Today’s News: Cartoons on parade!
Today I'm seeing so many great political cartoons and comments about daily news I just want to share a few of them. First up, Carney and SmithI don't know enough…
Corporate pressure mounts on Chileans opposing Canadian copper mine
Rocín River basin, Chile. Photo by Arón Cádiz-Véliz. Vancouver-based Los Andes Copper, developer of the proposed Vizcachitas copper-molybdenum mine in Chile’s Valparaíso region, has laun...
Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert – she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one
Danielle Smith doesn’t need a pipeline to Prince Rupert, she just needs Mark Carney to promise she can have one, with sketchy details to follow. Then, just like that, Alberta’s…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Bruce Campbell discusses how Canada continues to be both a laggard in its own climate action, and an obstacle to international cooperation. And Patrick…
Canada Climate Week Xchange
One way to fight climate change is to get corporations to only invest in renewable options and celebrate success in the green economy, and that’s one of the goals of…
Congress’s Bizarre Assertion On Socialism
Communism is a limit on wealth; socialism is a limit on poverty; capitalism is a limit on those limits; democracy is a limit on capitalism; and fascism is a limit…
Updates: "Who cares?" is trending, Mamdani v Trump shows us ‘this is the way’, and some good news from xkcd
Seems like a lot of the news today was really just an update of the news from the weekend. So here's some good commentary and update posts: "Who cares?" is…
Five more UCP MLAs’ names added to Elections Alberta’s growing recall list
As Elections Alberta approved five more recall petitions yesterday, bringing the number of United Conservative Party MLAs facing at least a theoretical threat of losing their jobs to 14, provincial…
Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Wide-eyed cat.
The Nano Banana Image
So, I was trying to make an infographic of my 1,000 page manuscript on ethics and AI, and I entered this into Google Gemini. It wasn't the Nano Banana tool…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates November 25, 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…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Robert Reich weighs in on the absolute moral rot within the Trump regime and its corporate cronies. Bill McKibben points out that the…
Canada pursues Gulf markets as its weapons fuel war in Sudan
RSF troops before the war with the Sudanese Armed Forces erupted in 2023. Photo courtesy RSFSudan/Telegram. On November 21, Mark Carney landed in Abu Dhabi, becoming the first Canadian l...
Alberta’s growing list of MLA recall petitions is a grassroots phenomenon that’s turning into a grassfire!
Knowing that he’s almost certainly destined for the long jump, metaphorically speaking, it must be mildly satisfying for Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure to have to keep approving those MLA…
OMG and its only Tuesday! The weekend news roundup – Carney’s "Who Cares?" riposte, Why a new pipeline? Why war with Venezuela? What if AI is just a house of cards? And Dutch Strong!
So its only Monday but it seems like its already been a busy week. Carney's "Who Cares?" riposte and cue the Poilievre hissy fit tempest in a teapot. Here's the…
Inequality and kids’ brains
Inequality is much more than a moral issue. The evidence accumulates that inequality does a... The post Inequality and kids’ brains first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Bill 60
The thief in the night
UCP policy proposals revealed!
The United Conservative Party is holding its annual general meeting this weekend, where party members vote on policies they would like to see enacted, from important to trivial to ‘what,…