Alberta Politics: Baked Alaska and the Fraser Institute: what changes, and...
PHOTOS: Alaska Governor Bill Walker illustrates about how much is left in the northern state’s budget now that oil prices have gone south. (Alaska Dispatch News photo.) Below: The wild rose, official...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Year in review: from plunging oil to rising hope, the Top...
PHOTOS: Cameras try to follow a nearly invisible Rachel Notley through the crowd at an Edmonton hotel on May 5, 2015, moments after she had been declared the winner of the Alberta election. No one...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: It’s official: Departure of oil sands and hockey...
ILLUSTRATIONS: Alberta’s terrifying Temple of Tax, found on the media midway. So scary it even frightens billionaires away. Really! Below: Dr. Samuel Johnson, noted wit, N. Murray Edwards, oil sands...
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: In the politics of vitriol.
The emerging right-wing politics of Europe is spreading like a disease. First we had the self destructive BREXIT from the United Kingdom and now the threatening right in key countries such as France...
View ArticleParchment in the Fire: A Tale of Two Elections
Two extraordinarily different elections occurred last week in Europe. The first, of course, was the 2017 UK general election, which was nothing short of historic. The second, was the French...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Canada and “Five Eyes” spying partners must respect...
The final communiqué issued by the “Five Eyes” surveillance alliance after a recent meeting in Ottawa suggests what might turn out to be a made-in-Canada global encryption backdoor. The post Canada and...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Canadian government publications still don’t belong to the...
PHOTOS: Government documents. Really! (Photo: Libraries and Archives Canada.) Legislators in Ottawa need to get cracking to make Canada’s Crown copyright law responsive to the needs of the citizens of...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Mission accomplished in Syria? Don’t bet more than you can...
Mission Accomplished? Donald Trump’s crowing Tweets prove the wisdom of Karl Marx’s dictum: History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Remember when those confident British voters chose ‘hope...
While much of the world looked on in dismay as the results of the Brexit votes rolled in two years ago last month, Jason Kenney
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Brexit Redux: Looking back at Jason Kenney’s strange...
Back in June 2016, hours after Britons had narrowly voted to leave the European Union, a lot of Albertans scratched their heads at Jason Kenney’s
View ArticleMontreal Simon: Donald Trump and the Baby Trump Balloon
When I was in Scotland last summer, I was thrilled to be able to witness Baby Trump rise the into the sky at a protest in an Edinburgh park.Trump wasn't in Edinburgh, he didn't dare leave his tacky...
View ArticleNotes on Democracy: Is Anglosphere Democracy Becoming an International Joke?
Not long ago, if one were asked to name the world’s two leading democracies, the answer would probably have been the United States and the United Kingdom—the United States largely due to its power and...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Can Boris Johnson do what some of history’s most notorious...
Is it likely Boris Johnson will accomplish something neither Napoleon nor Hitler could manage – to wit, destruction of the United Kingdom? Perhaps it’s not likely. States like trees, even badly broken...
View ArticleBabel-on-the-Bay: And when they are down, they are down.
Funny, that nursery rhyme has been running through my head. You know the one: The grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men. He marched them up to the top of the hill. And marched them down...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Trans Mountain Pipeline court ruling looks like a win for...
You win some, you lose some. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney won one yesterday with the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal to strike down a challenge by a group of four British Columbia First Nations...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: It’s almost as if the new coronavirus has evolved to...
“The risk to Albertans is still low,” the Government of Alberta’s official website soothingly assured us yesterday afternoon, the day the World Health Organization officially declared the effects of...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The coronavirus pandemic: Not good news for anyone, but...
The novel coronavirus hit China first. Today was the first day China reported no new local infections since the global pandemic officially began in Hubei province in the fall of 2019. No new local...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: Survey of Western powers points toward citizens’...
A recent survey by the Pew Research Center of the four major Western powers turned up some interesting if not altogether surprising results. The goal of the study was to determine how the citizens of...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: Have conservatives all gone mad?
As a social democrat I may be prone to seeing the virtues in progressives and the vices in conservatives. But I challenge any objective observer to deny that a streak of madness hasn’t overtaken the...
View ArticleViews from the Beltline: Johnson, Trump and contrasting ethics
Boris Johnson and Donald Trump are two buffoons who embarrassed two major democracies by their election to national leadership. Both are now gone and much good riddance. Both are also now in disgrace...
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