Views from the Beltline

Amidst the economic and other mischief that President Trump is fomenting, much of the world persists in civilized behaviour. We, for example, have restored respectful…

Sixteen powerful minutes. The world listened as Mark Carney crystallized the new world order and then instructed the middle powers in how to deal with…

Canadians might be excused for not knowing who their friends are these days. Our best friend, our buddy, the United States, has in hardly a…

Calgary has been having water problems lately. In June 2024, the city’s largest water line, the main feeder from the Bearspaw reservoir, broke, triggering severe…

The Americans are engaged in furious debate over yet another shooting. The debate is highly polarized, one side saying the death was murder, the other…

The little-loved Elon Musk is odds-on favourite to become the world’s first trillionaire. He is, after all, the richest man in the world. There are…

Of the interminable obnoxious comments by the U.S. president, one that particularly galled us Canadians was his threat to make Canada the 51st state. No…

Dickens opening to his historical novel A Tale of Two Cities describing the jumbled era of the French Revolution is not an inappropriate description of…

I have never been much for flag waving. Patriotism can be a constructive emotion when it leads to healthy ends, but unfortunately it all too…

Merry Christmas! — ¡Feliz Navidad! — Joyeux Noël! — Frohe Weihnachten! — Buon Natale! — Feliz Natal! — Crăciun Fericit! — Счастливого Рождества! — God…

What, the curious are asking, is Trump up to with Venezuela. He has positioned an armada of warships in the Caribbean Sea, including an aircraft…

Reading an article about immigration, a hot topic these days, in my latest copy of Canada’s History, I was reminded of how much of our…