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Senate reform in Canada ’
Jun 20th, 2021 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. JUNE 20, 2021. We (well most of us anyway) like Justin Trudeau’s current Liberal government of Canada more than some we know. It is not even close to half-perfect, but to us it’s still head and shoulders above any available alternative. One thing we do not at all admire from the […]
Tags: Alberta Senate elections, Australian Senate, Bundesrat in Germany, Don Braid on Senate reform, Equal provincial representation, Harold Innis on Senate reform, Jason Markusoff, Max Fawcett, Senate reform in Canada, Triple E Senate Posted in In Brief |
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Jun 16th, 2019 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
(1) Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s chief of staff, Dean French, is going ahead with “a defamation lawsuit over posts made on social media by Randy Hillier, the maverick MPP ejected from the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.” And “Maverick MPP Randy Hillier says lawsuit by top Doug Ford aide is meant to silence him.” All this […]
Tags: 2011 robocalls scandal in Canada, Boris Johnson and Bertie Wooster, Canadian citizenship oath, Canadian federal election 2019, Dean French and Randy Hillier, Frank Graves, Senate reform in Canada, Thom Barker Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 17th, 2018 |
By L. Frank Bunting |
Category: In Brief
On the third-last Monday of 2018, here are four short notes on the world as it looks up close in We the North of the North American Great Lakes : 1. Is Trump getting ready to jump (what would Machiavelli think?) This past Saturday morning Maggie at “Hear Me Roar” – who specializes in “The […]
Tags: Anglosphere, CANZUK, Conservatives and 2019 Canadian election, Donald Trump psychology, Fats Waller, Honeysuckle Rose, Maurice Waller, Senate reform in Canada, Srdjan Vucetic, Trudeau's Senate reform Posted in In Brief |
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Feb 13th, 2018 |
By Citizen X |
Category: Canadian Republic
As an altogether confirmed Canadian republican (not at all the same as an American Republican of course, especially today), I ordinarily do my best to ignore the British monarchy. But two contemporary media events have slightly increased my interest in the subject. The first is Harry Windsor’s forthcoming marriage to the mixed-race (and unquestionably hot) […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Bruce Demara, Canadian republic, David Schurmann, Governor General of Canada, King Charles III in Toronto, Senate reform in Canada, Wade Bogert-O’Brien Posted in Canadian Republic |
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Jan 21st, 2018 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
I. LIVING NEXT DOOR TO INCREASINGLY JUST PLAIN CRAZY ELEPHANT [UPDATED JAN 23]. Is anyone surprised that there is a US federal government “shutdown” on the anniversary of Donald Trump’s first year in office? If you actually are interested, try : “On Trump’s First Anniversary, a Government Shutdown” by John Cassidy in The New Yorker […]
Tags: Gordon Lightfoot, Jerry Brown's California republic, Kathleen Wynne, Ontario election 2018, Ottawa bubble, satisfaction with democracy, Senate reform in Canada, Trump 1st year anniversary, US government shutdown Jan 2018, Women's marches Jan 2018 Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 20th, 2017 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
This coming Saturday morning the entire staff here (except for Dominic Berry, who has a big date with his current squeeze at a local sporting event) will be boarding an airplane at YYZ, bound for our regular seminar with technical support staff currently residing in the land of the Golden State Warriors. (They are now, […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, California secession, French election 2017, Haluk Demirbag, Helen Charman, Joy-Ann Reid, legalizing marijuana in Canada, Mark Kingwell, Michael Anton, Nil Köksal, Paul Verhoeven's 'Elle, Scott Lucas, Senate reform in Canada, Turkey referendum 2017 Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 28th, 2016 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
The juxtaposition of the last days of the twisted 2016 US election campaign and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest round of “independent” appointments to the still seriously unreformed Senate of Canada casts some harsh light on what the new Liberal government in Ottawa is trying to do with this archaic Canadian institution – still too […]
Tags: David Christopherson, Huguette Labelle, Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments, Lottery selection for Canada Senate, Robert A. Dhal and lottery selection, Senate reform in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 26th, 2016 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
Those of us who regularly have breakfast while watching cp24 in Canada’s most disliked city region will already have seen the reassuring video of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, resigning today as Member of Parliament for Calgary Heritage. I never voted for Mr. Harper’s party, and I remain opposed to most of its declared  policies. […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Conservative Party of Canada, Senate reform in Canada, Stephen Harper assessment Posted in In Brief |
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Dec 10th, 2015 |
By Dominic Berry |
Category: In Brief
“The Shadow of Your Smile” was one of the last enduring popular songs in the tradition of the Great American Songbook – whose truest heyday was “from the 1920s to the 1950s.” With music by Johnny Mandel and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, it first appeared in 1965, as the Academy Award winning Best Original […]
Tags: Great American Song book, Happy holidays 2015, Michael Seward, Senate reform in Canada, The Shadow of Your Smile, William Lyon Mackenzie Posted in In Brief |
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Aug 17th, 2015 |
By Randall White |
Category: Ottawa Scene
[UPDATED AUG 18TH]. The second week in the long official campaign for the Canadian federal election of 2015 is over. And the congenital regional diversity of it all is what sticks in my mind right now. I’m watching from the old East Toronto, close to the most easterly of the Great Lakes. Reading “Liberal leader […]
Tags: Canadian election 2015, CBC Poll Tracker, Eric Grenier, Murray Mandryk, regionalism in Canada, Senate reform in Canada Posted in Ottawa Scene |
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