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Joel Wood 🇨🇦

@joelwwood.bsky.social
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Environmental Economist at Thompson Rivers University. Biking enthusiast. Great horned owl attack victim. Kamloops 🇨🇦

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 7h
More conferences should have the reception in a billiards hall! The Canadian Resource and Enviro Economics Association should make this a regular thing
Environmental economists playing pool
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 8h
What’s the evidence on rent control? I charted the findings from 112 studies: Great for rent-controlled tenants ✅ But: Pushes up rents for other people ❌ Pushes down new housing construction ❌ Pushes down building quality ❌
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 12h
This is very good. “Over 2.2 million cancer deaths can be attributed to Costco; that’s more than 20% of all cancer deaths between 2000 and 2018.”
Ridiculous things you can “prove” caused cancer mortality

Everything causes cancer. Sounds cliché; maybe those California warning tags were right all along. But thanks to the methodology created by Alwadi et al., we can now prove that anything and everything causes cancer. Oh, sorry, that is too strong of an assertion. To use the authors’ words, since they have claimed their papers don’t prove causality, we can create an association between any physical landmark and cancer and, from that association, figure out how much cancer is attributable to that thing. Which is totally not the same as saying “that thing causes cancer.”

For instance, living near a private four-year university is associated with a 15-fold increase in cancer mortality when compared
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Holy crap, Statscan came out with 2024/25 enrolment data two whole months early! For once, our data is only 23 months out of date! Oh frabjous day!
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The Daily — Canadian postsecondary enrolments and graduates, 2024/2025
In the 2024/2025 academic year, there were 2.3 million enrolments in public colleges and universities, up slightly (+0.1%; +3,174) from the previous year. This followed a larger increase of 5.8% (+129...
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Dave Breakenridge @davebreakenridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Tragically Hip Best Song Bracket, Third-Place Match All you hear are the rusty breezes, pushing around weathervane Jesus #13 At the Hundredth Meridian vs. #2 Wheat Kings forms.gle/WWjYcfcFdvSK...
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The Tragically Hip Best Song Bracket, Third-Place Match
This is the 127th match in the Tragically Hip Best Song Bracket. Voting will be open for 24 hours. The song with the most votes moves onto the next round. You may have a favourite, but I'd encourage y...
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just listened to GM Ross Atkins comments on Ernie Clement, and it sounds like he is a believer like me
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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Milobar was also there, but I missed his speech.
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Noah Arney @ndarney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good to see David Eby attending the ceremonies at Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc today. He had strong words of support for residential school survivors.
David Eby speaking at the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc pow wow grounds
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Climate Justice Victoria @climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So many people standing up for what is right on #orangeshirtday on Lekwungen Territory (Victoria BC). #yyj #bcpoli
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🤡 🤡 🤡
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes score more runs, but we also can’t be doing a bullpen day 2 out of 5 times through the rotation We have lots of arms, but too much uncertainty. The upper tail outcomes are great, but adding an unsexy, reliable SP would be great
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This sounds like someone’s kink
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John Q. Public @publius24.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How do you even parody this shit?
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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ross Atkins believes that the #BlueJays can cover a “significant” amount of starts in 2027 with in-house options, but they’re open to adding. Surely they’ll add, likely multiple. The outfield feels like their other likeliest target, which is where they can chase more power.
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Q: What's a book recommendation to learn about urbanism? A: The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup. It's long, repetitive, and often quite dry. But it's also probably the most effective text imaginable at disabusing people that our cities are rationally designed or managed.
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Blake Murphy @blakemurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Atkins on Vlad bounceback: "Very confident that he'll be back. As is he. ... He's excited about it and extremely confident he's going to be back."
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Blake Murphy @blakemurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Atkins on Vlad: "He's such a dynamic athlete and hitter, that it's a really complex problem ... As he lost a bit of that rhythm and timing, started to impact his confidence, and adjustments became difficult." (Tightened up for brevity.)
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exoskeleton
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Keegan Matheson @keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ross Atkins on Vladimir Guerrero Jr.: “As he lost a little bit of that rhythm and timing over the course of pretty early in the season, it started to impact his confidence. Once it impacted his confidence, in-game and in-season adjustments became very difficult.” #BlueJays
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yup. He looked great in April except for low homers, and then he fell apart
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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s academic misconduct to A) feed someone else’s confidential submission into the plagiarism engine, and B) play off the outputs of a language model as the insights of a peer with actual content knowledge. I think I’d raise it with the editors.
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Jeremy Labrecque @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you get a peer review that is clearly AI-generated, do you just immediately notify the editors of this? Do you address any reasonable points the AI made? Having my first experience with a clearly AI generated peer review.
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I once received a response to my review that was extremely AI generated and was like 80 pages long. I informed the Editor and said I would not read it further
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Canada fights our wars, buys our goods, and shares our longest border. But Trump says they’re worse than actual authoritarian regimes because they won’t roll over on trade? Imagine simping for dictatorship while trashing our actual best ally. Bffr. #momsky#sheshed
