June 2026
Today’s news: CUSMA is On Tilt, Trump’s Nelson moments, About the World Cup, Canada Good News, and some interesting reads by Colin Gorrie, Mike Sowden, Howard Yu, and Culture Explorer
CUSMA is On TiltUS Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told a meeting in Toronto that Canada needs to kowtow to Trump, and here's Tod Maffin's riposte: youtube.com/shorts/zYk2F... What he said 👇🍁☮️🇨🇦💯— This…
Voters risk whiplash watching Danielle Smith switch sides back and forth in Alberta separation fight
Watching Danielle Smith switch back and forth from striving to get her party’s large contingent of separatists to settle down to trying to keep to severely normal Albertans who want…
Strange Heads
I've been dealing with a head and neck cancer for a while and made some expressive drawings throughout this time.
Using Dirt From Tunnels to Build New Stuff
Digging a subway means cutting through a lot of dirt, but what to do with it? This is the question that has troubled many construction sites throughout the years and…
Today’s News: Keep on truckin’ and just maybe you can win! Plus, updates on Epstein-gate, CUSMA, and Pride
In sports, today's message is "keep on truckin' and just maybe you will win!" First, a spectacular comeback win by The Knicks This is the only time ever in the…
Polls last week suggest ‘low and declining appetite for separation in Alberta’
A public opinion survey published last Friday by the Ipsos polling firm suggests that support for separation from Canada is both limited and decreasing in Alberta, a trend that I’m…
What the wounds are telling us
De Volkskrant (The People's Newspaper) is a Dutch morning daily, the third largest newspaper in The Netherlands. Its journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra won the 2026 European Press Prize…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Henry Miller calls out the Trump regime's sabotage against American science and research. Matthew Yglesias writes that the return of screwworm to the U.S.…
The Problem With E-Bikes and Ontario’s Solution
The problem with e-bikes is nobody knows what they are. When I first considered getting an e-bike I was looking for something that was foremost a bicycle and could be…
More questions for the referendum
Premier Danielle Smith, leader of the Not Really United Conservative Party, has announced that a question (actually, two questions, but don’t ask) will be added to the already bloated referendum…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates June 9, 2026
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
News, CanCon, and Control Of Canada’s Internet
Neither the CRTC’s decision to increase levies on on-line broadcasters in order to contribute additional funds to Canadian content, nor the government’s decision to force a review of that decision…
Now is the Summer of our Discontent… Plus today’s updates on the World Cup and on Pride month
It just feels like 2026 will be The Summer Of Our Discontent.And I do hope the rest of Richard's complaint will not come true: ... I am determined to prove…
Making antisemitism respectable?
Years ago, veteran war correspondent Robert Fisk warned against equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism. He argued that conflating opposition to Israeli government policies with hostility toward Jewish people served…
Boundaries
Gross Domestic Product (GDP): a monetary measure of the total market value of all of... The post Boundaries first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Couched cat.
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Matthew Dowd discusses how opposition to data centre construction is a rare issue where U.S. voters are almost entirely in agreement rather than…
Ottawa Backed the War. Then Hedged. Then Went Quiet.
Canada's double standard on Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S. and Israeli military campaign against Iran, isn't a diplomatic nuance. It's a choice — and British Columbians are living with…