It wasn’t even the New Year yet when the first major Alberta political story of 2026 broke – the New Year’s Eve announcement by Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz that she’s…
Some funny posts about New Year's Eve: Welcome To New Year’s Eve— Brittlestar (@brittlestar.com) December 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM My error. I turned on the TV, and I thought…
Recent developments underscore that Canada’s contemporary white-nationalist ecosystem has moved beyond online radicalization and is now producing credible real-world risk, even when formal organizational membership is unclear. A public RCMP…
Dickens opening to his historical novel A Tale of Two Cities describing the jumbled era... The post 2025: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”…
Sadiq S. Adatia CFA, FSA, FCIA is a bright man. He is currently the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) for BMO Global Asset Management , and he’s responsible for overall investment…
The recent show Pluribus has got me thinking differently about the kind of ideal state that might be a laudable direction and how to get there. The show is overtly…
For 2025, I got some things right: Justin Trudeau would leave (Adrienne Batra and Brian Lilley still owe me lunch for that bet). The Liberals would have a leadership race…
As a wild 2025 comes to a crashing halt, what have we learned?
Happy New Year! Well, here we are, living through the final day of 2025, and most readers of this blog would agree that this has not been the most fabulous…
Hey gang, I threatened to post another 2025 round up if I found more posts... and here they are!For the life of me I can't comprehend the demand for so…
E-Comm releases its annual top ten list reminding the public to keep 9-1-1 lines free for emergencies only:
Watershed Watch Salmon Society is a small non-profit organization working hard to protect fish habitat in BC's rivers, lakes, wetlands, and the Pacific Ocean. This five-minute video explains their recent…
Aquatic cat.
Ken Boon, a respected citizen of northeastern BC, is a regular contributor to the newspaper based in Fort St. John. He is concerned about provincial political parties dictating local government…
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Yanis Varoufakis rightly argues that the EU (and the international community generally) should be treating the U.S.' draconian sanctions against ICC judges as…
I'm starting to see some of the "2025 in review" posts here and there, so I thought I would begin a round-up of the most interesting ones. If I find…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Seva Gunitsky discusses how the U.S. is committing hegemonic suicide. Simon Tisdall is about as optimistic as one can be about the Trump regime…
For at least the last seven years I have been using my own photographs for my Desktop PC wallpaper, although the photos may not have been taken during the year…
Rethinking the Self in an Age of Distributed IntelligenceMost people I speak with...
