This article is a collection of responses from candidate(s) for the leadership of the Canadian Future Party regarding themonarchy. It will continue to be updated as more repliesroll in. This…
Early last year I posted about the Frances Widdowson case. Dr. Widdowson was a tenured... The post Widdowson wins … sort of first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Excerpt from Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s Challenge A good deal of punditry has gone around in circles on the question of how someone like Donald Trump could become president…
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Tarique Niazi discusses some of the geopolitical implications of the intensifying climate crisis. Aaron Whetty offers a reminder that the joint effort by…
On Sept 12, the day after The Trump/Harris debate, Premier Smith told the federal government that Alberta has closed its doors to any more asylum seekers. Here’s what she said:…
Another NEW study shows, yet again, that SARS-CoV-2 is harmful to kids. Who knew?!?This was a three-year study that followed 1319 children after a first infection. Almost all of the…
Covid is definitely causing a variety of longterm illnesses and public health still can't manage an effective PSA that undoes damage caused by their previous misinformation: teaching people how easily…
We teach our children to have a "healthy fear" of the water, to respect that it's possible to drown in the shallows or to hit our head on a rock…
Naheed Nenshi has been busy visiting NDP constituencies across the province. This afternoon he came to the Calgary-Elbow Constituency BBQ. After a (very) enthusiastic introduction from NDP MLA Samir Kayande,…
Where’s our news? I ask because I’ve noticed that the UCP is adept at flooding the media with good news stories about what they’re going to do to help Albertans…
I totally understand the feeling of being out for blood right now about the number of children who are likely to get sick in our public schools this fall, some…
Trigger Warning: Border Gore Over on the Monarchism subreddit user Derpballz posted the above image with the caption "This is the ideal monarchist state of affairs. You may not like…
In the decade since my first post on this topic there has been an explosion in interest regarding whether having a monarchy has tangible effects on a country's development. As…
Three articles came out in the past few days that should remind us that Covid is really here, and maybe we should act on it. But all the facts in…
Three articles came out in the past few days that should remind us that Covid is really here, and maybe we should act on it. But all the facts in…
“Nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change.” – Timothy Snyder, historian. On…
Tomorrow will mark ten years of this blog being active. Sure, pedants will note that the first article was published the 14th of May, 2014 but that was an introductory…
I taught grade 10 Careers for a bit. I changed it completely from how it was typically taught, though, which was largely one Myers-Briggs-type test after another. Kids in other…
I taught grade 10 Careers for a bit. I changed it completely from how it was typically taught, though, which was largely one Myers-Briggs-type test after another. Kids in other…
This cartoon really helped me understand something. My school board announced a new initiative, the mandatory grade 11 English class will now focus on Indigenous voices. I used to teach…
