The “independent advisory panel” named yesterday by Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government to look into the “potential economic impacts of secession” illustrates an observation the day before by a prominent…
Frédéric Soulard & Piers Faccini - Disarray
Assorted content to end your week.- Caitlin Johnstone writes about the reality that the whole of humanity is largely being used solely as a profit-generating machine for the benefit of…
While I am all for exercises that help keep us healthy, supple and mobile, as Canadians there is one that we should never undertake: bending over for bullies. The flexibility…
CUSMA is On TiltUS Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told a meeting in Toronto that Canada needs to kowtow to Trump, and here's Tod Maffin's riposte: youtube.com/shorts/zYk2F... What he said 👇🍁☮️🇨🇦💯— This…
Watching Danielle Smith switch back and forth from striving to get her party’s large contingent of separatists to settle down to trying to keep to severely normal Albertans who want…
Digging a subway means cutting through a lot of dirt, but what to do with it? This is the question that has troubled many construction sites throughout the years and…
In sports, today's message is "keep on truckin' and just maybe you will win!" First, a spectacular comeback win by The Knicks This is the only time ever in the…
A public opinion survey published last Friday by the Ipsos polling firm suggests that support for separation from Canada is both limited and decreasing in Alberta, a trend that I’m…
De Volkskrant (The People's Newspaper) is a Dutch morning daily, the third largest newspaper in The Netherlands. Its journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra won the 2026 European Press Prize…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Henry Miller calls out the Trump regime's sabotage against American science and research. Matthew Yglesias writes that the return of screwworm to the U.S.…
The problem with e-bikes is nobody knows what they are. When I first considered getting an e-bike I was looking for something that was foremost a bicycle and could be…
Premier Danielle Smith, leader of the Not Really United Conservative Party, has announced that a question (actually, two questions, but don’t ask) will be added to the already bloated referendum…
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…
Neither the CRTC’s decision to increase levies on on-line broadcasters in order to contribute additional funds to Canadian content, nor the government’s decision to force a review of that decision…
It just feels like 2026 will be The Summer Of Our Discontent.And I do hope the rest of Richard's complaint will not come true: ... I am determined to prove…
Years ago, veteran war correspondent Robert Fisk warned against equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. He argued that conflating opposition to Israeli government policies with hostility toward Jewish people served…
Gross Domestic Product (GDP): a monetary measure of the total market value of all of... The post Boundaries first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Matthew Dowd discusses how opposition to data centre construction is a rare issue where U.S. voters are almost entirely in agreement rather than…
