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May 28th, 2022 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, ON THE EDGE OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD IN BUCKHORN, ON. K0L 0C1. 28 MAY 2022. There was a time when I thought of the Globe and Mail as Canada’s newspaper of record.. Then a retired engineer I knew who had worked on the Avro Arrow cancelled his […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canada's National Newspaper, Canadian republic, Democratic and Authoritarian state, diverse Canadian people, Franz Neumann, Globe and Mail, Prince Charles Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 22nd, 2022 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. K0L 0C1. 22 APRIL 2022. At last it’s starting to seem like spring in Southern Ontario. Looking at the minor forest outside through a large back window, as I sit in front of this smaller screen on the electronic highway, I am inspired to compile […]
Tags: Abolishing monarchy in Canada, Arctic sovereignty in Canada, Hudson's Bay Company Winnipeg store, India and UK on Ukraine, Indigenous reconciliation in Canada, Liberal-NDP co-operation in Canada, Ontario election 2022, Steven Del Duca Posted in In Brief |
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Feb 22nd, 2022 |
By Citizen X |
Category: USA Today
SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. K0L 0C1. 22 FEB 2022. In the midst of all the snow this year — and TV news about the so-called Freedom Convoy 2022 and other current crazy-town antics in Canadian government and politics (and yes also American, and much beyond) — I have taken […]
Tags: 1940 US election, Cole Porter's Farming, Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, Jill Lepore, One World, Roosevelt and Churchill, Second World War, United Nations, US Republican Party, Wendell Willkie Posted in USA Today |
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Sep 30th, 2021 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. K0L 0C1. 30 SEP 21, 2021. I quote from a Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage web page : “September 30, 2021 marks the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation … The day honours the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and […]
Tags: Harold Innis, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, residential schools in Canada, section 35 Constitution Act 1982 Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 25th, 2021 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. K0L 0C1. COUNTERWEIGHTS ELECTION REPORT, II, 25 AUG 21. [UPDATED AUGUST 26]. What does one ordinary voter adrift in the multitude (and still half-immersed in summer at the lake) make of the 2021 Canadian federal election campaign, so far? That is what the editors have […]
Tags: Canadian election 2021, Early Conservative strength 2021, Liberal slow start in 2021 election, Nanos Daily Tracking, NDP above 20%, Tom Mulcair Posted in In Brief |
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Jul 13th, 2021 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. K0L 0C1. On a grey day in the Kawarthas two or possibly even three big political questions float on the clouds. (While even with the sun not shining the government tourism ad is strangely truthful : “You never forget the feeling of summer in Ontario.”) […]
Tags: 338Canada, Éric Grenier, Biden and Trudeau, Bob Hepburn, Canadian election 2021?, CBC Poll Tracker, First Nations/Indigenous Issues, Mary Simon, Minority governments in Canada, Nik Nanos, Philippe J. Fournier, RoseAnne Archibald Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 14th, 2021 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2021. A great many individuals and organizations down in The Smoke (also capital city of Canada’s most populous province) are up in arms today. Using the so-called “notwithstanding clause” in section 33 of the Constitution Act, 1982, the Ford government is going […]
Tags: Charter of Rights in Canada, Chris Hall on notwithstanding clause, Christine Van Geyn, Ford government in Ontario, notwithstanding clause in Ontario, Quebec use of notwithstanding clause, Saskatchewan and notwithstanding clausee, Scott Hennig, section 33 Constitution Act 1982, Working Families Posted in In Brief |
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May 27th, 2021 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
MORE NOTES FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2021. In some ways the Doug Ford who spoke to the people of Ontario via TV on Thursday, May 20, 2021 was different from the Doug Ford who had addressed the same democratic audience on Friday, April 30. Back last month […]
Tags: Éric Grenier, Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott, Doug Ford, MacDonald Laurier Institute, Ontario election 2022, Ontario politics, PC dynasty in Ontario Posted in In Brief |
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May 2nd, 2021 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPRING NOTES FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. Some of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s continuing rural, small town, exurban, and other supporters may have found it reassuring that the location from which he gave his April 30, 2021 virtual news conference did not look at all like even the suburbs of today’s […]
Tags: COVID-19 in Ontario, Doug Ford, Ford Nation in Ontario, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Maurice Duplessis, Mitch Hepburn, Ontario and Quebec, Ontario politics, Vaccines against COVID in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 30th, 2021 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
FROM THE DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. Evan Dyer on the CBC News site had an interesting column this past Saturday, called “Is the pandemic killing the idea of the Commonwealth? … It was COVID-19 – not Harry and Meghan – that revealed the lack of any real connection between former colonies.” According to […]
Tags: 16 Commonwealth Realms, Arnold Smith, British empire, Burnaby BC, Canada and Commonwealth, commenwealth republic, Commonwealth today, Dominica, Evan Dyer, India and Commonwealth, Narendra Modi and Donald Trump?, Patricia Scotland Posted in In Brief |
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