Electric vehicles
Additional facts regarding Mr. Farrell’s and Mr. McCutcheon’s posts on EVs. Where is the EV market booming? SE Asia expects to distribute 23 million units. The UK loves EVs. Europe…
July 2026
Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua: revolutions betrayed
Last week, Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s co-president (last year he promoted his wife, Rosario Murillo, to... The post Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua: revolutions betrayed first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Ditching Gas Stoves as Good as Using Drugs for Asthmatics
Having asthma is tough as you may too often feel short of breath, and the solution to many asthma symptoms are prescription drugs. The drugs generally help the body open…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of July 27, 2026
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 27, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 27, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:Voice Is Not Enough: Co-Creating the Future of Child-Inclusive Mediation Google Hit With…
Drawing the line on surveillance pricing
A Loblaws location in Toronto. Photo by Dillan Payne/Flickr. This spring, surveillance pricing for groceries hit a nerve for Canadians, sparking a flurry of headlines and policy action. In Marc...
Radio workers hope to resurrect stations axed by Big Media
Photo by Erik Drost/Flickr When it finally came time to push back against Big Media’s closures and layoffs in Canada, there’s no surprise that it wasn’t the government belatedly wielding…
Let’s go back to the future Danielle Smith promised us: ‘No one should ever have to pay out of pocket to see a family doctor’
“Hi, I’m Danielle Smith, and I believe no one should ever have to pay out of pocket to see a family doctor.” So said Alberta’s premier in a 30-second pre-election…
Promising, troubling, and terrifying
MIT Technology Review’s annual list of ten breakthrough technologies includes innovations that appear entirely beneficial, but others carry the potential for serious harm.
The Ancient One – AKA Kennewick Man
Knute “Mossback” Berger is a Seattle-based writer and commentator whose videos appear on Western Washington’s PBS station, KCTS-TV. His focus is the Pacific Northwest, and although some stories are rooted…
Electric Vehicles – Trends and Insights
Because Carney’s Liberal government is working to promote fossil-fuel production. Canadians should not expect it to encourage sales of affordable electric vehicles—or the transition away from gasoline. That is unfortunate.
How Another Film Triggered Fragile MAGA Men Into Manufactured Rage
Elon Musk, aka the MAGA SpaceNazi, was so triggered by Christopher Nolan’s recent film, The Odyssey (or more accurately the casting in it), that he huffily screamed on Xitter that…
An Undeniably Abusive Relationship
It should be clear to most Canadians by now that we are in a pernicious, abusive relationship with the United States. And as often occurs in such relationships, we go…
Suivez le français
Canadians might follow the French, if the country were not so dedicated to the burning of fossil fuels.
Wildfires, the Commonwealth Games, and this week’s Sunday Funday
Today's Wildfire Update Lots of posts tonight about the fires in Spain and France View on Threads View on Threads The Tour de France Stage 21 in Paris has been…
Will humans stay in control?
Technical capability is advancing faster than public understanding, democratic oversight, or agreement about who should bear the risks. The danger is not science itself. It is the willingness to deploy…
Saturday Photo: Falling Water
This is not the first time that I've posted this photo, but I like it a lot on summer days. The fountain is a nearby park, and seeing and hearing…
Today’s News about bridges and airports and Trump blathering again, plus updates on wildfires and on the Commonwealth Games
To finish off the week, here's a collection of posts about the news. I must admit, I'm tired, so very very tired, of writing about Trump and about Canada's problems…
Was the separation petition ‘too big to rig’? Elections Alberta thinks so – many Albertans will not be so sure
“Too big to rig,” proclaimed yesterday’s Canadian Press headline, carrying more than a little water for Jeffrey Rath, house legalist of the separatist Alberta Prosperity Project, who spoke the words.…
Are you kidding? This week’s news roundup of preposterous news – more tariffs, invading Iran, crashing the economy. Plus today’s wildfires update
More damned tariffs?So on Thursday this happened: Trump’s Tariff Pivot: ‘Forced Labor’ Duties Hit 60 Nations as Global Levy Expires The clock just ran out on Trump’s temporary 10% global…