Posts Tagged ‘
British monarchy in Canada ’
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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Dec 26th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 26, 2022. Before rushing into the Top 4 counterweights stories in the third quarter of 2022, we just want to note an intriguing piece posted today on the Nunatsiaq News site, called “Reflection: Mary Simon tour a rewarding reporting experience … Jeff Pelletier looks back on covering Governor General’s Nunavik […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Governor General of Canada, Inuit hospitality, Jeff Pelletier, Kansas, Mary Simon, Pierre Poilievre, Pope and Indigenous Canadians Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 20th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 20, 2022. According to Philippe J. Fournier’s latest 338Canada polling update on December 18, the federal Conservatives are still somewhat ahead of the Liberals in cross-Canada popular vote — 34% to 32%. Yet the Conservative vote is still heavily concentrated in the two most westerly Prairie provinces. The Liberals would […]
Tags: 338Canada, British monarchy in Canada, Canada 2nd quarter 2022, Canadian republic, Chief Justice of Ontario, December 2022 political polls in Canada, election in Canada 2023?, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau, Jamaica Observer, Michael Tulloch, Ontario election 2022, Philippe J. Fournier, Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau, Tom Mulcair Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 16th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 16, 2022. The main course here is just a list of what this morning’s cw editors meeting picked as the top four counterweights articles from the first quarter of 2022. As a preliminary soup course, however (so to speak), here are some very quik introductory notes on : (1) the […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, common people, Conservative Party of Canada, Democracy in 2022, Doug Ford, Freedom Convoy 2022 in Canada, G.D.H. Cole, India and China border clash, J.J. McCullough, Justin Trudeau, libertarian socialist, monarchy and elitism, people of Ontario, Pierre Poilievre, Raymond Postgate, South Tibet, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 29th, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, TUESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2022. John Kerrigan, the Cambridge University literary scholar (and convener of the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies), has just published a more than 7000-word discussion of one movie (Kenneth Branagh’s “Belfast”) and 15 recent books about Ireland today, in the October 20, 2022 issue of […]
Tags: British Empire and Commonwealth, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Commonwealth of Nations, Governor General of Canada, Governor General of Irish Free State, Ireland as British dominion, Irish Free State, King-Byng Crisis, Michael Collins, Michael Higgins, President of Ireland, Republic of India, Republic of Ireland, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Wolfe Tone Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 27th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. OCTOBER 27, 2022. “History has many cunning passages” (T.S. Eliot). And in one of them, in the Canadian House of Commons, yesterday’s very clear defeat of a Bloc Québécois motion to sever ties with the “British monarchy” could somewhat ironically prove the effective first step on a long inevitable journey to […]
Tags: Bloc Québécois, BQ motion on monarchy in Canada, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Governor General of Canada, Indigenous peoples of Canada, Spencer Van Dyk, Yves-François Blanchet Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 22nd, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 2022. Like a few others (as best I can tell) I think I am finally ready to express my ultimate personal disappointment in PM Justin Trudeau. I say this while remembering that just over a year ago I wrote about “Why is so much […]
Tags: 338Canada, British monarchy in Canada, Chantal Hebert, Charlie Parker, Chrystia Freeland, Freddy Gardner, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Léger, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre, political polling in Canada fall 2022, Supply and Confidence Agreement, Washington Monthly, who will speak for Canada, Wilfrid Laurier Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Sep 28th, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2022. Andrew Cohen is “a journalist, professor of journalism at Carleton University and the author of Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours That Made History” (and The Unfinished Canadian: The People We Are). Back in the middle of June last […]
Tags: Andrew Cohen, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, David Moscrop, elite and mass culture in Canada, Globe and Mail, J.J. McCullough, King Charles III, Ottawa Citizen, Washington Post Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 18th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. SEPTEMBER 18, 2022. The extravaganza following the death of Queen Elizabeth II has been especially concentrated in the old imperial metropolis across the seas. And there as well the Queen’s state funeral tomorrow will begin at 11 AM BST (or 6 AM EDT here in North America). Whatever else, all this […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian Citizenship Act 1947, Canadian flag 1965, Canadian republic, Commonwealth realms, Constitution Act 1982, Governor General of Canada, John Pearson, Larry Zolf, parliamentary democracy in Canada, Queen Elizabeth II funeral, Vincent Massey Posted in In Brief |
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