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Ontario politics ’
Dec 18th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2023. Without a shred of doubt the single biggest event of the new year just ahead for those of us living north of the Great Lakes (and the 49th Parallel and various points east and so on) will be the US federal elections on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Doug Ford, Ontario politics Posted in In Brief |
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Nov 8th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2023. Two stories in the news the day before yesterday seemed to summarize the current somewhat crazed state of Canadian politics — at a time when much worse is going on elsewhere in Marshall McLuhan’s global village. Sticking with the CBC News site (strictly for convenience), the […]
Tags: Canadian federal election 2025?, Canadian politics, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Ontario politics, Pierre Poilievre, Senate reform in Canada, Yves-François Blanchet Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 9th, 2023 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPECIAL FROM CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. 8/9 OCTOBER 2023 — CANADIAN THANKSGIVING. [UPDATED OCTOBER 10]. In my last appearance on this sideroad of the vast electronic highway in the 2020s I suggested : “As genuinely crazy as it may be, some sort of second American Civil War may also just be inevitable.” That was back […]
Tags: Angus Reid premier ratings, Bonnie Crombie, Canadian politics, Donald Trump in Canada, Doug Ford, Greenbelt in Ontario, Mike Schreiner, Ontario politics, Rob Ford, Wab Kinew Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 12th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE. FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 2023. I did not know Hugh Segal personally. I never met him face to face. The closest I came was when my real-world acquaintances among Ontario bureaucrats urged that some document under discussion betrayed the Hugh Segal touch. I have, on the other hand, read and even […]
Tags: Brian Mulroney, Canadian politics, Doug Ford, Greenbelt in Ontario, Hugh Segal, Hugh Segal's sad death, Ontario politics, Paul Martin, Senate reform in Canada, William Davis Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 26th, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2023, 2:00 AM EDT. UPDATED 10:30 PM EDT. The unusual Toronto mayoralty byelection is the big local political event today. It already seems almost clear enough, however, that left-wing progressive Olivia Chow will be the city’s next mayor. The biggest news will be if […]
Tags: Ana Bailao, Anne Applebaum i, Canadian politics, Doug Ford, Ford Nation, Mark Saunders, Mitzie Hunter, Olivia Chow, Ontario politics, Russian civil war?, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Toronto mayoralty byelection 2023, Vladimir Putin, Wagner group, Yevgeny Prigozhin Posted in In Brief |
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May 27th, 2021 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
MORE NOTES FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2021. In some ways the Doug Ford who spoke to the people of Ontario via TV on Thursday, May 20, 2021 was different from the Doug Ford who had addressed the same democratic audience on Friday, April 30. Back last month […]
Tags: Éric Grenier, Caroline Mulroney, Christine Elliott, Doug Ford, MacDonald Laurier Institute, Ontario election 2022, Ontario politics, PC dynasty in Ontario Posted in In Brief |
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May 2nd, 2021 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
SPRING NOTES FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. Some of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s continuing rural, small town, exurban, and other supporters may have found it reassuring that the location from which he gave his April 30, 2021 virtual news conference did not look at all like even the suburbs of today’s […]
Tags: COVID-19 in Ontario, Doug Ford, Ford Nation in Ontario, Jason Kenney, Justin Trudeau, Maurice Duplessis, Mitch Hepburn, Ontario and Quebec, Ontario politics, Vaccines against COVID in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 4th, 2016 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. The return to realism after Labour day is almost here. And it suddenly becomes clear that this past Thursday’s Scarborough-Rouge River byelection was a welcome splash of cold water for we rare but resolute fans of Ontario provincial politics. (See, eg : “Ontario Tories win hotly-contested Toronto-area byelection” by Allison Jones at The […]
Tags: Doug Ford's future in politics, Ontario election 2018, Ontario politics, Scarborough-Rouge River byelection 2016 Posted in In Brief |
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May 11th, 2015 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
I don’t believe in “types” of human beings. But if I did, the new Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown would remind me of a certain type of hard-working grass-roots activist, outside the established political party system. Yet it also seems that Mr. Brown has spent almost his entire life since the middle of high school […]
Tags: Ontario PC leadership race, Ontario politics, Patrick Brown, Progressive Conservatives, social conservatism in Canada, Visible minority social conservatives in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 31st, 2014 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
Time magazine named eight final candidates for its 2014 Person of the Year designation : acting Iraqi Kurdish Region president Masoud Barzani  ; first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO Tim Cook ; the Ebola caregivers ; the Ferguson protesters ; controversial National Football League commissioner Roger Goodell ; Chinese e-commerce giant founder Jack Ma ; […]
Tags: Barack Obama and Kathleen Wynne, Ontario person of the year 2014, Ontario politics, top US leader 2014 Posted in In Brief |
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