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Apr 10th, 2021 |
By Ashok Charles |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM ASHOK CHARLES, TORONTO/THUNDER BAY. APRIL 10, 2021 : Canada’s current citizenship oath, with its medieval pledge of fealty to a hereditary monarch, does not meet the needs of a prominent 21st century democracy. In 2019 Canada accepted 340,000 new permanent residents, and is among the countries with the highest levels of immigration. Some […]
Tags: Australian citizenship oath, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian citizenship oath, Canadian republic, Immigration to Canada, recanting Canadian citizenship oath to monarch Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 18th, 2020 |
By Ashok Charles |
Category: Canadian Republic
SPECIAL FROM ASHOK CHARLES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, REPUBLIC NOW/RÉPUBLIQUE DU CANADA, TORONTO/THUNDER BAY. OCTOBER 18, 2020 : That Barbados has resolved to transition from constitutional monarchy to constitutional democracy (see “Barbados To Become A Republic by 2021”) also has relevance for Canada. Explaining the coming changeover, Barbados’ Governor General, Sandra Mason, said : “Barbadians want a […]
Tags: Barbados republic, Beverley McLachlin, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian Bar Association, Canadian head of state, Canadian republic, Christopher Hitchens, Commonwealth of Nations, James Cox, Paul Heinbecker, Peter Gzowski, Sandra Mason Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Aug 11th, 2020 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
TELEGRAM FROM RANDALL WHITE. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. It is no doubt only to be expected that strange things will happen during such historical eras as the COVID-19 global pandemic — in public as well as private life. That any rate strikes me as the most sensible context in which to view the summer 2020 controversy over […]
Tags: Aaron Wherry on Governor General, Canadian republic, Commonwealth realms, conservative ideology of monarchy in Canada today, elected head of state, Germany, Governor General of Canada, Iceland, India, Ireland, Julie Payette, parliamentary republic, Payette’s latest troubles, verbal abuse at Rideau Hall, Westminster Model Posted in In Brief |
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Jul 15th, 2020 |
By Greg Barns |
Category: Key Current Issues
SPECIAL FROM GREG BARNS. HOBART, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA, 14 JULY 2020. The 11th of November 1975 is a date etched into the collective mind of the Australian body politic. It was the day that the Queen’s representative, Governor General John Kerr, dismissed the elected Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, and commissioned Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser to […]
Tags: Australian republic, Canadian republic, Eugene Forsey, Gough Whitlam, Jenny Hocking, John Kerr, Malcolm Fraser, Martin Charteris, Palace Letters, Pierre Trudeau and Gough Whitlam Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Jun 30th, 2020 |
By Randall White |
Category: Canadian Republic
CANADA DAY, JULY 1, 2020. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. RANDALL WHITE : As quite recently noted by the counterweights editors, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has urged that the COVID-19 pandemic has given us a “chance to reshape Canada’s future.” In the prime minister’s own words, the coronavirus “has been an unprecedented challenge.” But it “has also been […]
Tags: Brian Slattery, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Charles Roach, D. Michael Jackson, Institute for the Study of the Crown in Canada, John Fraser, Michael Valpy, Philippe Lagassé, polls on monarchy in Canada early 2020, Serge Joyal, Sol Mamakwa Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Jan 18th, 2020 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
From a Canadian point of view, it probably does make some kind of sense that, as the Queen has recently informed us, Harry and Meghan will be going through “a period of transition in which” they “will spend time in Canada and the UK.” As suggested by Philippe Lagassé, described in the New York Times […]
Tags: Andrew Cohen, Angus Reid poll on monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Dart and Maru/Blue Voice Canada poll, Governor General of Canada, Harry and Meghan, Monarchy in Canada, Philippe Lagassé Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 31st, 2019 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
God only knows just what is going to happen to planet earth in the year 2020 that is about to begin. Here in Canada we are bound to be paying a lot of attention to the US presidential election on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. (Even if the companion Democratic presidential primaries do not seem as […]
Tags: Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Happy New Year 2020, Randall White Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 31st, 2019 |
By Randall White |
Category: Heritage Now
The middle of the summer of 1977 was not quite nine months after René Lévesque’s unsettling PQ victory in the November 1976 Quebec provincial election. And it was at this point that the Anglo-American economist and philosopher Kenneth Boulding told the 44th annual Couchiching Conference in Ontario : Canada is an “absurd country straight out […]
Tags: Aboriginal rights Canada, Brian Mulroney, Canada-US free trade, Canadian economy, Canadian republic, Charlottetown Accord, Citizenship Act 1977, Constitution Act 1982, diversity in Canada, Ed Broadbent, Eugene Forsey and monarchy, Gang of Eight, Jim Coutts, Joe Clark, John Diefenbaker, Keith Davey, Kenneth Boulding, Meech Lake Accord, Metis peoples of Canada, NAFTA, patriation, Pierre Trudeau, René Lévesque, Supreme Court of Canada Posted in Heritage Now |
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Dec 21st, 2019 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
We’ve already noted our favourite counterweights articles for the first three months of this year (in “Six from the 6ix in early snow as 2019 winds down : Impeachment, Throne Speech, 1st Quarter, Birdhop at last”). We’re now ready to cover the final nine months. (And at the end of this we’ll also have a […]
Tags: 2019 in review, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Constitution Act 1982, Democracy in Canada Since 1497 Posted in In Brief |
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Jul 12th, 2019 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Canadian Republic
Last Friday — a week ago now — the Globe and Mail published an obituary for “Character actor Sean McCann” who died in Toronto “on June 13 of heart failure at the age of 83.” The Toronto Star and Toronto Sun had earlier published their own commemorations — “Canadian actor Sean McCann dies at 83” […]
Tags: Ashok Charles, Canadian republic, Citizens for a Canadian Republic, Republic Now, Sean McCann, Tom Freda Posted in Canadian Republic |
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