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Alarmed by this global political shift. Danger alert for #canpoli so trying to raise my voice. Climate. Small business owner. Pluviophile. #BC #bcpoli #canadasky

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 20h
Scaling up capacity, for the old models, is fairly easy. But none of these companies are going to stop pushing for better / faster / bigger models, because then they'll be crushed by the competition. This is why they are *begging* for specific types of government intervention.
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CWA Canada, The Media Union @cwacanada1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/10/2026
FT Exclusive: The AI group's annualised revenue is about $20bn less than the company has previously signalled, according to financial documents shared with investors, a massive gap likely to damp optimism about the growth of AI demand. ft.trib.al/IC1ECgv
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mark Carney: "In three weeks, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, António Costa, will be in Montreal. And that is when Canada will launch a new transformative alliance with the European Union."
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mark Carney: "Canada is now the best connected economy in the world, with access to a market of 1.5 billion consumers, tariff-free. Over the next six months, we intend to double that number."
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is concerning. Canada Post recommends mailing ballots back by Oct 9th to have them arrive by October 16th. #abpoli
October Calendar with election dates

October 2026 voting calendar for the Alberta referendum, presented as a large monthly calendar with voting deadlines and key dates highlighted. The header reads “OCTOBER 2026” in red and dark gray, with Forever Canadian and Canadiens pour toujours logos on the left and a QR code labeled “ELECTIONS ALBERTA” with the text “For up-to-date information” on the right. The calendar runs Sunday through Saturday, with Sundays shown in red.

Key information shown on the calendar includes: October 9, highlighted in red, with the message “LAST RECOMMENDED DAY TO MAIL your completed special ballot package.” A yellow sticky note also says “Mail ballot package back 9.” October 12 is labeled Thanksgiving Day. A green highlighted bar spanning October 13 through October 17 reads “ADVANCE VOTING,” with arrows pointing in both directions. October 16 is marked in red with the message “5:00 PM DEADLINE Elections Alberta must receive your completed special ballot package.” October 19 is marked with a blue sticky note reading “REFERENDUM DAY.” Later dates are shown in gray.

The calendar footer lists “Forever-canadian.ca | Canadiens-toujours.ca.” The design uses a clean white background with gray calendar lines, large black date numbers, red accents for Sundays and important deadlines, and colored sticky-note graphics to emphasize mailing and referendum dates.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The current El Niño event is building up to an unprecedented strength: Corrected for the ongoing warming the sea water in the indicator region of the Pacific is extremely far above normal, and early in the buildup.
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This contagious claim that under the NDP BC has become 'the highest taxed province' is nonsense. Provincial own-source revenue as share of GDP is 4th lowest among the provinces, and below the Canadian weighted average. #bcpoli /2
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump talking gibberish at the White House: “Canada charged us a lot of tariffs that nobody knew about, except me.”
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Take note of the relentlessness of the Trump regime and its surrogates, setting Canada up as an enemy state, deserving of escalating aggression. PAY ATTENTION. #cdnpoli #CdnNatSec
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Canada: "New data shows spike in COVID-19, cold symptoms as flu season arrives" - COVID-19 positivity: 3.8% - Influenza positivity: 3.7% - RSV positivity: 0.2% - Among 52 laboratory-confirmed respiratory viral outbreaks, 67.31% were associated with COVID-19 - Data through Sept. 26, 2026
A screenshot of an online article from the CP24 news website, featuring their white logo on a black background at the top. The bold main headline reads, "New data shows spike in COVID-19, cold symptoms as flu season arrives." The article is written by Christl Dabu and was published on October 02, 2026.
Below the text, a photograph captures a woman with long dark hair sitting at a cafe table, coughing or sneezing into her inner elbow. She is wearing a pink blazer over a green top, sitting in front of a white laptop and a ceramic mug. The background shows a softly blurred bakery counter with shelves and bottled drinks. The caption below notes that federal government data found an increase in COVID-19, influenza, cough, and fever cases as of late September 2026.
