One individual driving change
MacKenzie Scott is one of the world's wealthiest women, despite living away more than US$19 billion. In 2020, she issued a statement that began with this...
Venezuela against the empire
Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair The United States is descending into a state of general lawlessness, both at home and abroad. From deploying domestic paramilitary units like Immigration and Customs...
Canada’s muted response to US regime change in Venezuela undermines international law
Street painting of Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. Photo courtesy Orinoco Tribune. Following last week’s American military operation in Venezuela that captured President Nicolás Maduro, Canada’...
Canada’s new resource deals drive a climate and rights backslide
Neskantaga First Nation is a remote northern Ontario community facing mounting development pressure from the Ring of Fire, a mineral-rich region targeted for mining and new road construction. Photo courtesy…
Venezuelan heavy oil coming on stream could spell a $9-billion Alberta deficit, former energy minister predicts
Former United Conservative Party energy minister Sonya Savage spoke the truth on Friday when she forcefully suggested on a podcast that without public funding Premier Danielle Smith’s perpetual pipeline project…
Public Interest or Private Profit? Liberal Insider Mike Crawley Plots to Seize the Ontario Liberal Party Leadership
I've never been some well-connected, business-card-waving, lobbyist-registry-joining insider willing to sell access to people I know in the Ontario Liberal Party. Sure, I could've taken that route after 2003 when…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Paul Crider discusses how the Trump regime is setting up the U.S. for explosive internal violence - while planning to blame its victims…
The Many Routes To War
It is said that it is darkest before dawn. Unfortunately for us, it is not yet midnight.
You can’t have Housing First without having housing first
Finland is the only country in the European Union where homelessness has been decreasing. The small Nordic country is hailed as a model for homelessness work and Finnish expertise is…
Sunday Funday: Comments on the passing scene, plus funny-odd and funny-ha ha, and of course Trump Watch and Animal Crackers
Well, our times are officially "interesting" now aren't they, so we really need a Funday. (And does everyone get the joke in the wombat cartoon?)I still have to start with…
Trump’s bloodsoaked ‘peace’
Donald Trump delivers remarks after accepting the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize from FIFA President Gianni Infantino, December 5, 2025, during the World Cup draw at the John F. Kennedy Center…
The case for voting NDP in Toronto’s University–Rosedale
University—Rosedale riding boundaries from the 2025 federal election. Image from Wikimedia maps. Last year, Mark Carney presented himself to Canadians as a seasoned, level-headed economist and a...
Saturday Photo: The Trees Are Dancing in the Winter Sun…
Well, perhaps not dancing, but their shadows on the snow this sunny day seem almost exhuberant. Good way to start the New Year. May 2026 be full of good times,…
"I think I liked it better when Americans didn’t know where Canada was"
More comments today on Canada's precarious situation as Trump continues his fantasy presidency. When I saw this tonight on Threads, I couldn't help but agree: View on Threads Yeah, I…
Billionaires make way for the trillionaires
The little-loved Elon Musk is odds-on favourite to become the world’s first trillionaire. He is,... The post Billionaires make way for the trillionaires first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Musical interlude
TWO LANES feat. Kwesi - Another Time
Webinar: Join Us to Learn a Life-Changing Approach to Wellbeing
There is so much talk about self-care in the online caregiving discourse that it's just plain exhausting. What we need is a simple and realistic way to think about how…
UPDATED: Pandering To The Emperor
I'm often fond of saying that nothing surprises me anymore. Although my capacity for disgust remains, wars, rumours of wars, state executions, invasions of sovereign territories, etc., none of those…