Norman Rockwell's tribute to Carl Spitzweg's The BookwormGood reads about politics Now that Carney has a majority, the Liberals were able to take control of Parliamentary Committees for the first…
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Assorted content to end your week.- John Rapley highlights Canada's choice between tying ourselves to a dying and decaying American empire and its petropolitics, or instead investing in our future…
Today I found news all from all over. To begin, here are some pretty unfortunate events. First, Alberta separatists have just shown us all that their basic nature is deceit…
It may have been the fringy Republican Party of Alberta that got caught letting data from its copy of Alberta’s 2.9-million-name voters’ list be published online in violation of the…
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be a motherhood issue. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased... The post Just transition warriors walk the talk first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of Congress,representatives of the American people across all states,territories, cities and communities.I would like to take this opportunity to express my particulargratitude to you…
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
People discuss getting on a party bus tour
Right wing politicians love to sell public assets to the private sector to alleviate costs on the public, but in the long term that thinking is incorrect: in many sectors…
The news today was pretty grim - Iran War blockages until summer so the world economy is toast. But there were some pretty good "zingers" today too! Carney in the…
…just found out the best chip-stand in the region is finally open — actually, Grenville’s ‘Jos Patate’ has been open since March 26, but I just crossed the bridge into…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Jonathan Watts and Fiona Harvey report on Gustavo Petro's warning about the dangers of accepting suicidal petropolitics. And Laura Paddison discusses how the fossil…
My understanding for why we don’t fill potholes is because municipal governments permit developers to build on greenfields, extending a city’s existing infrastructure past reasonable distances for transit, policing, firefighting,…
In the fall of 2024 I wrote an update on the Bridlewood Hydro Lines Pathways which indicated that portions of both the small and large hydro line pathways had been…
It surely comes as no revelation that the United States, historically, has exercised less than great responsibility with its great power. Modern history is littered with examples of American-backed coups,…
Solar just keeps winning on every metric! The International Energy Agency (IEA) released their 2026 Global Energy Review and it provides a good look into the use and generation of…
It is cliché to say that governments only plan as far as the next election, but it is often true, so when the Carney government announced this week that we…
King Charles' US Visit Irony dies as King Charles speaks to Congress: TL,DW: It was a good speech, apparently written at least partly by Charles himself. And both Democrats and…
When will the knives come out for Naheed Nenshi? The NDP is not the Conservatives, even the united ones out here in Alberta, and historically New Democrats have been more…
