Albertans Chose Canada, But With An Asterisk
Albertans may have overwhelmingly voted to remain in Canada, but the nine other questions on the province’s MAGA referendum reveal extensive fine print.
Talking about Alberta: The separatists lost but the racists won
I thought it might be useful to do a roundup about the Alberta votes. So here are some comments from inside Alberta and from outside it, plus the terrible impact…
Canada has stood with Cuba at the UN for decades. Will it do so again?
Photo by Bruno Rijsman/Flickr On October 28, the United Nations will vote—for the 33rd time—on a Cuban government-sponsored resolution demanding an end to “the economic, commercial and financial...
Danielle Smith to disgruntled separatists, federalists: Thanks everyone, let’s move on!
Standing behind a blue coroplast sign reading “Stronger Alberta within a united Canada” – surely a big step down from the heady days of a “Sovereign Alberta within a united…
Musk Ties American Children to Front of His Trainwreck
A massive collapse of #AI and the #techbros is coming. Elon Musk is taking out insurance to make sure that when it does happen, the children of America will be…
Catching up with the news: Are we finally done with that damned referendum? Plus some Wainwright updates
From Theo MoudakisThat lengthy and confusing damned Alberta referendum is finally over. But likely never to be forgotten. I just hope it will never be repeated. Here is the Poliwave…
Results from first 1.3 million votes show separatist dream going down to definitive defeat
It was clear the instant results from the first million votes counted in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s divisive separation referendum flooded in minutes after 11 o’clock last night that the…
An International Panel on Inequality—it’s a start
In a world that spends a disproportionate amount of time responding to the attention-seeking whims... The post An International Panel on Inequality—it’s a start first appeared on Views from the…
Fifty Answers in Half an Hour About the Future of News
This post responds to the fifty questions posed by Richard Gingras at the Newsgeist Unconference in Hamburg, Germany. He chairs the board of Village Media and is a co-founder and…
Bluesky Posts
With the exception of posting links to my post, I do not use Twitter anymore. Bluesky does seem to be a more friendly environment, and, best of all, it is…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of October 19, 2026
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of October 19, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of October 19, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:Canada backs International Criminal Court after U.S. imposes sanctions Premier who oversaw Canada's…
Tragedy in Training – CFB Wainwright
My heartfelt condolences to the families of the dead and wounded of CFB Wainwright. Seems like this tragedy could've been avoided with better foresight; and that their fates were cast…
Fortescue is eschewing Diesel. Are they proving every Western Canadian Politician Wrong?
If you are Canadian and you have not heard about Fortescue, I would not be surprised. They are a publicly listed company that just came onto my radar. With that…
Disinformation Works Both Ways
The widespread story that Russia’s foreign interference bot army had been taken off line by Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex data centres was an easy one to believe. It fit a…
Sunday Funday: Some good cartoons plus Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat-trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers
Today was another "No Kings" day in the US. I've seen some criticism that these protests aren't happening often enough, but maybe this is as much as Americans can manage…
The crowd wanted to hear for themselves what Canada’s prime minister had to say – and they liked what they heard
Prime Minister Mark Carney came to Alberta’s capital city Friday evening to say what he had to say about why Albertans need to vote to remain in Canada at a…
Danielle Smith is dancing to the separatists’ tune
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Photo by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta/Flickr. Alberta’s upcoming referendum says less about the strength of separatist sentiment in the province than it do...
Reflections on a proletarian puberty or a North End ‘place in the sun’
The following is a digitized version of an article from Canadian Dimension’s print archive, which is available through the University of Manitoba Digital Collections. It was first publis...