Only When It is Darkest Out Can You See the Stars
These are my summary notes from this excellent podcast from Andrea Pitzer on Next Comes What, "How We Survive This Mess." Pitzer previous wrote a history of concentration camps, One…
Education
A Tale of Two Studies
I was confronted yesterday with the ubiquitous claim, "Lockdowns destroyed kid's ability to socialize. Now they're committing suicide because of it!!" Let's have a closer look again:I posted this mini-thread…
Canadian Future Party Leadership Race: Views on the Monarchy
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…
Widdowson wins … sort of
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.
Neoliberalism made Trump possible
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…
Sunday Afternoon Links
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…
Premier Smith Closes the Door on Asylum Claimants
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:…
We Can Prevent Chronic Illness in Children, But It’s Kinda Inconvenient
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…
Pitting Health Against Education as We Debilitate a Generation
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…
Appropriate Fear and Respect
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…
Nenshi Visits Calgary-Elbow
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,…
May I Make a Suggestion?
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…
Who Can We Blame for All of This??
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…
Meme Monday #13
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…
Building Institutions: An Update on the State of Academic Research on Monarchy
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…
Ignorace and Apathy and Unwillingness to Act
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…
Ignorance and Apathy and Unwillingness to Act
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…
Taking it to the Streets: the Enough is Enough Rally
“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…
A Decade of the Maple Monarchists
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…
On the Importance of Hobbies
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…