More rumours of wars this weekend, but I think everybody needs a Sunday Funday post now. First, yes -- I'm proud of Canada View on Threads Nothing beats the 🥅🏒⛸️🧊🧊🧊…
Notwithstanding Friday’s ruling by the Federal Court of Appeal that the Trudeau Government’s use of the Emergencies Act to end the convoy occupation of Ottawa in January and February 2022…
Calgary has been having water problems lately. In June 2024, the city’s largest water line,... The post Calgary’s water problem and the cost of sprawl first appeared on Views from…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- George Monbiot recognizes that all of the major problems now confronting us derive from the political class' willing subservience to the filthy rich. And…
The trade deal that Mark Carney just made with China has elicited a wide range of reactions. There are those who are exultant, such as Scott Moe for what it…
I grew up in the technological end of the black-and-white era. In the 1950s and early ’60s, our TV was black and white (technically called monochrome). So was everyone else’s,…
Might makes right, goes the clichĂ©, and the clichĂ© is certainly true, circa 2026. With a straight face, Prime Minister Mark Carney this week trumpeted his assorted trade deals with…
Canada update: Carney's trip to China was a resounding success (Doug Ford excepted). “We’re recalibrating Canada’s relationship with China — strategically, pragmatically, and decisively — to the benefit of the…
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Assorted content to end your week.- Matt Simon writes that Donald Trump's plans to kill off clean energy are futile in the face of its inexorable progress in price and…
…always feels pretty cool. Coming soon, around the world, from Random House.
I was recently a guest on the On the Way Home podcast. We discussed: the importance of researchers working collaboratively with practitioners; insufficient federal funding for homelessness across Canada; and…
Every year I send around to former students some highlights of this years work. This time I’m posting here! Hoping some of this work is of interest to all of…
I just had to share these words from Ruben Gallego, senator from Arizona - "He's an idiot": View on Threads Trump is mad at NATO because he didn't get that…
Frances Widdowson, a former Mount Royal University professor, left, and OneBC interim leader Dallas Brodie at an anti-reconciliation event in Kamloops, November 2025. Brodie has called reports of residential school…
More than anything, yesterday’s press conference about how the Alberta Government proposes to fix the horrific mess in this province’s hospital Emergency Rooms where patients can wait up to 72…
Wealth inequality is a lot like the climate crisis. Both are slow-moving train wrecks of immense proportions. Just as climate change is wreaking societal destruction around the globe, so is…
I've been gathering some of the comments and posts about Greenland defending itself from Trump's idiotic invasion plans. For some, it is just a distraction: And here we are: the…
Photo by Jamie Taylor/Unsplash This month, Alberta school boards began removing dozens of books from library shelves to comply with a provincial government order banning literary materials deeme...
