August 2025
Poilievre is back, still awful
CPC leader Pierre Poilievre won his byelection so he's back, older but no wiser - determined to ignore Canada's pressing issues, like wildfires and economic growth, while obsessing about imaginary…
In one day, Danielle Smith’s UCP government flip-flops on unpopular COVID and expense claim policies – so what’s up?
Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government just flip-flopped on plans to make health care workers pay for COVID-19 vaccinations and to stop making cabinet ministers file expense claims. So what gives?…
Pierre channels Danielle
It’s a long way from Ottawa to Battle River-Crowfoot. Born and raised in Calgary, Conservative... The post Pierre channels Danielle first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Book Review: The McCartney Legacy, Volume 2
By Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair This is the second book of a series by Kozinn and Sinclair. I reviewed the first one here. Like the first one, it's a…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The Lever examines new research showing how private equity is systematically funnelling risk and underperformance to less wealthy investors. And Charlie Warzel discusses how…
A Small Victory In A Much Larger Battle
While many see the victory of CUPE and Air Canada flight attendants as a major achievement (and it is), perhaps it is better to see the win within the context…
A Small Victory In A Much Larger Battle
While many see the victory of CUPE and Air Canada flight attendants as a major achievement (and it is), perhaps it is better to see the win within the context…
Texas Is Why Parliamentary Privilege Exists
Dustin Burrows is a name that will one day have his own chapter in the Anthology of American Fascism.
Today’s News: updates on Trump’s Gestapo plans and Gavin Newsom’s trolling, plus Marc Elias writes about Hope
You know, if I lived in the United States now, I might think twice about blogging. I know my little blog would never be considered to be a marshalling point…
Summertime in the age of upheaval
Wildfires burn near Flin Flon, Manitoba in June 2025. Photo courtesy the Government of Manitoba. Summertime and the living is uneasy. Geopolitical and climate change dangers demand our attention...
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Angular cat.
Skeptic.com: The Contradiction at the Heart of Gender Debates
Over at Skeptic.com(*), we find an article titled "The Contradiction at the Heart of Gender Debates". This is one of those cases of the author writing something which is so…
Skeptic.com: The Contradiction at the Heart of Gender Debates
Over at Skeptic.com(*), we find an article titled "The Contradiction at the Heart of Gender Debates". This is one of those cases of the author writing something which is so…
My pragmatic OLP leadership take that will probably make everyone upset
I have been confirmed as a voting delegate from Ottawa Centre for the upcoming Ontario Liberal Party annual meeting in Toronto, and I will be voting against a leadership review.…
My pragmatic OLP leadership take that will probably make everyone upset
I have been confirmed as a voting delegate from Ottawa Centre for the upcoming Ontario Liberal Party annual meeting in Toronto, and I will be voting against a leadership review.…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tim Dickinson laments that so many corporations, universities and other entities with the resources to stand up to Donald Trump are instead choosing…
An empathetic drought
PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY – Barack Obama called it the “empathy deficit” – which the former U.S. President defined as “being able to stand in somebody else’s shoes and see the…
Bear with me
Our family has lived for decades at the edge of the forest in North Vancouver’s Seymour River valley. Bear encounters are not rare. We’ve had these animals in our yard…