So, Tariffs, Amiright?
Round of tariffs for all, except Russia.I have a friend in the states who isn't worried about any of this stuff. "Big businesses will stop it," she says. She expects…
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Public Health Needs to be Independent
David Fisman posted a thread yesterday about problems when big money gets involved in public health."During Covid, I experienced firsthand how political pressure twisted science—and nearly destroyed reputations. A short…
Disappearance of the Rule of Law
Charlie Angus talked about Canada-US relations on Meidas Touch: "We're thinking, if we go down the road with this regime, we're talking about the disappearance of the rule of law,…
Monbiot on Capitalism vs Commerce
George Monbiot wrote today, "One of capitalism's greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us…
A More Resilient Canada
We are in the midst of an election that looks nothing like what the pundits were predicting just a few months ago. Donald Trump and his team of billionaires, riding…
Bearing Witness
Brandon Friedman wrote an important thread about what we do now. Here it is in full:"This is a German woman being marched past the bodies of Holocaust victims. After World…
Tax tales
It seemed like an appropriate time for a post on taxes. For a number of... The post Tax tales first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Ya Man, That’s A Breach For The Ages
Goldberg with the scoop of the decade? Hegseth, Vance, and other Trump regime ghouls accidentally added The Atlantic’s Goldberg to a Signal chat group. This is huge for several reasons,…
Maple Leaf madness sweeps the nation
“The Maple Leaf, our emblem dear, the maple leaf forever! God save our Queen and heaven bless, the Maple Leaf forever.” Those of you of a certain age (old) may…
EV Tax Goes Up
It’s been a hard month for people with electric vehicles. Not only do many face unfair criticisms for having Tesla vehicles before the company CEO came out as a racist…
Prague may only have EV Taxis by 2030
By the end of 2024, Oslo ensured that all of their taxis were electric. Hamburg adopted the same rule at the beginning of 2025; and it seems like Prague might…
The Flies Have Conquered the Flypaper
Steinbeck's The Moon is Down was first published in 1942, before he was sent off to fight. As a journalist, he enlisted in order to be in the thick of…
Trump Mimic PoiLIEvre Voted The Most Likely to Roll Over to Trump
The grievance-mining, rage-farming, puerile Trump mimic Pierre PoiLIEre was voted by Canadians the political leader most likely to cave in to Donald Trump rather than stand up for Canada against…
Never Again?
All this tariff talk is provoking a recession, which seems to be a feature, not a bug. As the economy falls, companies go bankrupt and are cheap to take over…
The Technology does Exist
If you are a “small c-” conservative in Canada, the argument against moving more quickly to decarbonize our economy has included many points. If you were to speak to Premier…
Bye bye Justin. Thanks for nothing.
To paraphrase that great orator, U.S. President Gerald Ford: our long national nightmare is (almost) over. Ford was speaking after the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974. But Watergate was…
Rage-Farming Trump Mimic Poilievre Scrambles to Pretend He’s Pro-Canada
The trade war that the racist and fascist felon and Putin asset Donald Trump initiated against American allies Canada and Mexico, as well as against China, Colombia, and other nations…
On Weaponizing Empathy
Lots of people struggle with boundaries; luckily there are many little sayings along the lines of "not my circus, not my monkey" that help people remember not to get worked…
Trudeau To The American People
Joly almost lost it and smiled when Trudeau spoke directly to Donald about how the WSJ called this a very dumb thing to do.