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…
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…
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…
Crime is a social construct, and our approach to it is primarily geared around protecting assets rather than people or society as a whole.
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 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,…
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! ;-) by Matthew GuerinRead below to find out why I am…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
So on Wednesday this happened:Trump: "Canada is nasty. They're nasty."— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) August 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM He ain't seen nuthin' yet! View on Threads Americans hate him…
“In Alberta we believe in free speech. Full stop.” So says Alberta’s premier, Danielle Smith. And it’s true … sort of. We absolutely believe in free speech here in Wild…
For my 70th birthday this year, my three sons gave me an unforgettable gift: an all-expenses-paid vacation! To Regina. And if that wasn’t enough, Winnipeg! And we would make the…
