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“Toronto, I just want to say … this is the greatest city in the world” — the...
Jozy Altidore scores first Toronto FC goal as team brings home MLS Cup in 2-0 win over Seattle Sounders. Football means one thing in North America, and another in the rest of the world. (And even just...
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Hello Hippie Chick : at least you could just move to the Canada that will...
Ayanna Pressley, born 1974 in Cincinnati, Ohio, raised in Chicago, Illinois, and now the first black woman to represent Massachusetts in Congress. What to make of the latest political craziness in the...
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Look what’s happening to Pierre Berton’s Canadian National Dream in 2021
“Travelling Toronto’s laneways.” Photo by Michael Seward, April 2021. SPECIAL FROM RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, APRIL 25, 2021. Pierre Berton published his two-volume history of the building...
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“We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to...
“Mi-O-My-O” by Michael Seward, May 2021. NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK — RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. JUNE 7, 2021. The troubling big news in Canada right now appears in reports like : “How radar...
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Langevin, Macdonald, and Ryerson in the wake of the Kamloops graves : where...
NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK — RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO. JUNE 11, 2021. I think Stephen Maher’s June 7, 2021 Maclean’s article, “John A. Macdonald can wait … We are at the beginning, not the...
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You expect me to believe that (notes from northern North America as the...
“You Expect Me to Believe That?” by Michael Seward, June 2021. SPECIAL FROM DOMINIC BERRY, MAN ABOUT MAIN STREET, GRAND BEND, ON. JUNE 29, 2021. It’s been hot enough here lately. But not quite like :...
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Summer 2021 adventures of the Ontario flag reflect bigger issues .. how long...
“Time Zones” by Michael Seward, July 2021. COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, EAST TORONTO OFFICE. Back on Canada Day 2021 Mano Majumdar, a lecturer at Western University’s Ivey Business School, started a...
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First National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a time for Commemoration not...
“Looking for Clues #1, Sept. 22, 2021” by Michael Seward. SPECIAL FROM THE DEMOCRATIC DESKTOP OF CITIZEN X, BUCKHORN, ON. K0L 0C1. 30 SEP 21, 2021. I quote from a Government of Canada, Canadian...
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Pope’s visit should also remind us that Indigenous peoples “were fundamental...
“Interstellar Polemic” by prize-winning Toronto artist Michael Seward, July 2022. COUNTERWEIGHTS EDITORS, GANATSEKWYAGON, ON. JULY 28, 2022. Paul Elie, a senior fellow at Georgetown University with a...
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Manir Singh on “Time to Rethink the Idea of the ‘Indigenous’” (and how this...
Michael Seward, ‘Homage to First Nations. 2019. 16” x 20”.’ NORTH AMERICAN NOTEBOOK. RANDALL WHITE, FERNWOOD PARK, TORONTO, SUNDAY, MARCH 12, 2023. This weekend we’ve been hearing that several more...
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