Views from the Beltline

Calgarians and Edmontonians have had enough. Growth, that is. Recent surveys indicate a majority of people in both Calgary and Edmonton are not happy with…

How satisfying to see a battler for democracy win the Nobel Peace Prize. This year’s winner, Venezuelan Maria Corina Machado, joins the ranks of other…

Pipeline madness has overtaken Alberta and threatens to infect the rest of the country. Despite gambling and losing $1.3 billion on the Keystone XL pipeline,…

Taxing carbon emissions is one of the most effective ways of dealing with the climate crisis. And also one of the fairest—the more you pollute,…

Populism, particularly the right-wing variety, has had a good run lately. Liberal democracy has been set on the back foot. The confidence of people around…

Americans may be the most individualistic of people. And there has always been two sides to that individualism. The founding fathers, inspired by the Enlightenment,…

Danielle Smith is famously jealous about provincial rights. She fights with the feds continually, going on the offensive over every perceived breach of the province’s…

Now here’s an idea. The Earth Island Institute, an international environmental organization, has initiated a proposal for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. The idea is…

It’s more than a bit late, but as they say, better late … Canada, along with Great Britain and Australia are officially recognizing a Palestinian…

The federal government will be greatly diminished by losing Chrystia Freeland. This week, she announced she is stepping down from cabinet after the PM appointed…

That a South American country’s democracy might be healthier than that of the United States is a notion that would have been unthinkable only a…

Donald J. Trump represents the worst of his country—the archetype of the ugly American. I have been pondering what selection of adjectives might best describe…