Posts Tagged ‘ Australian election 2025 ’

How the second quarter of 2025 looked to us — from Trump’s ultimate MAGA view that Canadians do not exist to the June Days first No Kings protests in the USA

Dec 20th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2025. By the start of the second quarter of 2025 here on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in ”northern North America”, the crazy Trump tariffs had set in globally (including 10% on the Heard and Macdonald Islands near Australia, inhabited only by penguins). Meanwhile the second incarnation […]

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Australian election 2025 has some striking similarities with Canadian election five days before (compliments of current strange politics in USA)

May 5th, 2025 | By | Category: Countries of the World

GREG BARNS SC. HOBART, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, PERTH, AUSTRALIA. MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025. Newly minted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberals have something in common with the winner of Australia’s national election on Saturday, Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party (ALP). Both brought their governments back from the brink of defeat partly because […]

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Early examination of entrails of 2025 Canadian federal election : New Democrats reduced to mere 7 seats but that + 169 Liberals gives a 176-seat majority in parliament!

Apr 30th, 2025 | By | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025. The more or less final results of the 2025 Canadian federal election were still not fully known with certainty, even as we approached dinner on the day after election day. It has nonetheless been clear since late on election day (Monday, April 28) that Liberal leader […]

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