Views from the Beltline

Support for separatism in Alberta ebbs and flows, up to maximum support of about 30 percent of the population, where it is now. One might…

I was a little surprised to see EIIR on the head of the throne where King Charles read Prime Minister Carney’s plans for the country.…

People are tribal. It’s in our genes. We are a communal species. It makes us what we are, it brings us together, and it tears…

Some Albertans are unhappy that their guys lost the federal election, so they’re doing a MAGA. They are not accepting the result. They will take…

The federal Conservatives’ fealty to Pierre Poilievre is puzzling to some. The man never caught on with Canadians, never achieving a decent popularity even when…

The very rich, F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, are different from you and me. Of course they are. They spend a lot more, pollute a…

So, an American pope. A first. Now both the world’s most powerful political leader and the world’s most powerful religious leader are both Yankees. Fortunately,…

One of the first actions of the NDP when they were elected to govern Alberta in 2015 was to reform the province’s election rules. At…

Canada’s 45th General Election is over and my reaction is mostly relief. A few short months ago, I was expecting our country would follow the…

Conservatives are not at all comfortable with modern science. Our last Conservative government, the Harper regime, exemplified this distrust. It eliminated the long-form census, pulled…

There is, if one is inclined to pessimism, ample opportunity to indulge these days. The political world alone offer a variety of depressing trends. Around…

“The world is now seeing Trump’s America for exactly what it is becoming: a rogue state led by an impulsive strongman disconnected from the rule…