Views from the Beltline

Many Canadians think of “the West” as one monolithic block. This concept seemed to firm up in many minds back when Preston Manning and his…

So the Queen is 96. A good age. Happy birthday, Your Majesty. Her birthday once again prompts the usual question. Do we want to continue…

A recent article in The New York Times by David Brooks, “Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun,” discusses the decline of globalization…

Chrystia Freehand’s recent budget, although modest, did have some goodies in it for the military, including more than $8-billion in new funding over five years.…

Why are Americans so much more authoritarian than Canadians? According to a survey by American business intelligence company Morning Consult, the U.S. has twice as…

I have lived in Alberta a long time, all but four years under conservative governments—Social Credit, then Progressive Conservative, now UCP. Only for four years…

It’s taken a while, and the loss of a third of journalism jobs and 451 news outlets since 2008, along with the migration of billions…

The recent success of employees at Amazons’s New York fulfillment centre in forming a union might be the best example of David defeating Goliath since…

“All compatriots are informed from the date of the issuance of this decree, poppy cultivation is absolutely prohibited in the whole country and no one…

Canada’s central and eastern provinces, with the exception of Quebec, are all governed by the same two parties that date from the time of Confederation—the…

Watching “The Plan to Overturn the Election” on American public TV’s Frontline the other evening, I was once again amazed by how many people can…

Is there any issue that has had more plans and less action than global warming? Now the feds have presented us with another. And like…