Archive for August 2026
Aug 28th, 2026 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. HOME AND NATIVE LAND. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2026. Here on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario (where the Indigenous Wendat “name Lacus Ontario was first recorded in 1660 by Francis Creuxius”), not far from a 17th century Seneca village, it is impossible to resist the thought that the USA USA […]
Tags: Canada-US trade war, Canadian politics, Francis Creuxius, Lacus Ontario, Mark Carney, Obama Lake, Ontario politics, Robert Reich, T.S. Eliot, United States and Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 24th, 2026 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. HOME AND NATIVE LAND. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026. My immediate reaction to how the Government of Canada has just stood up for the home team in the ongoing trade war unleashed on the true north strong and free by the increasingly wild and crazy Trump administration next door is four […]
Tags: Anthony Scaramucci, BC, Canadian job losses in US trade war, Canadian politics, Mark Carney, Mia Farrow, Ontario, Quebec, Trevor Tombe, Trump administration, US trade war on Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 22nd, 2026 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. HOME AND NATIVE LAND. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 2026. Through no fault of my own or that of anyone at all close, I live in one of the three Canadian federal electoral districts (or ridings in the old school lexicon) where a byelection is taking place this coming Monday, August 31 […]
Tags: Beaches-East York, Bruce Livesey, Cameron Thomas, Canadian federal byelections 2026, Canadian politics, Chicoutimi-Le Fjord, Jim Sybros, Mark Carney, Michel Lachance, North Vancouver-Capilano, Shannon Devine, Tanveer Shahnawaz Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 14th, 2026 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, CANADIAN REPUBLIC NOTEBOOK. TORONTO. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2026. Toronto’s annual “Canadian National Exhibition” (CNE) starts just a week ahead — August 21, ending Labour Day, September 7. And this is just one day before the start of Vancouver’s 2026 “Pacific National Exhibition” (PNE) — August 22–September 7. These seasonal fairs in the air […]
Tags: Alberta top court, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian oaths of allegiance, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Charles III, Constitution Act 1867, Constitution Act 1982, Crown in Canada, Dale Smith, Lawrence David, lawyers' oath in Alberta, Philippe Lagassé, Quebec and oath of allegiance Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 7th, 2026 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2/026. With the fabled local “Exhibition Weather” almost about to settle over this Canadian metropolis where I live, I have just been inspired by two pieces in the July 23, 2026 issue of the New York Review of Books. The first is “Space Oddity … Quinn […]
Tags: Adolf Hitler, Arizona, Ben Tarnoff, California, Charlotte, Chicago, Ciudad Juárez, Colorado, democracy in America, Donald Trump, El Paso, Elon Musk, Henry Ford, ICE, James Talarico, Jazmine Ulloa, Julia Preston, Kansas, Los Angeles, Mark Carney, Mark O’Connell, Marty Robbins, Meloni, Mexico, midterm elections in USA 2026, Minneapolis, Modi, monsters, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Putin, Quinn Slobodian, Stephen Miller, Texas, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, United States, Utah, Wyoming, Xi Jinping Posted in In Brief |
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