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Today’s News: Conservatives talking – Ford, Poilievre and Scheer. Plus Artemis II Briefing and good news about Ayla Lucas
Conservatives talkingA lot of the news I read today was just various Conservatives talking. So here they are: Doug FordThursday in the Toronto Star Premier Doug Ford is appealing for…
Notes on a World of Flux
So... Pierre Poilievre doesn't like fast trains that reduce greenhouse gas emissions over jet travel (and free up existing rail infrastructure for freight). And he's against taxing gasoline. And he…
Smith Attempting To Rule By Decree
Under Danielle Smith, Alberta is rapidly being transformed into a place where there are no guardrails on the exercise of power. In this sitting of the legislature, the government has…
Resilience in the Age of AI
This is the edited version of my contribution to Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the Age of AI: Experts Call for Radical Change Across Institutions, Social Structures - Imagining…
Today’s News: Do Trump and Miller and Poilievre ever get tired of losing? Plus, April Fools, Kit-Kat Kaper, The Launch! and Canada Good News
February 28: April 1: Will Trump ever get tired of losing? Sent this free piece out yesterday morning, but Trump's speech confirmed it. Trump is stuck in Iran. He would…
The goal of Bill 25 is entrenching the UCP’s ideology in classrooms, and suppressing everything else – it won’t work
You can tell from its title that Alberta’s Bill 25, an Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms and Amend the Education Act, isn’t an entirely serious piece of…
The NDP and the provincial/federal conundrum
The people have spoken. Last weekend, the members of the federal NDP elected Avi Lewis... The post The NDP and the provincial/federal conundrum first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
On the matter of an independent Alberta
I have avoided the issue of Alberta separatism so as not to inflame the delicate sensibilities of the Alberta independence crowd. But I feel the time has come to make…
I Didn’t See This Coming
Last night I had a brief conversation with my daughter. As a mother of two little ones, she is rightly concerned about the environmental future that awaits them. She expressed…
Don’t Write Off Avi Lewis Just Yet
On first glance, Avi Lewis is the quintessential champagne socialist; a refined, well-to-do idealist who oozes Toronto elite, off-putting to the average voter, completely foreign to the rural one.
Today’s News: The comedians will save us; Canada Good News; Epstein Scandal-Gate; Trans Day of Visibility
The comedians will save us all! Anyone else notice this? Mainstream journalists have forgotten their duty to speak truth to power. It is why it is one of the rights…
Tough love? Will federal New Democrats kick out the Alberta NDP?
United Conservative Party strategists are said to be in a panic about the possibility the federal New Democratic Party is pondering severing ties with the Alberta NDP. Astute observers of…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
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Will Ontario hospitals get a 4% funding increase?
Health sector expense for 2025/26 is projected to be $5.658 billion higher than as reported in the government's Third Quarter Finances. Up to the 3rd Quarter Finances there had been…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Kagan is the latest to notice that the U.S. is a rogue superpower whose capricious action under the Trump regime has undermined…
Now She Wants To Amend The Constitution
So, having had her public temper tantrum over appointing judges, Smith now wants to amend the Constitution so that the decision about who gets to sit as a judge is…
They Never Learn
Just looking at the world today, it is clear that Americans never learn their lesson when it comes to 'excursions' into other countries, all of which have proven disastrous for…
Today’s News: Comments about Avi, more Danielle Smith grievance theatre, some AI madness, and Brittlestar’s Sucker-Punch Spring
A random batch of news tonight: Comments about Avi Avi Lewis won the federal NDP leadership this weekend: You know, I grew up in a CCF family. So part of…
The NDP’s Avi Lewis Era, Day 1: Nobody does Red-baiting like Alberta does Red-baiting
The reaction to Avi Lewis’s victory as leader of the federal New Democratic Party was pretty much as predicted here Sunday night, with the pre-written responses by Alberta NDP Leader…