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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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Dec 23rd, 2018 |
By Randall White |
Category: Heritage Now
Some would characterize the Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester “Mike” Pearson’s comparatively short prime ministerial career (1963–68) as the time when Canada’s long-incubating federal welfare state achieved its ultimate modern fruition. Others would allude to one of “the most influential commissions in Canadian history, the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963–69),” which “brought about […]
Tags: Canada-US Auto Pact, Canadian flag, Canadian republic, Economic development in Canada, FIRA, Front de libération du Québec (FLQ), Lester Pearson, Margaret Trudeau, Mitchell Sharp, official bilingualism in Canada, Oil and gas industry in Canada, Petro Canada, Pierre Trudeau, Public health care in Canada, Quebec election 1976, Quiet revolution in Quebec, regionalism in Canada, Third Option in Canada, Tommy Douglas, Walter Gordon Posted in Heritage Now |
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Jul 1st, 2018 |
By Randall White |
Category: Key Current Issues
Meghan Markle and Harry Wales have now shown the world that the British monarchy does have some kind of modern future. (Though, somewhat intriguingly, what was once the website of “The British Monarchy” nowadays just calls itself “The home of the Royal Family.”) Meanwhile, back in the most northerly North American UN member state, Canada […]
Tags: Canada and United States, Canadian republic, Elect governor general Canada, Elected Irish president, Frederick Vaughan, Jonathan Manthorpe, Lieutenant governors in Canada, Paul Heinbecker on monarchy, president of Iceland, president of India Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Feb 13th, 2018 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Canadian Republic
As an altogether confirmed Canadian republican (not at all the same as an American Republican of course, especially today), I ordinarily do my best to ignore the British monarchy. But two contemporary media events have slightly increased my interest in the subject. The first is Harry Windsor’s forthcoming marriage to the mixed-race (and unquestionably hot) […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Bruce Demara, Canadian republic, David Schurmann, Governor General of Canada, King Charles III in Toronto, Senate reform in Canada, Wade Bogert-O’Brien Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Dec 4th, 2017 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Ottawa Scene
GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 4, 2017. [UPDATED DECEMBER 11]. Who can doubt that we are now living in challenging times — especially in those realms of fake and other news where “Canada’s top party school” also qualifies as one of the “10 Wildest Party Schools in North America”? (Even as “Sex assault allegations place NS university’s […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Bruce Hutchison, Canadian political history 1921-1948, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Incredible Canadian, St. Francis Xavier University, William Lyon Mackenzie King Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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May 17th, 2017 |
By Randall White |
Category: Canadian Republic
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017. Toronto, Ontario. This coming Monday we will celebrate locally what is known here in Ontario (and other Canadian provinces) as Victoria Day. (In Quebec the same holiday is now more sensibly called Journée nationale des patriotes.) The holiday is nowadays defined as “the last Monday preceding May 25.” And this entrenches […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Commonwealth realms, Monique Scotti, Opinion polls on monarchy in Canada, Victoria Day in Canada Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Feb 22nd, 2017 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA ETC, Mid-to-late February 2017. RE : Steinmeier in Germany, Rosenbaum on Trump, Carlos Fraenkel on a mosque in Quebec City, and a footnote on changing the name of the Langevin Block in Ottawa to the Pontiac (or Louis Riel) Block. I first started pondering this quartet of obscure but deep political thoughts […]
Tags: Canadian republic, Carlos Fraenkel, Chantal Hebert, Charles Taylor, Chief Pontiac, Governor General of Canada, Hector-Louis Langevin, Langevin Block, Louis Riel Block, President of Germany, Quebec mosque shooting, Robert-Falcon Ouellette, Ron Rosenbaum, Trump and Hitler Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 8th, 2016 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
The recent Radio Canada report “Noted nationalist and author Mel Hurtig dead at 84” has coincided with several bursts of fresh interest in old Justin Trudeau articles on this site. See, eg : * “The quiet evolution of ‘La femme de Justin Trudeau’ carries on” ( 5 Mar 2012) ; * “The unbearable lightness of […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Frederick Vaughan, Justin Trudeau government, Mel Hurtig death, Thomas Walkom on Mel Hurtig Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 30th, 2016 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Canadian Republic
TORONTO, CANADA. JUNE 30, 2016. Our local and regional stock markets are back, and it is starting to seem that the Brexit crisis in the United Kingdom is not going to precipitate a global depression after all. It does nonetheless remain something of a bigger-than-expected political (and no doubt economic) disturbance in the UK itself. […]
Tags: Brexit and Canada, British monarchy in Canada, Canada Day 2016, Canadian republic, Martin Regg Cohn and Canadexit, Stephen Marche on Canadian head of state Posted in Canadian Republic |
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May 10th, 2016 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
Late in the evening of this coming Wednesday, May 11, the entire office staff here will be boarding an airplane for our semi-regular European conference. We’ll be returning on Thursday, May 26, late in the afternoon. This time we’re in the north of what a UK series on TV Ontario many years ago called The […]
Tags: Canadian republic, No King Charles in Canada, Northern Europe 2016, Republic Now Posted in In Brief |
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