The Ontario deficit is not really up $3 billion
Despite the headlines, the Ontario deficit is not truly up $3 billion over the Budget plan -- or at least not yet. What is true is that, despite slower growth…
2026
Carney’s Trick No Treat
Why does Carney’s government love coal so much? Aside from breaking its promise to end thermal coal exports (that doesn’t include coke for steel manufacturing), it’s also poised to allow…
Friedman’s warning
Thomas Friedman is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a weekly columnist for The New York Times.
"It just goes to show you, it’s always something — if it’s not one thing, it’s another."
(I made this cartoon using ChatGPT) I really have to feel for our Prime Minister Mark Carney these days. Canada had one hell of a summer didn't we, with a…
UCP plan to gerrymander Alberta ridings, now taking shape, likely to end up in court
Former Alberta Party leader Greg Clark is emerging as an effective opponent of the United Conservative Party’s plan to gerrymander Alberta electoral districts in a scheme to win the next…
Collective Learning
We don’t need to judge people to help them learn. True, we are vested almost to obsession in weighing, measuring and judging individual students. It’s hard to imagine an education…
A Flaming Socialist And Threat To The American ‘Dream’?
It often pains me to contemplate my fellow humans. That they can be so easily swayed by demagoguery that works against their own best interests speaks ill of our species.…
Today’s Good Cartoons, plus Signs of the Apocalypse, Trade War Update, and Hooray for the Brewers!
Signs of the Apocalypse - a regular round-up of the crazy stuff happening down south So Flávio Bolsonaro, the loser in the Brazil election fled to the United States, with…
Class struggle and the limits of parliamentary politics
Photo courtesy the City of Toronto. If you were to ask most people, including those with broadly left-wing views, what is the most effective way to influence how this society…
Prescence
Self-portrait today. Just tired. Some fooling about in ZenBrush and Waterlogue.
Medicare’s Enemies, Foreign and Domestic
In much of Canada, it is possible to circumvent our universal public healthcare system by “going private” for medical appointments, tests, or procedures, and every time any one of us…
In frenzied moment, Danielle Smith and UCP move to discipline party rebels and distract from party problems
This is a frenzied moment for Danielle Smith and her United Conservative cabinet and caucus as they attempt to pacify the party’s influential and unhappy separatist faction and distract from…
Setting the stage for growing resistance to Carney’s agenda
Thousands protest in downtown Toronto in opposition to the Canada Investment Summit organized by Prime Minister Mark Carney. Photo courtesy the Council of Canadians. This past September, Prime M...
Wednesday News: Stelco update, some thoughts about likeable politicians, and "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass!"
Stelco Update The news of the day was when Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves told CBC's David Cochrane that he had actually bought Hamilton's Stelco Steel two years ago to stop…
America’s most successful politician?
One might argue that the most successful American politician this century has been U.S. Supreme... The post America’s most successful politician? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Decorporatization
Decorporatization: its time has come for the people of the world being bullied by a handful of people who think they're in charge. The post Decorporatization first appeared on Excited…
Autopsy report following the death of David Eby’s political career
On the Facebook page BC Green Supporters, Peter Neuman wrote text that is repeated here after the separator. It is repeated with permission of Mr. Neuman.
Toronto study tour
I’ve just released a ‘save the date’ for a study tour of Toronto, scheduled for fall 2027. Its focus will be non-market housing and homelessness. More info is here: https://nickfalvo.ca/study-tours/toronto/
Stand with the Minnesota 15!
Thousands of people took a stand against ICE terror in Minnesota. Fifteen of them are now facing federal criminal charges. In the early months of 2026, thousands of people around…
A Shameful Election Result
According to the Town of Collingwood’s election results page, less than half of the electorate here could be bothered to vote this year. This municipal election offered ample opportunity for…