Knee Replacement Recovery, 21
Thursday: I started the day with a 20-minute pedal on the stationary bike, then the first of my three exercise sessions, and a 600 m walk — shorter than usual…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- George Monbiot highlights how his own experience being injured as a result of an unrepaired pothole demonstrates the cost of austerity for everybody. And…
Comments on the passing scene: The Jays battle the Yankees; Carney goes to Washington; What Poilievre gets wrong; plus America updates on tariffs, ICE Gestapo and Trump revenge
Go Jays go! (or at least don't embarrass us) New! From me! The 2025 Toronto Blue Jays have been the most pleasant surprise. Now what? www.sportsnet.ca/mlb/article/...— Tao of Stieb (@taoofstieb.bsky.social)…
Musical interlude
Tomcraft - Loneliness (StereoUnderground Remix)
On changed realities
Readers may have noted that I've set up a reference page for the 2026 NDP leadership election, which will be updated with both reference information and my own posts on…
Time for another episode of Comedians V Trump
There are enough funny takes now on Trump's daily idiocies that I think I can make this "Comedians V Trump" a regular feature - not only clips from comedians themselves,…
US acts like pirates in the Caribbean
Warships of the United States Naval Forces Southern Command patrol in the Caribbean. Photo from Facebook. In reading historian Marcus Rediker, one can learn a great deal about the “Golden…
Is the populist fever breaking?
Populism, particularly the right-wing variety, has had a good run lately. Liberal democracy has been... The post Is the populist fever breaking? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- William Davies writes about the systematic stupidity being imposed by the Trump regime, while Noah Berlatsky notes that it's a feature rather than…
Stating The Obvious
From my perspective, it is clear that America has become a fascist country. Those who deny that reality are either extreme partisans (I refuse to use the term patriots, the…
From the Great Acceleration to the Great Enshitification and Beyond: Part Two
Part Two: Missed Opportunities, the Great Enshitification, the Consequences for the Young, and the Age of Flux The Missed MomentThe end of the Cold War in 1989 was supposed to…
Today’s News: Reactions to Trump’s newest "51st State" threats
So when Trump was babbling on and on to the generals yesterday, he once again said Canada should become the 51st state. Canada didn't laugh:Hey Canada, Trump brought up his…
The rewards of terror
United States envoy Morgan Ortagus casts the lone veto against a UN Security Council draft resolution calling for a Gaza ceasefire, aid access, and hostage release. The measure, supported by…
Blood in the endowment
Administration building, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Photo by Sancho McCann/Wikimedia Commons. When actions fail to honor the promises that gave rise to them, and their consequences ripple...
An opportunity for Canada’s New Democratic Party
Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) long ago abandoned the radical roots of its founding ancestor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation which, famously, pledged in 1933 that “No CCF Government will rest…
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
A lizard-like Trump crawls over the border
With some conditions…
And we have a bucket of bootstraps if you have shoes
How Will It End?
Being a Canadian today feels an awful lot like being in Austria in the mid 1930s, in the years leading up to Anschluss. After watching last night’s performance by Pete…
Today’s News: Orange Shirt Day; embarrassments from Alberta Next, Trump and Hegseth; the return of "51st State"; and icing’ out ICE
Luke Parnell, A Brief History of Northwest Coast Design, 2007 Sept 30 is our Orange Shirt Day, officially the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Here is PM Carney's speech…
Canada’s debt time bomb
Photo by ginza_line/Flickr This year, Canada’s household debt climbed to $3.07 trillion, topping the G7 for the 15th consecutive year. With debt—including mortgages, auto loans, and credit cards...