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Senate reform in Canada ’
Jun 1st, 2015 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
GANATSEKWYAGON, ONTARIO. MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2015. 1:20 AM ET. The trial of suspended Canadian Senator Mike Duffy resumes today in Ottawa, some four and a half months before the much anticipated Canadian federal election of 2015. Mr. Duffy faces 28 charges involving fraud and breach of trust in various claimed expenses as a Senator, and […]
Tags: Canadian federal election 2015, Chong reform bill, Duffy scandal, NDP and Senate, Senate issue and orange wave in Canada, Senate reform in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Apr 10th, 2015 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: Key Current Issues
The ongoing trial of suspended Canadian Senator Mike Duffy has reminded some of us that back in the late spring of 2013 Randall White posted a note on this site about Harold Innis’s “more or less random observations on the Senate, and the related issue of Canadian regionalism” Â – which, taken together, “add up to […]
Tags: Canadian republic, Children of the Global Village, Duffy trial and Senate reform, Harold Innis on Senate reform, Randall White, Senate reform in Canada Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Apr 26th, 2014 |
By Randall White |
Category: Key Current Issues
The April 25, 2014 Supreme Court of Canada response to the Harper government’s queries on Senate reform includes some poignant passages. This is one of them: “The Constitution Act, 1867 contemplates a specific structure for the federal Parliament, ‘similar in Principle to that of the United Kingdom’ … The Act creates both a lower elected […]
Tags: Constitutional debate in Canada, reform of House of Lords in UK, Senate reform in Canada, Supreme Court of Canada on Senate reform Posted in Key Current Issues |
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Apr 23rd, 2014 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
So much is going on north of the Great Lakes these days that it’s hard to focus on any one thing. So here are quick notes on five things animating the late-afternoon water-cooler debates among we counterweights editors on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 : (1) On Monday Susanna Kelley, empress of the excellent ontarionewswatch.com, posted […]
Tags: French-Canadian NHL referees, Keystone pipeline, MIddle classin Canada, Ontario election 2014, Ron MacLean, Senate reform in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Feb 12th, 2014 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
Late last spring Kathleen Wynne got into some trouble in some parts of her most populous province for such headlines as “Ontario’s Wynne wants to see Senate reformed” and/or “Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne wants to reform Senate, not abolish it.” At least on some accounts of the mind of Ontario, this does seem like what […]
Tags: Alanah Duffy, Bob Runciman, Brockville Recorder, Kathleen Wynne, rural Ontario, Senate reform in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Jan 31st, 2014 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
Justin “Trudeau’s Senate purge” – of all appointed Liberal senators from the Liberal parliamentary caucus – has been called “a tactical masterstroke,” a “bold move,” “a smart branding strategy,” and a “ push for a non-partisan Red Chamber.” My own assessment is that even the Globe and Mail editorial’s “One cheer for Mr. Trudeau’s Senate […]
Tags: Democratic reform in Canada, Justin Trudeau's Senate, Old Tory Senate in Canada, Senate reform in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 28th, 2013 |
By Randall White |
Category: In Brief
Who really knows just what the current chapter of the Senate expense scandal in Ottawa means right now? I would not in any way pretend that I do. At the same time, it is clear enough that the protests of Brazeau, Duffy, and Wallin in the Red Chamber over the past week of October 21—25 […]
Tags: Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, Patrick Brazeau, role of Governor General in Canada, Senate reform in Canada, Stephen Harper's PMO Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 25th, 2013 |
By Citizen X |
Category: In Brief
The news that “the Harper government’s most recent attempt at Senate reform has been declared unconstitutional” by the Quebec Court of Appeal ought to remind us that our Canadian history goes so much deeper than PM Harper’s beloved British monarchy. (Which is a good thing. According to a recent poll, “younger citizens – those aged […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canada and Vietnam War and Iraq, Canada-US relations, Eliot A. Cohen, Great Warpath, Lester Pearson and Lyndon Johnson, Max Boot on Canada, Senate reform in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 23rd, 2013 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
The “About” section at the top of the page explains that this site “was launched in the summer of 2004, in response to a dockside debate in the northern woods. The current counterweights editors are committed to carrying on for at least a full decade (until the summer of 2014, that is) – and possibly […]
Tags: Canadian federal election 2015, Mike Duffy's last stand, November 25 bylections in Canada, Old and New America, Senate of Canada scandal, Senate reform in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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Oct 16th, 2013 |
By Counterweights Editors |
Category: In Brief
What a week! As we write the proroguing Harper government is scheduled to present an allegedly six-point throne speech at 5 PM ET. And it finally seems that there is serious hope for an at least temporary deal to end the almost unbelievable dysfunctional deadlock in Washington. Meanwhile, others at street level are working to […]
Tags: British monarchy in Canada, Canadian Constitution, Canadian republic, Democratic reform in Canada, Republic Now/République du Canada, Senate reform in Canada Posted in In Brief |
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