Senior economist @canadianlabour.bsky.social supporting workers fighting for a fair, sustainable economy. Trans rights are human rights. No one earns a billion dollars. Views are my own. (he/him)
Cleaning up AI slop will be a growth industry for the future.
Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beatsI warned you about using "AI" for the entire business of the administrative state up to and including international relations, bro!!!! I fucken told you dog!
A massive giveaway from Carney to Big Tech. Elbows up to punch yourself in the face, I guess. www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...
BREAKING: Ottawa to scrap all contribution requirements for U.S. streamers - The Wire ReportIn a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to repl...www.thewirereport.caA lot of what Carney calls “spending” is actually investing. Child care investment is yielding economic benefits. But probably not the kind that investment bankers want. centreforfuturework.ca/2026/07/27/n...
New Research Shows National Cild Care Plan Already Driving Economic Benefits In Ontario - Centre for Future WorkThe Centre for Future Work has co-published new research quantifying the economic and fiscal benefits being generated in Ontario from the new Canada Wide Early Learning and Child Cre program. The expa...centreforfuturework.caMark Carney laughed at the suffering of Grassy Narrows. All evidence points to him being deeply anti-Indigenous.
T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦160. Do not appoint a Conservative who has said offensive things about Indigenous communities as a top advisor. www.aptnnews.ca/featured/car...
Make Calgary the cosplay capital of the World. It’s more of a growth industry than O&G.
Paul FairieI wish Calgary would embrace other themed costume weeks like it does Stampede. There should be a week where we dress up like magicians. Another where everyone is now a zebra. It would be good.
I wonder how many ITCs they used?
Albert PintoGuess WHEN was Beijings "three red lines" policy of deflating housing and inflating manuf.... "This is probably one of the most important charts right now about the Chinese economy. To offset the collapse in the real estate sector, Beijing has managed to surge credit to the manufacturing sector"
I will not relinquish the em dash (the long one—) to AI.
Mark HarrisWait, em-dashes are now seen as an AI thing? I was using them before AI was a glimmer in Satan's eye and I'm not stopping now. I love them; they can represent a shift in tone, a raised eyebrow, a leaning-forward, a tiny jolt of midsentence caffeine. It was all I could do not to use one in this post.
Alternative headline: Big oil wants to externalize costs and privatize benefits. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Cenovus CEO says proposed pipeline to Canada's west coast currently 'unfinanceable'Cenovus Energy CEO Jon McKenzie said Tuesday Alberta's proposed 1 million barrel-per-day pipeline to British Columbia's Pacific coast cannot be financed by the private sector under Canada's cur...www.reuters.comThey don’t! Investors believe that other investors believe that other investors believe. We’re deep in the Bezzle and everyone thinks they’ll get the timing right.
The New York TimesIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Mr. Musk could well believe his own projections,” Aaron Zamost writes about the SpaceX IPO. “What’s harder to understand is why so many investors do, given his recent track record of missed deadlines, abandoned products and failed business predictions.”
O&G cos don’t want prices to rise too much too quickly because it speeds the shift to alternatives.
Albert Pinto"Why are oil prices not higher? In short, America’s selling while China ain’t buying" "the US has responded by cranking up exports, while China has slashed imports" www.ft.com/content/ae62...