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
1. Something that gets discussed in this conversation is something I keep bringing up ad nauseam when people hurl pipeline hysteria into debates about Carney’s policies. The environmental movement typically fails to disclose that there IS NO green energy transition without fossil fuels. #cdnpoli
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Struward🇨🇦 @struward.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Conservative administrations always starve the Public System… …Then they point to it and say “See? It’s broken. Only Privatization can save us!”
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Dunn House model combines housing with health care for those who need it most. It works and we’re expanding it — with a third location in Toronto.
Screenshot of an article from CityNews. The headline reads: Toronto hospital to greatly expand permanent housing program that reduces ER visits.
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The Little News Bot @thelittlenewsbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why Canada is preparing for a (long shot) US invasion Prime Minister Mark Carney has said the military is running scenarios in the unlikely case the US invades Canada. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9m2mjj…
Why Canada is preparing for a (long shot) US invasion
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here’s a fairly decent rebuttal to some of the unhinged disinformation & propaganda being spun, especially by certain influencers who peddle in propaganda for clicks and profit, re the infamous pipeline in Canada. #cdnpoli #CdnEcon
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Canada's New Pipeline, Explained
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It seems Meta and OpenAI are now in cuteness face off when it comes to AI agents.
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
cbsnews.com
Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🇺🇦 Ukrainians rallied in Brussels in support of Oleshky, calling for Russia to open a humanitarian corridor and allow civilians to evacuate. Around 6,000 people, including nearly 200 children, reportedly remain in the occupied city amid severe shortages of food, water, and medicine.
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Stan 🇨🇦🐻 @saltystan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
theglobeandmail.com
Elections Alberta pushes back against misleading online claims ahead of referendum
Officials are countering false claims about the Oct. 19 vote as hundreds of thousands of Albertans request mail-in ballots
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joy-annemurphy.bsky.social @joy-annemurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you know people who struggle with how wordy and convoluted the referendum questions are, and what things mean (ie: what a yes vote could do, what a no vote, which ones are binding), a good site with plain language versions of the questions is: albertataxpayers.ca/referendum
albertataxpayers.ca
Alberta Referendum Questions 2026: All 10 Explained
All ten questions on the Oct 19, 2026 Alberta ballot: the exact wording, in plain English.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 26/09/2026
What in the Marvel villain
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 25/09/2026
With time running out, new poll suggests Alberta separatism support is slipping. Poll also suggests decline in people who say they feel mainly attached to Alberta www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
cbc.ca
With time running out, new poll suggests Alberta separatism support is slipping | CBC News
With a little more than three weeks to go until the Oct. 19 referendum, a new poll done for CBC News suggests support for separation has softened since spring.
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Long-awaited plans to protect Alberta’s caribou ranges reflect a decade of lobbying efforts from the oil and gas industry, rather than the best available science for recovery of the threatened woodland caribou. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/24/n...
nationalobserver.com
Oil and gas ambitions outshone caribou protection in Alberta land-use planning: experts
Scientists, conservationists and legal experts say the plans, which were first mandated by the federal government in 2012 to protect woodland caribou, lack the modelling, recovery goals and science-ba...
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Findlay Quits as Upheaval Brings BC to Brink of Election via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
thetyee.ca
Findlay Quits as Upheaval Brings BC to Brink of Election | The Tyee
How Conservative disarray and speculation of a snap vote have quickly reshaped the province’s political landscape.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
it's actually insane how terrible AI executives like Alex Karp here are marketing their products. he sounds like a complete lunatic on CNBC right now.
