Stormy weather over Stornoway
I keep waiting for wiser heads to prevail - will the Conservative party realize that they don't need Canada's version of the Trumpy Man-Baby as their leader anymore?Listen to this…
Danielle Smith tries to turn up the heat on Ottawa while MAGA Canada suffers mass psychotic breakdown on X
Unsure whom to blame for Monday’s federal election loss by Pierre Poilievre and his Trumpified Conservative Party of Canada, the online Canadian MAGAsphere seemed headed for a full meltdown, klaxons…
The ‘strategic voting’ election and its undemocratic consequences
Photo by D’Arcy Norman/Wikimedia Commons There are so many headline takeaways from the 2025 federal election: the loss of what had appeared to be a sure-fire Conservative victory, ...
Small item, large consequence
Stewart Hicks is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He described how a simple connecting device for roof trusses helped revolutionize the home-building industry. It…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jonathan Last writes about the perfect storm in which economic, financial and constitutional crises - all originating from the deliberate choices of the…
What does Mark Carney’s win and Pierre Poilievre’s loss mean for Alberta?
Danielle Smith’s sovereignty agenda gives the Liberals a generational opportunity to reset with Albertans https://daveberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/podcast/Daveberta-ep-99-preview.mp3 New and recent episodes of the Daveberta Podcast are available exclusi...
day 2: st. louis: the surprisingly beautiful gateway arch, a fabulous history museum, and great mexican food
We're kind of doing this trip in reverse order of importance. The things we most want to see -- the impetus for the trip -- are coming last, a function…
Legal News Post of the Day: May 1, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Ford rants about 'bleeding-heart judges' who are 'overruling the government' #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/MORBOVNxyE - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net Vis...
When The Emperor Is Angered
The imperium formerly known as the United States of America does not take kindly to contradiction. Its emperor, Don Trump, displays this facet of authoritarian rule in the following interview,…
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Life Insurance and Your Estate
Ontario Wills and Estates #LawFact of the Day: Life Insurance and Your Estate #law #legal #EstatePlanningLife insurance policies that designate a beneficiary become that beneficiary's property on the day the…
Post-election News: voting maps, Carney wins, Wexit update, Poilievre sad. Plus, it’s always fun to ridicule Trump!
In Canadian events today, some interesting maps showing how Canadians voted -- much more clearly than just showing big empty blocks of red and blue: In response to the election…
Jagmeet Singh’s federal NDP has just suffered a catastrophe; let’s talk about Naheed Nenshi’s Alberta New Democrats
Happy May Day, the day of the worker just about everywhere in the world except North America. Once upon a time, Canadians used to think of the New Democratic Party…
Comments on the 45th
Canada’s 45th General Election is over and my reaction is mostly relief. A few short... The post Comments on the 45th first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Let’s not do that again
Let’s not do this again. Let’s not have another election in which many Canadians, I have no doubt, voted not for the party that best captured their aspirations for Canada…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Robert Reich argues that the overriding theme of the new Trump regime is ineptitude, with Paul Krugman's observation that he's staking the U.S. economy…
greetings from st. louis (day 1, part two)
The only slightly disconcerting issue of this trip was the border. I don't need to elaborate why. It is a very strange time to be traveling to this very strange…
Where there is smoke, there is fire
In Tel Aviv, the sky is full of smoke. Eyes burning, harder to breathe – because of wildfires raging between here and Jerusalem. Here’s a screenshot of the coverage of…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates April 15, 2025
NOTE: If you regularly send packets to Caleb Freestone, please stop as he hasbeen released to a halfway house. Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates.…
Wise Law’s Family #LawFact of the Day: Separating from your spouse in Ontario
Ontario Family Law recognizes separation of spouses who intend to live separate and apart even if they don't immediately live in separate residences.Many couples live separate and apart “under one…