day 9: tulsa: a full day with woody and dylan
Both the Woody Guthrie Center and the Bob Dylan Center are closed Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesdays, which figured in to the complicated planning of this vacation. Now, with the trip…
May 2025
Things I learned today: the new language of the Internet, the tariff "deal" with the US/UK, and Prof Galloway on Trump’s corruption.
Meet Tralalero Tralala, the Italian Brain Rot AI meme. Did you know there is a whole new language around Artificial Intelligence and Internet memes now? One of the internet columns…
Albertan independence against Indigenous sovereignty: Elijah Harper, Danielle Smith, and Bill 54
Photo by Aaron Holmes/Flickr Following the election of Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney on April 28, the Legislative Assembly of Alberta proposed Bill 54, which would amend the Citizen Initiat...
Danielle Smith proposes a new theory of why Alberta needs a separation referendum
According to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who describes herself as a Canadian patriot, she’s only enabling a separation referendum out here in Wild Rose Country to keep a separatist party…
The use and abuse of Russia’s ‘Great Patriotic War’
Moscow Victory Day parade, 2020. Photo courtesy the Kremlin/Wikimedia Commons. On May 9, Russians will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, or as they…
Alberta opts for plutocratic elections
One of the first actions of the NDP when they were elected to govern Alberta... The post Alberta opts for plutocratic elections first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
If only they were funny
#Poilievre and #DougFord
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way and Daniel Ziblatt discuss how the Trump regime has used the power of an authoritarian state to impose costs…
Mark Carney is doing a good job.
CALGARY – Mark Carney is doing a pretty good job so far. Sorry, folks, but he is. Three reasons. One has to do with that meeting with Donald Trump. If…
Legal News Post of the Day: May 8, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Competition Bureau takes Canada's Wonderland to court over alleged 'deceptive marketing practices' #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/XKZm6JJYdo - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
They Just Don’t Get It
Maybe it's because they are the 'greatest' nation on earth, if not in the entire history of the world (he said sardonically). Perhaps they are eternal optimists, or, more possibly,…
Calgary-bound
For this. Try and attend, fellow Calgary supporters of Israel!
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Providing for Guardianship of your Children
You can leave instructions in your Will for who will have custody of your children after your death.These custody appointments are valid for 90 days. After that, a Court must…
Canada’s Alberta square-dance: "Promenade and don’t be slow, Where we’re going nobody knows"
Just a little square-dance patter for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who seems to be doing the Wexit do-se-do-- getting closer to it then backing around it, then sashaying closer again.…
The supply and demand myth of housing
Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki/Unsplash Housing costs are high because there are not enough homes. We must do everything in our power to add as many residences to the nation’s stockpile…
Nathan Cooper, the Alberta Legislature’s Speaker, set to move to Washington D.C. as provincial trade representative
FACT CHECK: Whatever Nathan Cooper will become if he moves to Washington D.C. in the near future, it won’t be a diplomat. Having been scooped by the CBC, Mr. Cooper,…
day 9: tulsa: in which the woody guthrie center moves me to tears
We spent all day in the Woody Guthrie Center and the Bob Dylan Center, and we are going back tomorrow. It was a profound and intense experience for me. I…
day 9: tulsa: in which the woody guthrie center moves me to tears
We spent all day in the Woody Guthrie Center and the Bob Dylan Center, and we are going back tomorrow. It was a profound and intense experience for me. I…
Looking ahead
#Fragiskatos #Lawton #Liberal #Conservative