RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2025. Bill Maher has been surprised that the crazy public Donald Trump we see on TV and so forth is not the real Donald Trump you meet when you have dinner with him at Mar-a-Lago. Unlike Mr. Maher I am a Canadian, born and raised. I have […]
RANDALL WHITE, CANADA’S CAPITAL FROM 4 ½ HOURS WEST. TOWN OF EAST TORONTO, ON. SUNDAY, MARCH 16, 2025. So in Ottawa this past Friday, March 14 Mark Carney was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Canada, along with the other 23 members of his new leaner federal cabinet, at the head of his […]
[UPDATED 4 PM]. The brief but fierce big rainy wind that toppled a huge old oak tree down by the lake is over, here in this big-urban Ontario NDP electoral district. But it also almost seemed like a meteorological comment on key current political events. The human dramas have calmed down now, along with the […]
Good news fellow Canadians. In last night’s Republican primary debate stateside Donald Trump was asked by a moderator from Spanish-language Telemundo : “You have said that you will not build a wall in Canada… Isn’t that like closing the front door, and leaving the back door open?” The aspiring world leader replied : “With Canada, […]
Steve Benen, who writes for Rachel Maddow’s blog, has finally clued us in on what it is about hotelier Donald Trump’s sudden surge to prominence in the US Republican primary pre-season that is seriously interesting. Benen’s August 24, 2015 piece on “Are the rules of politics being rewritten?” declares : “Political science, based largely on […]
