The Cons Are Coming For Your Rights
The Cons will remove the right to choose. Vote against that. The post The Cons Are Coming For Your Rights first appeared on Excited Delirium.
Naheed Nenshi will run in the by-election to replace Rachel Notley as MLA for Edmonton-Strathcona
The Alberta NDP’s worst-kept secret has now been confirmed: Party Leader Naheed Nenshi will run in the by-election to replace former leader and premier Rachel Notley as MLA for the…
Can the Liberals recover? Ever?
Angus-Reid’s New Year’s Eve poll of federal party popularity put the Liberals in a nightmarish... The post Can the Liberals recover? Ever? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Greed is good?
After the IN-SIGHTS article BC Hydro second quarter report, fiscal year 2025, retired economist Erik Andersen provided the following...
Musical interlude
Underworld - Techno Shinkansen
UPDATED: My Favourite Films of 2024!
Demi Moore in The SubstanceUPDATED: I wanted to see a handful more movies before I published my annual list below, but today I'm ready. (As I see more flicks from…
My Favourite Films of 2024!
Demi Moore in The SubstanceI wanted to see a handful more movies before I published my annual list below, but today I'm ready. As dear followers of my annual list…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Andrew Nikiforuk writes that Canada is currently failing to carry out any energy transition, as any expanded use of renewables is only being added…
Here I am at somewhere else
Substack interface is a bunch of puzzle pieces turned facedown on the table hidden under dotted napkins. I think I found the feed of likes
Public Forum Roundup
Over the years, I have been a regular writer of letters to newspapers. My first one, I believe, was when I was about 13, and for the next 50 years…
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from June 19, 2009
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from June 19, 2009 via Wise Law Blog: Ontario Court Nixes CIBC Overtime Class Action https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2009/06/ontario-court-nixes-cibc-overtime-class.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto La...
Zoning deregulation won’t fix the housing crisis
View over Toronto toward downtown. Photo by Michael Monastyrskyj. A garden once thrived at the corner of 89th Street and 92nd Avenue in Edmonton. Every spring residents of the city’s…
Alberta cabinet ministers Mikey Amery and Mike Ellis to ‘strengthen cross-border collaboration’ on Lone Star State junket
Give the United Conservative Party Government its due – it didn’t publish a really embarrassing news release insulting the intelligence of Albertans until the second day of 2025. Granted, Premier…
Writing I love: "We’re All Made of Horrible, Beautiful Scars"
I found this piece of great writing last summer, when we were in the midst of our own heartbreak, and it was just so thoughtful and meaningful: Cole Haddon /…
A good man gone
On December 29th, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter died in Plains, Georgia at the ripe... The post A good man gone first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
what not to do in a job interview
As a library manager, I regularly hire new library workers in entry-level positions -- library assistants who work on a casual, on-call basis. When permanent positions open up, casuals are…
Thursday Night Cat Blogging
Hosting cat.
KINSELLCAST MUSIC – Volume 11
It’s a big, big one. I went over the whole year (three times – thanks, Apple elf lords) and assembled some of the best stuff for you. Click here or…
2025 so far
Doom scrolling for any good news
Anomy: A Disturbance of the Collective Order
A few articles have come out recently concerned with the trajectory we're taking, particularly choices being made by young adults. But we need to acknowledge the upheaval we're currently living…