The UCP Is Not A Reasonable Party
So, Danielle Smith was booed at the UCP annual convention last night. Why? Because she signed a deal with Ottawa. Nobody should be surprised by this - least of all…
Evil Abounds
In my long time on this planet, I have borne witness to a lot of evil. However, at least in my memory, the more egregious nefarious acts people perpetrate on…
Today’s News: Fed up with awful news
Maybe I just felt grumpy because it's snowing, but today I saw so many news stories that really pissed me off. First, an incredibly disrespectful and dismissive remark from Natural…
Musical interlude
London Grammar - Hey Now
FO PM MOU
It really is a failure. Liberal partisans are praising the concession to Premier Smith and the oil industry as a clever chess move, but I see it as a cynical…
The Carney-Smith energy & pipeline MOU – is Carney crazy like a fox?
From Victoria Times-Colonist newspaper Lots of opinions tonight, pro and con, about the Carney-Smith energy and pipeline MOU and the subsequent resignation from Cabinet of Carney's Quebec lieutenant and official…
Expect an Alberta election call shortly, before anyone realizes that pipeline to Prince Rupert is unlikely ever to be built
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith must have experienced a strong feeling of déjà vu yesterday as she announced her grand pipeline bargain with Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney – after all,…
Pandering to Putin
The recent proposal for a peace deal worked out between the U.S. and Russia has... The post Pandering to Putin first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Postscript AI
When I finished writing my last blog post I started to wonder what it would look like if I had asked an LLM-based AI to write it. I have little…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Robert Reich talks about the glaring gap between the wealthy elite who are being catered to by the U.S.' economy and the many…
Setting The Record Straight
I'm still in a bit of a writing slump, so I'll let others do the talking for me.H/t MoudakisA Globe and Mail letter-writer weighs in on the F-35 versus Gripen…
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…