For the first time since Danielle Smith became premier of Alberta in the fall of 2022, a rift in United Conservative Party cabinet ranks appeared in public view yesterday over…
Just a post to highlight some of our most impressive Canadians in these times. First, Elizabeth May is a national treasure: Elizabeth May: "This is what you get: free health…
Ilan Bluestone & Jerome Isma-Ae - Tension
Reading comments on social media and listening to statements by certain politicians, it is apparent that carbon taxes are often misunderstood. These impositions are designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions…
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Air Canada was ordered to pay a passenger $2,000 for delayed luggage. Instead, it's taking him to court #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/kxegRMy85r - Garry J. Wise, Toronto…
Assorted content to end your week.- Anne Applebaum discusses how the actual regime change under Donald Trump involves the replacement of any public service with a system devoted exclusively to…
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from May 17, 2010 via Wise Law Blog: Alberta Tribunal Addresses the "Great Prima Facie Debate" on Family Status Workplace Accommodation https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2010/05/alberta-tribunal-addresses-great-prima.html...
When a country is under attack, when the people want a leader to rally behind, the guy who sneers that the country is “broken” is not who you want leading…
The Cons are trying to re-litigate and downplay Mark Carney's role in protecting Canada from the world financial melt-down in 2008, and Scrimshaw is having none of it:Mark Carney was…
I noticed Moe removed the ridiculously stupid Sustainable SK link from his TwitterX bio in the past year. Now he’s saying that his futile and worthless trip to Washington to…
If Danielle Smith hopes to turn the page on the Dodgy Contracts Scandal that’s been dogging her since the former CEO of Alberta Health Services challenged the United Conservative Party…
Lord Peter Mandelson has not always been a fan of Donald Trump. The long-time member... The post The world regresses first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
If a Canadian were to put aside C$500 a week, it would take more than 38,331 years to accumulate a billion dollars, and more than 21 million years to accumulate…
And Kennedy is approved. I used to think that, when thousands of tiny crosses start appearing all over the US – children killed by measles and preventable diseases – Americans…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jared Yates Sexton discusses the Trump-Musk plot to replace any remnants of U.S. democracy with an oligarchy. Josh Marshall examines the mechanisms put…
A change of heart
In the United States today perhaps we are seeing the epitome of government by one person, at least in countries that claim to be democracies. Here in Canada ever since…
Amidst the talk of annexing Canada, the premiers marched to Washington to meet with White House officials. Afterwards,. James Blair, Trump's deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs, had this…
I paint when I’m anxious about the world. I paint a lot, lately. For obvious reasons, I want to fundraise again for Ukrainian Red Cross. Portion of proceeds goes to…
Life insurance policies that designate a beneficiary become that beneficiary's property on the day the insured dies. They don't become part of the insured’s Estate and they are not subjected…
