Even if you were expecting some kind of shock and awe from the Quebec provincial election, you have to be surprised. The organizer for the Action Democratique du Quebec (ADQ) who told CBC Newsworld he didn’t believe the numbers himself summed it all up. Fairly early on the CBC election desk projected at least a Liberal minority […]
What the press is now calling “Canada’s longest running aboriginal standoff,” in Caledonia, Ontario, began on February 28, 2006. It is one year old today. And by all the latest accounts it will be two years old this time next year, and three years old the year after that. According to spokesperson Janie Jamieson: “Six […]
Whatever new Canadian political adventures may lie ahead in the possibly fateful year of 2007, something seems to have shifted into a higher gear with the news that there really will be a Quebec provincial election on March 26. The further clarification that a Stephen Harper federal budget with good news for Quebecers is now slated for […]
OTTAWA. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006. 10:30 PM ET. Earlier this evening the Canadian House of Commons voted 265-16 in favour of the resolution “That this House recognizes that the Québécois are a nation within a united Canada.” At about the same time old federal Liberal policy guru and Pierre Trudeau admirer Tom Axworthy was on […]
Now the late Pierre Trudeau’s eldest son, Justin – a.k.a. husband of “Canada’s Princess” Sophie Gregoire – has entered the new great debate started by Liberal leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff. I.e. should the Canadian constitution at long last recognize that la belle province is a nation within Canada, or something like that? Like his father, […]
When Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty started making noises against Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s plans for Canadian Senate reform this past spring, it still seemed possible for the strange but hardy breed of local Ontario Senate reformers to believe that there was some deeper message between the lines. Now two excellent reports by Susan Delacourt in the Toronto […]
When the Vancouver Sun runs a news item on an Ontario provincial by-election in the old Toronto west end you can guess something is happening. On the surface, federal Liberal leadership candidate Gerard Kennedy’s old Ontario provincial seat in Parkdale-High Park was just up for grabs in a by-election, on Thursday, September 14, 2006. Yet this somehow […]
ST. JOHN’S, NL. FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2006. The annual mid-summer gathering of the Canadian provincial premiers and territorial leaders (a.k.a. “The Council of the Federation“) provided some slight relief from the troubles of the Middle East, for any resident Canadian citizens still paying attention. The provincial and territorial leaders failed to solve the problem of “fiscal imbalance” in […]
HONEY HARBOUR, ON. Nothing is supposed to happen up here in the summer. But of course it does. This can even be a good time to sneak through somewhat strange messages in the news. So Canadian federal finance minister Jim Flaherty has announced that a mysterious international financial watchdog called the Egmont Group will be […]
SATURDAY, JUNE 17. GRAND BEND. Southwestern Ontario is the part of Ontario that is least like what some people think Ontario is like. Right now it is most famous for the aggressive Six Nations Iroquois land-claim protest in Caledonia, Haldimand County, and the Bandidos biker massacre near Shedden and Iona Station in Elgin County. And […]
