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 […]

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2026. Two recent Twitter/X postings by two eminent US commentators suggest some deeper rumblings in Donald Trump’s America in the early autumn of 2026. The first comes from William “ Bill” Kristol. He currently describes himself as “Editor at large, The Bulwark ; Director, Defending Democracy […]

RANDALL WHITE. HOME AND NATIVE LAND. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2026. As long ago as 1930 Harold Innis, author of The Fur Trade in Canada : An Introduction to Canadian Economic History (still the most interesting and single best — if not exactly easiest to read — book on any kind of Canadian […]

RANDALL WHITE. HOME AND NATIVE LAND. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2026. Like many others no doubt, I have a few personal memories of the disastrous events of September 11, 2001 in New York City. One is a phone call from the only friend from my Toronto high-school days I am still in touch […]

RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. Friday, September 4, 2026. The print copy of the 13 August 2026 issue of the London Review of Books has finally arrived at my front door. And I have finally had a chance to read its lead article — Emily Wilson’s controversial review of the new movie on Homer’s ancient […]

RANDALL WHITE. HOME AND NATIVE LAND. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2026. Here on the northwest shore of Lake Ontario (where the Indigenous Wendat “name Lacus Ontario was first recorded in 1660 by Francis Creuxius”), not far from a 17th century Seneca village, it is impossible to resist the thought that the USA USA […]

RANDALL WHITE. HOME AND NATIVE LAND. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 2026. My immediate reaction to how the Government of Canada has just stood up for the home team in the ongoing trade war unleashed on the true north strong and free by the increasingly wild and crazy Trump administration next door is four […]