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Remembrance (aka Veterans) Day 2025, on 80th anniversary of end of Second World War, also means “vigilance in an increasingly dangerous and divided world”

Nov 11th, 2025 | By Randall White | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2025. We have had an early almost sudden and surprisingly serious snowstorm in these parts. It somehow seems to fit these several days in early-mid November. Through such events as Indigenous Veterans Day (November 8) and Remembrance Day (November 11), our official public life still tries to […]

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On first 8 months of Trump II presidency (and beyond) — “We’ve got a lot of stupid people in this country running things” (and it may be starting to show?)

Sep 28th, 2025 | By Randall White | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2025. When the now daily tragedy of contemporary American history next door just gets too much to digest I walk to the foot of my street and sit on a bench at the edge of the boardwalk. From the bench I am about 15 yards from the […]

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Ms Close says Canada has “stood up to you know who” .. Mr del Toro thinks “Canada is a bastion of hope in the world right now”

Sep 10th, 2025 | By Randall White | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2025. I’m personally embarrassed when local TV reports on the Toronto International Film Festival ask visiting foreign (albeit usually just US) celebrities : “What is your favourite thing about Canada?” (I should quickly note that the countervailing logic has been voiced by my wife : “I like […]

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The global village is cracking up (well part of it anyway) .. but in Canada we just Carney On as if we knew what we’re doing

Sep 1st, 2025 | By Randall White | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 (LABOUR DAY) 2025. Canadian pundit Andrew Coyne’s recent column in the Toronto Globe and Mail — “Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?” — has its alarming moments. The “defenders” of “democracy in America,” it urges, “are running out of […]

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Looking at USA’s genuinely crazy president from north of the lakes .. and hoping “hopeful signs from US public” finally thwart the “capitulation of elites”

Aug 10th, 2025 | By L. Frank Bunting | Category: In Brief

SPECIAL FROM L. FRANK BUNTING, GRAND BEND, ON. AUGUST 10, 2025. It is now more than a year since my last contribution to this august space — “Democracy in America holds Donald Trump to account at last in New York, New York (if not in more rural red states),” May 31st, 2024. As I contemplate […]

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12-Day War? A Trump gamble that might actually work .. even if not quite as he might think himself??

Jun 24th, 2025 | By Randall White | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2025. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s current trip to Europe — to sign a Canada-Europe security and defence pact in Brussels — may look somewhat provocative, in the immediate wake of Donald Trump’s sudden US strategic bombing of three nuclear energy sites in Iran. Yet the so-called […]

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Two days after the real 24th of May 2025 : three quick notes on the United States, Canada, and Alberta (and Quebec)

May 26th, 2025 | By Randall White | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. MONDAY, MAY 26, 2025. This is the last day of the Memorial Day long weekend in the USA. Our version of something similar in Canada was last weekend. (We like to keep things a little different in Canada.) It is now celebrated as Victoria Day — “a federal statutory […]

Tags: Alberta and Quebec separatism, Canadian politics, check on Donald Trump, Conscription in Canada, Marc Elias, Mark Carney, Memorial Day US, US Congress, Victoria Day Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King Posted in In Brief | No Comments »

Australian election 2025 has some striking similarities with Canadian election five days before (compliments of current strange politics in USA)

May 5th, 2025 | By Greg Barns | Category: In Brief

GREG BARNS SC. HOBART, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, PERTH, AUSTRALIA. MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025. Newly minted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberals have something in common with the winner of Australia’s national election on Saturday, Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party (ALP). Both brought their governments back from the brink of defeat partly because […]

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PM Carney just lost me : yes I think he’ll do great against Trump; but I don’t want to build a Canada that still has an offshore monarch as head of state

May 3rd, 2025 | By Randall White | Category: In Brief

RANDALL WHITE, “CANADA’S CAPITAL REGION FROM FOUR HOURS AND FORTY MINUTES WEST”. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025. I should make two (or maybe three) things clear up front. First, I am a (somewhat cranky?) 80- year-old man who was born in Canada. I have lived here all my life, with brief exceptions for travel abroad. I […]

Tags: Alexander Panetta, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Charles III, David Coletto, Governor General of Canada, Liberal Party of Canada, Mark Carney, New Democrats in Canada, Peter Donolo, Speech from the Throne in Canada 2025 Posted in In Brief | No Comments »

Is Canadian vote April 28, 2025 really “the most important election of our lives”?? (As Monday, Monday gets closer maybe it is??)

Apr 21st, 2025 | By Counterweights Editors | Category: In Brief

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. , MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2025. UPDATED. SATURDAY 26 APRIL/SUNDAY 27 APRIL 2025. SCROLL BELOW FOR UPDATE TEXT. The 2025 Canadian federal election, which may or may not be “the most important election of our lives, ” will take place exactly one week from today. It says a lot about how short, […]

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