The biggest losers
In Canadian politics, Pierre Poilievre should be – but actually isn’t – the biggest loser of the year. And, yes, 2025 saw the Conservative leader blow a massive lead in…
Risk Indicator Checklist: What Language Predicts What Action and When Concern Should Escalate
This checklist is designed to help readers understand how extremist violence rarely appears out of nowhere. Instead, it emerges through patterns of language that normalize grievance, erode democratic legitimacy, and…
Above and beyond the rule of law
Gordon Wilson should have been Premier of British Columbia. Instead, Vancouver power brokers of the 1990s wanted a more tractable person waiting to be Premier. Gordon Campbell replaced Wilson as…
Announcing that I am "Radical Left Scum" too
Not a lengthy post tonight, but I just have to join the thousands online who are announcing themselves as "Radical Left Scum" following Trump's crazy Christmas Eve rant: "Radical Left…
Forever Canadian
I have never been much for flag waving. Patriotism can be a constructive emotion when... The post Forever Canadian first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
‘Heated Rivalry’ is the oasis of tender, sensual masculinity we didn’t know we needed in 2025!
Like some, I had spotted in November the Heated Rivalry posters (pictured) on bus shelters sporting the shirtless hockey star characters in mid-embrace, foreshadowing the show's steamy gay sex scenes,…
Reverse Engineered De-escalation Leverage Points
The framework that follows is built on a simple but often misunderstood premise: most extremist movements are not disrupted by exposure alone. Public scrutiny can raise costs, but it can…
Thoughts on (Re)Reading Fowler’s
I had all but forgotten how delightful it can be reading Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage. It gives me the same sort of pleasure as reading at random through…
Navigating the Affordance Landscape
Creativity, Selfhood, and Agency in the Age of Extended AI.We are living through a period of change that is not merely technological but topologica...
Happy holidays to all
I hope 2026 will be a good and peaceful year for everyone. My contributions at IN-SIGHTS have become a little less frequent because of good and bad personal issues. I…
So, Queen Dani Doesn’t Like Courts?
In a year-end interview, Premier Smith of Alberta complained that "judges aren't accountable", and elected politicians are. Like everything else that comes out of today's conservative politicians, this is 1…
I bring you tidings of great joy! Our neighbour to the south is about to reach Peak Trump
Merry Christmas, Dear Readers! I bring you tidings of great joy! Our neighbour to the south is about to reach Peak Trump, if it hasn’t occurred already. It’s all downhill…
Christmas Funday: Some good cartoons, funny posts, and videos. And a little politics, of course
Just some good stuff to enjoy on Christmas day. This is wonderful: View on Threads 🔴 Merry Christmas, Prime Minister. 🎄 To you all, especially Nico. 🙂 - Fun TomRead…
Merry Christmas, Mark Carney
Figuring out the Canadian political winners of 2025 is pretty easy. Mark Carney, Ontario’s Doug Ford, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Tony Wakeham: they all won elections in 2025. But Carney, Ford…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates December 23, 2025
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Season’s Greetings!
Merry Christmas! — ¡Feliz Navidad! — Joyeux Noël! — Frohe Weihnachten! — Buon Natale! —... The post Season’s Greetings! first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Sujeet Indap and Akila Quinio report on the accumulation of consumer debt by private credit groups, making people's inability to meet their needs into…
The future casts a shadow on the present
Who better to represent Canada than Mark Wiseman former senior managing director and global head of active equities at BlackRock Inc. in New York. ...Almost anyone?