Governments Seizing Powers They Have No Right To
In Alberta recently the UCP government has written a number of laws which undermine the role of the courts as a check on power. There are several strategies that are…
The British Trump
LONDON – Is this Nigel Farage’s “grab ’em by the pussy” moment? For those who were asleep or in a coma in October 2016: one month before the U.S. presidential…
Violence In The Classroom
I am a long-retired high school teacher who saw his share of unpleasantness in the classroom, but the events currently transpiring across the country are nothing I ever had to…
A Thumbnail Roundup: America’s new National Security Strategy tells Europe and Asia to pound sand. But they still think they run the Western Hemisphere.
Tonight I saw great posts and commentaries on today's news. Warning: some of these are lengthy reads.America has released a new National Security Strategy (pdf link) - which is telling…
Musical interlude
Romy - Love Who You Love
Eavor is producing clean electricity
Western Canada’s foremost energy journalist has provided information about Eavor’s geothermal project in Bavaria. If the subject interests you, be sure to follow Markham Hislop at Energi Media. It is…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Stacie Goddard and Abraham Newman discuss the neo-royalism emerging as the Trump regime tries to turn the enrichment of a self-proclaimed god-king into a…
About Conspiracy Theories : "grime building up on the window until you can see only the outlines of shadowy figures"
I'm seeing posts recently about conspiracy theories, and related events -- mainly, how crazy they are and how they're going to get people killed! Then today I found a couple…
U.S. Congress shows some grit
As we watch American civilization crumble day by day, we cannot help but wonder what... The post U.S. Congress shows some grit first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
UCP trots out woke-gun-grab hysteria in hopes of keeping its MAGAfied far-right critics on a leash
WHITEHORSE, Yukon – After that putative pipeline deal with the feds riled up the substantial posse of Alberta separatists at the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting last weekend far…
Going underground
LONDON – This city’s subway system – the Underground or the Tube, they variously call it – is simply enormous. Millions of people use it every day. In all, it…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- David Oliver de Leth reports on the fossil fuel barons using their wealth and influence to trash the EU's human rights and environmental…
It’s tiny time
Two persons stand in a field with small homes and a bus stop.
How We Lost the Plot: What Happens When a Society Loses Its Shared Story — and Its Sense of the Real
We are living through a transformation so deep it cannot be captured by economics alone—one that is reshaping not just our livelihoods, but our very sense of what is real.For…
Today’s News: "this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans"
Of all the things Trump has destroyed that America used to be proud of - charity, fairness, openness, diplomacy, rule of law - it turns out to be the war…
Guilbeault s’en va-t-en guerre
One of the greatest and most realistic movies about Canadian politics is Guibord s’en va-t-en-guerre, a comedy about an indepedent rural Quebec MP who must cast the deciding vote in…
Today’s Commentary about Carney, about Ukraine, about Trump, about Venezuela, plus our "Mostly Harmless" B-Ark
I found some good commentaries to share tonight, plus a bit about the B-Ark.Commentary about Carney's progress: Wayne Horton has started a fascinating series called The Carney Letters - an…
European Multi Party PR & American Two Party FPTP Electoral Systems: Built on Coalitions
The European electoral system is based on Proportional Representation (PR) with multiple parties while the American electoral system is based on the First Past The Post (also known as Single…
More money for guns, for butter … not so much
Canada has been accused by its allies of being a slacker when it comes to... The post More money for guns, for butter … not so much first appeared on…