Posts Tagged ‘ American politics ’

Ms Close says Canada has “stood up to you know who” .. Mr del Toro thinks “Canada is a bastion of hope in the world right now”

Sep 10th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2025. I’m personally embarrassed when local TV reports on the Toronto International Film Festival ask visiting foreign (albeit usually just US) celebrities : “What is your favourite thing about Canada?” (I should quickly note that the countervailing logic has been voiced by my wife : “I like […]



US midterm elections 2014, I : what can Barack Obama possibly do?

Nov 4th, 2014 | By | Category: In Brief

[UPDATED NOV 5]. Those of us who believe that history and the future will judge Barack Obama a much more seminal and successful US president than the present is doing can only look at the midterm elections this Tuesday, November 4, 2014 and weep. The prospects for sitting administrations in such contests are almost never […]