Poilievre’s Vision: Oppose Everything. Always.
Pierre Poilievre’s latest nation-building idea is a doozie: cancel Alto, the high speed rail link under development for the Quebec City-Toronto corridor. It is not clear why the Conservatives are…
Sunday Funday: Happy Easter and other good stuff, plus posts about Getting Old(er), Artemis II Briefing, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers
In honour of Easter weekend, a bunch of "Last Supper" pictures. First, the original, by DaVinci:Next, the tributes:House MDMel Brooks:Lost season 6 cast:The Sopranos:MASH the movie:Dilbert universe:Family Guy:South Park:The Simpsons:The…
America’s greediest industrial workers wear suits and ties
In a June 2024 subcommittee hearing, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley questioned Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun on the company's safety failures and Calhoun's lack of accountability. The Missouri politician accused Boeing's…
Happy Easter eggs!
Doug Ford as Easter Bunny offers Easter eggs
UPDATED: How Stupid Is MAGA?
Anthony Scaramucci thinks even they have limits:While the above may give MAGATS pause, the following verified profanity-strewn post from the mad king will surely serve to stir their bloodlust:Recommend this…
Saturday Photo: The Easter Bunny Gets Around.
Been travelling these last two weeks. The trip was part book promotion for Before We Forget: How Remembering Will Get Us Through the Next 75 Years, and part visit with…
Weekly Wrap-up: On Poilievre and his inept leadership, On NATO and Trump, plus some Canada Good News and Friday’s Artemis II Briefing
About Poilievre and his inept leadership Two months ago, people predicted that Poilievre would win his leadership vote but actually be weakened by his experience. Now, that is proving to…
Musical interlude
Kaskade - Imprint
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…