The world is laughing at Trump And at FIFAWorld Cup Stories - #ETTD Everything Trump Touches Dies Incredible to watch Monday's US v Belgium game and realize Trump has done…
A northern route to Sarnia for Alberta heavy crude might have potential, but don’t bet the farm at Hardisty yet Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s announcement in Calgary yesterday of a…
Erick Villagomez teaches architecture and urban design at UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning. His work examines how cities are shaped by often-invisible systems that influence power, equity, and…
So much wrong with this. Should actually have looked at a cat. After a day pushing into it, layers of layers, burying the delicate and
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 6, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump-led challenge against mail-in ballots U.S. Supreme Court rules…
A homeless man in Toronto. Photo by Ashton Emanuel/Flickr. We are now living in a period when poverty, homelessness, and social abandonment have reached crisis levels and the need for…
Been traipsing around and visited this lovely library last week. It's the Bibliothèque Lucy-Faris in Aylmer, QC, jus across the river from Ottawa. The Friday afternoon I was there it…
In an alternate universe, Joe Biden won re-election for president, failing to shock the west out of its ‘moderate’ slumber.
Our World Cup journey is over— Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 (@jmcelroy.bsky.social) July 4, 2026 at 1:02 PM The boys did good Canada’s World Cup Journey Ends in Houston. What a Ride…
Alberta’s premier claims it’ll probably reduce electricity costs; don’t count on that, though, says the Pembina Institute But what about that other Alberta Government announcement on Thursday? Thursday afternoon at…
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Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Hamilton Nolan writes about the inherent conflict between the politics of centrist inaction and the serious and urgent problems which require courageous and immediate…
‘This has been an unreasonable and opaque process from the beginning,’ musician and reluctant environmentalist says After learning that 35,000 signatures on Corb Lund’s Water Not Coal citizen initiative petition…
You probably think that the only thing destroying America is the authoritarianism it has embraced, led by an unhinged man and his cadre of opportunistic enablers. And you can be…
A few good cartoons: Catching up with the news In The Globe and Mail, columnist Andrew Coyne contrasts the American July 4 with the Canadian July 1: ...I’m old enough…
The following was published as a letter in Victoria’s Times Colonist newspaper Re: “B.C. premier visiting China to pitch LNG project as province’s ‘really big fish,’ ” June 27. While…
Democracy is in the doldrums these days. The Brits are going through prime ministers at... The post Are you satisfied with our democracy? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
This is mostly going to be me processing yesterday's announcements in Alberta and BC. I haven't quite worked out what I think of it all yet, and maybe by the…
When July 1 happens on a Wednesday, Canadians usually take the Thursday and Friday off too, so we engineer a five-day weekend to kick off the summer. This year, that…
Saving Canada and saving the planet? Not necessarily a pipeline, but a pipeline if necessary! Prime Minister Mark Carney appeared last night to have threaded the needle between Alberta and…
