Today’s News: Whew!
Had our Covid and flu shots today so I'm not feeling energetic right now. So here's a few items I found about Monday's budget news: Artwork by Dave Davies #CanadaBudgetVote…
O Tempora! O Mores! UCP Cabinet minister’s inclusion of a crude epithet in phone call to constituent shocks almost no one
O Tempora! O Mores! In the great scheme of things, the fact a United Conservative Party cabinet minister referred to one of her constituents in a private conversation with an…
Is international development dead?
Bags of sorghum grain delivered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Sudan, 2021. Photo courtesy USAID/X. Does anyone remember the Sustainable Development Goals? ...
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- Connie Loizos warns that the growth of "buy now, pay later" financing for the essentials of life parallels the wider use of unsustainable debt…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of November 17, 2025
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of November 17, 2025
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of November 17, 2025 from Wise Law on Twitter:Ontario recruiter sues OpenAI, alleging unsafe product design drove him to mental health…
‘We need a mass program of deshittification’: Avi Lewis on rebuilding Canada’s public services
Filmmaker, broadcaster, and activist Avi Lewis is running for NDP leader, campaigning on public ownership, stronger public services, and economic sovereignty. Photo courtesy Avi Lewis/X. Avi Lew...
Ontario faces high cost and high-risk nuclear future
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station seen from Rouge Beach Park in Scarborough. Photo by JasonParis/Flickr. Carefully buried on the Friday of Halloween, and overshadowed by the build-up for the ...
Saskatchewan Roughriders Win!
I usually don't do a post on Sunday nights, but today was so great I just had to put this one together. Earlier today our son said that after the…
Desperate to hide what they’ve become, UCP goes to court to stop MLAs from calling themselves ‘progressive conservatives’
All the words of our magnificent English language have meanings, and those words and their meanings belong to all of us who speak and write in English. Which is to…
Tropical forests forever
Good things are happening at this year’s UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil. These... The post Tropical forests forever first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
The Time Element Of Fermi’s Paradox
Interstellar travellers would have to check on Earth thousands of times to have a hope of dropping by in our era -- and if they arrived today, they probably wouldn't…
Sunday Funday: TrumpWorld is falling apart, Canada is OK, Winter is coming, Random funny stuff, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers
Here is my usual Sunday collection of random pieces plus some funny stuff. Enjoy!TrumpWorld is falling apart Rogan and Musk decide Trump's "assassination attempt" in Butler PA in July was…
Eating on the road: Lounge and plane food from my summer vacation — part two
After five amazing and relaxing nights in the Maldives, and some great meals I will review separately, it was back into the air for the next leg of my journey…
One Republic
I went to the Central Branch of RPL tonight for a Bike Regina podcast recording. While there I picked up a pile of CDs including One Republic The Collection. Hearing…
The monster in the Oval Office – and his victims
She begins: “Weeks before my seventeenth birthday, I was walking toward the Mar-a-Lago spa, on my way to work, when a car slowed behind me. I wish I could say…