Canadian labour movement needs a wake-up call
Air Canada workers on the picket line, August 2025. Photo courtesy Air Canada Component of CUPE/Facebook. I have worked as a letter carrier at Canada Post for eight years. It’s…
Today’s News: The Northern Lights are shining bright above Greenland tonight!
So this hit the news on Sunday night: Trump. Is. Insane.— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) January 19, 2026 at 7:53 AM Americans - the whole western world, really - just couldn't…
List describes two weeks of needless deaths and near misses in Alberta ER hallway and waiting room ‘death zones’
A well-known emergency medicine physician has compiled a list of six patients who died waiting for a doctor to attend to them in Alberta’s packed and chaotic Emergency Rooms over…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading.- Gaby Hinsliff highlights the need for the UK (and the rest of the world) to cut ties with an entirely unerliable U.S., while John…
Cars I’ve owned
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Who is the deranged one, now?
Having grown up in Alberta as a card-carrying Liberal, I knew how to make friends with Conservatives. If I didn’t, I would’ve had no friends. When you are a progressive-type…
How Neoliberalism Leads to Libertarianism to Mad Max
Despite its misleading name, neoliberalism is not a liberal, progressive, woke, or left-wing ideology. It is a deeply far-right economic policy that aims to benefit the rich, the businesses, and…
Stop Saying We’re “Outsourcing Thinking”
Why AI Is an Epistemic Extension, Not a Cognitive AbdicationEvery time I hear someone say that using AI means we are “outsourcing thinking,” I feel the same quiet irritation one…
Wise Law’s Top Ten Legal News Post for the Week of January 19, 2026
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Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of January 19, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 19, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:B.C. court to hear Charter challenge over religious exemptions to assisted dying law…
On high-level tracking
With the January 28th membership deadline approaching for voters in the NDP's federal leadership campaign, I'll offer a brief high-level look at the campaign so far - and how it…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray discuss the need to go beyond merely calling to abolish ICE and other human rights abuses, and instead…
Saturday Photo: Sunshine and sledding…
There's nothing like a sunny winter day with fresh snow and a little time on your hands! Sledding on the eastern slope of Mount Royal is an in-city pleasure.
Designate ICE As A Terrorist Organisation
When an armed group go door-to-door looking for people that look foreign and kidnap, assault, injure, and murder people in cold blood in the streets, all while hiding their faces…
Sunday Funday: Canada proud, laughing at those gold "prizes", some random funny stuff, plus TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers
More rumours of wars this weekend, but I think everybody needs a Sunday Funday post now. First, yes -- I'm proud of Canada View on Threads Nothing beats the 🥅🏒⛸️🧊🧊🧊…
Notwithstanding the Emergencies Act ruling by the Federal Court of Appeal, the matter should still be settled before the Supreme Court
Notwithstanding Friday’s ruling by the Federal Court of Appeal that the Trudeau Government’s use of the Emergencies Act to end the convoy occupation of Ottawa in January and February 2022…
Calgary’s water problem and the cost of sprawl
Calgary has been having water problems lately. In June 2024, the city’s largest water line,... The post Calgary’s water problem and the cost of sprawl first appeared on Views from…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- George Monbiot recognizes that all of the major problems now confronting us derive from the political class' willing subservience to the filthy rich. And…
The Face Of Pragmatism
The trade deal that Mark Carney just made with China has elicited a wide range of reactions. There are those who are exultant, such as Scott Moe for what it…