RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2025. I have a lot of time these days for Gentleman Joe Walsh — “Former GOP Congressman. Ex Tea Partier turned relentless anti Trump truth teller.” A few days ago Mr. Walsh posted on Twitter/X : “Donald Trump: ‘How do I know the 2020 election was […]
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. THURSDAY, JULY 24, 2025. Some say the present president of the USA’s “swagger is GONE.” At the same time, he retains a “degree of feral cunning about things that can endanger him personally, politically, legally.” Still others urge : “The president is trying to concoct a fantasy world in which […]
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2025. As this summer weekend began (with a somewhat boisterous outdoor wedding party, on the lot immediately behind us, next street over), I suddenly stumbled across four quick notes on key current events in Canada and the wider global village today : (1) “The world will adapt […]
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2025. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s current trip to Europe — to sign a Canada-Europe security and defence pact in Brussels — may look somewhat provocative, in the immediate wake of Donald Trump’s sudden US strategic bombing of three nuclear energy sites in Iran. Yet the so-called […]
RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2025. In traditional western historical literature “June Days” means “an uprising staged by French workers from 22 to 26 June 1848 .. in response to plans to close the National Workshops, created by the Second Republic in order to provide work and a minimal source of […]
RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2025. As Andrew Delbanco explains in the May 29, 2025 issue of The New York Review of Books, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel The Great Gatsby was “published on April 10, 1925, to good reviews but disappointing sales.” So the exact 100th anniversary of this […]
RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. MONDAY, MAY 26, 2025. This is the last day of the Memorial Day long weekend in the USA. Our version of something similar in Canada was last weekend. (We like to keep things a little different in Canada.) It is now celebrated as Victoria Day — “a federal statutory […]
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 […]
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 […]
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. , MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2025. UPDATED. SATURDAY 26 APRIL/SUNDAY 27 APRIL 2025. SCROLL BELOW FOR UPDATE TEXT. The 2025 Canadian federal election, which may or may not be “the most important election of our lives, ” will take place exactly one week from today. It says a lot about how short, […]
