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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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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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Jun 2nd, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, 2 JUNE 2022. [UPDATED 6 JUNE]. This is the first day of the official celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 70th or platinum anniversary of what no less than the Toronto Star has called “her journey as the longest-serving monarch in British and Canadian history.” (One might quibble about […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Globe and Mail, India, Ireland, Parliamentary democracy, Percy Robinson, Toronto Star Posted in In Brief |
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May 28th, 2022 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, ON THE EDGE OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD IN BUCKHORN, ON. K0L 0C1. 28 MAY 2022. There was a time when I thought of the Globe and Mail as Canada’s newspaper of record.. Then a retired engineer I knew who had worked on the Avro Arrow cancelled his […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canada's National Newspaper, Canadian republic, Democratic and Authoritarian state, diverse Canadian people, Franz Neumann, Globe and Mail, Prince Charles Posted in In Brief |
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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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Dec 18th, 2021 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS/SEASONS GREETINGS, TORONTO, DECEMBER 18, 2021. We’re back from the Northern California exurbs. (Possibly just in the nick of time?). And more on that later. For now we’ll just note that everything was excellent without exception. Meanwhile, in some strange brew of celebration and commemoration here are 21 counterweights blogazine articles from the year […]
Tags: 6 January 2021 in USA, Barbados becomes republic 2021, Canadian republic, future of monarchy in Canada, Rihanna of wider interest, year-end review of 2021 Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 26th, 2021 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, ON, 26 NOVEMBER 2021.This coming Tuesday, November 30 Dame Sandra Mason will be sworn in as the first President of the island nation of Barbados (“the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands,” current population c 288,000). With this act Barbados will officially change from a “Commonwealth Realm” […]
Tags: Barbados republic, Canadian republic, Charlie Parker's Barbados, Commonwealth Realm, Commonwealth republic, Dame Sandra Mason, Mia Mottley, Parliamentary democracy, President of Barbados, Rihanna Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 10th, 2021 |
By Ashok Charles |
Category: Canadian Republic
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 Canadian Republic |
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