Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Catarina Saraiva and Jaewon Kang warn that the U.S. economy is a Jenga tower in which pieces needed to support the middle class…
Today’s News: Yes, there’s going to be a vote of non-confidence … against Poilievre
I loved this artwork from Dean Blundell. Ostensibly, the d'Entremont floor crossing was about Carney's budget, but in reality it will be Poilievre's leadership that is the most affected. That…
Settler colonialism: What’s in a name?
Red Lake Chief makes a speech to the governor of Red River at Fort Douglas in 1825. Fort Douglas was the first fort associated with the Hudson’s Bay Company near…
With sides ‘very far apart,’ AUPE health care workers vote 98% for strike if there’s no deal soon
Last week and over the weekend, Licensed Practical Nurses, Health Care Aides and many other health care workers represented by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees at public facilities throughout…
Is LNG dirtier than coal?
We all know, do we not, that natural gas is at least the short term... The post Is LNG dirtier than coal? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Slushy cat.
November 4, 2025 US Midterm Elections
Went to an election watch party, that turned into an academic forum with all the celebratory air sucked out of it, as the panel was stacked with pessimists who see…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The UN Environmental Programme's Emissions Gap Report examines the painfully slow progress toward reining in global warming even as the technology to eliminate emissions…
My Aching Joints
I have to admit I am feeling somewhat abused these days, and my psychic joints are paying the price. First it was 'elbows up', then it was 'elbows down", followed…
Escape from New York: what last night means
So much for the theory that Jews control democracy and elections, eh? The neo-Nazis I used to interview loved to go on and on about what they called “Zionist Occupation…
Poilievre Needs An Election
Canada does not need a second 2025 election, but Pierre Poilievre desperately needs his third kick at the can this year.
The campaign
Zohran Mamdani is pro-BDS, wants to “globalize the Intifada” and accuses Jews of mass murder: for him to win, he needed a well-funded, well-organized campaign that legitimized all that. Someone…
Busy Tuesday: Carney budget shows his low-key pizzazz; Democrat Mamdani shows his stuff in New York
I was searching around for some worthwhile comments on the Canadian budget to share tonight, and mostly I found shallow "takes" about d'Entremont crossing the floor and about how dull…
Sounds as if the UCP will soon pull the plug on its recall election, now that government MLAs are on the receiving end
It sure sounds as if Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party will soon rip a page from the Book of Depression era Social Credit premier William Aberhart and repeal the province’s…
The deficit is not an economic problem—it’s a political weapon
Photo courtesy the Bank of Canada/X Mark Carney’s long-anticipated investment-austerity budget has finally been tabled before Parliament and it’s set to raise the deficit to $78 billion. While t...
Not Just a Health Issue
Professor Lidia Morawska just won a quarter million dollar science prize for her work in proving that Covid is airborne, against the WHO's public announcement to the contrary back in…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Coletto discusses how Canadians from across the political spectrum want to see the Carney Libs prioritize housing construction and economic independence, rather…
Wherein Colin Wright Takes A Victory Lap
Over in The Wall Street Journal, author Colin Wright takes a victory lap declaring that transgender youth are in fact the result of "social contagion". As you might expect, he's…
BCL: Aspiring Novelist
Just a quick life update. As some of my readers may know, I have published short stories here and there over the decades, and have been trying to get a…