Archive for December 2025

Our counterweights Fourth Quarter 2025 — from Blue Jays surprise World Series to (some) seriously crazy GOP voters in USA (and sensible PM Carney in Canada!)

Dec 29th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2025. Santa has now come and gone, here as elsewhere. We have a few last moments to contemplate our own record for the fourth and final quarter of the very fateful year 2025. For us here on the northwest shore of the Great Lake Ontario, one very big […]

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Our third quarter of 2025 — from made-in-Canada US Christmas movies in middle of summer .. to “a lot of stupid people in this country running things” in early autumn

Dec 23rd, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 2025. Santa is almost on his way, in these parts of planet earth at least. And late this afternoon of the day before Christmas Eve (which we still do commemorate in these parts, as a cultural if not exactly religious event) we counterweights editors met in the first-floor […]

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How the second quarter of 2025 looked to us — from Trump’s ultimate MAGA view that Canadians do not exist to the June Days first No Kings protests in the USA

Dec 20th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2025. By the start of the second quarter of 2025 here on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in ”northern North America”, the crazy Trump tariffs had set in globally (including 10% on the Heard and Macdonald Islands near Australia, inhabited only by penguins). Meanwhile the second incarnation […]

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Trump in USA and Trudeau and Carney in Canada are the white male leaders who dominated first quarter of 2025 for us, here on the north shore of Lake Ontario

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

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2025. For Canada in some grand existential sense — as for much else in the contemporary global village — the great shadow event of 2025 has without doubt been the arrival of the even wilder and crazier Donald J. Trump II regime in the (alas) no longer great […]

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Beware of (some) seriously crazy GOP voters in USA (while still taking comfort from Canadian PM Mark Carney)

Dec 8th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2025. Robert Reich’s “Sunday thought” yesterday set the stage for my current further reflections on the USA next door, some 17 days before Christmas 2025. (And I am using my father’s understanding of the universe as I mention this particular holiday in Toronto today. When asked […]

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