Stephen Azzi

CBC Gem crashes due to Canadians using it TORONTO – With record numbers of Canadians viewing the Winter Olympic Games on CBC Gem, the streaming platform experienced several outages due to what’s being called “an unprecedented number of people...

CBC Gem crashes due to Canadians using it

Congratulations, Roberta! I look forward to reading it.

The United States last pulled out of UNESCO in 1984 under Ronald Reagan. After 9/11, George W. Bush announced the US would rejoin the organization as "a symbol of our commitment to human dignity." That commitment no longer seems to matter, as the US withdraws again.

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This was a "Purolator Express Pack."

This is how Purolator ships a parcel from Gatineau, Quebec, across the river to Ottawa.

A white man with a high forehead wears a dark suit and tie.

A white man with a high forehead wearing a dark vest, jacket, and tie, sits at a desk. There are papers on the desk's surface and a bookshelf in the background.

#NewBio! A Nova Scotia native, Norman McLeod Rogers (1894–1940) overcame serious injuries suffered during #WWI to become an influential scholar, civil servant, and politician. Mackenzie King mused that Rogers might succeed him as prime minister. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/roger...

“This volume is the most comprehensive by far of the various works on prime ministerial leadership in Canada.” Herman Bakvis, University of Victoria

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@stephenazzi.bsky.social's latest article explores how #Canada’s 1968 was shaped less by domestic #revolt and more by its complex, ambivalent relationship with the U.S. Read: doi.org/10.1080/27708888.2025.2482146

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Opinion: Canada’s national archives need more than just a facelift Library and Archives Canada will soon have a shiny new home, but historians say what it really needs is better – and faster – access to the documents that make up this country’s history

Many dedicated people work hard at Library and Archives Canada, but the institution lacks the resources to fulfill its mandate. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Revised in light of the latest recount: The Liberals missed a majority by 153 votes (75 in Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore and 78 in Nunavut).

Update given the latest numbers: The Liberals needed an additional 357 votes for a majority (45 in Terrebonne, 78 in Nunavut, and 234 in Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore).

By my calculation, the Liberals missed their majority by 623 votes (233 in Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore, 77 in Nunavut, and 310 in Vancouver-Kingsway).

William Azzi’s booming voice and enormous personality dominated B.C. soccer William Antonio Corrado Azzi. Coach. Teacher. Father. Husband. Born Nov. 23, 1937, in Pievepelago, Modena, Italy; died Oct. 14, 2024, of natural causes, in Burnaby, B.C.

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"U.S. Couldn’t Care Less If Moves Lead to Canada’s Destruction" - Headline in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 12 October 1971.

Federal parties must resurrect their succession planning for prime ministers by Shaye Ganam Stephen Azzi is a professor of political management, history and political science at Carleton University and is co-authoring a book titled Statecraft: Canada Prime Ministers and their Cabinet

Here are more of my thoughts on succession planning in politics from Shaye Ganam's show on QR 770 Calgary and CHED 880 Edmonton. megaphone.link/CORU2540329810

Absolutely correct. My first draft talked of successors who led the party to a majority in the subsequent election, but somewhere along the line "majority" was changed to "victory."

Opinion: Federal parties must resurrect their succession planning for prime ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Lester Pearson both promoted talent within the Liberal Party, many of whom became ministers and party leaders

My thoughts on the lack of succession planning by Canadian political parties, in the Globe and Mail: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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