How not-for-profits make the housing crisis worse
McArthur Place in Edmonton, operated by a non-profit registered charity. Photo courtesy of the City of Edmonton. There is a blocky, 34-unit low-rise just east of the Bonnie Doon Bridge…
A room for the truth? The Nakba at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Installation view of Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present inside the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Photo by Annie Kierans/Canadian Museum for Human Rights It has been quite...
Forget fighting Trump’s tariffs, just be ‘too friendly, kind and helpful to resist,’ Danielle Smith advises
Now seen from coast to coast as the weakest link in the national response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ugly tariff war on Canada, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith took to…
They’d Never Give Us The Vote
When collaborators like Danielle Smith or Jamil Jivani undermine Canada’s existence in favour of the aggressor threatening to annex us, what are they actually expecting to happen?
Today’s News: Canada leaps over the boards
Tonight, I'm seeing Canadians across the country with their elbows up, their gloves off, and leaping over the boards. In The Globe and Mail, Andrew Coyne writes ...When your back…
It’s time to rename the Strait of Juan de Fuca ‘the Canadian Channel’
With a few exceptions, most Canadians seem to agree that while a tariff war with the United States is far from ideal, the only sensible way to respond to bad-faith…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Cat with company.
Will global warming impoverish Europe?
Global warming has its idiosyncrasies. For example, it could send Western Europe into an ice... The post Will global warming impoverish Europe? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Spirit of Montreal – Original Song #40
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QVcqARdFNT4&si=XrPUfj7cvm0lsFKhEvery day I pedal to the top of the mountainTo counter the weight of being pulled down and downAnd at the top Jacques Cartier left a reminderOf the sacred spot…
Pro-Robot Government Survey to be Graded by Robot
I sent the government an email, because their survey is skewed anyway. AIConsultations-ConsultationsIA@ised-isde.gc.ca Dear Government of Canada: The threat from Generative AI and LLMs (Large Language Models) that have violated…
UPDATED:And Now, For Something Completely Different
Well, actually it's not, but given the rising levels of absurdity currently circulating, I couldn't help but think of Monty Python. Here in Ontario we have Doug Ford (a faux…
Canada says No to Trump’s Naked Man Doctrine
What happened on Friday night demonstrates that Canada is saying "NO!" to Trump's Naked Man Doctrine. This doctrine is described by The Grim Historian Carlyn Beccia - I first talked…
Municipal politics and climate action
A friend of mine is deeply engaged with his local government. He is, by his own admission, a royal pain in the ass to people at city hall. His theory…
Remembering the radical promise of Canada’s New Left
Rochdale College governing council meeting, 1971. Photo by Alex MacDonald. The Long Sixties: Stories from the New Left Edited by Jim Harding Fernwood, 2026 “Bliss w...
Voters everywhere in North America turn against AI data centres with a vengeance
Now that voters everywhere in North America are turning against Artificial Intelligence data centres hard and fast, what’s Alberta’s United Conservative Party going to do? They’ve spent two years planning…
Our nations animals speak
Our nation’s symbols speak
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of August 24, 2026
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of August 24, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 24, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump’s push to toss out $5 million verdict in…
Of Trade Deals, Foreign Interference, and Conservative Leadership In Canada
We talk a lot about "foreign interference" in Canadian politics, but we don't very often talk about the single biggest source of interference in Canada's political discourse: the United States.…
Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61
This popped up in my feed today from an Aug 9 New York Times obituary, no doubt due to some smart algorithm searching. I hope