The new Guilded Age is here
Is Taylor Swift vulgar? I know I risk invoking the wrath of ‘Swifties’, as her legions of sycophantic fans are known. But yes, I find her vulgar. Not in regard…
Anti-Transgender Hate Arguments
So, the other day, I ran across a new anti-trans group here in Alberta (shocker, I know). This one calls itself "Women and Girls Alberta". As you might expect, they…
Feeling Overwhelmed? Hit the Floor
Simply lying down on the floor can help calm you down if you’re getting overwhelmed. It sounds too good to be true that simply lying down can work, but the…
Poilievre Invokes His Inner Hegseth
At last week’s Calgary Stampede, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre gave a nearly half-hour speech in which he made his case for why he should never be trusted with the keys…
Wednesday Wit: Clips and comments from our Bizarro World. Plus today’s World Cup stories
Anyone who read DC Comics in their youth will likely remember their "Bizarro World" issues.A useful concept, as it turns out -- too many people seem to be living in…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Wide-eyed cat.
American separatists
Canadians are by no means alone in having separatists among them. Many countries contain cohorts... The post American separatists first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Catching up with the news about Carney and bridges and reports and Ukraine and Trump. Plus World Cup Stories and other sports
Hey, lots of news since Saturday! Gordie Howe Bridge update CTV reports: Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending the deal brokered between Canada and the United States to open the…
Stay Young By Enjoying Art
Who doesn’t like art? If you find yourself answering “me” to that question then perhaps you should check out different galleries. Recent research has shown that people who regularly engage…
Pick one. Run.
A quadrant chart of ldnont’s election issues..
UPDATED: Walking On Tippy Toes
When I was in Grade One, I have a distinct memory of my teacher, a nun of considerable kindness and compassion (unlike many others of her ilk in the school),…
Obviously impressed by the nice reception the NDP gave him, Sen. Lindsay Graham said Donald Trump made him ‘want to move to Canada’
In 2015, the Wildrose Party was outraged the NDP didn’t meet the late U.S. Senator at the airport with a brass band and a bouquet of roses Lest we forget,…
Finding Covid
There's been quite a bit of Covid-related news lately. Here's a run-down. It's a lot on how we can't use standard methods for finding the markers of disease, but new…
Saturday Photo: Floral Fireworks
This is the month for shooting off fireworks, it seems. Canada Day, the Fouth of July, Bastille Day, and other holidays all seem to require pyrothenic displays. But it also…
Today’s tonic: “Lindsey knew better. He chose worse.”
The headline for this Steve Schmidt Substack piece sums it up perfectly: "Lindsey knew better. He chose worse." "Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country…
The Money Of Politics
In 2025, the Conservative Party of Canada spent $99 million, nearly twice as much as the Liberal Party’s $57 million in the same election year, and, despite their bluster about…
Sunday Funday: I’m Forswunk! So here are some good posts & funny posts, plus What an Asshole, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers, World Cup stories
Cartoon by Mick O'Hara Anyone else forswunk? It’s a gorgeous word from the 1300s, to which I have added my own riff with ‘foreswunk’: exhausted before you even begin. -…
Vacation home in south of France
Many years ago, our valued friends Jacquie and Lorne began searching for a vacation home. They explored possibilities in several parts of North America and Europe before deciding that the…
Something’s gravely wrong with how Elections Alberta torpedoed Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition
Combined with ongoing UCP electoral jiggery-pokery, this is turning into a genuine crisis of democratic legitimacy Public sentiment that something’s gravely wrong with the methodology used by Elections Alberta to…