Carney at Davos gave a brilliant speech. Paul Wells reprints the whole speech here: The Carney doctrineAs I was listening to Carney, I was reminded again of Leonard Cohen's lines…
We can all agree that last Friday’s opinion piece by NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi on Alberta separatism published by CTV News had an accurate headline: The threat to our nation…
Chin-up cat.
One cannot help but be impressed and inspired by Mark Carney's speech at Davos. I encourage you, if you have the time, to listen to it in its entirety. No…
Dear Americans: don’t apologise for your president, do something about him.
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…
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…
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…
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…
There’s more, but I got bored doing themiPhone thumb drawing using Sketchbook iOS
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
