RANDALL WHITE, TORONTO. FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2026. Here’s to a belated Happy Canada Day 2026 this past Wednesday, July 1 — the 159th anniversary of the Canadian confederation of 1867 (which gave the old Canada or New France, almost certainly named after an Iroquoian word more or less like Kanata, its most recent modern lease […]

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. FRIDAY, JUNE 26,026. One so far surviving feature of Democracy in America even under Donald Trump II is frequent elections. On the way to the big November 3 federal midterms, this past Tuesday, June 23 offered primary elections (within political parties) in four states : Maryland, South Carolina, Utah, […]

RANDALL WHITE, NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK, TORONTO. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026. Robert Reich, Democratic President Clinton’s secretary of labor, 1993–1997 and retired UC Berkeley professor, is far from the only eminent US commentator who has been raising deeply serious questions about President Trump’s mental health in the early spring of 2026. Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNOW, as […]

COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS. GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2025.Back some two and a half weeks ago Canadian labour economist Jim Stanford noted a rising trend that has only moderately abated since, at best. Stanford wrote : “The new McCarthyism is spreading into Canada. And it will have a group of very happy cheerleaders here. Worse than […]

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 […]

NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 2023. As I start writing it’s about 11:30 PM ET on June 8. I’m finishing, after a break for sleep, meals, and whatnot, about 11:30 PM ET, June 9. (Even if all this does not finally get posted till the early morning of Saturday, […]

My mind goes back and forth on the impeachment inquiry now launched at last by the Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives (through House Speaker Nancy Pelosi). Two recent opinion pieces within a few days of each other, by the Toronto Globe and Mail’s current man in Washington, DC, Lawrence Martin, almost summarize […]