The key to understanding the Alberta Legislature’s fall agenda is knowing that almost everything on the list trotted out yesterday by United Conservative Party House Leader Joseph Schow is there…
Blaming “false statements on social media” for the confusion, the Alberta Ministry of Primary and Preventative Health Services has amended its website vaccination pre-ordering page to say that Albertans will…
The sun is rising later and later, but when it does come up, there have been some beautiful mornings. Like this one, last Thursday in Mount Royal Cemetery. Makes you…
(An open letter to Hrvoje Moric, at Geopolitics & Empire) Excellent discussion, as always, Hrvoje. After four decades and over 100,000 hours of research, studies and writing on geopolitics, political…
Well, I am happy to say I was wrong. Despite more than seven million people (possibly as many as 8.2 million) participating in the USA’s No King’s protest, the events…
The United States has been around for 250 years. It has proven to be resilient,... The post Will a tragic coincidence end the American experiment? first appeared on Views from…
I have little love for the oil & gas industry in Alberta. Having grown up here, worked in and adjacent to the industry for years, I have become increasingly disillusioned,…
Health Canada published new Guidance for Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Professionals that acknowledge that Covid can be spread through airborne transmission. "Indoor air quality is considered an important environmental determinant…
More than 7 million Americans hit the streets to protest the authoritarian Trump regime in the USA, they rallied under the banner No Kings. Unsurprisingly, the protests were peaceful and…
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 20, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Parts of Ontario Superior Court to introduce new digital court system Tuesday Federal…
An 1891 editorial cartoon from New York’s Puck magazine shows a young Canada being pulled inexorably toward Uncle Sam by the joint forces of business and common interests. The caption…
Is Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government seriously proposing to make anyone who wants an influenza or COVID-19 vaccination next year order it during an unannounced 78-day window that is already…
“Well, here comes ol’ Charlie Brown … Good ol’ Charlie Brown, yes, sir! … Good ol’ Charlie Brown … How I hate him!” The greatest comic strip of all time…
While I often talk about critical thinking on this blog, I always say that I aspire to the ideal it represents. And there is one offence I regularly commit that…
On Thursday, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said that the “leadership of the RCMP is frankly just despicable when it comes to enforcing laws against the Liberal government.” Coming just weeks…
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…
