When Premier Danielle Smith revealed Wednesday during Question Period in the Alberta Legislature that she is seeking national security clearance from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, she put Canada’s spy…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Paul Krugman notes that Donald Trump has upended the theory that presidential influence on the economy is overstated, as every new difficulty facing…
In my spare time (which is all of it), I’ve built a modest family tree on a website called FamilySearch, a free service graciously provided by the Mormon church out…
Sunday, March 292pm @ Woodbine Manhattan(414 Broadway, 3rd floor) Join us to celebrate Loren’s recently published book The Long Sixties: Conversations with a Lifelong Revolutionary (Kersplebedeb 2025) Featuring a panel…
As a resident of Ontario, I confess to being disenchanted these days. After Doug Ford has won three successive elections with very substantial majorities, he seems untethered, his megalomaniac plans…
The whole world is realizing that the United States is just a paper tiger now. And we know that Trump and Hegseth and their gang of idiots: 1. Don't know…
Monday’s report of the Alberta Government’s so-called Property Tax Accountability Strategy Working Group had lots of big ideas about how to recover unpaid taxes “from companies that are still operating…
In addition to writing the Fifth Column during my time on the Laurentian University student newspaper, Lambda, I was also news editor and was occasionally asked to write the editorials.…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Anne Applebaum weighs in on the inevitable recognition by any remotely rational actor that it's pointless to offer Donald Trump any respect or trustworthiness…
Professor Henry Heller, scholar, teacher, author, Marxist, revolutionary, and comrade in many campaigns over the decades, died on January 15, 2026. He was a remarkable man for many reasons and…
In the lead up to the Ontario provincial Budget, it's useful to flag just how unreliable they have become as a guide to public spending and provincial deficits in recent…
America openly threatened Canadian sovereignty last year and has engaged in a planned economic destruction of the nation. The Republican Party views the entire hemisphere as theirs and is actively…
One feature Prime Minister Mark Carney offers Canada more than almost any other is a sense of control and stability.
This is just a miscellaneous roundup of various comments and opinions. On Carney: Just for a second, I thought maybe this was true: Carney eyes Bloc MP to complete his…
Tout le monde MAGA Alberta, apparently anxious to quit Canada as quickly as possible and maybe even join the gong show south of the 49th Parallel, is all of a…
Blissed cat.
We bow our heads in profound sorrow as we remember Eva Schloss, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a guardian of memory, and a voice of conscience for generations. She has passed…
The heads of large corporations are perhaps the most powerful men in the United States.... The post The tech bros rebel first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Mona Charen writes that Donald Trump's war in Iran can't be explained by any motive other than a sheer ego trip. Steven Beschloss…
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