What the heck got into Rick Wilson last week? Last Tuesday, Alberta’s minister of mental health and addiction, was responding to a question in the Legislature about an allegation of…
Lightheaded cat sees dots and circles.
A team of researchers have used the NYC traffic congestion charge as a place to test out some of their hypothesis. Spoiler: the city got better and air quality improved.…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 27, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:Trump Administration to Begin Refunding $166 Billion in Tariffs Manitoba municipality has no…
On April 21, “Hospital and Surgical Health Services Minister” Matt Jones got up on his hind legs in the Alberta Legislature and spoke the following words: “We’re looking at developing…
Matthew N Lyons For decades the Southern Poverty Law Center was a mixed bag. On the plus side, it produced valuable research reports about the far right and brought lawsuits…
It has been said that wounded bears can be particularly dangerous. They can lash out and put others in peril. Their rage often knows no bounds.Something similar unfolded in the…
A medical student in India needing to pay his tuition asked Google’s Gemini for help making additional money and turned the responses into a lucrative fake AI-generated MAGA influencer he…
We had quite a year this week. Sunny and warm, then windy, then a foot of snow! Anyway, it looks like its all over now - we might actually get…
On Friday, Globe and Mail journalist Carrie Tait and four of her colleagues received a National Newspaper Award for their work exposing dodgy health-care contracts tied to Alberta’s United Conservative…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Rita Bhowmick writes about the importance of care services both in keeping people healthy and ensuring equitable work opportunities. And Steven Lewis examines the…
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I have said for years the secret of Trump's appeal is that his followers worship him as The Golden Calf - because he has no philosophy of his own, he…
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This is not intended to be a comprehensive treatise on education but some thoughts on certain aspects of the education system. It is written within the context of the Ontario…
Government-run grocery stores have become an item among progressives lately. Inspired perhaps by the new... The post Public grocery stores—a good idea, or not? first appeared on Views from the…
I’m curious about the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and spirituality, and the more I read, the more closely they all appear to intertwine until they’re sometimes indistinguishable. Buddhism overlaps with…
The Dunning-Kruger effect is when incompetent people do not have enough knowledge to know that they are incompetent, nor do they recognize competency in others. They don’t know what they…
What we do know is that the United Conservative Party Government led by Premier Danielle Smith yesterday launched a propaganda blitz that will use all Albertans’ tax contributions to persuade…
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