Views from the Beltline

The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into our lives has been compared to the Industrial Revolution. Technology taken to a whole new level, changing everything.…

In a previous post I pointed out why referendums are perhaps the worst instrument democracy has in its tool box. Rather than repeat the argument…

On August 21st an extraordinary thing happened. A foreign government attempted to make a deal that would advance its control over our trade relationships, our…

Global warming has its idiosyncrasies. For example, it could send Western Europe into an ice age. That story begins with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation…

Tribalism: a strong identification with and loyalty to one’s tribe or social group, often accompanied by an “us vs. them” mentality Back in the old…

The debate persists. Why are Canadians, citizens of a democracy, required to swear oaths of allegiance to a monarch? The answer of course is that…

Oil and gas is a very lucrative business, and very generous to Alberta and to Canada. Every year it favours us with many billions of…

The recent Assembly of First Nations chiefs produced some good stuff. For example, their resolution to oppose the Carney government's reforms aimed at streamlining major…

Last week, Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s co-president (last year he promoted his wife, Rosario Murillo, to share his presidency) announced the country would have no more…

I wonder if Prime Minister Carney and Premiers Smith and Ford enjoy irony. Because they recently delivered up a big dish of it. About the…

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…