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Worth noting: MacDonald's first attempt a establishing a Canadian Pacific Rail line STARTED in 1873 (when he and other officials were bribed as part the Pacific Scandal). Final construction wasn't completed until 1886. 13 years, not 4. Then, as now, the delays were political and regulatory.
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Jacob Gellman @jacobgellman.com · 29/09/2026
What is the cost of hurricane evacuation? We structurally estimate a travel cost model using data on hurricanes, evac. orders, and billions of obs of cell phone movement. Welfare costs average 55% as a share of mortality costs. (w/ Hennighausen, Watson, Berry.) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Super Intelligence
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Castanet Kamloops @castanetkamloops.net · 30/09/2026
Hundreds gather to reclaim space after masked demonstration at Tk'emlups #Kamloops
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Hundreds gather to reclaim space after masked demonstration at Tk'emlups - Kamloops News
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hands raised to Ashley Michel and her Secwépemc co-organizers for the community cleanse for Tk’emlups and Kamloops: “We just want a better world for our children and the generations to come”. So say we all. www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloop...
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Hundreds gather to reclaim space after masked demonstration at Tk'emlups
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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Amnesty International is calling for the abolition of a US government agency (ICE) for human rights violations. I am so ashamed of my country. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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USA: "We had whistles, they had guns": Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Enforcement Operations and the Case to Abolish ICE - Amnesty International
Amnesty International has documented that, since taking office on 20 January 2025, the Trump administration has subjected migrants, asylum seekers and refugees to a wide range of human rights violatio...
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Ian McNaughton @ianmcnaughton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Honestly, I’m more interested in the PWHL and what they got going on and hope to go to a couple games this year. And while I’m happy to have hockey back because I’ll always love hockey, my NHL interest level is lower than it’s ever been and I don’t see it improving anytime soon.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am convinced that people who think immigrants are lazy and just draw welfare have not actually met many immigrants.
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Layne @laynev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man this has been the biggest nicest surprise of the whole thing
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Dave Breakenridge @davebreakenridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nautical Disaster has defeated At the Hundredth Meridian 96-60 to advance to the final round of TTH Best Song Bracket.
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Dave Breakenridge @davebreakenridge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Tragically Hip Best Song Bracket, Semifinal Match 2 Tonight we smoked them out #2 Wheat Kings vs. #3 Ahead By A Century forms.gle/5irnmWei8sym...
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The Tragically Hip Best Song Bracket, Semifinal Match 2
This is the 126th match in the Tragically Hip Best Song Bracket. Voting will be open for 24 hours. The song with the most votes moves onto the next round. You may have a favourite, but I'd encourage y...
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wheat Kings. 100%
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CFJC Today Kamloops @cfjctoday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
dlvr.it
WATCH: Hundreds rally to ‘reclaim the land’ after masked Sunday gathering on Tkemlúps
TKEMLPS TE SECWPEMC - Hundreds of Indigenous people and allies stood shoulder to shoulder at the Chief Louis Crossing shopping complex Tuesday (Sept. ...
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
❤️ Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I found it. I found the perfect car for Bluejays rookie relief pitcher Chad Dallas
Red car with black and gold firebird on the front hood
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I do not agree with heritage groups about building preservation very often, but this is a large publicly owned building with local significance. It should not be torn down to build a new RCMP building. #Kamloops
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My story about Second Sons showing up in Kamloops and how experts say this is a wake up call to law enforcement, and to political parties who have been making space for residential school denialists. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Masked Group in Kamloops Sparks Alarm and Racism Fears | The Tyee
‘I don’t want these people in my neighbourhood, in my city, in my country.’
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Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @risingaction.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thoma Müller is coming back for the sprint season and maybe more theprovince.com/sports/socce...
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Whitecaps re-sign Thomas Müller for 2027 'sprint' season
Herr Raumdeuter wants to keep going as long as he can keep performing like a top player.
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 29/09/2026
How stadiums get taxpayer subsidies
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “We had proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump committed serious crimes”
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It sounds like some community members are organizing a rally of support for Tk’emlups te Secwepemc today (Sept 29) 4pm Chief Louis Crossing Complex 302 Yellowhead Hwy #Kamloops
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
A Turkish media outlet is reporting the fake AI journalist “Daniel Robson,” who was published by the Ottawa Citizen, Policy Options, Western Standard and The Hub, was targeting a “critic of the Moroccan ruling elite” The dissident suspects “Daniel Robson” may have links to “Moroccan intelligence”
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Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today
The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We have answered so many of these questions dozens of times. Sometimes in giant multimillion dollar studies and politicians just refuse to listen.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 29/09/2026
SCOOP: The State of Washington is urging Mark Carney’s government not to fast-track the proposed West Coast pipeline. @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports. #CanPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Pump the Brakes on the West Coast Oil Pipeline, Washington Says | The Tyee
A letter obtained by The Tyee shows the state’s Ecology Department has serious concerns about spill risks and tanker traffic.
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Mike Hager @mikehager.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yikes, looked on the Other Site to see how piece on yesterday's #Kamloops incident was received and about what you'd expect: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Twitter users reply with racist comments to post of Globe and Mail story about Second Sons marching and posing in Kamloops and Tk̓emlúps Te Secwépemc First Nation's territory on Sunday.
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