Study tour: Amsterdam/Rotterdam (Feb 2027)
I’m planning an affordable housing and homelessness study tour of Amsterdam and Rotterdam for February 2027. More info is available here: https://nickfalvo.ca/study-tours-2/
Saturday Photo: Carnegie in France
A year ago we were in Reims, France, visiting the cathedral there, and checking out another Carnegie Library. It was closed because May 1 is a holiday in France, but…
Health Update Thirteen Years In The Making & How Canada’s Healthcare System Helped Me Survive It All
I have no idea how I survived the past decade… I mean, look at those photos. Thirteen-years of health issues all put together like that, it’s remarkable I’m still able…
Good reads: Dale Smith, John Ivison, Maggie Helwig, Tod Maffin, Paul Krugman, IFLOZ, James, Katharine Wilkinson, Sherman Alexie, Cole Haddon
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…
Musical interlude
Editors - Call It In
Friday Afternoon Links
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…
Just a series of events – both unfortunate and fortunate: Alberta separatism, Jamel Jivani, Avi Lewis, Trump, Charles and Camilla, the DSRB, and Mr. Rogers
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…
Massive List of Electors data breach was inevitable – the UCP’s law-bending style of politics made it so
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…
Just transition warriors walk the talk
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.
Full Transcript of the King’s Speech to Congress
"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…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates April 28, 2025
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…
Ontario under the Omnibus
People discuss getting on a party bus tour
Public Ownership of Public Transit Matters
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…
Zingers – from Carney, from Jeremy Hansen, from Calgarians, from Charlotte Clymer, from King Charles, from Gavin Newsom, and the 8647 meme
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…
Hawkesbury buries it’s only remaining waterfront in tonnes of sharp rocks because the Little City just can’t have nice things
…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…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
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…
WHY HIGHWAYS AND ROADS SUCK NOW
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,…
Bridlewood Hydro Lines Pathways Updates with Videos
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…
With Great Power Comes …. Great Abuse
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,…
Renewables Overtakes All Other Energy Sources
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…