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Jan 14th, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, 14 JANUARY 2022. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested in the US mid term elections some 10 months down the road, on November 8, 2022. There will also be contests for Governor in […]
Tags: 2022 elections around the world, Australian election 2022, democracy in America, Democracy Outside the United States, India as world's largest democracy, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Narendra Modi, Ontario election 2022, president of India, Quebec election 2022 Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 7th, 2021 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK – RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. JUNE 7, 2021. The troubling big news in Canada right now appears in reports like : “How radar technology is used to discover unmarked graves at former residential schools” ; and “Papal apology for church’s role in residential schools may not be ‘way forward’: archbishop.” In […]
Tags: Brian Slattery, Canada Indigenous word, democracy in America, Ezra Klein, Fur Trade in Canada, Harold Innis, Indigenous residential schools in Canada, Jim Acosta, Kamloops residential school, Mass grave of 215 children in BC, Michael Flynn, Murray Sinclair, Phil Fontaine, Robert Frost, Ron Brownstein, Top 10 Blue States, Top 10 Red States, US Boarding Schools for Native Americans Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 2nd, 2020 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
FROM THE COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. WED 2 DEC 2020 : The main focus of our November 30 gathering was federal finance minister Chrystia Freeland’s economic and fiscal update for the Government of Canada – on cable news TV at or about 4 PM, direct from the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa. The Government […]
Tags: Abacus Data, Althia Raj, Chrystia Freeland, democracy in America, Don Martin, Eric Grenier, Fall Economic Statement 2020 in Canada, Fraud allegations in US elections, National Review on Trump Endgame, Research Co., spring 2021 election in Canada, US election 2020 Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 1st, 2020 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
FROM THE DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. NOVEMBER 1, 2020. One thing Canadians never quite understand about their friendly-giant neighbours in the USA is how they ever manage to remember even the bare political geography of their federal system. Memorizing the 10 provinces of Canada and their capital cities at school or otherwise takes […]
Tags: Canadian public finance fall 2020, Chrystia Freeland, democracy in America, Electoral College in US, Mar-a-Lago, Modern Monetary Theory, Obamacare, US election 2020 Posted in In Brief |
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Jan 7th, 2018 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA. JANUARY 7, 2018. 1:30 AM. Sometimes it is hard to resist the pure soap opera that American politics has become in the age of Donald Trump, even if you live far away in the northern woods. Two contributions to the latest bout of near-serious madness induced by the publication of Michael Wolff’s […]
Tags: Ana Marie Cox, democracy in America, Donald Trump as Valley Doll, dubious characters in Manhattan, James Warren, Keith Olbermann, Merella Fernandez, Michael Wolff and Victoria Floethe Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 31st, 2016 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
FBI Director James Comey’s last-minute intervention in the 2016 US election – regarding certain freshly discovered “emails of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were found on a device seized during an unrelated sexting investigation of Anthony Weiner” – has cast a dark Orwellian shadow over democracy in America in the early 21st century. According […]
Tags: Clinton emails, Comey intervention, democracy in America, US election 2016 Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 16th, 2016 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
I hope Dr. White is right about some new mood of bipartisan co-operation rising from the ashes, “even just vaguely,” in some reborn saga of democracy in America. And I pray David Brooks will finally prove right when he wrote last Tuesday that the day after Trump loses, “there won’t be solidarity and howls of […]
Tags: after Trump loses?, democracy in America, Nate Silver, US election 2016 Posted in In Brief |
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