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Sep 15th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
UPDATE SEPTEMBER 19, 2023. 2:30 AM ET. RANDALL WHITE, TORONTO. Yesterday Canadian PM Justin Trudeau provided some deep background on his most recent disagreements with PM Narendra Modi in India. (Note my original post here for September 15, far below!) See, eg, John Paul Tasker at CBC on “Trudeau accuses India’s government of involvement in […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Governor General of Canada, India and Canada, Jagmeet Singh and India, Narendra Modi and Justin Trudeau Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 4th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . LABOUR DAY, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2023. This is the last day of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto — sibling of the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) in Vancouver, which also ends today. In my personal Toronto history the last day at the Ex starts with […]
Tags: Biden's China policy, Canadian wildfires 2023, CNE, Gerald Kutney, Gina Raimondo, India on the moon 2023, Labour Day 2023, PNE, Supreme Court of India and Rahul Gandhi, wildfires and climate change Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 22nd, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2023. There have been, I think, two main channels in my deep attraction to Fani Willis’s “Overwhelming Show of Force…Shock and Awe” fourth Indictment of Donald Trump, for his Georgia misdeeds in the 2020 US presidential election. The first channel is just Ms […]
Tags: 2020 US election, Cyrus the Great, Donald Trump, Fani Willis, Fourth indictment of Donald Trump, Georgia, Joe Biden, Josephine Quinn, Liz Cheney, RICO law in Georgia Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 12th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 2023. I did not know Hugh Segal personally. I never met him face to face. The closest I came was when my real-world acquaintances among Ontario bureaucrats urged that some document under discussion betrayed the Hugh Segal touch. I have, on the other hand, read and even […]
Tags: Brian Mulroney, Canadian politics, Doug Ford, Greenbelt in Ontario, Hugh Segal, Hugh Segal's sad death, Ontario politics, Paul Martin, Senate reform in Canada, William Davis Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 3rd, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 2023. We had just arrived home from a short late-July adventure in the northern woods. Suddenly the TV and all other mainstream mass media were reporting that “Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of power.” Then the next […]
Tags: 2020 election and Trump, 2025 election in Canada?, Canadian politics, Donald Trump indictment re Jan 6, Eric Grenier on Canadian polling, fourth term for Justin Trudeau?, Justin Trudeau and Sophie Gregoire separation, Trump and Cyrus the Great Posted in In Brief |
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Jul 23rd, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SUNDAY JULY 23, 2023. There was a time in these parts when more than a few citizens of the modern Canadian democracy still looked up to the political culture of the United Kingdom. In my mind (in casual gear at any rate) all this is still vaguely reflected in the […]
Tags: Canadian political culture, Canadian politics, George Lichtheim, Governor General of Canada, John Rentoul, Keir Starmer, Liberal aristocratic values in Canada, Lord Elgin Hotel, Lord Monck in Canada, Tony Blair Posted in In Brief |
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Jul 14th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 2023. To start with, Joyeux quatorze juillet et Bonne Fete Nationale! (Or in the American language Happy Bastille Day.) Meanwhile, on the morning of Tuesday, July 11, 2023 my business partner and I went on a downtown Toronto excursion to test the argument that […]
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Jun 26th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2023, 2:00 AM EDT. UPDATED 10:30 PM EDT. The unusual Toronto mayoralty byelection is the big local political event today. It already seems almost clear enough, however, that left-wing progressive Olivia Chow will be the city’s next mayor. The biggest news will be if […]
Tags: Ana Bailao, Anne Applebaum i, Canadian politics, Doug Ford, Ford Nation, Mark Saunders, Mitzie Hunter, Olivia Chow, Ontario politics, Russian civil war?, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Toronto mayoralty byelection 2023, Vladimir Putin, Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 10th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2023. As I start writing it’s about 11:30 PM ET on June 8. I’m finishing, after a break for sleep, meals, and whatnot, about 11:30 PM ET, June 9. (Even if all this does not finally get posted till the early morning of Saturday, […]
Tags: Butch Watanabe, Canadian jazz, Erich Traugott, Jerry Toth, Liz Cheney, Phil Nimmons, Robert Reich, seditious conspiracy, Trump indicted, Vic Centro Posted in In Brief |
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May 28th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2023. For most Canadians the big political drama of May 29, 2023 will be the Alberta provincial election — a duel between two feisty middle-age women on the (almost socialist?) left and (more than almost extreme conservative?) right, which may or may not surprise […]
Tags: Alberta election 2023, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, constitutional monarchy, Eliza Reid, Governor General of Canada, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Mary Simon, Parliamentary democracy, president of Iceland Posted in In Brief |
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