This week's Cartoon CavalcadeAbout the Canada-US tariff negotiations: About Trump's catering truck:About the Kennedy CentreAbout the Iran WarAbout ICE Gestapo's new glovesAbout Mid-Terms fear-mongeringInteresting posts A fascinating chart ...
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Photo by Ken Lund/Flickr. For a response to this article, scroll down to read a perspective from Judith Dueck, a Winnipeg writer…
The debate persists. Why are Canadians, citizens of a democracy, required to swear oaths of... The post About those oaths and Charles Mountbatten-Windsor first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
This week the self-seeding cosmos have begun to bloom. Of course, there are places which have had them for weeks, but they were all started inside and some, like the…
Oh for crying out loud! Preston Manning, 84, the superannuated Godfather of the Canadian right, has teamed up with another tiresome has-been from conservative Western Canadian politics to try to…
About the trade deal negotiations View on Threads Wesley Wark writes Get a trade deal, get ready to give away our sovereignty? Or, what’s with the leaks? ...As always with…
Mark Carney in Davos. Photo courtesy the World Economic Forum/Flickr. As Mark Carney prepares to welcome the world’s most powerful investors to Toronto, opposition to the prime minister...
Barney Bentall - I'm Shattered
Addressing Mike Dunn (who digs coal), as he rants on Carla Beck‘s NDP page: Mike Dunn (in quotations) “However the data centers pretty much ensure that coal will be in…
Throughout these past many months, I have been a frequent critic of Mark Carney's policy of appeasement toward the Americans. Concession after concession, as I have written in this blog,…
I was asked, again, if I'd consider using exposure therapy to help me cope with potential viruses inside buildings. The first time was from a therapist who suggested I could…
I'm reading some interesting comments today:Talking about Carney View on Threads Tom Mulcair writes Stop the handwringing. PM Carney is outmanoeuvering Trump on trade Prime Minister Mark Carney has been…
Gas production in BC increased by 264% between 2025 and 2000. We might expect that government revenues would rise by roughly the same amount. However, that has not happened. Under…
What are we to make of that “mysterious cash surge” in donations to the Republican Party of Alberta just before the June by-election in the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills riding in June…
Charge Across America in the late 1990s was a forerunner to Sun Country Highway’s cross-continental EV trip with a Tesla Roadster at charging stops it set up all across Canada…
Accountability is a strange thing these days. People "take responsibility" when the public finds out they did something wrong, but very rarely do any consequences ensue. Errant public officials keep…
When humans build into areas where animals thrive there is inevitably an increase in harm done to the local population, but this harm can be managed and reduced in multiple…
First, an update on those tariff negotiations I think Canada is getting angry. You won't like us when we're angry... View on Threads Here is Ralph Goodale on the consequences…
Sorry folks, but encouraging Calgary lawyers to dress up in cowboy hats and Cuban heels like extras on the set of Yellowstone for 10 days every July does not a…
Diogenes & the Pirate Ontology Aesthetic
Mark discusses the rebrand of his newsletter to "Pirate Ontology" and the aesthetic that Diogenes exemplifies for it. The post Diogenes & the Pirate Ontology Aesthetic appeared first on mark…