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Jul 22nd, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO . MONDAY, JULY 22, 2024. What a day yesterday was! And any current guesses about just what will happen in the (maybe) fateful US election this coming November 5, 2024 are strictly guesses (of course). Then there is the still apparently relevant view of the Will Rogers who died […]
Tags: Andy Beshear as vice-presidential nominee, Barack Obama and Biden resignation, Bill Clinton and Andy Beshear, Democratic Convention 2024, Harris-Beshear 2024, Kamala Harris presidential nominee, patriot Joe Biden, US election 2024, Westmount High School, Will Rogers and Democratic Party Posted in In Brief |
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Jul 10th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, GLOBAL VILLAGE NOTES, TORONTO . WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2024. John Rentoul at The Independent nicely summarized this past Thursday’s general election in the United Kingdom with the headline “The strangest landslide.” As widely expected (and foretold in polls) Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won a strong majority of seats in the Mother of Parliaments […]
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Jun 22nd, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO . SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2024. When I first heard about the new Léger poll “Official bilingualism in Canada a ‘myth‘” on TV last night, I was suitably outraged. I was 24 years old when the concept was “enshrined into law in 1969, making English and French Canada’s official languages.” […]
Tags: Canadian politics Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 18th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, ONTARIO TONITE, TORONTO . TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024. The somewhat bizarre recent Ontario cabinet shuffle, “shortly after the Ontario Legislature ended for an extended summer break,” might be viewed as proof that Premier Doug Ford really is in some ways quite a lot like Donald Trump in the USA . Whatever else, the […]
Tags: Brian Mulroney., Cabinet government in Canada and Ontario, Donald Trump and Rob Ford, Doug Ford, Jean Chrétien, Justin Trudeau, Ontario politics, Size of cabinets in Westminster governments, Stephen Harper, Westminster parliamentary democracy Posted in In Brief |
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May 24th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2024. This past Monday was “Canada’s oldest public holiday.” According to Wikipedia it is “observed on the last Monday preceding May 25 to honour Queen Victoria, who is known as the ‘Mother of Confederation’. The holiday has existed in Canada since at least 1845, originally on […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian political elites, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Queen Victoria, Victoria Day Canada Posted in In Brief |
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May 22nd, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 2024. Am I the only human being to notice that PM Rishi Sunak has just called a UK general election for the time-honoured 4th of July US federal holiday — celebrating the Declaration of Independence from the UK on July 4, 1776? The […]
Tags: 4th of July 2024 in USA, Biden and Trump 2024, Justin Trudeau, Keir Starmer, Rishi Sunak, Trumpian charisma, UK election 2024, US and UK elections 2024 Posted in In Brief |
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May 6th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024. Two Ontario by-elections this past Thursday, May 2, 2024 (“special elections” in US parlance) changed absolutely nothing in Ontario provincial politics. Yet various observers seem to suggest that these political housekeeping events in Canada’s most populous province may still harbour deeper meanings in […]
Tags: Bonnie Crombie, by-elections in Ontario 2024, Doug Ford, Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, Milton, Monte McNaughton, Ontario politics, record low voter turnout in Ontario 2022, Steve Pinsonneault, voter turnout in by-elections Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 20th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024. Bill Maher’s latest misunderstanding of the Canadian real world (see eg “Canadians react as Bill Maher takes a swipe at Canada” on blogTO) reminded me that Mr Maher once admired Rob Ford’s ability to be both a frequent recreational drug user and Mayor of Toronto. […]
Tags: Bill Maher on Canada, blogTO, Canadian politics, Conservative Party of Canada, Doug Ford, extreme wokeness, Goldsmiths University of London, Irish Mae Silvestre, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Liberal Party of Canada, New Democrats in Canada, Pierre Poilievre, Rob Ford, William Davies Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 6th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2024. Very early yesterday morning the almost always interesting Polling Canada posted on X : “CPC lead is as wide as it ever has been?” At the same time, one of my colleagues here at the office has suggested (like a few others) that the idle […]
Tags: Alex Jones on Pierre Poilievre, Biden vs Trump 2024, Canadiam views of Trump, Canadian politics, Liberal comeback in Canada?, Sean Fraser, Singh New Democrats, Supply and Confidence Agreement, Trudeau Liberals' future?, US election 2024 Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 14th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2024. Last night I heard an eminent CTV host urge that many (mostly Conservative) provincial premiers want the Liberal federal government to change its carbon tax policy. Doesn’t this mean (the implication seemed to be) that the federal government should do just that? This reminded me […]
Tags: Alberta, Canadian politics, Catherine McKenna, Constitution Act 1867, Constitution Act 1982, Dale Smith, Danielle Smith, Doug Ford, federal-provincial relations Canada, Justin Trudeau, provincial premiers and federal government in Canada, Steven Guilbeault Posted in In Brief |
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