If, as seems likely, Edmonton Riverside MP Matt Jeneroux’s announcement he’s departing federal politics next spring is a harbinger of a leadership crisis within in the Conservative Party of Canada,…
Matthew Good Band - Going All The Way
Assorted content to end your week.- Kaitlin Tosh and Michelle Inez Simon examine how Elon Musk's takeover of X has led to the systematic pushing of right-wing propaganda on users…
I'll bet Poilievre cannot believe how quickly he has fallen and he can't get up. View on Threads The CBC At Issue panel describes Poilievre's leadership as "toxic" and his…
Rising anti-immigrant sentiment is less about numbers and more about deflecting responsibility for inequality, writes Eric Wilkinson. Photo from Flickr. Anti-immigration sentiment has reached an...
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Catarina Saraiva and Jaewon Kang warn that the U.S. economy is a Jenga tower in which pieces needed to support the middle class…
I loved this artwork from Dean Blundell. Ostensibly, the d'Entremont floor crossing was about Carney's budget, but in reality it will be Poilievre's leadership that is the most affected. That…
Red Lake Chief makes a speech to the governor of Red River at Fort Douglas in 1825. Fort Douglas was the first fort associated with the Hudson’s Bay Company near…
Last week and over the weekend, Licensed Practical Nurses, Health Care Aides and many other health care workers represented by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees at public facilities throughout…
We all know, do we not, that natural gas is at least the short term... The post Is LNG dirtier than coal? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Slushy cat.
Went to an election watch party, that turned into an academic forum with all the celebratory air sucked out of it, as the panel was stacked with pessimists who see…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- The UN Environmental Programme's Emissions Gap Report examines the painfully slow progress toward reining in global warming even as the technology to eliminate emissions…
I have to admit I am feeling somewhat abused these days, and my psychic joints are paying the price. First it was 'elbows up', then it was 'elbows down", followed…
So much for the theory that Jews control democracy and elections, eh? The neo-Nazis I used to interview loved to go on and on about what they called “Zionist Occupation…
Canada does not need a second 2025 election, but Pierre Poilievre desperately needs his third kick at the can this year.
Zohran Mamdani is pro-BDS, wants to “globalize the Intifada” and accuses Jews of mass murder: for him to win, he needed a well-funded, well-organized campaign that legitimized all that. Someone…
I was searching around for some worthwhile comments on the Canadian budget to share tonight, and mostly I found shallow "takes" about d'Entremont crossing the floor and about how dull…
It sure sounds as if Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party will soon rip a page from the Book of Depression era Social Credit premier William Aberhart and repeal the province’s…
