Here are the lists of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold by independent booksellers in Alberta during the week ended Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. The lists are compiled…
As I watched the election results, I gave up hope. Where were Canadian brains? Just months ago, Trudeau was on the BC border, assuring American politicans and people that Canada…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Karl Nerenberg notes that taxes on the wealthy represent an excellent starting point in ensuring that it’s possible to pass progressive policy in…
For years their images haunted us, Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, the two Michaels, trapped in Chinese prisons. Held hostage for more than 1,000 days by the Chinese government in…
Like kids in a class portrait at the end of the school year, these sunflowers stood tall a week ago when I walked by them, enjoying the amazing summer-like weather.…
This is Orca, the world’s largest carbon removal plant to date. It’s expected to draw 4,000 tons of airborne CO2 per year. It has two drawbacks. It’s expensive to build…
Given their passionate intensity, anti-vaxxers must be finding this week’s ruling by the Ontario Human Rights Commission deeply galling. The long and short of it: they are not so special.…
It took hold in the United States as the “Sovereign Citizen” or “Freeman on the Land” cult and now it’s spreading in Canada, making common cause with our anti-vaxx/anti-mask movement.…
The rumblings against Erin O’Toole began on the day after he failed to become prime minister. But, Chantal Hebert writes, the Conservatives should keep O’Toole as their leader: It is…
There were a few complaints the other day when I mentioned that the new democratic party had its hey-day back in the 1960s and 70s. What I did not explain…
Surely most Canadians rejoiced last night when they learned the Two Michaels were on their way home from their long imprisonment in China. It’s equally certain that some very well-placed…
First, The Michaels are coming home. With the timing of their release Beijing reveals what everyone knew: They had been political prisoners all along. https://t.co/N8FIUuD5Es — Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) September…
Japanese Breakfast – Be Sweet
To those idiots who suggested that Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig weren’t being held hostage to secure the release of Hwawai CFO Meng Wanzhou but maybe were real spies, there…
We can argue all we want over whether the election was necessary but what is definitely necessary is the government tackling the pressing issues of the day, issues that have…
Meng Wanzhou, who did wrong, goes free. The two Michaels, who didn’t, remain imprisoned. Welcome to justice in the Justin Trudeau era: the guilty win, and the innocent lose. It…
When I read “La Palma” the story got my attention. Some years ago there was a documentary about a mega-tsunami threat to the US eastern seaboard resulting from a huge…
This is an unedited automated transcription by https://otter.aiof my talk given at Nottingham Trent University (online via Teams) Trent Institute for Teaching and Learning (TILT). The full presentation page is…
It's hard to believe, but days after Justin Trudeau crushed the Cons and the NDP, some of those losers are still claiming that they didn't lose. They won. It was…
Guardian columnist, George Monbiot, sees the far left unwittingly making common cause with the far right across a broad range of issues from anti-vaxxing to a variety of conspiracy theories.…
