RANDALL WHITE, TORONTO. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2026. An opinion piece by Shannon Gormley in this past Sunday’s Toronto Star urged that “Buckingham Palace may be embroiled in scandal, but Canadians have never needed the monarchy more.” While acknowledging the gravity of this view in present circumstances (and the force of Ms Gormley’s writing), I couldn’t […]

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2026. While tidying up the office (to escape all the snow still outside), I came across two quotations from eminent Americans, successively posted on my office magazine rack. The first is from Harvard historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore. It’s in an article dated December […]

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2026. On the happily less than altogether crazy North American politics in my own backyard, Canadian federal New Democrat MPs have criticized Ontario NDP deputy leader Doly Begum for “announcing she will run federally as a Liberal for the seat vacated by former MP Bill Blair.” […]