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May 3rd, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, “CANADA’S CAPITAL REGION FROM FOUR HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES WEST”. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025. I should make two (or maybe three) things clear up front. First, I am a (somewhat cranky?) 80- year-old man who was born in Canada. I have lived here all my life, with brief exceptions for travel abroad. I […]
Tags: Alexander Panetta, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Charles III, David Coletto, Governor General of Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, Mark Carney, New Democrats in Canada, Peter Donolo, Speech from the Throne in Canada 2025 Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 30th, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025. The more or less final results of the 2025 Canadian federal election were still not fully known with certainty, even as we approached dinner on the day after election day. It has nonetheless been clear since late on election day (Monday, April 28) that Liberal leader […]
Tags: Australian election 2025, Burnaby Central, Canadian federal election 2025, Canadian politics, Carleton electoral district, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre, Stephen Harper, Yves-François Blanchet Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 14th, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2025. Bill Maher has been surprised that the crazy public Donald Trump we see on TV and so forth is not the real Donald Trump you meet when you have dinner with him at Mar-a-Lago. Unlike Mr. Maher I am a Canadian, born and raised. I have […]
Tags: American, Bill Maher and Donald Trump, born in Canada, Californian, Canadian, Canadian politics, Donald Trump and Canada, Ivanka Trump, Justin Trudeau, Melania Trump, quality of public debate under Donald Trump, Texan Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 6th, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2025. Nothing captures the bizarre concoction of arrogance and ignorance shown by both President Trump II and so many who work for him as the 10% US tariff they have foisted on two islands near Antarctica, inhabited only by penguins (and some of their friends, the […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Mark Carney, Trump tariffs Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 16th, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, CANADA’S CAPITAL FROM 4 ½ HOURS WEST. TOWN OF EAST TORONTO, ON. SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2025. So in Ottawa this past Friday, March 14 Mark Carney was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Canada, along with the other 23 members of his new leaner federal cabinet, at the head of his […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Donald Trump and Canada, Doug Ford, Germany, Governor General of Canada, Iceland, India, Ireland, Justin Trudeau, Mark Carney Posted in In Brief |
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Feb 22nd, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, ONTARIO TONITE, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025. [UPDATED FEBRUARY 27 ELECTION DAY/NIGHT].Word from Washington, DC is that the Premier of the 11th Province (can’t quite remember her name — Donalda … ?) has no interest in the coming Thursday, February 27 election in what used to be Canada’s most populous province. (And […]
Tags: 2025 election in Ontario, Bonnie Crombie, Doug Ford, Marit Stiles, Mike Schreiner, Ontario politics Posted in In Brief |
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Feb 18th, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE TODAY. TORONTO. FEBRUARY 18, 2025. Justin Trudeau’s Canada has been one of the strongest supporters of an independent Ukraine extant — morally (so to speak), rhetorically, symbolically, and in some degree financially (if not exactly or quite militarily). Part of this flows from Canada’s status as what The Guardian […]
Tags: Aisha Ahmad, American conservatism and Canada as 51st state, Bill Scher, Canadian politics, Chrystia Freeland and Ukraine, independent sovereign UN member state of Canada, Jim Harding, Lawrence Martin, Stephen Marche, Trump and depths of American political culture, Trump and Putin on Canada and Ukraine, Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, War in Ukraine, War of 1812–1814 in North America, Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States Posted in In Brief |
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Jan 28th, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, ONTARIO TONITE, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2025. As explained by Queen’s Park reporter Laura Stone this past Friday, “Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirms early election — ‘We will be calling the election next Wednesday … We need a mandate from the people to fight against Donald Trump’s tariffs…we will not back down,’ […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Governor General of Canada, Ontario election 2025, Ontario politics Posted in In Brief |
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Jan 18th, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO . SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2025. So far the height of the Canadian mainstream media response to Donald Trump’s latest absurd remarks on the Canadian future must be this past Saturday, January 11, 2025 op-ed in the Globe and Mail by Jean Chrétien, 20th prime minister of Canada, 1993–2003. (And […]
Tags: Canada and the United States, Canadian politics, Globe and Mail, Jean Chrétien Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 17th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, ONTARIO TONITE, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2024. Before setting all such things aside for extended New Year’s celebrations, I had just wanted to say a few quick words about recent statistics that suggest “Canadians sense of pride plummets to lowest level in decades.” (And this was happening for some time before the […]
Tags: Canadian federal election 2025, Canadian politics, Canadian pride declines, Chrystia Freeland, Dominic LeBlanc, Justin Trudeau Posted in In Brief |
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