Ottawa Scene
Oct 21st, 2020 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
UPDATED 4 PM ET, OCT 21 ; 2, 9 PM ET, OCT 22 ; 11 PM ET, OCT 23 ; 12 NOON PT, OCT 24. RANDALL WHITE, TORONTO. TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 2020 : This Wednesday, October 21, 2020 marks the one-year anniversary of the October 21, 2019 Canadian federal election that […]
Tags: Aaron Wherry, BC election 2020, Canada and COVID-19, Canadian election 2020?, Minority government in Canada, New Brunswick election 2020, Saskatchewan election 2020 Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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May 22nd, 2020 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
Before the issue vanishes altogether from the daily news I just want to quickly unburden myself of my quite certain and crystal clear views on dual citizenship and full-bore participation in Canadian democratic politics. My media texts are “Scheer didn’t follow through on renouncing US citizenship” by Rachel Aiello on the CTV News site (May […]
Tags: Andrew Scheer as dual citizen, democratic participation and dual citizenship, Dual citizenship in Canada, Michaelle Jean renounces French citizenship, Pauline Johnson, Stephane Dion as dual citizen, Tekahionwake, Thomas Mulcair as dual citizen Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Sep 26th, 2019 |
By Ashok Charles |
Category: Ottawa Scene
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS NOTE : One bright feature of the bubbling 21st century Canadian republican movement is the way it brings together many different sides of life in Canada today. On this site we are resolute Canadian republicans, but we don’t always agree with other equally resolute fellow republican friends. We believe Canada should be actively […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian citizenship oath, Charles as Canadian head of state, inappropriate friends of Princes Andrew and Charles, Jeffrey Epstein, Jimmy Savile, Peter Ball, Virginia Roberts Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Aug 6th, 2019 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Ottawa Scene
It’s the early days of August — “for the people and their favourite islands.” Beyond the great but too often sad entertainment of current American history next door, no Canadian of any sense is thinking about anything at all serious. And that certainly goes double for the Canadian federal election this coming October 21. Photographs […]
Tags: 338Canada.com, August for the people, CalculatedPolitics.com, Canadian election 2015, Canadian election 2019, CBC Poll Tracker, Liberal-NDP-Green co-operation in Canada, Vancouver Pride Parade 2019 Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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May 5th, 2019 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Ottawa Scene
(1) Opinion polls certainly do suggest that the Justin Trudeau Liberals in Canada have serious problems right now. It is also true that a late April 2015 Abacus poll shows vaguely comparable results to a 2019 Angus Reid poll for broadly the same time of year. In late April 2015 Abacus was reporting Cons 36%, […]
Tags: Althia Raj, Andrew Scheer and Brexit, Canadian election 2019, Gerald Butts, Harold Innis on no alternative to Liberals, Justin Trudeau Liberals, SNC-Lavalin Affair, Stephen Fuhr Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Feb 15th, 2019 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
[UPDATED FEBRUARY 18. SEE BELOW]. On Valentine’s Day 2019 it is hard to know just what to make of the first prime minister of the 1867 confederation of British North American Provinces now known as Canada. (Well … my thoughts here are actually being posted just after Valentine’s Day, but that’s just because I’m a […]
Tags: 2019 election in Canada, Alex Boutilier, Andrew Scheer, Bryan Leblanc, David Hamer, Henry Adams, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Justin Trudeau, Ontario politics poll early 2019, Pacific Scandal in Canada, politics and hatred, Sarbjit Kaur, SNC-Lavalin Affair, Thomas Walkom Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Dec 27th, 2018 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Ottawa Scene
One counterweights item from the year now ending that has seen fresh visits in the most recent past is Randall White’s “Can Justin Trudeau be defeated in the next Canadian federal election?,” first posted back on May 8, 2018. In the new age of fixed-date elections (sort of) the campaign for the 43rd Canadian federal […]
Tags: Abacus Data, Anderson and Coletto, Canadian election 2019, Canadian flag 1965, Children of the Global Village, Eric Grenier, Lester Pearson, Mitchell Anderson, Parti Quebecois wins 1976 Quebec election, Pierre Trudeau Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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May 8th, 2018 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
Has the prime minister of Canada reached rock bottom in his current troubles when no less than the UK-based Guardian complains : “Justin Trudeau is waging a phony war against inequality”? And, after some two months too long in the wilderness, does Prime Minister Trudeau (II) now have nowhere to go but up? (Or is […]
Tags: "Manley Liberals", climate change in Canada, Damien Gillis, Eric Adams, Eric Grenier, Guardian on Trudeau, Justin Trudeau's future, Monique Scotti, Nanos poll on Trudeau Liberals, Paul Wells on Justin Trudeau, Senate and Cannabis bill in Canada, Warren Kinsella Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Dec 4th, 2017 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Ottawa Scene
GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 4, 2017. [UPDATED DECEMBER 11]. Who can doubt that we are now living in challenging times — especially in those realms of fake and other news where “Canada’s top party school” also qualifies as one of the “10 Wildest Party Schools in North America”? (Even as “Sex assault allegations place NS university’s […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Bruce Hutchison, Canadian political history 1921-1948, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Incredible Canadian, St. Francis Xavier University, William Lyon Mackenzie King Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Nov 7th, 2015 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
Not too long before the November 4 swearing-in ceremony finally began at Rideau Hall, the CBC TV cameras came to rest briefly on Justin Trudeau’s younger brother Alexandre (aka Sacha), and his wife Zoe and their three children. They were quietly slipping into their seats, in the row just behind the row where the new […]
Tags: Alexandre Trudeau, Harjit Sajjan, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Justin Trudeau cabinet, Mélanie Joly, Zoe Bedos Trudeau Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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