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Sep 3rd, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK,TORONTO. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2024. I first met David Alexandre Montgomery at a late 1960s gathering of young employees in what was then called the Department of Municipal Affairs, in the Ontario public service. He memorably (and with some humour) introduced himself to the group as “an existentialist.” I still do not […]
Tags: Champlain in Ontario, David Montgomery, Don Mills, geography, Kingmont Consulting, Kitchener, Linsmore Tavern, Oakville, Ontario geography, Ontario politics, Peter Carruthers, property tax assessment Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 21st, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, ONTARIO TONITE, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2024. The impressively independent Ottawa journalist Dale Smith has argued for “resisting the sense of fatalism that [Conservative leader Pierre] Poilievre has already won the next election when it’s a year away and there is plenty of time for progressive voters to fight.” In at least […]
Tags: 338Canada, Bonnie Crombie, Canadian politics, Dale Smith, Doug Ford, Justin Trudeau, Liberal-NDP Accord in Ontario, Liberal-NDP Supply and Confidence Agreement in Canada, Liberal-New Democrat co-operation, Ontario politics, Pierre Poilievre, UK election 2024 Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 18th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, ONTARIO TONITE, TORONTO . TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2024. The somewhat bizarre recent Ontario cabinet shuffle, “shortly after the Ontario Legislature ended for an extended summer break,” might be viewed as proof that Premier Doug Ford really is in some ways quite a lot like Donald Trump in the USA . Whatever else, the […]
Tags: Brian Mulroney., Cabinet government in Canada and Ontario, Donald Trump and Rob Ford, Doug Ford, Jean Chrétien, Justin Trudeau, Ontario politics, Size of cabinets in Westminster governments, Stephen Harper, Westminster parliamentary democracy Posted in In Brief |
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May 6th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024. Two Ontario by-elections this past Thursday, May 2, 2024 (“special elections” in US parlance) changed absolutely nothing in Ontario provincial politics. Yet various observers seem to suggest that these political housekeeping events in Canada’s most populous province may still harbour deeper meanings in […]
Tags: Bonnie Crombie, by-elections in Ontario 2024, Doug Ford, Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, Milton, Monte McNaughton, Ontario politics, record low voter turnout in Ontario 2022, Steve Pinsonneault, voter turnout in by-elections Posted in In Brief |
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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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