What is BRICS and where is it going?
World leaders attend the 2025 BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 7, 2025. Photo courtesy the Government of India/Wikimedia Commons. From July 6 to 7, BRICS—a bloc of…
Musical interlude
Tori Amos - Lovesong (Aching Heart Mix)
Dear Canada
Donald writes a letter
The heat beneath our feet
After writing about geothermal energy, I made a remark on Facebook regarding a Western Canadian company having to go to Bavaria to launch its first commercial clean energy project. I…
USA Concentration Camps
One commenter noted that Homan isn’t human. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/us-man-denied-entry-1.7583146 The media is going to feature a non-ending supply of stories about people who voted for the Leopards Eating Faces GOP, only…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- George Monbiot discusses how fascist concepts of "joking" are used to normalize the dehumanization of the targets of a regime's abuses. And Greg Sargent…
Legal News Post of the Day: July 11, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Canadian travel to the U.S. plummets by 22%— but Americans are staying home, too with US cross border travel down 10'% CBC News #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/JkNa0kN9wb…
Legal News Post of the Day: July 11, 2025
#LegalNewsPostoftheDay: Canadian travel to the U.S. plummets by 22%— but Americans are staying home, too with US cross border travel down 10'% CBC News #law #legal #legalnews via @CBCNews https://t.co/JkNa0kN9wb…
Eating on the Hill: Ending the session with lunch at the Parliamentary Restaurant
I do miss the old Parliamentary Restaurant on the top floor of Centre Block. It was such an elegant space steeped in history. And the highlight as a staffer was…
Eating on the Hill: Ending the session with lunch at the Parliamentary Restaurant
I do miss the old Parliamentary Restaurant on the top floor of Centre Block. It was such an elegant space steeped in history. And the highlight as a staffer was…
Another Home Run
If you remember Brian Mulroney, you'll get this. Another home run for Theo Moudakis.Recommend this Post
The Disappearing Semicolon; Has English Education Failed Us?
The media, both legacy and online, continue to herald the death of the semicolon. Perhaps this is meant merely as a distraction from the events unfolding in world politics, particularly…
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from April 12, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from April 12, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Seven Years of Wise Law Blog https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/04/seven-years-of-wise-law-blog.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from April 12, 2012
This week’s #FlashbackFridaypost is from April 12, 2012 via Wise Law Blog: Seven Years of Wise Law Blog https://wiselaw.blogspot.com/2012/04/seven-years-of-wise-law-blog.html - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Office website:…
Just when we thought we were out, he pulls us back in
I'm sick and tired of talking about tariffs. Aren't you? But here we go again - just when we started to think there might be some kind of progress toward…
Still reeling from ‘stolen’ Canada Disability Benefit, disabled Albertans hit by de facto rent hike
It’s hard to comprehend the cruelty of the United Conservative Party’s surreptitious implementation of a rent hike for Albertans who receive Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped and live in…
Carbon tax cost BC taxpayers $24 billion
Introduced in July 2008, British Columbia's Carbon Tax cost BC taxpayers $24 billion before it was eliminated at the end of fiscal year 2024-2025. People in BC were encouraged to…
From fighters to first responders
Two Royal 22e Régiment light armoured vehicles in a flooded street in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec. May 2011. Photo courtesy the Department of National Defence. The Canadian ...
The ICC charges the Taliban
Throughout history it has been women’s lot to be oppressed by men. Such has been... The post The ICC charges the Taliban first appeared on Views from the Beltline.