Deep-sea mining: At what cost?
A remotely operated underwater vehicle surveys a vast field of polymetallic nodules on the deep ocean floor, where mining companies hope to extract valuable minerals. Photo courtesy the Cook Islands…
Paul Parks, ER physician and prominent defender of public health care, seeks NDP nomination in Cypress-Medicine Hat
Paul Parks, a Medicine Hat Emergency Room physician and one of best known advocates for Alberta’s public health care system, announced his intention this afternoon to seek the NDP nomination…
Charlie Angus on klepto-criminality
Klepto-criminality has become acceptable to almost 100 million adult Americans. Charlie Angus provides detail.
Lucky week portends a Republican massacre on Tuesday?
A series of great political wins this past week have buttered me up for the U.S. midterms. I’m not used to getting what I want in politics. I’ve suffered as…
Why Blame Canada
The arrival of Flávio Bolsonaro in the United States is reminiscent of the Gran Sasso raid, and it shows us exactly how the Trump administration sees the world in the…
Sunday Funday: Thriller + More Halloween, Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Laughing about Politics, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers
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…
Chief Electoral Officer offers graceful exit for UCP from risky gerrymandering strategy
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…
Brazil’s happy scientists
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.
Saturday Photo: A Rose by Any Other Name, Or What to Do When the Pumpkins Are Sold Out
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…
Canada is at War with the USA
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…
Happy (mostly) Halloween!
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…
UCP axe falls on separatist leader Jeffrey Rath
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…
Has the Ontario deficit actually increased $3 billion?
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…
Carney’s Trick No Treat
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…
Friedman’s warning
Thomas Friedman is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a weekly columnist for The New York Times.
"It just goes to show you, it’s always something — if it’s not one thing, it’s another."
(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…
UCP plan to gerrymander Alberta ridings, now taking shape, likely to end up in court
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…
Collective Learning
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…
A Flaming Socialist And Threat To The American ‘Dream’?
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.…
Today’s Good Cartoons, plus Signs of the Apocalypse, Trade War Update, and Hooray for the Brewers!
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…