Beach, Tel Aviv
Getting the hang of the gouache stuff.
Today’s News: a random roundup — Carney’s press conference; Smith’s carpet; Poilievre’s seat; and First Nations nix Wexit
Basically, it seems we are back to politics-as-normal now -- tonight I have just a random assortment of political news and views tonight, without anything really dominating the headlines. Yet.…
Mark Carney shows grace and calculation with decision to call quick by-election for Pierre Poilievre
Prime Minister Mark Carney showed both grace and calculation in his decision to call a by-election as soon as possible so that Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, deprived of his seat…
Musical interlude
Elderbrook & Ahmed Spins - Waterfall
Facebook censorship
Minutes after I placed a link on Facebook to the IN-SIGHTS article Road to Dictatorship, the post was removed. Facebook labelled it spam, which is typically defined as irrelevant or…
Road to dictatorship
According to a democracy research project based at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, 27 countries have transitioned from democracies to autocracies since 2005. Nations controlled by strongmen now outnumber those where…
day 3: st. louis: the cahokia mounds and great traditional italian food
Yesterday we hung around the Airbnb apartment in the morning, stopped at a supermarket to pick up some food for lunch, then headed just over the state line to Illinois,…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- Rhiana Gunn-Wright and Olufemi Taiwo discuss the importance of making the climate movement one that engages our shared humanity. But as a reminder of…
The intersection of housing and homelessness
I recently delivered a full-day in-person workshop at CHRA’s National Congress on Housing and Homelessness, held in Saskatoon. The workshop was titled “The intersection of housing and homelessness.” All course…
After the windstorm
#poilievre #squirrel #tree #fall
Parliament and Parenthood
As the newly elected class of 2025 prepares to take their seats in Parliament, many for the first time, they will face the reality of balancing public service and family.
Another Warning
Canadians have traditionally found it difficult to answer the question, "What defines a Canadian?" The default answer has always been, "Well, we aren't Americans." That answer speaks volumes; however, in…
Stormy weather over Stornoway
I keep waiting for wiser heads to prevail - will the Conservative party realize that they don't need Canada's version of the Trumpy Man-Baby as their leader anymore?Listen to this…
Danielle Smith tries to turn up the heat on Ottawa while MAGA Canada suffers mass psychotic breakdown on X
Unsure whom to blame for Monday’s federal election loss by Pierre Poilievre and his Trumpified Conservative Party of Canada, the online Canadian MAGAsphere seemed headed for a full meltdown, klaxons…
The ‘strategic voting’ election and its undemocratic consequences
Photo by D’Arcy Norman/Wikimedia Commons There are so many headline takeaways from the 2025 federal election: the loss of what had appeared to be a sure-fire Conservative victory, ...
Small item, large consequence
Stewart Hicks is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He described how a simple connecting device for roof trusses helped revolutionize the home-building industry. It…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading.- Jonathan Last writes about the perfect storm in which economic, financial and constitutional crises - all originating from the deliberate choices of the…
What does Mark Carney’s win and Pierre Poilievre’s loss mean for Alberta?
Danielle Smith’s sovereignty agenda gives the Liberals a generational opportunity to reset with Albertans https://daveberta.ca/wp-content/uploads/podcast/Daveberta-ep-99-preview.mp3 New and recent episodes of the Daveberta Podcast are available exclusi...
day 2: st. louis: the surprisingly beautiful gateway arch, a fabulous history museum, and great mexican food
We're kind of doing this trip in reverse order of importance. The things we most want to see -- the impetus for the trip -- are coming last, a function…