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Mike Fotheringham

@mfother.bsky.social
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CEO of employee-owned BCorp. Arm chair economist, lover of live music, basketball fan, care about people and planet.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Canadian businesses are immensely profitable ... Those profits are also at record levels relative to GDP:" Seems remarkable given the supposed lack of a "business-friendly" government in Ottawa for the last decade. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Innovate? In this economy? With these profit margins?
It is time we realized how far extraction and innovation stand in opposition to each other.
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Conor Lamb @conorlambpa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Great name choice. The last Pope Leo, the 13th, was known as a pope for workers and the poor. In Rerum novarum he emphasized the rights of workers to form unions and earn good wages long before these were mainstream positions in the United States.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/05/2025
Seeing the worst pretend Catholics melt down over this is just beautiful.
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Ben Wetzler @voteben.nyc · 02/05/2025
He's being disrespectful to veterans in a variety of ways, but the thing that really gets me is Veterans Day started out as "Armistice Day." It was explicitly about peace, never "victory." They were celebrating the fact that the war was over, not that it was won.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 30/04/2025
A government under seven (7) different investigations for corruption just introduced a bill that would bring more corporate money into politics. This is not normal. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta overhauls election laws to allow corporate donations, change referendum thresholds | CBC News
The Alberta government wants to bring back corporate and union political donations, eliminate vouching for a voter’s identity at election polling stations, and lower the threshold for recalls and refe...
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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Corporate leaders are obsessing over GDP per capita. But, if you look at just about any number that would meaningfully tell you how well our economy is doing, Canada does better than the U.S. @mendelmatt.bsky.social @jimstanford.bsky.social #alwayscanada #never51 #gdp #cdnpoli #cdnecon
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
My opening remarks in defence of the CBC at the recent Mount Royal debate.
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Cole.notcole @colenotcole.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This has to be one of the most unserious plans I've ever seen. If this guy get elected we are doomed. colenotcole.substack.com/p/poilievres...
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Poilievre’s Costed Platform Finally Drops
Pierre Poilievre released his long-awaited costed platform just days before Canadians head to the polls.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Elon Musk: Government should be run like a business. Tesla profits drop 71%. Elon Musk: Okay, my work here making government run like a business is done now.
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Conservative plan is out and, ooof, is this costing a disaster. There's a whole bunch of phantom revenues booked here, and the GST housing pledge is costed at under $2B. Given their proposed eligibility criteria, it should be more in the 4-6B range.
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Don Cochrane 🇨🇦 @doncochraneyow.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A good set of facts and arguments to have on hand when someone pulls out that "but our per capita GDP is shrinking!"...
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Why GDP per capita doesn’t measure Canada’s true economic health
GDP per capita distorts Canada’s economic story. Population growth and inequality skew the numbers – and the policy conversation.
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Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Because while a zero debt to GDP ratio isn't a particular goal in itself*, and although I accept line graphs don't need to start at zero, I do think that plus a bit of history is helpful in some cases. * Given which I don't see why a constantly declining debt to GDP ratio should be a policy goal.
Time series graph of Canada's federal debt to GDP ratio from roughly 2000 through to projections to 2029, with LPC and (possible) CPC platform.
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Mike Fotheringham @mfother.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
His book Values has a lot of connection to Catholic social teaching on the economy and now Mr. Carney reveals his inspiration behind his work. At a time when moral leadership is in short supply, Canada has a leader that can step up.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
My statement on the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis:
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 17/04/2025
Today on the podcast, I talk with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social
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Canada’s Role in a Shifting Global Order — with Mark Carney
The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Episode
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Regardless of the question and topic, Poilievre has the same answer: tax cuts.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It’s not about saving money. The U.S. doesn’t have a spending problem, a debt problem, or a deficit problem. What we have is a wealth inequality problem—and DOGE is designed to make that real issue way worse. It’s a con. The entire point is to defang government and insulate wealth from democracy.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre gives a master class in how to lose elections: call on Canada’s leading neofascist conflict of interest journalist more than all others for questions at all your pressers, while pretending to have become a moderate. 🤷🏼🤔🤷🏼
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It's confirmed. "Friends" of India's ruling party helped finance PoiLIEvre’s leadership campaign. globalnews.ca/news/1111367...
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The Modi ‘friends’ who helped finance Poilievre’s leadership campaign | Globalnews.ca
Former leaders of Overseas Friends of BJP Canada donated thousands to the Conservative leader and his party.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
There's been lots of talk lately about the "lost decade" in Canada under the Liberal government. It revolves around this chart: Let's dig into it with a quick thread. 🧵
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
1984
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
If you’re leading with tax cuts you’ve already lost. Democrats should stand for a functional, responsive government, a generous safety net, and modernized public services. Tax cuts is Reagan bullshit. It’s not what you pay. It’s what you get back.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Both talked about executing political opponents. apple.news/A_DpJvTyFRAW...
