Counterweights

Counterweights is a political blogazine with a Canadian focus. Through no fault of our own, our editorial offices are in Toronto, Ontario. Technical support is in Mill Valley (and sometimes Jerry Browns beautiful downtown Oakland), California. We take an interest in our wider North American and global environments. And we identify with our local To... ronto and Ontario regional contexts at the other end of the scale. We see culture, economics, and history (and even murder and sports!) as crucial background. The name is taken from Pierre Trudeaus Foreword to his 1968 book, Federalism and the French Canadians: There is thus the danger that mass media constitute a vehicle for error The theory of checks and balances has always had my full support. It translates into practical terms the concept of equilibrium that is inseparable from freedom in the realm of ideas My political action, or my theory insomuch as I can be said to have one can be expressed very simply: create counterweights. The 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 (somewhat less frequently than in more youthful years?) until completion of the Randall White book project currently being provisionally published in the site section Long Journey to a Canadian Republic . At the speed Dr. Whites work in progress is currently unfolding, it will be well into Justin Trudeaus second Canadian federal government (201920??) before we altogether close up shop. Certainly we will still be here a few times a month by the US federal election of November 3, 2020 and almost certainly long enough beyond that.)Read More