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Rob Gillezeau

@robgillezeau.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. Expertise in public policy, economic history, and Indigenous economics. www.rob-gillezeau.com

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Dr. Angelino Viceisza @aviceisza.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If you're attending the Econometric Society meeting @emoryuniversity.bsky.social, join our semi-plenary session "New Approaches to Examining Race, Inequality and Discrimination" on Saturday, June 6 at 8:30-10 AM in Lullwater Salon 2. I'll be presenting on RCTs to study #systemicdiscrimination.
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Just finished academic/admin day and looking at budget headlines. Can anyone help me parse the international student stuff? The headlines (cuts of 60% plus) look like it would be further carnage for the higher ed sector. But, maybe the *target* is being cut but the *actuals* are already there?
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Other Canadian budget observations: There are lots of cuts to strategic innovation and industry funds. Those ones were obviously ineffective There are lots of new strategic innovation and industry funds. These ones will definitely work
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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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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
budget.canada.ca/2025/report-... While there are a couple hundred mentions of Indigenous people, it's all genuflection - little substantial. Look past this fiscal year, and it's all zeroes... where do they think we're going?
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
My take on Carney's long-awaited and (to my eye) somewhat underwhelming Climate Competitiveness Strategy. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Budget signals Carney’s new tone on climate policy, but not much substance
Ottawa does appear to be moving away from grants for industrial decarbonization
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.
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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Hot takes on climate implications of the 2025 Cdn budget. On one hand, lots of emphasis on investment in the low-carbon economy of the future, and using GHG reductions/$ as a standard for public investments. On the other, embrace of and subsidies for LNG as clean energy. \1
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Kelly Foley @kellyfoley.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The @cleforum.bsky.social webinar series looks fantastic again this year. First up is Jason Hicks from @uvic.ca on October 3. The full list can be found on CLEF's website: clef.uwaterloo.ca/webinar/ Email clef@uwaterloo.ca w/ “CLEF webinar” in the subject line to receive reminders and invites.
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Webinar Series – Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF)
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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
No other way to slice it: this is incredibly fucked up.
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Rob Gillezeau @robgillezeau.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I've made it out to Lund for my first World Economic History Congress. Excited to see lots of new economic history work from outside of the North American circuit. #wehc2025
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Why do nation-building projects always have to be about hewing wood and drawing water? Why can't nation-building plans be about knowledge or science?
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Carney has 'nation-building projects' on his mind as he meets with premiers in Saskatoon | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney's main focus will be on project development as he sits down with provincial and territorial premiers this week.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
A lot has changed in the world, so my colleagues and I at the @fordschool are opening up a special emergency admissions cycle for folks who want to start a Masters of Public Policy this fall. Deets are here: fordschool.umich.edu/masters-prog... I hope to see you in class in September!
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Become the leader you've always wanted to be and work to create meaningful change in public policy and affairs that impact our communities and the world.
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cleforum.bsky.social @cleforum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Registration for the CLEF conference (April 25 & 26, Toronto, in partnership with @stone-centre-ubc.bsky.social) open until April 15. Join us for a keynote lecture by @imarinescu.bsky.social and papers on wide variety of labour topics: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/clef2025/
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| Stone Centre for Wealth and Income Inequality
The Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF) is a network of Canadian academic researchers focused on the analysis of labour markets, including issues of human capital and skills development, labour sho...
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Applications are invited to participate in the 3rd Annual AEA CSQIEP Mentoring Conference to be held July 30-Aug 1, 2025 in Chicago! The conference supports late-stage economics PhD students who are queer-identified or working to support queer-identified economists. Apply asap, deadline Apr 11. 📉📈
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2025 AEA CSQIEP Economics PhD Student and Early Career Economist Mentoring Conference
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/03/2025
NEW POST: Canadians aren't being asked to meet the moment emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/canadians-...
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Canadians aren't being asked to meet the moment
As Donald Trump triples down on his economic war against Canada, one of the things that inspires the most hope is the vociferous and passionate response of Canadians.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 24/03/2025
At a time when Canada needs MASSIVE investment to transition away from the US, to build new facilities and transpo towards our ports, to rebuild our military, to build HOMES, to rebuild science and post-sec ed... to see the two main parties jump on *tax cuts* for their campaigns is depressing.
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I agree with Emmett. One party is promsing a 1 point cut to the lowest income tax rate; the other 2.25 points. Neither has proposed a credible way to pay for it. We need to see credible plans for big economic challenges and big defence/security threats. Hope that will be coming soon.
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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🚨 I am looking to hire 1-2 pre-docs at the University of Toronto. Some things you could work on: forecasts of research results, guaranteed income, evidence-based policy, AI. For more info and to apply: evavivalt.com/2025/03/pre-... Deadline: March 31. #predoc #econ_ra @econuoft.bsky.social
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
On top of this, by Trump turning this into a question of Canadians’ very existence as a country, rather than just an economic hit, he has guaranteed Canadians won’t relent.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
It is obvious to me that Trump has whatever the opposite of leverage is against Canada right now.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
One day, we'll look back on this as just Step 1 of removing women from any position of public authority. No one is making a fuss, because it's just women, so Step 2 will be easier. The broligarchs have already stated repeatedly that they regard women's right to vote in America as a "mistake."
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Biting Vermont diss
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 21/02/2025
You love to see it.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
HANG IT IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA!!!!
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Vance and others close to him are setting up the intellectual basis for American withdrawal from and hostile rivalry towards the EU based on the claim that a democratic Europe has betrayed an authoritarian vision that Vance presents as the epitome of "Western" civilisation.
