Views from the Beltline

Last Monday, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council announced that the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, had comfortably won the national election and another six years in office.…

Of course Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. It was the best thing for the nation he loves, and he’s been serving his…

Why, one wonders, would so many Americans be prepared to elect a president with such contempt for democracy, one of the country’s cardinal values. A…

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has responded to the Trump shooting by asking progressives to “dial down” the way they characterize conservative politicians, blaming them for…

There is no issue of more importance than the environment. If we can’t learn to live sustainably on this unique and wonderful planet, civilization as…

The Dr. Strangelove’s are at it again. As if there wasn’t enough to worry about with the possibility of Donald Trump resuming the presidency of…

It was a good weekend for progressives. First was the massive win for Labour in Britain, then the quite surprising emergence of a left-wing alliance…

You read that right. Alberta has phased out a fossil fuel. Not, unfortunately the tar sands. That would be way too much to hope for,…

I was pleased with the Labour Party’s big win in the British election this week for a couple of reasons: Labour’s philosophy is closer to…

It’s Stampede time in Calgary and that means another round of debate about rodeo. I’ve never been a fan myself; I’ve just never found the…

After resigning in disgrace over the infamous Watergate affair, President Richard Nixon told an interviewer, “When the president does it that means that it is…

Consumer carbon taxes seem to cause something akin to hysteria among Canadian conservatives. The federal leader of the Conservative party endlessly repeats his slogan “axe…