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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
But not to work....
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How about that legal right to strike among federally regulated workers? What’s your plan there?
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 19/09/2026
The Climate Casino is taking the OVER on 1.97°C.
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"One of the biggest business tax policy changes in half a century" as per the Director of Policy to the Minister of Finance. www.canada.ca/en/departmen... I guess we're getting so much cash from higher oil prices that we don't need the extra revenues? Cuz we have no pressing needs in housing/care.
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Government of Canada introduces new Productivity Mega Deduction to boost Canada’s advantage as the most competitive G7 country for new business investment - Canada.ca
To boost business investment, enhance certainty and simplicity for businesses, and strengthen Canada’s tax competitiveness, the Government of Canada proposes to implement the Productivity Mega Deduction, which will provide immediate expensing for a broad-based range of depreciable property on a permanent basis. Immediate expensing allows taxpayers to fully write off the cost of an investment in the year that it becomes available for use. This powerful investment incentive will create the conditions for an extended period of higher investment—a Canadian investment supercycle.
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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I blogged. open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
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Next steps…
Trade talks are off.
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Dan Peterson @danp.net · 21/08/2026
*province, I think the city would like it gone/changed
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So if I am understanding we are signing a trade deal with tariffs (ffs) lower than (most recently) threatened but higher than pre trump status quo and that is…winning?
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Any chance you could you spare $100 million for more childcare?
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/07/2026
Here's a graph of global surface temperatures since 1940 by their decadal average. Notice any pattern?
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Whoops
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End of carbon tax rebates a financial hit for Canada’s poorest, research shows
Rebates were tax-free payments that compensated consumers for the cost of carbon taxes
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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So, once again, rest of the world, what is the value of a "deal" if the White House decides it has a feeling and invokes 338 on items, regardless of trade agreements? Canada is again being used as the test case.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 15/07/2026
Good thing Mark Carney decided climate change isn't worth addressing.
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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Why is it so important to me that Canadians understand how little the incomes of the rich were taxed in 🇨🇦 in the 1950s and 1960s? Much less than in the U.S. 🇨🇦 did not tax capital gains until 1972. The top marginal rate was high, yes, but easily avoided. Why do I want ppl to know this? 1/5
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Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦 @tammyschirle.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Why would I say it is an odd renaming? Aside from the fact that CGEB isn't a great acronym, we don't charge GST on most groceries. I looked at my receipt from shopping last week - spent $172 at the grocery store, HST was applied to only $42.
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Here lies the rub: how many times does Trump have to threaten any of us with the iron fist only to barely make contact with a whiffle ball bat before we all have to agree we’ve lost trust? For me that was last year. For Carney it was two days ago. For Danielle Smith, we are still waiting.
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
So he actually posted an altered image to Truth Social with the US flag over Canada along with Greenland and Venezuela (and we know what has happened in Venezuela 🇻🇪) and Canada has done what with the US ambassador?
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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
As someone with a bad bladder, I wish there were more publicly available and clean washrooms.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The fact that the Canadian government's official statement on the president of the United States illegally invading a foreign country does not include the words "President," "United States," "illegal," or "invade" really tells you all you need to know about where we stand, tbh
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"Maduro’s wife" has an actual name — Cilia Flores. She's not a great person, but so far as I know, there are no criminal complaints or arrest warrants for her anywhere. You can't even put a legal fig leaf on her kidnapping.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Home for Christmas Maud Lewis c. 1958
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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Imagine if the PM had just taken time to meet with Coastal chiefs *before* signing the MOU with Smith…
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
But cutting $1.2 billion from student aid.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Minority parliaments, in theory: Parties forced to work together, government held to account, real compromise, substantive accomplishment. Minority parliaments, in reality: IS THERE GOING TO BE AN ELECTION THIS WEEK? WHAT ABOUT NEXT WEEK?
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Second-biggest line item in the budget. Largely ignored this week because it was old news. bsky.app/profile/arad...
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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
called it
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davidnich.bsky.social @davidnich.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I can't find the defense budget figure for 2025. Sigh
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Staring at Canada's own gender-based analysis of its budget. Give you one guess at the main beneficiary of all the major spending investments....
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We're cutting $s to low-income 18 year-olds to access education, but we still have half a billion a year to make student loans interest-free for early-career 20-somethings "to help with the rent" AS DUMB AS A BAG OF HAMMERS.
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I don’t care. You are literally starving the woman’s state
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davidnich.bsky.social @davidnich.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Mandatory minimum sentences are bad because they force a harsher sentence than what a judge thinks is fair. They are only relevant if they are an unfair punishment.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I think there's this tendency in the Canadian discourse to assume that in any situation where another country is mad at Canada, it must be because Canadians did something wrong. Probably we need to most past that as the default assumption.
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davidnich.bsky.social @davidnich.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Why does a doctor earning the same salary as a PSW pay more taxes?
