It seems like an innocent age, in retrospect. Back in 2016 we all laughed about Pizza-gate - that crazy story about how Comet pizza restaurant was the global headquarters of…
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Isabella Kaminski reports on the International Court of Justice's advisory ruling that climate destruction can be a source of state liability for reparations,…
The Global Footprint Network performs the public service of calculating how rapidly we are drawing... The post Today is Earth Overshoot Day first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Today, just a roundup of interesting news: Good news videos from YouTube: Piston Pundit: the new Canada-Mexico trade corridor MeidasTouch: Ben Meiselas reports Top 10list: Top 10 American Companies Quietly…
Uh-oh! Looks like those two Independent MLAs who want to reboot Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Party think they can use the moribund Alberta Party as the vector of their political resurrection…
CRV7 (Canadian Rocket Vehicle 7) ground attack rockets, produced by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Photo courtesy Magellan Aerospace. The Canadian arms industry is ofte...
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I sent this to their feedback form: I’ve noticed an ongoing problem with the AQHI calculated for Regina the past week. 2 nights ago it was reported as moderate, while…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Blayne Haggart and Eric Duchesne point out that Mark Carney's idea of nation-building reflects little more than barely warmed-over 1980s neoliberalism - making for…
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
With all the troubles in the world, and all of the evil things that Trump and his henchmen have done, it almost beggars belief that the only thing the MAGATS…
The Longest Ballot Committee has struck again, this time in the unnecessary Battle River-Crowfoot by-election prompted by Pierre Poilievre’s defeat in Carleton.
So the American ambassador Pete Hoekstra described Canadians as "nasty" on Monday, at the annual Pacific NorthWest Economic Region Foundation summit in Bellevue Washington: The ambassador made the remarks in…
Flooded roads in downtown Houston, 2015. Photo by Elliot Blackburn/Flickr. There is a widespread and not completely unjustified perception on the left that movements that struggle for socially j...
Anyone who reads a lot of Alberta government news releases soon come to realize that there’s a kind of literary word salad in play – phrases that seem to mean…
Writing for The Atlantic magazine, journalist David Brooks comments: There’s a question that’s been bugging me for nearly a decade. How is it that half of America looks at Donald…
