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Pierre Poilievre ’
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 […]
Tags: Anthony Albanese, Australian election 2025, Australian Labor Party (ALP), Canadian politics, Jacinta Price, Liberal and National Party Coalition, Mark Carney, Peter Dutton, Pierre Poilievre, Reserve Bank of Australia Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 30th, 2025 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2025. The more or less final results of the 2025 Canadian federal election were still not fully known with certainty, even as we approached dinner on the day after election day. It has nonetheless been clear since late on election day (Monday, April 28) that Liberal leader […]
Tags: Australian election 2025, Burnaby Central, Canadian federal election 2025, Canadian politics, Carleton electoral district, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre, Stephen Harper, Yves-François Blanchet Posted in In Brief |
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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, […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Federal election in Canada 2025, Jagmeet Singh, Lawrence Martin, Mark Carney, Montreal, North West Company, Philippe J. Fournier, Pierre Poilievre, Yves-François Blanchet Posted in In Brief |
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Jan 13th, 2025 |
By Greg Barns |
Category: Countries of the World
GREG BARNS SC. HOBART, MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, PERTH, AUSTRALIA. MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 2025. Not for the first time the political landscapes in Australia and Canada are worthy of comparison. This year both nations are holding elections and the opposition parties, the Conservatives in Canada and the Liberals in Australia, are led by right wing populists. The […]
Tags: 2025 elections in Australia and Canada, Anthony Albanese, Australian politics, Canadian politics, David Smith, Ginny Roth, John Howard, Justin Trudeau, Lidija Ivanovski, Peter Dutton, Pierre Poilievre, right-wing populism in Australia and Canada Posted in Countries of the World |
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Oct 6th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK,TORONTO. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2024. It still seems hard to know just where Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet is going with the “Bloc’s demand to increase old age security (supported by the CPC and the NDP so far).” According to our local (Liberal) MP here it “is too expensive and poorly targeted.” […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Liberal Party future in Canada, Liberal-NDP co-operation in Canada, Liberal-NDP-Green co-operation in Canada, New Democrats future in Canada, one big progressive party in Canada?, Pierre Poilievre, Yves-François Blanchet Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 18th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK,TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2024. You can read about Ben Rhodes as one of three “young hotshots” appointed “as assistant deputies” at the Obama administration’s National Security Council (NSC), on page 218 of Barack Obama’s A Promised Land (2020). There are as well more than a dozen additional references to Mr. Rhodes’s […]
Tags: Ben Rhodes, Bloc Quebecois, Canadian fur trade, Canadian politics, early election in Canada?, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Montreal by-election 2024, Pierre Poilievre, Winnipeg by-election 2024, wrong side of history, “manufactured dtrama” in Ottawa Posted in In Brief |
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Sep 5th, 2024 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2024. The theoretical big news in Canadian politics right now is (to cite the CBC) :”The NDP is ending its governance agreement with the Liberals … Deal that ensured Liberal minority government’s survival was the first such agreement at the federal level.” CBC News (in the person of […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Liberal-NDP co-operation, Pierre Poilievre, Supply and Confidence Agreement, The Beaverton, Yves-François Blanchet 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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Apr 20th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024. Bill Maher’s latest misunderstanding of the Canadian real world (see eg “Canadians react as Bill Maher takes a swipe at Canada” on blogTO) reminded me that Mr Maher once admired Rob Ford’s ability to be both a frequent recreational drug user and Mayor of Toronto. […]
Tags: Bill Maher on Canada, blogTO, Canadian politics, Conservative Party of Canada, Doug Ford, extreme wokeness, Goldsmiths University of London, Irish Mae Silvestre, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Liberal Party of Canada, New Democrats in Canada, Pierre Poilievre, Rob Ford, William Davies Posted in In Brief |
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Mar 12th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2024. Individual polls vary on exact numbers. But by almost the middle of March 2024 all polls have been saying for some time that it is very hard to see how the Justin Trudeau Liberals could “win” a fourth Canadian federal election in a row, in […]
Tags: Canadian federal election 2011, Canadian federal election 2015, Canadian federal election 2024??, Canadian federal election 2025, Canadian politics, Jack Layton, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Liberal-NDP Supply and Confidence Agreement, Pierre Poilievre, Stephen Harper, Thomas Mulcair Posted in In Brief |
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