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davidnich.bsky.social @davidnich.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
CRA was too busy to answer the phone 8.6M times last year
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
“"Canadians are expected to provide their tax returns on time and with accurate information. And I think, in return, they should expect that the Canada Revenue Agency will be available in a timely fashion and provide them with accurate information and I would say this is not the case,”
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a man in a suit and tie is asking if he can get an amen ?
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is asking if he can get an amen ?
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
EXCEPT... Toronto doesn't meet the second conditions! Depending on the type of unit, development charges in Toronto are 20-40% higher than they were in April 2024. So they shouldn't qualify!
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This particular cycle will happen over and over. Politicians and business types will never be able to resist dogpiling on the latest educational fad, because they never pay a price for being so excessively hubristic as to call the labour market five years out.
nytimes.com
Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
On Thursday, the Climate Institute reported the decline in Canada's GHG emissions had stalled and our 2030 target was no longer reachable. In the two sessions of Question Period that followed, a total of 82 questions were asked. Just 3 of those q's — 2 from BQ, 1 from NDP — were about the report.
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davidnich.bsky.social @davidnich.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Bank of Canada: Canada's economy is bad so we will lower rates. Minister of Finance: Great News! Canadians should celebrate!
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Checked Hansard to see how many references to "wildfire" there were in the two days Parliament has been back. There appear to be two: openparliament.ca/debates/2025... openparliament.ca/debates/2025... Reminder: This was Canada's second-worst wildfire season on record. www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
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This is our second-worst wildfire season on record — and could be the new normal | CBC News
This year's wildfire season is already the second-worst on record in Canada, and experts are warning that this might be the new normal.
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Is he dead yet? 🇨🇦 @maximummeh.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I wish they would discuss things like climate change, poor harvests, and global supply chains and those effects on food prices.
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Just so i am clear, so we couldnt actually afford those tax cuts then 🤔 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Salaries or staff: Premier says tight budget means teachers face stark choice in bargaining | CBC News
With a provincewide teachers strike looming, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says their union has a stark choice between heftier pay hikes and more teachers.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney is gutting any chance of Canada meeting its greenhouse gas emission goals Morning File by me
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is gutting any chance of Canada meeting its greenhouse gas emission goals - Halifax Examiner
Why get worked up solely by the Houston government while the Carney government is undermining climate change policies as well?
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davidnich.bsky.social @davidnich.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The US trade policy is stupid.
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EA @elliottanderson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Any time a company claims they can’t find workers in Canada check to see what wages they offer. It’s always the minimum wage. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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This Ontario resort can’t find enough employees. Businesses say cuts to Canada’s temporary foreign worker program are to blame
Economists and advocates say Canada’s dependence on these workers is troubling, and they should do more to make jobs attractive.
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Paging Canada's public pension plans. CPPIB in particular bdscoalition.ca/2024/05/31/c...
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CPPIB investment in war crimes & potential genocide increases to $16 B in 2024
For five years, the Canada Pension Plan has been told by tens of thousands of its contributors and recipients that investing in war crimes is not acceptable. Send a letter However, eight mon…
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davidnich.bsky.social @davidnich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
This act has nothing to do with Sovereignty. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Poilievre says Carney's moving in the 'wrong direction,' pledges to 'legalize' pipelines | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Mark Carney's development agenda is stalled — and he's promising to "legalize" pipelines through new legislation to speed things up.
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davidnich.bsky.social @davidnich.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Nice vacant lot for only 5x median household income: www.remax.ca/on/kawartha-...
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38 OAK STREET, Kawartha Lakes (Fenelon Falls), ON K0M1N0 Land For Sale | RE/MAX | X12306981
38 OAK Street Land for sale in Kawartha Lakes (Fenelon Falls), Ontario for $329,000 CAD, 0 bathrooms. MLS® #:X12306981.
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davidnich.bsky.social @davidnich.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
How much does it cost the gov't to guarantee $700M in loans to the forestry industry? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Cautious optimism in B.C. after PM announces $1.2B in softwood lumber support | CBC News
B.C.'s forestry industry has taken major hits over the last few years, as escalating U.S. duties on softwood lumber imports have piled atop a number of other challenges, leading to thousands of job lo...
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Bring back the Digital Services Tax Trump escalates trade war with Canada following Palestine stance - Reuters apple.news/AEfHrL4KOSHG...
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Trump escalates trade war with Canada following Palestine stance — Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump intensified his trade war with Canada a day ahead of his August 1 deadline for a tariff agreement, saying it would be
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
If you're also feeling salty that 5% of our GDP is going to defence and as a result, the Ministry of Women and Gender Equality's budget is being slashed, you should contact your MP and give them hell. But you should also participate in the pre-budget consultation! Link here :
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Pre-Budget Consultations 2025 - Canada.ca
Pre-Budget Consultations 2025
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