Riding the hobby horse
Rob Flack riding a coin-op horse ride holding a bag of money
Thursday: Just some good news and a few funny posts, plus World Cup Stories
Busy day today so a shorter blog piece tonight!First, some good news and funny posts about Canada and Carney View on Threads Here's how you hold an impromptu press conference.…
Carney’s betrayal
In 2015 I voted for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals primarily to end the dreary decade of... The post Carney’s betrayal first appeared on Views from the Beltline.
Demonizing Antifa: Federal Prosecutions Target Radical Organizers [ThreeWayFight]
By Matthew N. Lyons With the court cases against the Prairieland ICE protesters and the Minnesota 15, the Trump administration has ratcheted up its authoritarian power drive. The regime is…
NYC-ABC PP/POW updates July 7, 2026
Click here for the latest compilation of every other week updates. NYC ABC, along with several other individuals and prisoner support crews, now send hard copies to all political prisoners…
Misremembering Things
Sometimes I could swear I am living in the world that George Orwell so presciently predicted in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In that world, history was constantly being rewritten, so…
Enough! Expel Hoekstra From Canada Already
At what point do we say ‘enough is enough’ and declare American ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra persona non grata?
Wednesday Wit: some good comments about Poilievre and Trump and Carney and US-Canada relations and living your dreams, plus World Cup Stories
So Poilievre went to Calgary and it didn't go very well: The Canadian media is constantly, desperately trying to prop Poilievre up at this serious policy thinker but fortunately he…
UCP referendum questions on immigration are illogical, deceptively worded and tainted by racism
The ballot questions on immigration aim to create conditions that would allow human rights violations and intrusions into federal jurisdiction Let’s take a look today at some of the “referendum…
Buying unsellable luxury condos better than building affordable housing for just-plain-folks
A comment on my last article is too good to not feature as a separate post. It was submitted by Loopholes Uber Alles, which I suspect just might be a…
The Future of 24 Sussex Drive and the Canadian Prime Minister’s Residence
So Mark Carney has a plan, or an idea, but first we need a fund and donors and a contest to choose a design so it is not too late…
Red Scare Number Three
The USA is going through yet another Red Scare — its third in barely a century — according to the paranoid, hyperbolic statements made by the Deranged Dictator Donald Trump…
Today’s News: World Cup stories – Everything Trump Touches Dies. Plus, Carney get Subs, and checking in on Canada’s far-right
The world is laughing at Trump And at FIFAWorld Cup Stories - #ETTD Everything Trump Touches Dies Incredible to watch Monday's US v Belgium game and realize Trump has done…
Danielle Smith and Doug Ford, each facing criticism at home, announce performative pre-election pipeline pact
A northern route to Sarnia for Alberta heavy crude might have potential, but don’t bet the farm at Hardisty yet Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s announcement in Calgary yesterday of a…
Government housing policy wrong again
Erick Villagomez teaches architecture and urban design at UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning. His work examines how cities are shaped by often-invisible systems that influence power, equity, and…
Cat in chair imagined
So much wrong with this. Should actually have looked at a cat. After a day pushing into it, layers of layers, burying the delicate and
Wise Law’s Legal Headlines for the week of July 6, 2026
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 6, 2026 from Wise Law on Twitter:U.S. Supreme Court rejects Trump-led challenge against mail-in ballots U.S. Supreme Court rules…
Saturday Photo: A Beautiful Library!
Been traipsing around and visited this lovely library last week. It's the Bibliothèque Lucy-Fairs in Aylmer, QC, jus across the river from Ottawa. The Friday afternoon I was there it…
How Trump Saved Canada, For Now
In an alternate universe, Joe Biden won re-election for president, failing to shock the west out of its ‘moderate’ slumber.