Today’s News: Some good commentaries, plus some World Cup stories
Some good commentaries today: In her substack, Joanne Pettis writes Maybe I’m the Fruitcake! Seeking Balance in a Siloed World So, I read a lot of articles and posts that…
Why not geothermal?
Los Angeles-based Critical Energy is developing modular power plants that can be mass-produced in factories, transported in sections by 18-wheelers, and installed in as little as two weeks to meet…
ICYMI
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy has continuously held elected offices since 1999. He was first voted into the Connecticut House of Representatives and then into the State Senate. Murphy entered the…
Not A Strategy
Depending upon who you read/listen to, Prime Minister Carney's sycophantic behaviour toward Don Trump is either odious but necessary in the lead up to CUSMA talks, or something that does…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates June 23, 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…
Parliament’s Off-beat Stories
Charlie Feldman has put out an unconventional book that every parliamentary nerd ought to read entitled Unparliamentary, relating many of the unusual facts and not quite procedural events over the…
Wednesday Wit: some funny posts and comments on the passing scene. Plus World Cup stories and Today’s Pride Update
Well, for one thing, I'm happy because its finally summer.And also I've been noticing my Sunday Funday posts often get more visitors than the more serious posts. So I think…
Chris Hedges: The joke is on us
“We are the Joke.” Illustration by Mr. Fish. The buffoons who orchestrate fascism, with its quack science, idiocy, penchant for violence and grotesque hypermasculinity, are ripe for ...
Smith-Farkas fracas: Calgary mayor spells out the B.S. in stinging riposte to Alberta premier’s pressure campaign
Many have tried to pierce Danielle Smith’s political armour but few have succeeded; Jeromy Farkas may have just put a dent in it Late Monday night, Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas…
Tears in Montreal – Original Song #whatevs
For Mohamed and Michel Tears in Montreal (on the eve of Saint-Jean) Tears in MontrealOn the eve of Saint-JeanMohamed Lamine Benredouane,A stand-up cop, answering the calL34, a pregnant wife and…
In Vienna Anyone Can Build a Park
To make Central Park in New York City they rated entire neighbourhoods and forcibly moved people, today in Vienna you don’t need to push anybody out of the way or…
Ex-POW Laurence McKeown on the Irish republican prisoner struggle after the 1981 hunger strike
Laurence McKeown—Irish Republican, former hunger-striker, writer—was on Montreal community radio station CKUT’s Prison Radio Show recently to discuss And Flowers Grew Up Through the Concrete, his second prison memoir. This…
Catching up with the news: Carney mostly getting it right, Poilievre’s "comment section with parliamentary letterhead", Trump’s pool, plus World Cup Stories
Fascinating Politico article by reporter Calder McHugh and Ottawa bureau chief Nick Taylor-Vaisey: Mark Carney Plays Hardball On the world stage, Canada's prime minister is a statesman. In Ottawa, he…
Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas wins Round One of bitter Twitter window-rattle battle
But Alberta Premier Danielle Smith sends letter telling Calgary City Council to roll over or the province will step in It’s not over, but Round One of last weekend’s intergovernmental…
A toxic cocktail of air pollutants
Having committed itself to promoting and subsidizing British Columbia’s fossil-fuel industry, David Eby’s government will not restrain a company planning to release substantially greater quantities of harmful air pollutants. Nitrogen…
Tax breaks for billionaires instead of public housing
The Tyee and Canada's National Observer consistently produce independent journalism worth our attention. While browsing recent stories at The Tyee, one stood out. It's an account of a billionaire family…
What political type are you?
We tend to like things simple. Right or Wrong. Black or white. Mother Nature tends... The post What political type are you? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Safety Razors and Shaving Again
It’s been a few years since I last posted about my excursions into shaving with a safety razor (double-edged blades). In my last post on the subject, dated almost exactly…
Let’s Talk about DIALOG
I’d say ‘conspiracy’ but here they all are, in plain sight, plotting ways in which they can take over the world. Some days, I feel like I’m in a really…