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...
Braced cat.
The Americans are engaged in furious debate over yet another shooting. The debate is highly... The post They are debating this? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
America has elected a man who talks and behaves like a megalomaniac, and the rest of the planet is supposed to just trust that he won’t completely lose his grip…
I would like to think that Canadians far and wide harbour few illusions about the United States. Seeing them as a trusted ally harkens back to an earlier era, and…
When it comes to destructive American policies, the Federal Reserve is resisting — and Scotia Bank is openly collaborating.
Spectres of Fascism, Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives is a book edited Dr. Samir Gandesha, Director of the SFU'S Institute for the Humanities. It was published in 2020 but is…
Hey, I'm not talking about Saskatchewan - our weather this week is great right now. But starting this weekend, its going to be 15 to 20 below (C) in Minneapolis,…
Kennedy, who is a nephew of late US President John F Kennedy, openly opposes the use of vaccines and has also backed several conspiracy theories, including on so-called chemtrails allegedly…
In a back-handed admission that Alberta’s hospital Emergency Rooms are in a colossal mess, the CEO of one of the United Conservative Party Government’s confusing tangle of new medical bureaucracies…
Hello, dear reader(s). Are you ready for one last look back at 2025? I hope so, because that’s this blog’s topic, specifically a list of the best books I read…
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Thomas Seal and Derek DeCloet warn about the threat the U.S. poses to Canada - including the risk of becoming even more of…
On days like these, where there are so many things going on around the Internets, I want to highlight a few of the comments and commentaries that help us keep…
McGill University pro-Palestinian encampment. Photo by WikiFouf/Wikimedia Commons. Canadian universities are rapidly becoming sites of repression rather than debate. Across the country, students...
Ever since emergency medicine physicians in Edmonton called last Friday for Alberta to declare a state of emergency about the catastrophic condition of the city’s hospital Emergency Rooms, the only…
I came across this on Facebook, and the Australian who offered this hard-hitting post sets into stark relief what we are contending with today. It is also prescriptive for Americans,,…
The military don’t start wars. Politicians do. History is littered with proof of that. Old men, with political power, start a war, and young men with no power are sent…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Miguel Xavier discusses the need for social democrats to stop limiting their goals to preserving the status quo, and instead make the case for…
