Thriller! In honour of Halloween, I have to post the Thriller videos I found.First, the one and only original Next, a group of 12-14-year-old dancers at Betsy Ross Arts and…
Alberta Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure has just offered Premier Danielle Smith and her MLAs a graceful exit ramp from the embarrassment of having a court overturn a shameless scheme…
Some folks have suggested that because American policies and behaviours often affect all of us... The post Brazil’s happy scientists first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Even though our kids are long grown-up and their kids are busy with other things, I like to do the Halloween thing. Pumpkin, candy, front porch light on invitingly.But this…
Make no mistake: Canada is at war with the USA, and our government tacitly acknowledged that last week. It might not be bullets and bombs, but right now Canada is…
I have collected quite a batch of Halloween cartoons so I thought I would post them tonight instead of waiting for my Sunday Funday column. Enjoy! Librarian horror stories: Canada…
Jeffrey Rath’s gravest political sin was that he said what he thought too clearly. And he thought the Queen Bee had betrayed him and his secessionist allies – which she…
Despite the headlines, the Ontario deficit is not truly up $3.1 billion -- or at least not yet. What is true is that, despite slower growth in the economy than…
Why does Carney’s government love coal so much? Aside from breaking its promise to end thermal coal exports (that doesn’t include coke for steel manufacturing), it’s also poised to allow…
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(I made this cartoon using ChatGPT) I really have to feel for our Prime Minister Mark Carney these days. Canada had one hell of a summer didn't we, with a…
Former Alberta Party leader Greg Clark is emerging as an effective opponent of the United Conservative Party’s plan to gerrymander Alberta electoral districts in a scheme to win the next…
We don’t need to judge people to help them learn. True, we are vested almost to obsession in weighing, measuring and judging individual students. It’s hard to imagine an education…
It often pains me to contemplate my fellow humans. That they can be so easily swayed by demagoguery that works against their own best interests speaks ill of our species.…
Signs of the Apocalypse - a regular round-up of the crazy stuff happening down south So Flávio Bolsonaro, the loser in the Brazil election fled to the United States, with…
Photo courtesy the City of Toronto. If you were to ask most people, including those with broadly left-wing views, what is the most effective way to influence how this society…
Self-portrait today. Just tired. Some fooling about in ZenBrush and Waterlogue.
In much of Canada, it is possible to circumvent our universal public healthcare system by “going private” for medical appointments, tests, or procedures, and every time any one of us…
This is a frenzied moment for Danielle Smith and her United Conservative cabinet and caucus as they attempt to pacify the party’s influential and unhappy separatist faction and distract from…
Thousands protest in downtown Toronto in opposition to the Canada Investment Summit organized by Prime Minister Mark Carney. Photo courtesy the Council of Canadians. This past September, Prime M...
