A Blender Can Improve Your Garden
A small vegetable garden is good for your health, your neighbourhood, your sense of self, and even your pocketbook. In many backyard gardens a simple composter is usually enough to…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of June 15, 2026
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of June 15, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 15, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter: Who is Louise Arbour? Meet Canada's next governor general CUSMA a blessing…
Underwater data centres
China is the first country in the world to operate an underwater data center. It is part of a strategy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and reduce the environmental…
Creating new markets for a fossil fuel
The Tyee is reporting on why the federal government wants to promote and subsidize a national network of data centres. Apparently the Liberals discount peer-reviewed science that says the global…
Saturday Photo: Help! I Need Somebody…
Those are gloves you see, seeming to come out of the pipes in this roadwork project. Makes me wonder if anybody is having trouble getting all the work done. Is…
Today’s corruption: “As a Ford government staffer, he helped get through permits for a controversial gold mine. Now he works for the company as a lobbyist”
Premier Drug Fraud and his buddies at workStories like this are now a dime a dozen. It's clear Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government is corrupt, with a revolving door of…
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…