I Am The Very Model Of A Modern-Day Canadian! Here are the lyrics: View on Threads Trump lose mind: live your life in such a way that the entire world…
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Cole Nowicki and Casey Michel each review Jacob Silverman's Gilded Rage as a chronicle of how tech giants and their uber-wealthy principals have fallen…
I saw several tweets today about events in Canada and the US:Making the school lunch program permanent will burn Maple MAGAT PoiLIEvre's and the ReformaKKKlowns' balls, seeing as they were…
Pipeline madness has overtaken Alberta and threatens to infect the rest of the country. Despite... The post Our greed is showing first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
No doubt any Italian immigrant family will find they have connections to an older royal or noble family if they dig back past their 2nd
Got up to another unseasonably warm October day here: 29C, the third hot day in a row. But tomorrow it’s predicted to fall to 16! I dropped by the local…
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Assorted content to end your week.- Liz Dye writes that the only insurrection occurring in the U.S. is the Trump regime's attempt to overthrow democracy. Jeremy Berg highlights the need…
Here's what I'm thinking about today:Homelessness in Saskatoon With Thanksgiving just around the corner, the Saskatoon Star Phoenix has published three excellent articles this week about homelessness in our city.…
My wife and I raised three sons, with reasonably successful results. Today, in our early dotage, we are witnessing the raising of our first grandchild, Johnny. I thought it wouldn’t…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Simone Zhenting Mao discusses how inequality and concentration of wealth are at the root of Canada's economic stagnation. And Robert P. Beschel Jr.…
H/t MoudakisAbraham Lincoln, in a famous address, borrowed a biblical phrase and said, A house divided against itself cannot stand. It warned of the ultimate toll when a nation is…
What a great game! I was doubting all the pitching changes, but Schneider knew what he was doing. At The Globe and Mail, Cathal Kelly describes the game: On Wednesday,…
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth meets with the National Guard at the Washington DC Armory, August 22, 2025. Photo courtesy Pete Hegseth/X. “We became the woke department, but not any…
Fears that Russia’s actions in Ukraine will inevitably trigger a wider European conflict often exaggerate the real threat, writes Richard Sakwa. Photo by Kurt S/Wikimedia Commons. Is Europe real...
Photo by Andreas Lehner/Flickr In his very public campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize, US President Donald Trump has frequently boasted, not only that he has ended so many “un-endable…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Kelly Hayes writes that the only emergency that's developed under the Trump regime is the atmosphere of fear being imposed by a gratuitously violent…
Dissecting an excuse
So the 5 conservative premiers have sent a letter to Carney demanding that the Attorney General of Canada (AGC) withdraw its filing with the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) regarding…
Mark Carney's latest visit to Washington yielded some fine bon mots.“Pretty fancy entrance, eh?” Trump told Carney, after the prime minister drove up to the White House, with the driveway…
