Views from the Beltline

In Prime Minister Carney’s acclaimed Davos speech, he talked about a “rupture” in the rules-based international order that we had prospered under for most of…

Canadians are by no means alone in having separatists among them. Many countries contain cohorts of the discontented who believe they would be better off…

In 2015 I voted for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals primarily to end the dreary decade of rule by Stephen Harper. As Trudeau brilliantly said, borrowing from…

Democracy is in the doldrums these days. The Brits are going through prime ministers at a record pace and the Americans are seeing their democratic…

Britain has been playing musical chairs with its prime ministers. Last week the most recent office holder, Keir Starmer, who has been PM for less…

We tend to like things simple. Right or Wrong. Black or white. Mother Nature tends to disagree, however. She prefers complexity, and as a result…

Albertans love pipelines and hate renewables, right? Well … not exactly. Two recent surveys conducted by Probe Research indicate Albertans’ attitudes toward energy and the…

My last post on this site was about boundaries. About how the GDP-based growth model that’s driven global development for the last 200 years is…

Gross Domestic Product (GDP): a monetary measure of the total market value of all of the goods and services produced by a country in a…

In a pluralistic society such as ours, we frequently find it necessary or convenient to discuss our fellow citizens in terms of ethnicity or religion.…

For those of us who believe the world’s major problems are global and therefore require the global village to deal with them, the United Nations,…

If I were to rank democratic instruments, I would put referendums at the bottom of the list. Quite aside from the fact there is another…