RANDALL WHITE. HOME AND NATIVE LAND. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2026. As of noon today, not all the more than 5,500 polling stations involved in this past Monday’s complex 10-question Alberta referendum have reported. But results for 99.4% are now available on the CBC’s “Alberta referendum live results” site. And the main contours […]

RANDALL WHITE. GLOBAL VILLAGE NOTEBOOK. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2026. To start with (and very briefly), note the complex referendum in the staunch Canadian province of Alberta this coming Monday, October 19, 2026. I will say only that if I were living in Edmonton (or Calgary) — as I am not at the […]

RANDALL WHITE, CANADIAN REPUBLIC NOTEBOOK. TORONTO. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2026. In my wider universe focused on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario, in the Great Lakes region of North America, three particular public events have marked the first full week of October 2026 — (1) Youth (and other) protests in France, Brazil, and beyond ; […]

RANDALL WHITE. HOME AND NATIVE LAND. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2026. [UPDATED OCTOBER 6, 2026.} This coming Monday, October 5 la belle province will hold a general election to choose members of its 44th National Assembly (Assemblée nationale du Québec, finally following the nomenclature of the Assemblée nationale in France). [Scroll below for […]