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Conservatives drop second election candidate in one day — CTV News
The Conservatives have dropped a second candidate in the election race, in a single day.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Conrad Black accused Mark Carney of having “poor values.” Black is a convicted criminal and named associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Why is he considered a moral arbiter of anything? open.substack.com/pub/dougaldl...
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As a Convicted Criminal and Named Associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Conrad Black has no Business Questioning Anyone's Morals
Conrad Black, who was pardoned for a federal crime committed in the U.S., accused Mark Carney of having poor values. Black embodies the moral bankruptcy of conservatism on both sides of the border.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Kelly 🇨🇦 @kellyhfx.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Mike Fotheringham @mfother.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Same solution for every problem. Reminds me of youtu.be/n6MZ8nPm5s4?...
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
AFN Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak on Justin Trudeau – March 26, 2025 #cdnpoli "I'd be remiss if I didn't recognize our outgoing PM Justin Trudeau. During his decade in power Mr Trudeau did more to help improve the quality of life for First Nations than any other PM in the history of this country"
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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Do not go to the United States. It is dangerous. Full stop.
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Raúl Carrillo @raulcarrillo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
48 people disappeared in New Mexico sourcenm.com/2025/03/17/i...
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ICE has ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say • Source New Mexico
“We don’t know what’s happened to these four dozen New Mexicans. They’ve effectively disappeared. They’re gone,” an ACLU attorney said.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
It seems as if half the people in the MAGA/America First movement express open regret that Hitler didn't win World War II - and the other half don't know that if we'd listened to the America First movement of the day, he would have.
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Dougald Lamont @dougaldlamont.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
BRING ON THE BRAND NEW RENAISSANCE breaks down economic myths and presents a fresh new reality-based perspective on the challenges facing Canada's economy & the bold tools that could be used to build a new economy based on shared participation - not targeted sacrifice. www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
💯 Reality. Guess who the oligarchs fund?
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Jon Shell @jonshell.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Employee Ownership can be an important tool in the fight for Canadian sovereignty. Current policy isn't up to the task. Michael Ras and my take in today's @calgaryherald.com. It's time to move this issue into the front and centre of the Canadian economic agenda. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: How employee ownership can help secure Canadian sovereignty
As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Rugged individualism is a myth. Your freedom is tied to the freedom and well being of everyone else.
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Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
104 of the Raptors' 118 points tonight were scored by undrafted players. That's the most points undrafted players have accounted for in a game since at least 1951.
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Anaximander's Elbows Up Tardigrade Brigade 🍁🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱 @centristhumanist.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Paul Krugman tears apart the faux economic strategy of small government paleocons. "Trump made a lot of extravagant economic promises during the campaign, without any plans or even concepts of plans to deliver on those promises. " Sound familiar Canada?! #uspoli #cdnpoli
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The Economic Excuse Industry is Booming
No, we don’t need an economic “detox”
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
How should Canada navigate a shifting world order? With the U.S. redefining its alliances and Europe rearming, Canada’s foreign policy faces new challenges. seva.bsky.social, political science professor at UofT and author, joins @spaikin.bsky.social to break it all down. Watch tonight at 8pm.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
a tale in two parts
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🇨🇦Frank🇳🇱 @frankvdb.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Wow! The US Customs at Toronto Pearson International Airport during March Break. Never seen before #BoycottUSA #ElbowUp
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The scale of corruption being perpetrated right now is almost beyond the limits of imagination. This is just one example, almost certainly not the greatest.
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is headlining an event in Florida this month with ghoulish right-wing social media personality Ben Shapiro, who recently tweeted at PM Trudeau that “When we take Canada, you will be expelled to Panama to work the canal.”
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Count Nikolaj Bill-cula @nikolajbill.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
To be frank, not only is comparing a political speech by one of the equal branches akin to the Holy Liturgy more suitable to be said by the antichrist than a Prince of the Apostles, but it also shows a remarkable lack of literacy when it comes to both liturgics and American democracy.
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Bishop Barron compares Trump's address to Congress to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Bishop Robert Barron was "delighted" to attend President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress and celebrate a private Mass for lawmakers, he said on a lengthy social media video about his "thrilli...
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Mike Fotheringham @mfother.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This commentator has it right. We are seeing an ideological agenda a la Ayn Rand and funded by the likes of the Koch brothers. Don’t think it’s not coming to Canada. Poillievre is influenced by the same ideology and our extreme right wing think tanks who taught him are funded by the same money.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
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Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan
The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is the right message; similar to what Premier Ford said in a US interview earlier today. The self-induced pain of the US tariffs will have a large effect on many sectors in the US and Americans should know about it.
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Mark Bourrie @drmarkbourrie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I am going to get my act together and fully migrate to BlueSky. I want to use all social media to promote my book. There's no point doing this much work and let it be lost inall the noise. People need to know it exists, then make the choice of whether to buy and read it. I'm grateful for any shares.
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