Counterweights is a magazine-and-blog on Canadian politics and news.  It focuses on Canadian political debate and commentary on the open society, Ontario government, the United States and the Canadian identity.

The name is taken from Pierre Trudeau’s Foreword to his 1968 book, Federalism and the French Canadians: “There is thus the danger that mass media … constitute a vehicle for error … The theory of checks and balances … has always had my full support. It translates into practical terms the concept of equilibrium that is inseparable from freedom in the realm of ideas …  My political action, or my theory — insomuch as I can be said to have one — can be expressed very simply: create counterweights.”