Superpositioned Worlds
How Secular Urban Moderns Can Re-Enter the Pluriverse Through the Metaphors of ScienceFor decades, scholars of decoloniality and pluriversality have argued that the modern world is not the only world.…
Today’s News: The photos are the bonfire of the Vanity Fair articles. Plus short takes on Trump, Skate Canada, Poilievre, and hockey refs
Yesterday everyone was talking about the blockbuster Vanity Fair article - Part One and Part Two - mainly on Trump's Chief of Staff Susan Wiles.And here are gift links to…
Devin Dreeshen pushes ahead with pet plan to make Alberta highways more dangerous
In an “update on highway speed survey results” published on the Government’s official website Tuesday, Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen claims answers to a questionnaire that was online from Nov. 7…
Housing – a wealth extraction tool
With commodification of housing in Canada, homes are treated as investment assets, not just shelter. Investor-led speculation has led to soaring prices, rental increases, and rising homelessness. Housing has been…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jonathan Last discusses how many of the harms being inflicted by the Trump regime can never fully be repaired, while Anne Applebaum writes about…
Eventually, There Will Be Another Nuremberg
The United States is considering requiring the submission of five years of social media history in order to apply for an Electronic System for Travel Authorization form, a de facto…
Is Trump going to declare war on Venezuela?
I used to think that the Iraq War was the stupidest war in history. I was wrong. It will be the Venezuela War that Trump is going to declare on…
Guest Post by Lorne Fitch: The latest Grassy Mountain mine proposal is the same old promotional hype
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government persists with its wildly unpopular campaign to allow destructive open-pit coal mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Given the…
Lessons from Vienna: Rethinking Vancouver’s Housing Affordability
Professor Patrick Condon compares Vancouver's adverse housing policies to the highly successful public housing projects in Vienna.
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Perky cat.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Joyce Vance writes about the purge of any trace of decency in the U.S. right which has found its ultimate expressio in Donald…
Internet Search: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
In the beginning (yesterday) the Internet was an academic network and then the Free-nets (including the National Capital FreeNet of which I was an early member and information provider) were…
This Is What You’ve Become, America
Initially, I was only going to post the above without any further commentary, since Trump's vile, debased and inexcusable comments speak for themselves. However, I read a piece by Bruce…
Housing affordability
Patrick Condon is a Professor at the University of British Columbia. With UBC law student Thomas Kroeker, he authored The 50 Year Vancouver Experience on Housing Affordability with Adding Housing…
Today’s News: Poilievre loses the media and Trump loses his mind
Poilievre did a couple of big media interviews this weekend, displaying the incisive rhetoric, perceptive analysis and nuanced review of his own performance as leader that we've all come to…
With UCP separatists in the driver’s seat, Alberta’s likely to face the biggest disinformation campaign since Brexit
Jeffrey Rath, the caricature of an Alberta separatist who happens to be Alberta’s best-known separatist at the moment, isn’t right about much, but he was right when he got up…
Confronting Wealth Inequality: The Billionaire Class Explained
Billionaires control a massive and growing share of global wealth. The most affluent 1% of adults control roughly half the world’s assets, while the richest 0.001% have three times more…
Where did all the conservatives go?
Reading an article about immigration, a hot topic these days, in my latest copy of... The post Where did all the conservatives go? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
This is the moment – choose to oppose hate
That’s the moment. You wake up on Sunday morning, and pick up your phone, and there’s a photo of someone you know, covered in blood. His head, his face, his…
The world’s most dangerous man?
As I am about to enter my 9th decade on this troubled world I increasingly find it harder to put my thoughts in to words and thus rarely share them…