Thursday’s Alberta Government news release announcing the official opening of so-called Lakeview Recovery Community in a rural area west of Edmonton included the intriguing tidbit that the facility will also…
I describe my own family's move onto the property ladder many years ago. The costs are updated to 2024 dollars to demonstrate how out of control the housing industry has…
Pat Mccutcheon is running for the BC Greens in Surrey Cloverdale. He recently pointed me to this video and said: "Probably the most powerful & disturbing video I have ever…
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Ayesha Tandon discusses a new study showing that the limiting factor in averting a climate breakdown is public policy rather than technological limitations. Aaron…
Trump is selling his followers a fantasy in which the only truth is what Trump says is the truth.Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a theory about this blizzard of lies.…
Trump is selling his followers a fantasy in which the only truth is what Trump says is the truth.Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a theory about this blizzard of lies.…
Time to take a break. Dog days, August doldrums, other things to do....
While most of the mainstream media focus on the genocidal actions of Israel in Gaza, there is another taking place in the West Bank, euphemistically labelled '"settler violence." To call…
Somebody posted Poilievre's bizarre "morning in Canada" video on You-Tube before the CPC deleted it. It is creepy, out-of-touch with reality, and absolutely full of bees! Is it the CPC…
Hey, on a side note, did you know that Harris and Walz both like to cook? I think that's pretty great.Responding to another tweet, I posted this a couple of…
A reader who communicates regularly sent several interesting quotations that are perhaps relevant in today's world. Some are repeated here...
Hamas are thoroughly unpleasant people—ideologically extreme and violent. They are, in other words, the sort... The post Talking to Hamas first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Everyone has opinions, most of them dogmatic, as if the holder of such opinions was utterly certain that they held the unquestionable word of God Herself. Usually they are grossly…
I’ve just released Chapter 9 of my open access textbook. This chapter focuses on youth homelessness. A ‘top 10’ overview of the chapter can be found here: https://nickfalvo.ca/youth-homelessness/
Letter to X (Musk) Letter To Elon Musk, Re: My Suspension From Twitter Twitter, “X”, “bastion of free speech”, suspended my account today, saying this: We’ve temporarily limited some of…
As summer turns into fall, its becoming increasingly obvious that the wannabe Emperors in our midst have no clothes. Emperor Trump:Is it me or does it feel like someone hit…
This week, let’s take a peek into the confusing and sometimes disturbing world of the pre-teens and teens as seen through the prism of social media, and the legacy media…
I was wondering whether ChatGPT could so it, so I asked it, "Please write me a 100-page textbook on logic." I'll reproduce what it produced below, but I want to…
Samidoun: Canadian federal corporation 1279374-1. Status: active, since March 3, 2021. Three directors: Charlotte Lynne Kates, Vancouver. Dave Diewert, also of Vancouver, and Thomas Gerhard Hofland, of the Netherlands. Annual…