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Your input can help shape Canada’s future official languages strategy. 🇨🇦 Share your views as part of the 2026 Cross-Canada Official Languages Consultations. 🗓️ Participate by November 2026 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3R2mrIl
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Wow... big story in the battle between news companies and AI model scraping... check out these quotes - from unsealed court docs. The action is against Microsoft and OpenAI. 😮
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
404media.co
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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North Shore News @northshorenews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
'Beyond inspirational': North Shore resident celebrates 90th birthday by doing Grouse Grind
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'Beyond inspirational': North Shore resident celebrates 90th birthday by doing Grouse Grind
Roger Sauvain estimates he's done the Grind more than 10,000 times in the 30 years since he retired.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge orders Kennedy Center to provide 30 days' notice before major physical changes to building, including demolition.
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True Blue 🇦🇺🐨 @spbmckenna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🚨 CBS News 📍 www.cbsnews.com/live-updates... ..
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 16/09/2026
Is U.S. democracy ready for AI? We tested how chatbots respond to election disinformation — and whether they would help create it. Here are the results: bit.ly/3TSPbV6
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Canada is developing its first National Water Security Strategy to help protect freshwater, build resilient communities, and support a strong, sustainable economy. Canadians are invited to share their views and help shape the strategy. 🗓️ Participate by October 25, 2026. 🔗 bit.ly/4igFzOd
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk all agree that we have to slow down - and now - something serious clearly happened with a frontier AI model. Journalists should be digging in to this. We aren’t getting the whole story here.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Carney has even suggested Canada take on a new title: ‘Associate Member of the European Union.’ .. The EU, not known for its flexible enforcement of membership rules, is open to the idea ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“.. With Saudi oil now blockaded, Americans are about to discover why maintaining stability in the Middle East and not handing it to a consortium of Russia and Iran was always important.” @jayinkyiv.bsky.social
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Zelenskyy: The first drone deal with a country in the Americas will be with Canada. We looked at the drones that will be used under this agreement. Canada is ready to place large orders, and 30% of production will be transferred to Ukraine. Thank you, Canada, for a true partnership.
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lurkerbluesky.bsky.social @lurkerbluesky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Here's a quick map - red circles are transit choke points - blue line is the Saudi EW pipeline (built above ground - easy drone target) We spend trillions and yet didn't anticipate the Houthis in Yemen advancing on the Red Sea Choke point. This is really really bad.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If a hit on the E-W pipeline is confirmed, stuff is about to get really, really stupid. Stupid…er.*
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
More evidence that pretty much whatever way you cut it EVs are now cheaper than petrol and diesel cars. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535381...
businessgreen.com
Study: Electric vehicles 33 per cent cheaper to run than petrol and diesel cars
New report shows falling battery costs and high fuel prices are widening the economic advantage of EVs for drivers in Europe
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Wonder Why🦆Ducky🦆 @duck-flying.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation If tech firms such as Meta, Google and TikTok did not give the option to turn off algorithms, they should face "substantial" penalties www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation
Firms like Meta, Google and TikTok should face "substantial" penalties if they don't give the option, minister says.
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Tarnjit Parmar @tarnjitparmar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Disappearing island? 🧐 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
cbc.ca
An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir | CBC News
B.C. Hydro says it's monitoring for the reappearance of a mysterious island first spotted by boaters 100 kilometres from the W.A.C. Bennett Dam in northeastern B.C.
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Canada is taking action to help workers and businesses navigate the impact of U.S. tariffs. 🇨🇦 The new $7.5 billion package includes support for small and medium-sized businesses, tariff-affected companies, workers and employers. ➡️ Swipe through to see what’s included. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4zSc8bE
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Not Dolly :(
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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Americans on Bluesky demanding Canada "turn off the power" to "teach America a lesson" are basically asking Canada to give the USA an excuse to bomb us and then invade us. You are asking us to suffer the consequences of war because you don't know any other way to deal with your internal problems.
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Have your say on the future of AI. 🤖 The Government of Canada is looking for your input on AI transparency, accountability, and public understanding. 🗓️ Share your views by September 23, 2026. 🔗 Take the survey: bit.ly/4xaepfZ
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