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Mar 30th, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, 30 MARCH 2022. Strictly by accident, I was in Richmond, Virginia at the time of the wedding of the mother and father of the William who just recently completed “an eight-day tour of Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas during which he and wife Kate were celebrated but also […]
Tags: Bahamas, Belize, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Governor General of Canada, Jamaica, parliamentary democracy in Canada, Virginia, William and Catherine Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 30th, 2014 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
The grandfather of one of we (various and intermittent) counterweights editors used to say that it was “A Great Day for Canada” on his own birthday. And it has long seemed to us that there is something quite admirably as well as agonizingly Canadian about this kind of practice. In any case, with July 1, […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canada Day 2014, Canada Days 2006-2014, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Eugenie Bouchard Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 8th, 2014 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Canadian Provinces
No partisan of the Canadian future can fail to admire the practical political judgment of the people of Quebec in their April 7, 2014 provincial election, for seats in the Assemblée nationale in Quebec City. Strictly in terms of seats the current results, just after midnight on the Globe and Mail site, are : LIBERAL […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Quebec election 2014 Posted in Canadian Provinces |
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Mar 18th, 2014 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
At least some people are talking about how interesting the Quebec provincial election campaign has suddenly become. See, eg : “Marois says rest of Canada would be welcome to visit independent Quebec” ; “Independent Quebec would keep Canadian dollar, Marois says” ; “Marois tells Canada not to be afraid of Quebec election outcome” ; “Naked […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Chow and Ford, Quebec election 2014, Rob Ford 2014, Toronto election 2014, Toronto politics Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 11th, 2014 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
I want to hang in for a moment longer with my colleague Frank Bunting’s allusion to Hugh Segal’s wisdom on Quebec last week. The Quebec provincial election campaign of 2014 has only just begun. But already I feel I have to keep trying hard to remember what Senator Segal said early in 2012 : “If, […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Hugh Segal, Pierre Karl Péladeau, Quebec election 2014, Quebec sovereigntist movement, Tom Flanagan Posted in In Brief |
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Feb 22nd, 2014 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Canadian Republic
The Liberal Party of Canada has some reasons for feeling good at its Montreal convention this weekend. (Eg : “Majority says it’s ‘time for another federal party to take over’: poll” ; “More Canadians share Justin Trudeau’s values: poll” ; and “Liberals open wider lead over Conservatives: poll.”) Two members of CBC TV’s most widely […]
Tags: Canadian politics, citizen assemblies on monarchy in Canada, Justin Trudeau and monarchy, Liberal Party of Canada 2014 convention Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Aug 27th, 2013 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
Just over a week ago we heard that “Proroguing Parliament till October buys Harper and Tories time … The restart effectively gives Mr. Harper two high-profile opportunities … to sell Canadian voters on the notion he is still the person to lead the country.” The first opportunity is “a Speech from the Throne that will […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Liberal-NDP co-operation in Canada, October 2013 in Ottawa, Stephen Harper mystery Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Jun 9th, 2013 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
Dr. Dave Town from Orillia, Ontario offered an intriguing comment on my recent post about Senate reform, “Is doing anything sensible with the Senate of Canada just a vain fantasy?” (And I believe he is the same person I have now intriguingly discovered on the “gossip-stew of the internet” : successful chiropractor by day, public-spirited […]
Tags: Appointed Senate in Canada, Canadian politics, Dave Town, Senate reform in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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May 23rd, 2013 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
Kudos to Google Canada for including a “Mountie in the iconic bright red uniform and broad-brimmed hat … in front of mountains, forest and water” on its home page today, in commemoration of the “140th anniversary of the North West Mounted Police.” In case you have forgotten, the North West Mounted Police were established by […]
Tags: Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian politics, North West Mounted Police, Stephen Harper self-destructs? Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 26th, 2013 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Key Current Issues
One thing about life in the global village nowadays is that the subtleties of political debate keep getting lost in the demands of 140-characters-or-less, and similar rules elsewhere. (And if you think things were always that way, try reading a 19th century newspaper.) A case in point glows brightly in this past Wednesday’s Washington Post […]
Tags: Canadian politics, electoral finance reform, Is Lawrence Lessig right?, Money in US congressional elections Posted in Key Current Issues |
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