Views from the Beltline

No institutions have put more people into the middle class than unions. They were largely responsible for turning a job in manufacturing into an entry…

Can you murder a newspaper? The Atlantic magazine thinks so. At least they accuse billionaire owner Jeff Bezos of attempting to murder his newspaper, The…

The issue on which the world’s most dangerous man is most dangerous is the environment, especially in regard to climate change. He has infamously referred…

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…