Love those Jays! So now the boys have to win on Sunday AND on Monday. Canada is cheering for them! At The Globe and Mail, Cathal Kelly writes about the…
Jack Flaherty, the congenial retired St. Albert schoolteacher, school superintendent, and senior civil servant recruited to run by the Alberta Liberals in 2004, scoring an upset victory at 71 years…
Source: Tony McQuail's campaign page The second NDP leadership candidate to get back to me is Tony McQuail. Tony is advocating for a merger between the NDP and the Green…
Calgarians and Edmontonians have had enough. Growth, that is. Recent surveys indicate a majority of... The post Why is there never enough? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
“Know the star you are. And see yourself as part of a galaxy.” So sayeth the Mother of All Influencers, the Hashtag Highness, the Rich Stick Insect, Paris Hilton. Paris…
It seems pretty clear now that Poilievre is so worried about the leadership vote in January that he's lost his marbles. View on Threads Poilievre's whole October 3 interview is…
Tame Impala - My Old Ways
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has declared herself, her political aides and her government vindicated by a former Manitoba judge’s limited investigation of contract jiggery-pokery at Alberta Health Services. In a…
Are the grackles gone? We’ve hardly seen any these last few days. Around this time of year, they head south. When they are here, they flock around our bird feeder…
Assorted content to end your week.- Ryan Cooper and David Dayen discuss how Donald Trump is managing to combine the worst abuses of every British monarch who helped contribute to…
I was going to save the Portland frog until my Saturday night post, but there's just too much of it, and its just too funny. It started with just a…
Jewish Labor Committee members in the 1940s. Photo courtesy the Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre, fonds 10, item 29. A new spectre has arisen on the pro-Israel Jewish...
I had a phone conversation the other day with a friend I rarely see. A Canadian by birth, Jon has worked for many years outside of the country, first in…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Katelyn Burns notes that U.S. Republicans have made clear that they're far more aligned with hard-right parties abroad than the balance of their…
So now Poilievre has jumped on the anti-DEI bandwagon - he is promoting a petition and he thinks he can make headway with Canadians by demonizing DEI. The other word…
Who knew the public would end up supporting 51,000 striking Alberta schoolteachers in spite of the United Conservative Party Government’s blithe gaslighting about the reasons for the labour dispute now…
You will die. It’ll happen to everyone, yet too often people don’t think about the practical aspects in advance. One often overlooked question is what to do with your body…
