ALP). Both brought their governments back from the brink of defeat partly because […]



PM Carney just lost me : yes I think he’ll do great against Trump; but I don’t want to build a Canada that still has an offshore monarch as head of state

May 3rd, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, “CANADA’S CAPITAL REGION FROM FOUR HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES WEST”. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025. I should make two (or maybe three) things clear up front. First, I am a (somewhat cranky?) 80- year-old man who was born in Canada. I have lived here all my life, with brief exceptions for travel abroad. I […]