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Dec 18th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2023. Without a shred of doubt the single biggest event of the new year just ahead for those of us living north of the Great Lakes (and the 49th Parallel and various points east and so on) will be the US federal elections on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Doug Ford, Ontario politics Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 12th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023. When I first moved into the east Toronto waterfront neighbourhood where I still live — many, many years later — I went to the Remembrance Day commemoration (Veteran’s Day in the USA across the lake), at the cenotaph by the edge of a local park (or […]
Tags: Beaches Toronto, British monarchy in Canada, Governor General of Canada, Israel-Hamas conflict, Kew Gardens Toronto, King-Byng Affair, Remembrance Day 2023 Toronto, Royal Canadian Legion Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 21st, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023. The October 18 Angus Reid polling report, “Majority — including two-in-five past Liberal voters — say Trudeau should step down,” underlines what now seems an unavoidable winter of discontent for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. From one deep-background angle, on the 338Canada list […]
Tags: 2025 Canadian election, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, conservative mood in Canada 2023, F*** Justin Trudeau, good-looking prime ministers, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre, Progressive leader Justin Trudeau Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 15th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
UPDATE SEPTEMBER 19, 2023. 2:30 AM ET. RANDALL WHITE, TORONTO. Yesterday Canadian PM Justin Trudeau provided some deep background on his most recent disagreements with PM Narendra Modi in India. (Note my original post here for September 15, far below!) See, eg, John Paul Tasker at CBC on “Trudeau accuses India’s government of involvement in […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Governor General of Canada, India and Canada, Jagmeet Singh and India, Narendra Modi and Justin Trudeau Posted in In Brief |
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May 28th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2023. For most Canadians the big political drama of May 29, 2023 will be the Alberta provincial election — a duel between two feisty middle-age women on the (almost socialist?) left and (more than almost extreme conservative?) right, which may or may not surprise […]
Tags: Alberta election 2023, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, constitutional monarchy, Eliza Reid, Governor General of Canada, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Mary Simon, Parliamentary democracy, president of Iceland Posted in In Brief |
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May 6th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Canadian Republic
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MAY 6, 2023. Almost by accident we have stumbled across a (for us) especially sensible way of commemorating the events of today back in the old imperial metropolis across the seas. Recently our colleague Randall White completed the last or concluding draft chapter of his political-history work in progress, Children of […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Coronation 2023 in Canada, democracy in Canada Posted in Canadian Republic |
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May 5th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: Heritage Now
This is the last or concluding draft chapter of Randall White’s political-history work in progress, Children of the Global Village : Democracy in Canada Since 1497. A final version will be published in hard copy by eastendbooks in the autumn of 2024. * * * * There is no doubt more than one story of […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Governor General of Canada, Senate reform in Canada Posted in Heritage Now |
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Apr 29th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: Key Current Issues
OTTAWA VIEWED FROM A (COMPARATIVELY SHORT) DISTANCE WEST. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023. A few recent items in the news raise a few fresh questions about just what is going on in the Trudeau-Liberal-reformed Senate of Canada in the second quarter of 2023? See, eg, “P.E.I. Senate replacements taking too long, […]
Tags: Andrew Cardozo, Bill C-11, Bloc Québécois, British monarchy in Canada, Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments, Justin Trudeau Senate reform, PEI Senate seats, Political groups in revised Senate of Canada, Rear-Admiral Rebecca Patterson, Robert A. MacKay, Senate reform in Canada, Senate vacancies in Canada, Sharon Burey, Stephen Harper Senate reform Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Mar 1st, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MARCH 1, 2023. This morning’s editorial meeting tabled a two-page pdf file headlined “London Declaration, United Kingdom, 1949.” The suggestion was that this is a document not much remembered in the 2020s. But it is nonetheless of serious interest in the current post-Elizabeth II debate on practical alternatives to the increasingly […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Commonwealth of Nations, Dominion (Union) of India, Governor General of Canada, Lester Pearson, London Declaration 1949, Louis St. Laurent, William Lyon Mackenzie King Posted in In Brief |
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Feb 2nd, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2023. It appeared almost a month ago now. But I am still remembering Sasha Akhavi’s January 7, 2023 piece in the Toronto Star on his new legal status as a Canadian citizen. As matters stand he is also a subject of King Charles III of […]
Tags: alternative to monarchy in Canada, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian Citizenship Act 1947, Canadian flag, Canadian republic, Constitution Act 1982, Frerick Vaughan, Sasha Akhavi, service state in Canada, Vincent Massey Posted in In Brief |
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