Lawful Access and Online Safety
There are two separate but related pushes on from the federal government relating to the Internet that should be raising far more alarm than they are around lawful access and…
The Complexity of Letting Go
Finding peace with end of life decisions.My cat died of pancreatic adenocarcinoma a few weeks ago. In March she had an annual check up and was deemed to be in…
Sunday Funday: More cartoons, plus the Riders win & the Knicks win! Funny posts and neat posts, Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers
Starting with a few cartoons:Riders win! Knicks win! and New York went nuts! Look who threw out the first pitch at the SkyDome tonight: astronaut Jeremy Hansen. And he threw…
Four NDP MLAs, three of them cabinet veterans, announce plans to retire after next election
Four high-profile New Democrat MLAs, two from Edmonton and two from Calgary, will not seek re-election, the Opposition party in the Alberta Legislature said yesterday. Three of them – Calgary-Buffalo…
After boundaries
My last post on this site was about boundaries. About how the GDP-based growth model... The post After boundaries first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Stupidity worth more than C$100bn
Futurism describes itself as a leading source of cutting-edge science and technology news. That may not position the Florida-based journal as the most reliable place for financial and investment news,…
Podcast: Why Canada needs Alberta and Alberta needs Canada
Part 1 in a Daveberta Podcast series about Alberta, Canada, and the stories we do and don’t tell each other Longtime Daveberta Podcast contributor Adam Rozenhart joins Dave Cournoyer for…
Cartoons about this week’s news, plus It was the day that the name came down. And updates on the World Cup and Pride
That Gordie Howe Bridge Opening View on Threads Some good lines here from Mulcair: And on a side note, here is what Carney said about CUSMA on Thursday: Because Canada…
UCP’s ‘independent advisory panel’ on Alberta secession costs is likely to defend Canada on separatist terms
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…
Musical interlude
Frédéric Soulard & Piers Faccini - Disarray
Friday Afternoon Links
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…
UPDATED: An Exercise We Should Be Avoiding At All Costs
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…
Today’s news: CUSMA is On Tilt, Trump’s Nelson moments, About the World Cup, Canada Good News, and some interesting reads by Colin Gorrie, Mike Sowden, Howard Yu, and Culture Explorer
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…
Voters risk whiplash watching Danielle Smith switch sides back and forth in Alberta separation fight
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…
Using Dirt From Tunnels to Build New Stuff
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…
Today’s News: Keep on truckin’ and just maybe you can win! Plus, updates on Epstein-gate, CUSMA, and Pride
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…
Polls last week suggest ‘low and declining appetite for separation in Alberta’
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…
What the wounds are telling us
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…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
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.…