Hi all - I found some great posts this week to share.Short takes and funny postsWord of the year Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of…
“Conspiracy theories” are neither. They’re not “theories,” for starters. Almost always, they are fiction. There’s nothing theoretical about them. They are deliberate, calculated falsehoods designed to promote lies. They aren’t…
As I have been listening to the reporting about the deal between Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Carney, the Memorandum of Understanding, I wonder one thing: where is the…
I’ve waited a long time for this….
TrumpWatch is what I call the world's most desired event. And usually I include a TrumpWatch section in my weekly Sunday Funday posts. But this week, I've seen a positive…
We paid $2 million for this? The report of Danielle Smith’s Alberta Next Panel dropped Friday afternoon and, boy, is it ever a pitiful little squib! There’s no report, really,…
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Assorted content to end your week.- Jonathan Last discusses how the U.S. economy is coming apart under a regime which is attacking progress and security in any form. Matt Johnson…
Having made sure its secessionist wing’s Alberta separation referendum will have an easy time getting on a ballot, Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party cabinet has moved to ensure no…
The CBC At Issue panel This was the panel's "wrap up" discussion about 2025: TLDL: best stories of the last year (Trudeau, Carney, Trump, and Poilievre's election loss), most newsworthy…
What, the curious are asking, is Trump up to with Venezuela. He has positioned an... The post The Venezuela gambit first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Paul Krugman discusses Donald Trump's mission of making cruelty and bigotry into default positions in American culture. And Jamelle Bouie comments on the…
How Secular Urban Moderns Can Re-Enter the Pluriverse Through the Metaphors of ScienceFor decades, scholars of decoloniality and pluriversality have argued that the modern world is not the only world.…
Yesterday everyone was talking about the blockbuster Vanity Fair article - Part One and Part Two - mainly on Trump's Chief of Staff Susan Wiles.And here are gift links to…
Photo by Luis Rodrigues Andrade/Flickr I am writing these words from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, on December 12, 2025, one day after María Corina Machado, the newly appointed Nobel…
In an “update on highway speed survey results” published on the Government’s official website Tuesday, Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen claims answers to a questionnaire that was online from Nov. 7…
With commodification of housing in Canada, homes are treated as investment assets, not just shelter. Investor-led speculation has led to soaring prices, rental increases, and rising homelessness. Housing has been…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jonathan Last discusses how many of the harms being inflicted by the Trump regime can never fully be repaired, while Anne Applebaum writes about…
