Seeing your book for the first time…
…always feels pretty cool. Coming soon, around the world, from Random House.
New podcast episode
I was recently a guest on the On the Way Home podcast. We discussed: the importance of researchers working collaboratively with practitioners; insufficient federal funding for homelessness across Canada; and…
2025 Year in Review: Work and Impact
Every year I send around to former students some highlights of this years work. This time I’m posting here! Hoping some of this work is of interest to all of…
Today’s News: "He’s an idiot"
I just had to share these words from Ruben Gallego, senator from Arizona - "He's an idiot": View on Threads Trump is mad at NATO because he didn't get that…
Confronting the far-right’s war on reconciliation
Frances Widdowson, a former Mount Royal University professor, left, and OneBC interim leader Dallas Brodie at an anti-reconciliation event in Kamloops, November 2025. Brodie has called reports of residential school…
Matt Jones, one of the UCP’s Gang of Four health ministers, actually admits there’s a capacity problem in Alberta’s hospitals!
More than anything, yesterday’s press conference about how the Alberta Government proposes to fix the horrific mess in this province’s hospital Emergency Rooms where patients can wait up to 72…
Wealth inequality — How did it get so extreme, and what can we do about it?
Wealth inequality is a lot like the climate crisis. Both are slow-moving train wrecks of immense proportions. Just as climate change is wreaking societal destruction around the globe, so is…
Today’s News: Trump’s Greenland flapdoodle
I've been gathering some of the comments and posts about Greenland defending itself from Trump's idiotic invasion plans. For some, it is just a distraction: And here we are: the…
The culture war comes for Alberta’s books
Photo by Jamie Taylor/Unsplash This month, Alberta school boards began removing dozens of books from library shelves to comply with a provincial government order banning literary materials deeme...
Wednesday Night Cat Blogging
Braced cat.
They are debating this?
The Americans are engaged in furious debate over yet another shooting. The debate is highly... The post They are debating this? first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
It Bears Repeating ……
America has elected a man who talks and behaves like a megalomaniac, and the rest of the planet is supposed to just trust that he won’t completely lose his grip…
Opening Your Eyes Can Be Painful
I would like to think that Canadians far and wide harbour few illusions about the United States. Seeing them as a trusted ally harkens back to an earlier era, and…
A Tale Of Two Banks
When it comes to destructive American policies, the Federal Reserve is resisting — and Scotia Bank is openly collaborating.
Fascism
Spectres of Fascism, Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives is a book edited Dr. Samir Gandesha, Director of the SFU'S Institute for the Humanities. It was published in 2020 but is…
Today’s News: "And those winds sure can blow cold way out there"
Hey, I'm not talking about Saskatchewan - our weather this week is great right now. But starting this weekend, its going to be 15 to 20 below (C) in Minneapolis,…
USA’s mad Health Secretary
Kennedy, who is a nephew of late US President John F Kennedy, openly opposes the use of vaccines and has also backed several conspiracy theories, including on so-called chemtrails allegedly…
CEO of new medical bureaucracy promises ‘province-wide response’ to Alberta’s messed up ERs
In a back-handed admission that Alberta’s hospital Emergency Rooms are in a colossal mess, the CEO of one of the United Conservative Party Government’s confusing tangle of new medical bureaucracies…
Looking for something to read? I have some suggestions
Hello, dear reader(s). Are you ready for one last look back at 2025? I hope so, because that’s this blog’s topic, specifically a list of the best books I read…