Posts Tagged ‘
Children of the Global Village ’
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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May 10th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Key Current Issues
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MAY 10, 2022. Just as the Ontario provincial election campaign finally starts showing some (half?) life (maybe?), we’ve at long last just received the last narrative chapter in Randall White’s work in progress, Children of the Global Village : Democracy in Canada Since 1497. It is called “‘An object lesson to […]
Tags: Calgary Stampede 2014, Canadian political history, Children of the Global Village, democracy in Canada, Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper, Long Journey to a Canadian Republic, Randall White, Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau Posted in Key Current Issues |
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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 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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Dec 27th, 2018 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Ottawa Scene
One counterweights item from the year now ending that has seen fresh visits in the most recent past is Randall White’s “Can Justin Trudeau be defeated in the next Canadian federal election?,” first posted back on May 8, 2018. In the new age of fixed-date elections (sort of) the campaign for the 43rd Canadian federal […]
Tags: Abacus Data, Anderson and Coletto, Canadian election 2019, Canadian flag 1965, Children of the Global Village, Eric Grenier, Lester Pearson, Mitchell Anderson, Parti Quebecois wins 1976 Quebec election, Pierre Trudeau Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Apr 17th, 2018 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
In some ways we cannot really say that almost all of us in the Toronto editorial office here will be headed for Trump’s America on April 18, 2018, for one of our regular conferences with our growing technical staff in northern California. California generally is not really in Trump’s America, of course, and northern California […]
Tags: California, Canadian history 1867-1963, Children of the Global Village, democracy in Canada, Dominion of Canada, Doug Ford, End Stage of Trump Presidency?, Jerry Brown and Kathleen Wynne, Ontario election 2018, Petaluma Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 8th, 2018 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
The other night on TV the eminent and excellent CBC News poll analyst Éric Grenier advised that, based on current polling data, the coming June 7 election in Canada’s most populous province is “Doug Ford’s to lose.” This has various people nervous, including us. However you look at it, the new provincial Progressive Conservative leader […]
Tags: Alexander Brady, Children of the Global Village, Democracy in the Dominions, Doug Ford, John Diefenbaker, Ontario election 2018 Posted in In Brief |
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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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Aug 12th, 2017 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. AUGUST 11, 2017. It is getting harder and harder for Canadians who watch US TV to know just what is going on in the American Republic led by President Donald Trump. Rex Tillerson advises against losing sleep, with what looks like a smile. This may be the right worldly wisdom. But it is […]
Tags: Brad Wall resignation, Children of the Global Village, Douglas Brinkley on Trump, Olbermann on Trump, Randall White, Saskatchewan Posted in In Brief |
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May 29th, 2017 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
What can anyone say about the Conservative Party of Canada leadership charade this past Saturday evening (May 27), at the Toronto Congress Centre? The first  paragraph of  John Ibbitson’s report is the best short summary we’ve seen : “Conservative voters concluded, by the narrowest of margins, that Andrew Scheer’s sensible conservatism was a safer choice […]
Tags: Alexandra Jones, Althia Raj, Andrew Scheer, Children of the Global Village, Conservative Party of Canada, Janyce McGregor, Jill Ryan, John Ibbitson, Maxime Bernier, Randall White Posted in In Brief |
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