In Brief
Jul 1st, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, FRIDAY 1 JULY 2022. On the one hand, Canada Day 2022 could be declared a happy event since the country has largely joined the growing part of the global village that is pretending the COVID-19 pandemic has ended. This year there is a Canada Day Picnic more […]
Tags: Abortion worldwide, Blueberry Hill, Canada Day 2022, COVID-19 record in Canada, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, G7 meet in Bavaria 2022, Gene Krupa, Justin Trudeau critics, King of rock n roll, Louis Armstrong, Medicare in Canada, Michael Podhorzer, Moose Cree First Nation on Canada Day, Phil Arnold, Philippe Fournier, Quebec sovereignty 2022, Rachel Maddow on big government, Ron Brownstein on two Americas, US Supreme Court on abortion Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 21st, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. JUNE 21, 2022. If it were just Don Martin on the CTV News site saying “The fall of Justin Trudeau has begun” that would be one thing. But when Chantal Hébert is also asking in the Toronto Star “Is Justin Trudeau headed for defeat?” something at least half-serious could be afoot. […]
Tags: Aaron Wherry, Chantal Hebert, Don Martin, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau's future, Paul Tellier, Prime Minister of Canada, “Supply and Confidence Agreement” Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 14th, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, 14 JUNE 2022. Last week I had lunch on the leafy sunshine back patio of a long-established local bar with an old colleague and friend seriously down on the USA. (And today this is only slightly remarkable in someone born and raised in a neighbouring state of […]
Tags: American government complexity, California state of what's next, J. Stefan Dupré, January 6 Capitol attack, parliamentary democracy in Canada, US midterm elections 2022 Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 3rd, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO ELECTION WATCH 2022, CW EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. JUNE 3, 2022, 2:15 AM EDT. The results as of this moment in a 124-seat Legislative Assembly with a bare majority of 63 seats are : Conservatives 83 seats with 40.8% of the province-wide popular vote ; New Democrats 31 seats with 23.7% of the vote ; […]
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Jun 2nd, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, 2 JUNE 2022. [UPDATED 6 JUNE]. This is the first day of the official celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th or platinum anniversary of what no less than the Toronto Star has called “her journey as the longest-serving monarch in British and Canadian history.” (One might quibble about […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Globe and Mail, India, Ireland, Parliamentary democracy, Percy Robinson, Toronto Star Posted in In Brief |
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May 31st, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO ELECTION WATCH 2022, CW EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MAY 30, 2022, 11:50 PM EDT. [UPDATED MAY 31, 3 PM EDT] : As we finally approach election day on June 2 there is some slight slippage of Ford Conservative support in all of the latest CBC Ontario Votes 2022 Poll Tracker, 338Canada Ontario, and the Toronto […]
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May 28th, 2022 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, ON THE EDGE OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD IN BUCKHORN, ON. K0L 0C1. 28 MAY 2022. There was a time when I thought of the Globe and Mail as Canada’s newspaper of record.. Then a retired engineer I knew who had worked on the Avro Arrow cancelled his […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canada's National Newspaper, Canadian republic, Democratic and Authoritarian state, diverse Canadian people, Franz Neumann, Globe and Mail, Prince Charles Posted in In Brief |
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May 24th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO ELECTION WATCH 2022, CW EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MAY 24, 2022 : Just to start with, here’s a sunny lakeside toast to the real 24th of May, in the Old Ontario that only sees a 2022 future for itself under the newly “evolved” conservative grass-roots political guru from Old Etobicoke, in the Old Toronto northwestern […]
Tags: Doug Ford's evolution, Ontario election 2022, Ontario Party, Ontario PC minority government Posted in In Brief |
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May 18th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO ELECTION WATCH 2022, CW EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MAY 18, 2022 : With a mere two weeks before election day on June 2, we’d point to the headlines for two recent opinion columns by noted analysts to summarize our own sense of where the 2022 Ontario provincial election is right now. To start with we […]
Tags: Bob Rae majority government, Don Martin, E.C. Drury, Éric Grenier, Ford minority government?, Mario Canseco, Martin Regg Cohn, Mike Crawley, Ontario election 2022, Philippe J. Fournier Posted in In Brief |
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May 14th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO ELECTION WATCH 2022, CW EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MAY 14, 2022 : Among many other things, Greg Barns’s excellent recent report on the May 21, 2022 Australian federal election may suggest something of a parallel fresh but relevant perspective on the June 2, 2022 provincial election in Canada’s most populous province. To quickly review the […]
Tags: Andrea Horwath, Australian election 2022, Doug Ford, Éric Grenier, Ford minority government?, Greg Barns, Mike Schreiner, Ontario election 2022, Opinion polls on 2022 Ontario election, Philippe J. Fournier, Steven Del Duca, voter disengagement Posted in In Brief |
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