The $64,000 Question, as they used to say, is whether urban voters in Alberta are growing disaffected with Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government because of Danielle Smith’s divisive separation referendum…
Local resident Ron Shulman has been writing about municipal issues in Collingwood and the Town of the Blue Mountains for the past several months. His Substack blog is called Two…
A vote for the Parti Quebecois is a vote for Donald Trump, yet Quebec is on track to embrace that outcome with enthusiasm in next week’s provincial election.
For some reason, I keep seeing alligator memes these days. Maybe we're all a little more nervous than we want to admit Interesting PostsWhat a road trip!— WholesomeMemes (@wholesomememe.bsky.social) September…
I fully recognize our grand good fortune in having Mark Carney as our PM, possibly... The post Youth take Carney to account on climate crisis first appeared on Views from…
September is the time of change, when the landscape can change overnight to be something quite different from what you'd been enjoying for weeks. These sumac leaves are a harbinger…
Sometimes when watching my daily half-hour allotment of American network news, I find my curiosity turning philosophical. One of the questions that recur repeatedly is why the American people chose…
Much of George Carlin’s work survives despite the passage of time.
Stepping back from the day-to-day ups and downs of our Trade War, I have found some comments about the longer term situation - what Canadians are thinking, how Americans are…
Climate change may not affect baby boomers like me, but it sure as hell will affect my grandchildren. The headline of this article is drawn from the World Health Organization,…
So not entirely management’s fault. Just one link in a chain of naive and manic decisions. Things are a bit broken still but now –
Local governments are climate change laggards. This needs to change, and voters should keep this in mind on October 17.
In what may prove to be one of the greatest misjudgments in the modern history of politics in British Columbia, David Eby chose to call a provincial election. The fact…
Lorne Gibson has served both as Alberta’s chief electoral officer and its election commissioner. The latter position was created by the NDP Government of premier Rachel Notley in the spring…
Hello fellow caregivers! This is a guest post about a FREE safety app that caregivers can use for senior friends or family members who live alone. I think it sounds…
There was an interesting discussion in the the Comments to yesterday's post about immigration and its importance to Canada. So I thought I would look around for some recent discussions…
While visiting Sudbury this summer I finally got a chance to check out my old childhood stomping grounds, along with my daughter and her dog.. This is where we played…
Say what you will about the big strategic brains behind Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government, at least they didn’t repeat their midsummer “energy rebate” bungle. Mind you, they’re bringing in…
Curtis Wilken: “what do you propose man. Freezing to death in the winter. Wind and solar wont cut it during the winter. Would you prefer people freeze to death?” No,…
Here is Canada, we have had enough situations over the years to know what can happen when privatization prevails. There was the tainted water Walkerton disaster. There were many deaths…
