Today’s News: Trump’s Greenland flapdoodle
I've been gathering some of the comments and posts about Greenland defending itself from Trump's idiotic invasion plans. For some, it is just a distraction: And here we are: the…
January 2026
The culture war comes for Alberta’s books
Photo by Jamie Taylor/Unsplash This month, Alberta school boards began removing dozens of books from library shelves to comply with a provincial government order banning literary materials deeme...
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Braced cat.
They are debating this?
The Americans are engaged in furious debate over yet another shooting. The debate is highly... The post They are debating this? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
It Bears Repeating ……
America has elected a man who talks and behaves like a megalomaniac, and the rest of the planet is supposed to just trust that he won’t completely lose his grip…
Opening Your Eyes Can Be Painful
I would like to think that Canadians far and wide harbour few illusions about the United States. Seeing them as a trusted ally harkens back to an earlier era, and…
A Tale Of Two Banks
When it comes to destructive American policies, the Federal Reserve is resisting — and Scotia Bank is openly collaborating.
Fascism
Spectres of Fascism, Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives is a book edited Dr. Samir Gandesha, Director of the SFU'S Institute for the Humanities. It was published in 2020 but is…
Today’s News: "And those winds sure can blow cold way out there"
Hey, I'm not talking about Saskatchewan - our weather this week is great right now. But starting this weekend, its going to be 15 to 20 below (C) in Minneapolis,…
USA’s mad Health Secretary
Kennedy, who is a nephew of late US President John F Kennedy, openly opposes the use of vaccines and has also backed several conspiracy theories, including on so-called chemtrails allegedly…
CEO of new medical bureaucracy promises ‘province-wide response’ to Alberta’s messed up ERs
In a back-handed admission that Alberta’s hospital Emergency Rooms are in a colossal mess, the CEO of one of the United Conservative Party Government’s confusing tangle of new medical bureaucracies…
Looking for something to read? I have some suggestions
Hello, dear reader(s). Are you ready for one last look back at 2025? I hope so, because that’s this blog’s topic, specifically a list of the best books I read…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Thomas Seal and Derek DeCloet warn about the threat the U.S. poses to Canada - including the risk of becoming even more of…
Today’s News: Comment Roundup on Minneapolis, disinformation, Alberta separatism, Canadian progress, Greenland, Venezuela, Mid-Terms and more
On days like these, where there are so many things going on around the Internets, I want to highlight a few of the comments and commentaries that help us keep…
A warning about civil liberties on Canadian university campuses
McGill University pro-Palestinian encampment. Photo by WikiFouf/Wikimedia Commons. Canadian universities are rapidly becoming sites of repression rather than debate. Across the country, students...
Alberta has four health ministers, and there’s not been a chirp from any of them about the mess in the province’s Emergency Rooms
Ever since emergency medicine physicians in Edmonton called last Friday for Alberta to declare a state of emergency about the catastrophic condition of the city’s hospital Emergency Rooms, the only…
Well-Said!
I came across this on Facebook, and the Australian who offered this hard-hitting post sets into stark relief what we are contending with today. It is also prescriptive for Americans,,…
Trump is insane, but the Greenland thing is really, really insane
The military don’t start wars. Politicians do. History is littered with proof of that. Old men, with political power, start a war, and young men with no power are sent…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Miguel Xavier discusses the need for social democrats to stop limiting their goals to preserving the status quo, and instead make the case for…
Can the USA be Saved?
The United States’ long experiment with democracy ended last year, just months shy of its 249th birthday since it declared independence from Britain. It quickly transformed itself into an authoritarian…