For Iranian Kurds, war is not liberation
Kurds waving flags in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Photo by Levi Meir Clancy/Unsplash. On July 17, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched combined drone and…
Ottawa hastens its retreat from online regulation
Photo by Greg Bulla/Unsplash The ongoing shift from the Trudeau Liberals’ attempts to regulate the Internet to the Carney government’s willingness to retreat from them became even more apparent ...
Europe’s summer is a preview of what’s coming
Wildfire smoke in Spain. Photo by Jaume Moya/Wikimedia Commons. Every year, we are told the latest summer of climate disaster will finally be a wake-up call. Europe has had its…
St. Albert Public Library Board has estimated cost of UCP book ban at $100,000 in 2027
ST. ALBERT, Alberta – The St. Albert Public Library Board has estimated it will cost about $100,000 next year to comply with the United Conservative Party Government’s unprecedented library censorship…
Trump’s irrationality
Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a contributor to the Atlantic Daily newsletter. He is a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War…
Wildfires and the choices behind them
The feedback dynamics involved are precisely what climate scientists have long warned about: hotter and drier conditions created by a warming climate make forests more combustible, while burning forests release…
Using The Criminal Code To Fix Things
Crime is a social construct, and our approach to it is primarily geared around protecting assets rather than people or society as a whole.
Today’s wildfires update, plus Sunday Funday
Wildfires UpdateThe situation Saturday in BC View on Threads View on Threads View on Threads View on Threads From Saturday evening View on Threads View on Threads Yukon update: View…
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace 2026
Winnipeg Lanterns for Peace is held annually to mark the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. This year’s observance was sponsored by the Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba,…
Owning up
Oil and gas is a very lucrative business, and very generous to Alberta and to... The post Owning up first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Whiplash: Vik Handa enters and exits the Ontario Liberal leadership race, clearing the path for the awesome Navdeep Bains! ;-)
Whiplash: Vik Handa enters and exits the Ontario Liberal leadership race, clearing the path for the awesome Navdeep Bains! ;-) by Matthew GuerinRead below to find out why I am…
Saturday Photo: Eight-thirty, Aug. 6, Parc Outremont
Summer twilight: magic time. Although I must add that the kitchen is full of fruit flies from the nectarines I left on the counter. The advantages and disadvantages of the…
UPDATED: Inspiring Terror In America: The "S" Word
And that word would be socialism.Particularly in America, socialism seems to evoke an extreme response among those who prefer not to think like human beings but rather react, in Pavlovian…
Saturday Cartoons, plus Canadians as hobbits, some Trump v Canada, and another Wildfires Update
This week's Cartoon Collection "Canadians are like hobbits" So says Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief emeritus Matt Winkler. Well, we've been called worse... View this post on Instagram A post shared by…
Poilievre’s Plummeting Polling
The CPC is polling just a hair below 30%, and Pierre Poilievre's "favourability" as next PM is now tied with "Undecided" at 18%. Add to that, another CPC MP just…
Forget the elbows already
It’s time to stop talking elbows and start the overdue discussion on the Canada we want and what it will take to take back our future. I have never much…
Today’s News: Carney working, Trump flailing, Covid stories, Wildfires update
So Trump called Canadians "nasty" but Carney didn't rise to the bait. View on Threads In fact, it sounds like Carney has decided the time is right to push Trump…
Guest post by Lorne Fitch: 20 reasons Albertans should be concerned about conservation
Professional Biologist, author and educator Lorne Fitch, a frequent contributor to this blog on environmental and conservation topics, returns with a disturbing list of reasons Albertans should be concerned about…
Youth homelessness prevention in Dublin and Belfast
I recently helped organize a study tour of Dublin and Belfast, in partnership with A Way Home Canada. The tour’s focus was the prevention of youth homelessness. Here’s my ‘top…
The riskiest move is to keep doing what worked yesterday
After college, Ronald Garan joined the United States Air Force and became an F-16 pilot and later an astronaut. In 2008, he flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on its 35th…