Summertime in the age of upheaval
Wildfires burn near Flin Flon, Manitoba in June 2025. Photo courtesy the Government of Manitoba. Summertime and the living is uneasy. Geopolitical and climate change dangers demand our attention...
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Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading.- Naomi Klein discusses how Canada is failing the basic test of resistance to a fascist regime. - Meanwhile, Linda McQuaig recognizes that Canadians…
Dire Wolves, GMOs, And The Madness Of Modern “Civilization”
Dire wolves have now been “brought back from extinction”, through clever, or extremely reckless, genetic engineering. This is totally insane. The reason we have massive species loss, the sixth great…
Will A CPC MP Respond To Clean Air Concern?
July 30, 2025 Dear Mr. Kram: As you may know, Regina’s air quality is now routinely worse than the air quality of Beijing, China. Our weather monitoring service by Environment…
Please, for the love of glob, stop making re-usable bags!
You know how before the plastic bag ban came along to save us from the scourge of bags-of-bags stuffed into closets or drawers, to be maybe reused once as doggy-doo…
Today is Earth Overshoot Day
The Global Footprint Network performs the public service of calculating how rapidly we are drawing... The post Today is Earth Overshoot Day first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Environment Canada Bad Air
I sent this to their feedback form: I’ve noticed an ongoing problem with the AQHI calculated for Regina the past week. 2 nights ago it was reported as moderate, while…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Blayne Haggart and Eric Duchesne point out that Mark Carney's idea of nation-building reflects little more than barely warmed-over 1980s neoliberalism - making for…
Guest Post: Reduce ‘red tape’ and also have the highest environmental standards? Can’t be done!
Anyone who reads a lot of Alberta government news releases soon come to realize that there’s a kind of literary word salad in play – phrases that seem to mean…
Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Tom Nichols discusses how the only discernible values behind the Trump regime are those of corruption and retribution. And Toby Buckle writes about…
canadians: please sign a new petition to help protect an endangered species from profit-driven abuse
Late last year, I blogged about Canada's shameful role in ongoing and illegal animal abuse: the importation of long-tailed macaques, an endangered species of monkey, for use in drug experiments.…
canadians: please sign a new petition to help protect an endangered species from profit-driven abuse
Late last year, I blogged about Canada's shameful role in ongoing and illegal animal abuse: the importation of long-tailed macaques, an endangered species of monkey, for use in drug experiments.…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week.- George Monbiot discusses how fascist concepts of "joking" are used to normalize the dehumanization of the targets of a regime's abuses. And Greg Sargent…
Fig Trees Figured Out Carbon Storage
The humble fig tree can help us in extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by converting it in into stone. All trees remove CO2 from the air and store it…
Cities Address Climate Crisis Faster than Nations
Your local city council is doing more to protect the future than your national leaders. Cities are on the front lines of the climate crisis and are working hard to…
Unleashing the economy on the environment
Reading about the Liberals’ One Canadian Economy Act, or Bill C-5, and the rush to... The post Unleashing the economy on the environment first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- David Lurie discusses how Donald Trump is making flagrant corruption and theft legal for himself and his cronies, while inventing specious excuses to…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week.- David Moscrop writes about the difficulty in trying to respond to a news stream constantly filled with horrors without breaking down. George Monbiot discusses…
If You Spell Carbon Dioxide With a Zero…
Andrew: “I mean how does an additional 1 molecule of C02 (sic) in 10,000 molecules of air worsen the condition for forest fires. Increased C02 (sic) leads to increased growth…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Jessica Wildfire discusses the importance of not letting the Trump regime and its corporate backers take away people's righteous anger, while Ava Kofman…