Views from the Beltline

On December 29th, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter died in Plains, Georgia at the ripe old age of 100. As the new year replaces the…

I’ll let Charlie Angus, MP for Timmins-James Bay, say it: “What the fuck? How does a prime minister, on the eve of a statement that…

President-elect Donald Trump’s comment about making Canada the 51st state apparently has his supporters in stitches. A man never short of boorish comments to entertain…

I loved the movie Cabaret, one of my very favourite musicals. Who can forget the vivacious Sally Bowles merrily singing and dancing her songs in…

Alberta is the pollution province. Despite a population of less than a third of Ontario, it is responsible for 70 percent more greenhouse gas emissions.…

“A paltry sum,” said Chandni Raina, India’s representative at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan. Ms. Raina was referring to…

Canada’s attitude toward the Palestinian people could be described as hypocritical. We have consistently claimed that we support an independent Palestinian state, but then just…

In a recent post I discussed how an alienating communication environment helped elect Donald Trump. A number of other factors have been accused of contributing…

When proportional representation (PR) is presented as an alternative to our badly flawed first-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system, defenders of the status quo invariably fall back…

The story as I understand it from what I read in the media goes as follows. A Palestinian teacher at Sir Robert Borden High School…

President-elect Donald Trump values loyalty above all. He has never hesitated to use menace and harassment to coerce into line or if necessary purge those…

How, exactly, does a such a creature as Donald Trump become president of the most powerful nation on Earth? The blame falls primarily, of course,…