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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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Jan 16th, 2024 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2024. The day before yesterday polling guru Philippe J. Fournier @338Canada urged that in the world of Canadian federal politics : “For those counting, this is the 6th consecutive month the Conservatives have been leading the Liberals by double-digits … That’s a stretch longer than Sheer’s lead […]
Tags: Canadian politics, Conservative lead in Canadian polling, Harold Innis, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Liberal-NDP Supply and Confidence Agreement, Opinion polls in Canada, Pierre Poilievre 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 21st, 2023 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO . SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2023. The October 18 Angus Reid polling report, “Majority — including two-in-five past Liberal voters — say Trudeau should step down,” underlines what now seems an unavoidable winter of discontent for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. From one deep-background angle, on the 338Canada list […]
Tags: 2025 Canadian election, British monarchy in Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian republic, conservative mood in Canada 2023, F*** Justin Trudeau, good-looking prime ministers, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre, Progressive leader Justin Trudeau Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 14th, 2023 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Ottawa Scene
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. APRIL 14, 2023. Wiser heads than ours have remarked that Canadian federal politics today reflects the consequences of “proportional representation” elections without actually having proportional representation. Stephen Harper’s new Conservative Party of Canada had one majority and two minority governments between 2006 and 2015. And now Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party of […]
Tags: 338Canada, Canadian election 2025, Eric Grenier, Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau, Justin Trudeau's future, Liberal-NDP co-operation in Canada, non-aggression pact between Liberals and NDP, Philippe J. Fournier, Pierre Poilievre, proportional representation in Canada Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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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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Dec 16th, 2022 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. DECEMBER 16, 2022. The main course here is just a list of what this morning’s cw editors meeting picked as the top four counterweights articles from the first quarter of 2022. As a preliminary soup course, however (so to speak), here are some very quik introductory notes on : (1) the […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, common people, Conservative Party of Canada, Democracy in 2022, Doug Ford, Freedom Convoy 2022 in Canada, G.D.H. Cole, India and China border clash, J.J. McCullough, Justin Trudeau, libertarian socialist, monarchy and elitism, people of Ontario, Pierre Poilievre, Raymond Postgate, South Tibet, Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin and Alina Kabaeva Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 22nd, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 2022. Like a few others (as best I can tell) I think I am finally ready to express my ultimate personal disappointment in PM Justin Trudeau. I say this while remembering that just over a year ago I wrote about “Why is so much […]
Tags: 338Canada, British monarchy in Canada, Chantal Hebert, Charlie Parker, Chrystia Freeland, Freddy Gardner, Jagmeet Singh, Justin Trudeau, Léger, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Pierre Poilievre, political polling in Canada fall 2022, Supply and Confidence Agreement, Washington Monthly, who will speak for Canada, Wilfrid Laurier Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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Jul 19th, 2022 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
ONTARIO TONITE. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, TUESDAY 19 JULY 2022. For the longest time I have done my best to ignore Pierre Poilievre (“he pronounces it ‘paul-ee-EV’”), current frontrunner in the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race (to be decided this coming Saturday, September 10 — now less than two months away). It was […]
Tags: .Stephen Harper, Anaida Galindo, bilingualism in Canada, Calgary, Conservative Party of Canada, Fair Elections Act Canada, Federal Accountability Act, John Geddes, Leadership race Conservatives, Ottawa, Pierre Poilievre, right-wing attack dog Posted in In Brief |
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