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Sep 26th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2023. One week from today the Canadian province of Manitoba (“marking the longitude centre of Canada”geographically) will hold what could prove a historic provincial election. On one channel the election will be a test of provincial New Democratic parties in Western Canada — like the Alberta election this […]
Tags: Dougald Lamont, first Indigenous premier in Canada?, Heather Stefanson, Louis Riel's Manitoba, Manitoba election 2023, New Democrats in Western Canada., Tobasonakwut Kinew, Wab Kinew Posted in In Brief |
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Jul 1st, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. SATURDAY, JULY 1, 2023. The dread Canadian wildfires of late spring/early summer 2023 affect Canadian as well as US cities, suburbs, exurbs, rural small towns, rural townships, district townships (in Northern Ontario) and (especially in Canada) the still quite vast North American wilderness beyond. And in some parts of the second […]
Tags: Canada Day 2023, Canadian politics, least populous Canadian provinces, most populous Canadian provinces, political parties and pride in Canada, proud to be Canadian Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 17th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 2023. This past Thursday night we watched a cp24 debate among what cp24 regards as the “seven top candidates vying to lead Toronto” in the unusual mayoral byelection this coming Monday, June 26 — only nine days hence. The seven leaders are, in alphabetical order by surname : […]
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May 31st, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MAY 30, 31, 2023. If the question was will the May 29 election in the fourth-largest, oil-and-gas-rich Canadian province of Alberta be more like the May 14 election in Thailand (vaguely progressive, maybe), or the May 14 and 28 elections in Turkey (quite conservative), the clear answer is the still intriguing […]
Tags: Alberta election 2023, C.B. Macpherson, Danielle Smith, Don Braid, Jason Markusoff, New Democratic Party of Alberta, Rachel Notley, United Conservative Party of Alberta Posted in In Brief |
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May 6th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Canadian Republic
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MAY 6, 2023. Almost by accident we have stumbled across a (for us) especially sensible way of commemorating the events of today back in the old imperial metropolis across the seas. Recently our colleague Randall White completed the last or concluding draft chapter of his political-history work in progress, Children of […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Coronation 2023 in Canada, democracy in Canada Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Apr 14th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Ottawa Scene
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. APRIL 14, 2023. Wiser heads than ours have remarked that Canadian federal politics today reflects the consequences of “proportional representation” elections without actually having proportional representation. Stephen Harper’s new Conservative Party of Canada had one majority and two minority governments between 2006 and 2015. And now Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party of […]
Tags: 338Canada, Canadian election 2025, Eric Grenier, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau's future, Liberal-NDP co-operation in Canada, non-aggression pact between Liberals and NDP, Philippe J. Fournier, Pierre Poilievre, proportional representation in Canada Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Mar 1st, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MARCH 1, 2023. This morning’s editorial meeting tabled a two-page pdf file headlined “London Declaration, United Kingdom, 1949.” The suggestion was that this is a document not much remembered in the 2020s. But it is nonetheless of serious interest in the current post-Elizabeth II debate on practical alternatives to the increasingly […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Commonwealth of Nations, Dominion (Union) of India, Governor General of Canada, Lester Pearson, London Declaration 1949, Louis St. Laurent, William Lyon Mackenzie King Posted in In Brief |
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Jan 20th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. JANUARY 20, 2023. We’re still digesting a January 7, 2023 tweet from an admittedly very progressive voice : “Toronto is a desperate city. More police funds won’t fix it … Star https etc.” The recommended link here leads to an equally arresting (and longer) Shawn Micallef piece in the Saturday Toronto […]
Tags: Capitalism, COSTCO, Desperate city of Toronto today, Franz Neumann, Immigrants in Toronto, Ontario A Place to Stand, Sabrina Gamrot, safety in Toronto today, Shawn Micallef, Snow storm in Toronto 1944, Thorncliffe Park, Toronto subway, Toronto the Good, Vanessa Balintec Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 26th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 26, 2022. Before rushing into the Top 4 counterweights stories in the third quarter of 2022, we just want to note an intriguing piece posted today on the Nunatsiaq News site, called “Reflection: Mary Simon tour a rewarding reporting experience … Jeff Pelletier looks back on covering Governor General’s Nunavik […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Governor General of Canada, Inuit hospitality, Jeff Pelletier, Kansas, Mary Simon, Pierre Poilievre, Pope and Indigenous Canadians Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 20th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 20, 2022. According to Philippe J. Fournier’s latest 338Canada polling update on December 18, the federal Conservatives are still somewhat ahead of the Liberals in cross-Canada popular vote — 34% to 32%. Yet the Conservative vote is still heavily concentrated in the two most westerly Prairie provinces. The Liberals would […]
Tags: 338Canada, British monarchy in Canada, Canada 2nd quarter 2022, Canadian republic, Chief Justice of Ontario, December 2022 political polls in Canada, election in Canada 2023?, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau, Jamaica Observer, Michael Tulloch, Ontario election 2022, Philippe J. Fournier, Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau, Tom Mulcair Posted in In Brief |
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