Civic Searchlight: A Tool to Fight Disinformation
Canada’s National Observer as seen that journalists are feeling the years of budgets cuts and the lack of institutional supports and decided to do something about it. The National Observer…
There Will Be Time
I've hit a weird anniversary that I'm not sure what to do with: thirty years in the same place. It seems significant because it's double any other place I've ever…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- A.R. Moxon writes about the need to restore the capacity for shame as a precondition to reversing the decline of the U.S. Noah Berlatsky…
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 3, 2025
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 3, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Leaked files reveal CRA refunded millions by mistake Province defunds Toronto’s last supervised…
Who will speak for Canada?
Who speaks for Canada? Ontario’s Doug Ford does. Manitoba’s Wab Kinew does. B.C.’s David Eby does. So do many of the other provincial Premiers. Prime Minister Mark Carney? Well, let’s…
The Regina Manifesto’s unfinished business: the case for public banking
Federal CCF Caucus, 1942. Left to right, Tommy Douglas, George Castleden, Angus MacInnis, Clarie Gillis, Joe Noseworthy, Sandy Nicholoson, and Percy Wright. Photo courtesy Library and Archives Canada. ...
A Small Man With Small Ideas
If you led a majority government and were riding high in the polls, what would you do with your power? Would you have a vision for a better future for…
Going Nuclear
With the United States government now shut down for a full month while Republicans take away food assistance and medicare from vast swaths of the American population, Donald Trump has…
Yes, there is crying in baseball! Some good posts about the Jays, and some Sunday Funday posts about Carney, Poilievre, Trump, Vance, Ozymandias, TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers
View on Threads Canada is sunk in gloom tonight - it was so close, and everyone wanted it so much. But the Blue Jays proved themselves to be Canada's team…
How a nationalization threat shook Canadian oil interests in Libya
Photo by Ben Sutherland/Flickr The following is an excerpt from Targeting Libya: How Canada went from building public works to bombing an oil-rich country and creating chaos for ...
Donald Trump’s regime change plan for Venezuela spells bad news for Alberta’s oilsands
Now that Premier Danielle Smith’s favourite foreign autocrat appears to be on the brink of transforming himself from a successful “peace candidate” into a war president, it would behoove folks…
An October to remember
This is an opinion column about baseball and politics, which are two very different things. For starters, baseball has one moral dimension. Politics, too often, has no morality at all.…
Much Ado About The Deep State, NOT
This post is written from a Canadian perspective. Deep state is a term used for (real or imagined) potential, unauthorized and often secret networks of power operating within a government…
On to Game 7 – "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" #WantItAll
Henry V - to the troops: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more .................show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth…
Musical interlude
Vok - Waterfall
Alberta teachers’ strike—it’s war!
On Tuesday the Alberta government introduced the Back to School Act to end a strike... The post Alberta teachers’ strike—it’s war! first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Reserve Powers, The Notwithstanding Clause, and Unjust Laws
Since the Smith-led UCP government in Alberta saw fit to invoke The Notwithstanding Clause (S33) of The Charter of Rights and Freedoms (The Charter) to order teachers back to work…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joseph Wright comment on the global tilt toward strongman government as the U.S. abandons any pretense of being a…