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Here's a side of the CAN/USA economic performance story I haven't seen before, from Paul Beaudry and David Green. "[O]ver 20 years of economic data show U.S.’s higher productivity has not produced better earnings for most" Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/034a874...

Policy approaches to prevent homelessness requires a measure of what income leaves one at greatest risk. Colleague Rita Wilkins and I are pleased that our HICO measure is being used in a proposal for a new Housing Benefit. caeh.ca/transforming...

Transforming the Canada Housing Benefit to Prevent HomelessnessThe Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness is proposing a transformed Canada Housing Benefit that could reduce homelessness by more than 60%.caeh.ca

The June 2026 Issue of Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques is now available, with free access. utppublishing.com/toc/cpp/52/2

Contents | Canadian Public Policy 52, 2June / juin 2026utppublishing.com

I'm not sure there's any fighting tech that makes people's lives easier, at least in the short run, regardless of whether it makes lives better. Academic life starting to have an abacus feel.

I am firming up spring and summer conference planning, and if you are too, here are a few where I will be leading or contributing to training on reproducibility (for journals and for your own research) 🧵

Thanks to @theglobeandmail.com for giving me a little space to talk about a moment in my life. I hope maybe it'll be useful to (possibly give a laugh to?)others with metastatic cancer? share.google/8dRbC0go2heN...

I am still physically fit, but metastatic breast cancer took away my ability to plan aheadPatients are living longer with MBC but don’t tell them they look ‘great’ in spite of the diseaseshare.google

The hidden cost isn’t just money. It’s time. If comparing three apps takes forever, you're doing work before you even order dinner.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/convenience-has-a-price-but-they

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Tax reform is a ravenous consumer of political capital. Finance minister Champagne promises boldness. I would have said stealthy technical changes would work better. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/330b5b5...

I did an interview with CTV News about my new book with @amaramarasingam.bsky.social on far-right extremism in Canada. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

‘It’s Canada. It’s Canadians’: New book examines rise of far-right extremismA new book examining far-right extremism in Canada argues the movement has evolved dramatically in the past decade, shifting from small, organized groups to a broader network fuelled by social media, ...www.ctvnews.ca

Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge is hiring a Research Assistant in Public Policy! Work with @michaelkenny.bsky.social on projects for the new Bennett School of Public Policy including UK devolution, regional place-based policy, & inter-governmental relations. Apply by 18/06/26: bit.ly/4uL5bWQ

Front runners so far look to be Leviathan Wakes and Too Like the Lightning. If you're thinking of joining us, there is still time to get your vote in!

The short and long form have purpose, please take the time to do it. Can read this from @lindsaytedds.bsky.social too deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/05/l...

Long Form, Long MemoryThe 2026 Census Has Landed. Fill It Out — and If You Got the Long Form, Wear It Like a Badge. The envelope showed up this week. Beige. Bilingual. Statistics Canada return address, PO Box 99995. Ins…deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com

Privatization doesn't work without the private profits. The most extreme example is the privatization of Chicago's parking meters, but the result is universal. Privatizing airports means higher parking prices, airport fees on tickets, rents for vendors, and therefore high drink & food prices.

Chicago Parking Meters Are Making UAE The Big Bucks | the deep diveA new audit has found that the city of Chicago is losing millions of dollars each year on its 75-year lease of its parking meters — all while the meters owners, Chicago Parking Meters LLC (CPM), are r...thedeepdive.ca

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Part Deux is up on Dead for Tax Reasons. On Monday: 394 organizations, unspecified dollars. The press release is careful to count organizations rather than dollars. You should be careful about that too. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/the-naked-budget-2%c2%bd-the-smell-of-expiry/

The Naked Budget 2½: The Smell of ExpiryIn my last post, I argued that the Carney government is dismantling Canada’s women’s state not through cuts but through the expiry of time-limited funding — and that the trajectory take…deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com

Congratulations to Sara Benetti from @ubcvse.bsky.social, winner of the @echistsoc.bsky.social New Researcher Prize for her paper on the social consequences of technological change! economics.ubc.ca/profile/sara...

Sara Benetti - Vancouver School of Economicseconomics.ubc.ca

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Conservative MP for Powell River–North Island, Aaron Gunn, is, uh, well he’s being trolled a bit for his condemnation of land acknowledgements yesterday. Message from K’omoks, Klahoose, Homalco & Tla’amin Nations: “Chillax, bud.” #bcpoli

JOB: Associate Professor/Professor, History of Medicine, McMaster University Cross-appointed with Division of Infectious Diseases universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com