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Apr 8th, 2026 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026. Robert Reich, Democratic President Clinton’s secretary of labor, 1993–1997 and retired UC Berkeley professor, is far from the only eminent US commentator who has been raising deeply serious questions about President Trump’s mental health in the early spring of 2026. Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNOW, as […]
Tags: 25th Amendment, Andrew Coyne, Bill Kristol, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Donald Trump, Jeremy Hansen, Lawrence O'Donnell, Marilyn Gladu, Mark Carney, NASA, Robert Reich, US-Iran ceasefire, Watergate Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 21st, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2025. This past Monday Carleton Place, Ontario journalist David Krayden posted a Twitter/X piece on “Why was Mark Carney Booed at Canada’s Grey Cup?” I have not myself delved into any TV or other footage that shows this booing taking place. I take the word of Mr […]
Tags: Andrew Coyne, Canadian political culture, Canadian politics, global migrations in Canada, Lester Pearson, Mark Carney, multiculturalism in Canada, Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Robert Carney, William Lyon Mackenzie, William Lyon Mackenzie King Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 21st, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2025. It is true enough that the Canadian people are not as divided as the American people at this point in time. And like many other Canadians I’m grateful for that. A recent article by David Beers and Jen St. Denis at The Tyee in BC, however, […]
Tags: Andrew Coyne, Andrew Scheer, Bloc Québécois, Brigitte Macron, Canadian politics, Charlie Kirk, Conservative Party of Canada, David Beers and Jen St. Denis, David Brown, democracy in America, Donald Trump, Green Party in Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, London Review of Books, New Democratic Party of Canada, Pete Buttigieg, Rachel Gilmore, The Tyee, Trumpism, William Davies Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 1st, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 (LABOUR DAY) 2025. Canadian pundit Andrew Coyne’s recent column in the Toronto Globe and Mail — “Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?” — has its alarming moments. The “defenders” of “democracy in America,” it urges, “are running out of […]
Tags: Andrew Coyne, California, Canadian politics, Clay Thompson, democracy in America, Donald Trump, Ezra Pound, Frank Graves, Gavin Newsom, Mark Carney, Northeastern States, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Robert Reich., UC Berkeley, US politics Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 9th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK,TORONTO. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 2024. Like others I am altogether surprised by the Trump Republican victory in the 2024 US election. Over the past few weeks, however, I can claim to have written at least one arguably prescient sentence on the subject : “I also can’t help wondering if America is quite […]
Tags: Andrew Coyne, Beyoncé, Book of Revelation, democracy in America, Justice Horn, Red Surprise in USA, Trump triumph 2024 and Brexit 2016 in UK, US election 2024 Posted in In Brief |
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Jan 2nd, 2023 |
By Ashok Charles |
Category: Canadian Provinces
SPECIAL FROM ASHOK CHARLES, TORONTO/THUNDER BAY. JANUARY 2, 2023. In its November 7, 2022 article, “The empty fight over a symbolic oath in Quebec,” the Globe and Mail’s editorial board argued that the ultimately legislated proposal for Quebec’s National Assembly to dispense with the compulsory oath of allegiance to King Charles III for its members […]
Tags: Andrew Coyne, Australia Pledge of Commitment, Canadian citizenship oath, Globe and Mail editorial, McAteer v Canada, meaning of oath to King in Canada, oath to King in Quebec Assembly, Ontario Court of Appeal, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, Quebec National Assembly Posted in Canadian Provinces |
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Mar 4th, 2018 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. SUN 4 MARCH 2018. 12:00 PM ET. Just after noon yesterday the Canadian Press reported : “Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party is giving members even more time to sign up to cast their vote for a new leader.” The report went on : “The party has already extended the voter registration deadline once, pushing […]
Tags: Andrew Coyne, Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott, Dean Baxendale, Doug Ford, Justin Giovannetti, Ontario PC leadership 2018, Tanya Allen Posted in In Brief |
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