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Governor General of Canada ’
Nov 12th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2023. When I first moved into the east Toronto waterfront neighbourhood where I still live — many, many years later — I went to the Remembrance Day commemoration (Veteran’s Day in the USA across the lake), at the cenotaph by the edge of a local park (or […]
Tags: Beaches Toronto, British monarchy in Canada, Governor General of Canada, Israel-Hamas conflict, Kew Gardens Toronto, King-Byng Affair, Remembrance Day 2023 Toronto, Royal Canadian Legion Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 15th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
UPDATE SEPTEMBER 19, 2023. 2:30 AM ET. RANDALL WHITE, TORONTO. Yesterday Canadian PM Justin Trudeau provided some deep background on his most recent disagreements with PM Narendra Modi in India. (Note my original post here for September 15, far below!) See, eg, John Paul Tasker at CBC on “Trudeau accuses India’s government of involvement in […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian republic, Governor General of Canada, India and Canada, Jagmeet Singh and India, Narendra Modi and Justin Trudeau Posted in In Brief |
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Jul 23rd, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SUNDAY JULY 23, 2023. There was a time in these parts when more than a few citizens of the modern Canadian democracy still looked up to the political culture of the United Kingdom. In my mind (in casual gear at any rate) all this is still vaguely reflected in the […]
Tags: Canadian political culture, Canadian politics, George Lichtheim, Governor General of Canada, John Rentoul, Keir Starmer, Liberal aristocratic values in Canada, Lord Elgin Hotel, Lord Monck in Canada, Tony Blair Posted in In Brief |
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May 28th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2023. For most Canadians the big political drama of May 29, 2023 will be the Alberta provincial election — a duel between two feisty middle-age women on the (almost socialist?) left and (more than almost extreme conservative?) right, which may or may not surprise […]
Tags: Alberta election 2023, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, constitutional monarchy, Eliza Reid, Governor General of Canada, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Mary Simon, Parliamentary democracy, president of Iceland Posted in In Brief |
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May 5th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: Heritage Now
This is the last or concluding draft chapter of Randall White’s political-history work in progress, Children of the Global Village : Democracy in Canada Since 1497. A final version will be published in hard copy by eastendbooks in the autumn of 2024. * * * * There is no doubt more than one story of […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Governor General of Canada, Senate reform in Canada Posted in Heritage Now |
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Mar 1st, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MARCH 1, 2023. This morning’s editorial meeting tabled a two-page pdf file headlined “London Declaration, United Kingdom, 1949.” The suggestion was that this is a document not much remembered in the 2020s. But it is nonetheless of serious interest in the current post-Elizabeth II debate on practical alternatives to the increasingly […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Commonwealth of Nations, Dominion (Union) of India, Governor General of Canada, Lester Pearson, London Declaration 1949, Louis St. Laurent, William Lyon Mackenzie King Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 26th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 26, 2022. Before rushing into the Top 4 counterweights stories in the third quarter of 2022, we just want to note an intriguing piece posted today on the Nunatsiaq News site, called “Reflection: Mary Simon tour a rewarding reporting experience … Jeff Pelletier looks back on covering Governor General’s Nunavik […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Governor General of Canada, Inuit hospitality, Jeff Pelletier, Kansas, Mary Simon, Pierre Poilievre, Pope and Indigenous Canadians Posted in In Brief |
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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 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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