Views from the Beltline

We live, we are told, in the Information Age. All the knowledge of humanity is at our fingertips with a mere keystroke. The Internet promise…

Two articles appearing the same day in The New York Times reminded readers how technology, so generous to our way of life, can turn on…

I received an email message this morning from Jagmeet Singh saying he wanted me to hear directly from him that he had “just ripped up…

Science did not fare well under the Harper government of 2006-15. It eliminated the long-form census, pulled Canada out of the Kyoto protocol, cut science…

According to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre “our country is broke.” The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), Yves Giroux, says the country can afford to spend much…

During the recent railway dispute, the federal Conservatives were strangely silent. A work stoppage of any length would have had grave effects on the Canadian…

When Alberta NDP leader Naheed Nenshi called Premier Danielle Smith “dangerous,” I thought he was perhaps being overly partisan. That was before I was fully…

Sighs of relief could be heard across the country when federal Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon announced that he was sending the two railway labour disputes…

The term “genocide,” like “racism,” is thrown around all too loosely these days. The definition often seems to depend on its user’s biases or design.…

Hamas are thoroughly unpleasant people—ideologically extreme and violent. They are, in other words, the sort of men who eventually rise to the surface of a…

Everyone has heard of Spotify, the popular web player app. Many, however, are not aware that it is a Swedish creation. It was developed not…

According to the United Nations, “Inequality threatens long-term social and economic development, harms poverty reduction and destroys people’s sense of fulfillment and self-worth.” In his…