Key Current Issues
Jan 31st, 2017 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Key Current Issues
CW EDITORS NOTE : Nous adressons nos plus sincères condoléances à tous ceux qui ont été touchés par l’épouvantable tuerie mortelle d’une mosquée de Québec, dimanche dernier. Nous appuyons les propos du premier ministre Trudeau sur ce méprisable acte de terreur contre le Canada et tous les Canadiens. Et nous accueillons chaleureusement ses rassurances auprès […]
Tags: Aaron Wherry, Canadian federal election 2015, Chantal Hebert, Don Martin, electoral reform in Canada, Karina Gould, Maryam Monsef, NDP winners summer 2015, proportional representation, ranked ballots Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Sep 22nd, 2016 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Key Current Issues
Back in the middle of this past March 2016 my esteemed colleague Citizen X was telling us : “The wisest thing I’ve come across on the American presidential primaries lately urges that 2016 so far is ‘democracy as depicted by Hieronymus Bosch’” (from the Huffington Post’s “Top 12 Reasons This Is The Most Depressing Election […]
Tags: Brexit, CANZUK, CETA, Export Development Canada (EDC]), Hieronymus Bosch, John Whitehead, Nick Dearden, Rachel Maddow, Raoul Vaneigem, Sadakat Kadri Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Jul 31st, 2016 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Key Current Issues
If the bad sides of current events in Europe can reasonably be seen as part of the 2016 US election (and something US presidents can somehow be viewed as responsible for), then so should the good sides. I was impressed in this light myself by the Raphael Satter and Colleen Barry Associated Press report variously […]
Tags: antidotes to terrorism, Bernie Sanders and Canada, Catholics and Muslims in Rouen, Jacqueline Prevot Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Nov 18th, 2015 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Key Current Issues
The appalling ISIS-related terrorist attacks in Paris this past Friday make at least one thing clear. How a person reacts to such international events in a place like Canada (or even the United States, sometimes) can depend a lot on general political brands that have nothing to do with terrorism. According to the Toronto Star, […]
Tags: Canadian foreign policy, CF-18 fighters in Iraq, Grand Alliance, New grand alliance of America and France and Russia, November 13 attacks in Paris, US foreign policy Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Apr 10th, 2015 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Key Current Issues
The ongoing trial of suspended Canadian Senator Mike Duffy has reminded some of us that back in the late spring of 2013 Randall White posted a note on this site about Harold Innis’s “more or less random observations on the Senate, and the related issue of Canadian regionalism” – which, taken together, “add up to […]
Tags: Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Duffy trial and Senate reform, Harold Innis on Senate reform, Randall White, Senate reform in Canada Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Feb 27th, 2015 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: Key Current Issues
If you live in the North American northeast and are fed up with winter, join the club. My ultimate goal is just to transcend the moment. So I have decided I like the almost-waist-high snow walls between the sidewalk and the road, glistening in the sunlight. “As we face unafraid / The plans that we’ve […]
Tags: Canadian cultural identity, Douglas Coupland, Lego Suburbanism, Merve Buyuksarac, Michael Seward, Winter Wonderland Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Apr 26th, 2014 |
By Randall White |
Category: Key Current Issues
The April 25, 2014 Supreme Court of Canada response to the Harper government’s queries on Senate reform includes some poignant passages. This is one of them: “The Constitution Act, 1867 contemplates a specific structure for the federal Parliament, ‘similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom’ … The Act creates both a lower elected […]
Tags: Constitutional debate in Canada, reform of House of Lords in UK, Senate reform in Canada, Supreme Court of Canada on Senate reform Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Nov 26th, 2013 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Key Current Issues
In my advancing age “Real Time with Bill Maher” on HBO TV is one of the highlights of my Friday nights. I’m sad to think that this past Friday’s episode (November 22, 2013) will be the last until the new year. For my money Bill Maher actually is a spiritual descendant of Lenny Bruce. And […]
Tags: Bill Maher and Rob Ford, Fordism in Toronto, Stephen Marche, Toronto politics Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Sep 19th, 2013 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Key Current Issues
We are reluctant to give too much credit for anything to the Harper government in Ottawa (to say nothing of federal finance minister Jim Flaherty). But today’s surprising announcement that the “federal, Ontario and British Columbia governments … have agreed to establish a co-operative securities regulator” qualifies as an unavoidable exception to the rule. As […]
Tags: BC & Ontario, Charles Sousa, Cooperative Capital Markets Regulator, federal-provincial relations Canada, financial regulation in Canada, Jim Flaherty, Mike de Jong, Ontario & BC Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Apr 26th, 2013 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Key Current Issues
One thing about life in the global village nowadays is that the subtleties of political debate keep getting lost in the demands of 140-characters-or-less, and similar rules elsewhere. (And if you think things were always that way, try reading a 19th century newspaper.) A case in point glows brightly in this past Wednesday’s Washington Post […]
Tags: Canadian politics, electoral finance reform, Is Lawrence Lessig right?, Money in US congressional elections Posted in Key Current Issues |
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