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Maggie Jones @maggieecjones.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Thrilled to share that Mike and I will be making our way home to 🇨🇦 later this year where I’ll be joining the economics department at McGill University as associate professor. Looking forward to joining their vibrant research community!
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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · 03/02/2025
Getting out of the immediate moment of crisis was always a prerequisite. But we're a very dumb country if we allow this Sword of Damocles to continue to be hung over us. Keep buying Canadian, keep diversifying trade, keep thinking about a world with a less reliable America. Let's learn something.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 01/01/2025
Billionaires will do literally anything but income tax.
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“For whatever reason, Mr. Lütke appears to be undermining Canada” @robgillezeau.bsky.social said. “His decision to align with the Trump administration, even in the face of this reckless and economically illiterate attack on our country, puts us all at greater risk.” 🔥
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Tariffs, sure. But also the Canadarm should extend its middle finger. And we should officially add a "u" after every "o" in US place names on Canadian maps (New Yourk, Califournia, Washingtoun, Ouhiou, etc.)
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/02/2025
The United States has declared economic war on its closest ally — showing no one is safe from the declining superpower as it lashes out.
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
New Canadian Tax Journal Policy Forum call for proposals: Topic: Tax Reform in an Era of Federal Government Transition in Canada and the United States New administration in the US; new PM coming for Canada. What should they do on taxes? Write a proposal for the CTJ: ctf.ca/EN/Publicati...
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Ugh. This looks like they are preparing a round of cutesy tariffs on Kentucky bourbon and Wisconsin Harleys. That is too indirect and too cute. Need bigger threats. The incoming WH is aiming a bazooka at our heads and we are going to threaten ping pong balls aimed at pinky toes.
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This would be a great example of mid- or late- 19th century American jingoism if it hadn't been posted (and deleted, by House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans) in the year 2025
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Rob Gillezeau @robgillezeau.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I think Trudeau's legacy is much more mixed, but some of his early economic measures were important and well designed (e.g. the CCB, carbon pricing). Over his time in government there really seemed to be a drop off in the quality of policy design (e.g. recent auto handouts).
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67. Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Mortality Implications of a Unionized Career
An emerging literature has documented a wide range of protections and benefits that union membership provides for health and wellbeing. However, this …
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Post-Doc opportunity at VSE/Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality! Starts Sept 1, 2025. Application information at the link below: stonecentre.economics.ubc.ca/applications...
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Applications for Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Now Open | Stone Centre for Wealth and Income Inequality
The Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality is welcoming applications for its 2025/26 Postdoctoral Fellowship program. The position is open to scholars who are within five years of having receive...
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
My 2024 Innis Lecture from this summer's CEA meetings is now available *ungated* at the Canadian Journal of Economics website. "The time of your life: The mortality and longevity of Canadians" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Rob Gillezeau @robgillezeau.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Good, fiscally responsible, decision from @davidebybc.bsky.social and @brendavancouver.bsky.social here. Bravo.
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
What action should we take to a threatened 25% tariff? Some thoughts.... www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Trump vows to slap 25 per cent tariff on all products from Canada, Mexico
Tariffs would stand until both countries crack down on drugs and immigrants entering the U.S. illegally, Trump said on social media
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Rob Gillezeau @robgillezeau.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I'm surrounded by economists every day and I don't think I've heard a single one talk about "the vibe-cession." Rather, I've had plenty of conversations with my economist colleagues about the poorly designed rebate and tax holiday measures from the Minister.
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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Excellent report by @petertulip.bsky.social on housing affordability and how to fix it. Somehow I missed this nice concise piece when it came out. Very relevant to places outside of Australia, threading Vancouver parallels.
Housing is too expensive. This leads to
homelessness, rental stress, long commutes,
overcrowding, inequality, declining home
ownership, slower family formation,
misallocation of labour, increased carbon
emissions and many other social problems.
The fundamental cause is that planning
restrictions limit supply, driving up prices and
rents. It is important to be clear about this, and
for it to be a focal point in public discussions.
As discussed below, it is not well understood
by the public, so opponents of housing
developments do not realise the harm they do.
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Bhash Mazumder @bhashmazumder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Ok, I tried making a starter pack on intergenerational mobility. I'm sure I've missed many folks so please let me know if you want to be added: go.bsky.app/DvGG8zV
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Rob Gillezeau @robgillezeau.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It feels like the GST holiday fiasco is, in part, about broken collaborative processes in Ottawa. We started off with a debatable, but reasonable enough ask from the NDP to remove several essentials from the GST. Somehow that transformed into a totally different & worse policy. [1/4]
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I need some Ottawa reporter to explain how this batshit GST holiday/$250 cheques announcement happened. 1) Who was the political hack who came up with it? 2) How hard did Finance Dept fight back (my assumption is very)? 3) Who was in the meeting where green light was given?
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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
We are seeking submissions for Perspectives Journal no. 3 - to be released in Spring 2025. We invite proposals for long-form research and analysis on political economy, theory, policy issues, and historical narrative. Learn more: perspectivesjournal.ca/contribute/
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Rob Gillezeau @robgillezeau.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I figured I might as well kick off my presence here with a social contribution: a starter pack of the small, but growing number of Canadian economic historians on @bsky.app
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Rob Gillezeau @robgillezeau.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I've got another starter pack ready to go of Canadian progressive economists, labour studies scholars, researchers, and policymakers (generally folks connected with the labour movement, social democracy, or other progressive social movements).
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