Queen Danielle knows what is best for us
Cast your mind back, dear readers, to a simpler time. And by that I mean 2021. The UCP government of Jason Kenney (who would have thought then that we’d look…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of May 4, 2026
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of May 4, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of May 4, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:Judge Delays Order to Force Penn to Turn Over List of Jews to…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Daisy Dunne examines the takeaways from the Santa Marta energy transition conference, which offered needed hope that it's possible to cooperate at a…
The Ironic States Of America
The unlikely new folk hero for American No Kings protesters is His Majesty, King Charles III, who used his hereditary title and respect to argue in favour of democracy before…
Sunday Funday: Sports Update, Wrapping up the Royal Visit, a bunch of good and funny posts. Plus NSFW, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers
Go Habs! Go Raptors!But win or lose, you both do Canada proud.Sports UpdateOutstanding! RJ BARRETT "CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?"— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) May 1, 2026 at 8:29 PMCanadians were really…
Pyramids
Watching an older episode of The Nature of Things where David Suzuki takes us to Egypt and scientists explain everything. Idly sketching and playing with
Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Alec Luhn warns that the potential consequences of the breakdown of the AMOC current include the release of far more of the carbon pollution…
Today’s tonics: Mark Carney’s Liberals dragging their feet protecting Toronto’s waterfront from jet-fuelled destruction & taking progressive Canadians for granted…
Today's tonics / recommended reads are two opinion pieces in the Toronto Star (by opinion writers who, unlike yellow journalist Martin Regg Cohn, still actually use facts and evidence to…
A Familiar Foe
While many are exultant over the fact that Mark Carney's Liberals now have a majority government, I have always been of the opinion that when it comes to such feats,…
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…