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…
The United States is considering requiring the submission of five years of social media history in order to apply for an Electronic System for Travel Authorization form, a de facto…
I used to think that the Iraq War was the stupidest war in history. I was wrong. It will be the Venezuela War that Trump is going to declare on…
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party Government persists with its wildly unpopular campaign to allow destructive open-pit coal mining in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Given the…
Professor Patrick Condon compares Vancouver's adverse housing policies to the highly successful public housing projects in Vienna.
Perky cat.
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Joyce Vance writes about the purge of any trace of decency in the U.S. right which has found its ultimate expressio in Donald…
In the beginning (yesterday) the Internet was an academic network and then the Free-nets (including the National Capital FreeNet of which I was an early member and information provider) were…
Initially, I was only going to post the above without any further commentary, since Trump's vile, debased and inexcusable comments speak for themselves. However, I read a piece by Bruce…
Patrick Condon is a Professor at the University of British Columbia. With UBC law student Thomas Kroeker, he authored The 50 Year Vancouver Experience on Housing Affordability with Adding Housing…
Poilievre did a couple of big media interviews this weekend, displaying the incisive rhetoric, perceptive analysis and nuanced review of his own performance as leader that we've all come to…
Jeffrey Rath, the caricature of an Alberta separatist who happens to be Alberta’s best-known separatist at the moment, isn’t right about much, but he was right when he got up…
Billionaires control a massive and growing share of global wealth. The most affluent 1% of adults control roughly half the world’s assets, while the richest 0.001% have three times more…
Reading an article about immigration, a hot topic these days, in my latest copy of... The post Where did all the conservatives go? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
That’s the moment. You wake up on Sunday morning, and pick up your phone, and there’s a photo of someone you know, covered in blood. His head, his face, his…
As I am about to enter my 9th decade on this troubled world I increasingly find it harder to put my thoughts in to words and thus rarely share them…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Thomas Zimmer discusses how the Trump regime is attacking concept of treating people as equals, while Greg Sargent highlights Stephen Miller's role in trying…
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