RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2026. According to Yahoo News : “More than 8 million people turned out at over 3,300 ‘No Kings’ protests across all 50 states on Saturday, organizers said, calling it the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history. The first two rounds, in June and October 2025, drew […]

SPECIAL FROM ROB SPARROW, HIGH PARK, TORONTO. MARCH 26, 2026.The 2025 Toronto Blue Jays did everything except win the last game. That is what makes them so unforgettable, and so difficult to place cleanly in the pantheon of Blue Jay franchise history. They were not quite champions, yet they were too large, too dramatic, to […]

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2026. This coming weekend, in particular Saturday, March 28, 2026, will see the third No Kings protest in Donald Trump’s wild and crazy USA, part deux — one expression of the progressive impulse in the historic Democracy in America, currently under siege. As the No Kings […]

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2026. The long and short in Canadian federal politics is that Lori Idlout, New Democrat MP for Nunavut (a far-northern Inuit-majority constituency geographically larger than Mexico, PM Carney notes) has now crossed the floor in the House at Ottawa, to join the Carney Liberals. This gives […]

GREG BARNS SC. HOBART, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, PERTH, AUSTRALIA. TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2026. On Thursday this week (Australian time) Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney will address the Australian parliament in Canberra. He is the first to do so in nearly 20 years. Mr. Carney is meeting with his center left counterpart Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. […]