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Jan 19, 2025 | 
enterstageright.com | Mark Wegierski
"Third parties" in Canada – updated to 2025 (Part One)By Mark Wegierski web posted January 20, 2025"Third parties" are an endlessly fascinating topic of study for political theorists. The notion of "third party" arises in polities characterized by "first-past-the-post" voting systems, where there are usually only two major parties. Polities characterized by proportional representation (PR) voting systems, tend to have a multiplicity of parties.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
enterstageright.com | Mark Wegierski
In celebration of twenty-two years at Enter Stage Right -- Bionote of Mark Wegierski (Part Three) By Mark Wegierski web posted January 20, 2025 In 1990, Mark Wegierski took courses (two days each) in WordPerfect 5.0; dBase III+; and DOS/WP/Lotus/dBase Intro. On January 17, 1991, Mark Wegierski placed first out of 54 persons in a branch-wide Management Skills Exercise (Division Support Branch, Computer and Telecommunication Services Division, Ontario Ministry of Government Services).
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
enterstageright.com | Mark Wegierski
In celebration of twenty-two years at Enter Stage Right -- Bionote of Mark Wegierski (Part Two) By Mark Wegierski web posted January 13, 2025 In September 1979 - May 1980, Mark Wegierski was a member of the Rhapsody Polish Theatre Group (led by Jacek Medwecki) at the Polish Combatants' Association (SPK) Branch No. 20 (Polish Cultural Centre), 206 Beverley Street, Toronto.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
enterstageright.com | Mark Wegierski
A brief history of conservative publications in Canada – updated to 2025 (Part Two) By Mark Wegierski web posted January 13, 2025 The Conrad Black media revolution of the mid- to late-1990s, it could be argued, reconstructed the hitherto unspectacular Southam papers (and the former Financial Post) into a snazzier, as well as more intellectually diverse, format – with some surprisingly sharp-edged conservatism that had virtually never before been seen in Canada.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
enterstageright.com | Mark Wegierski
Looking at the structural problems of Canadian conservatism at the end of 2024 (Part Three) By Mark Wegierski web posted December 2, 2024 The impact of the so-called right-wing blogosphere is certainly far less in Canada than in the United States. The impact of various personal blogs (such as those of Kate McMillan, the late Kathy Shaidle, or Richard Klagsbrun) is difficult to accurately gauge. There are as well the party-based Blogging Tories.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
enterstageright.com | Mark Wegierski
Looking at the structural problems of Canadian conservatism at the end of 2024 (Part Two) By Mark Wegierski web posted November 25, 2024 The Toronto-based Mackenzie Institute (despite a far higher profile in the late-1980s) appeared to mostly have been (from the 1990s until early 2014) the personal enterprise of one indigent person. The full name of the Institute was rendered in earlier years as The Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism, Revolution, and Propaganda.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
enterstageright.com | Mark Wegierski
Looking at the structural problems of Canadian conservatism at the end of 2024 (Part One) By Mark Wegierski web posted November 18, 2024 It must be said that Canadian conservatism has not made too many extensive and discernible advances in Canada, despite the winning of a majority government in the federal Parliament, by the Harper-led Conservative Party, in the federal election of May 2, 2011. The Conservatives ended up routed in the federal election of October 19, 2015.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
enterstageright.com | Mark Wegierski
Looking back thirty years at a 1994 game and magazine about U.S. civil conflict (Part Two) By Mark Wegierski web posted November 11, 2024 Magazine: GameFix: The Forum of Ideas (Sacramento, California: Game Publications Group) no 2 (November 1994) G ame: Crisis 2000: Insurrection in the United States! (enclosed in GameFix) (The subtitle "The Forum of Ideas" was dropped in issue 8; the publication was renamed Competitive Edge starting with issue 10.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
enterstageright.com | Mark Wegierski
Looking back thirty years at a 1994 game and magazine about U.S. civil conflict (Part One) By Mark Wegierski web posted November 4, 2024 Magazine: GameFix: The Forum of Ideas (Sacramento, California: Game Publications Group) no 2 (November 1994) Game: Crisis 2000: Insurrection in the United States! (enclosed in GameFix) (The subtitle "The Forum of Ideas" was dropped in issue 8; the publication was renamed Competitive Edge starting with issue 10.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
enterstageright.com | Andrew Lawton |Mark Wegierski
Pierre Poilievre – A Political Life By Andrew Lawton Sutherland House, Toronto, 2024. HC, 232 pgs. C$35.95 ISBN: 1-9908-2380-7 A timely and fair biography of Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Opposition leader in Canada By Mark Wegierski web posted October 28, 2024Andrew Lawton is one of only a few highly successful right-leaning journalists in Canada, working mainly for the online outfit, True North.
