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Russell Alan Williams

@russellawilliams.bsky.social
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Professor at Memorial University, Interested in political economy, public policy, and LFC

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Christine Saulnier (she/her) @csaulnier.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Read the new NL report: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... Thanks for collaborating @russellawilliams.bsky.social
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The Value and Benefits of Public Spending for Households in Newfoundland and Labrador | CCPA
This report examines the value of public services to households in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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CCPA Nova Scotia @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our new report, Closing the Gaps: Gender pay inequity in Atlantic Canada by Daniel Cerdas Sandí and Christine Saulnier, is available on the CCPA website, along with provincial fact sheets: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/closing-the-gaps/ #nspoli #nbpoli #nlpoli #peipoli
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CCPA Nova Scotia @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
We are hosting a webinar tomorrow, Thursday, June 25th with provincial representatives across Atlantic Canada. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/bM7lY-EQSAuX8EzK4bA0Kg
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Webinar: Pay Equity in Atlantic Canada. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Following the release of our upcoming report on pay inequity in Atlantic Canada, we’ll be hosting a community discussion where we’ll talk about the report findings, and of the status of pay equity in…
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
themuse.ca/letter-fund-...
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LETTER: Fund the Freedom to Learn | The Muse
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MUNFA President @munfapres.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
@munfaculty.bsky.social Share your own contributions
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Without action by government in this year's budget the University cannot continue to meet its core responsibilities - it touches on everyone. Just today in the news - cuts to the number of social workers that can be trained here. The long term consequences are dire. My #WeAreMun take:
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Good @munfaculty.bsky.social meeting with the Leader of the Opposition and the Education Critic - we haven't given up on trying to convince leadership in the province that a decent public University for the people of this province is worth saving - we need help in Budget 2026.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I have a ton of respect for administrators standing up for their most vulnerable members. This is the situation in math and everywhere. Good people, providing good courses, being thrown away. There are solutions. You can't have a 2026 University on a 2014 budget. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The classroom is tough at the moment - math classes are always hard, but our instructors do an excellent job. Most first year students need these courses and need to pass them. I have no idea how just cutting half the classes will improve educational outcomes. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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MUN Faculty Association @munfaculty.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Proposed cuts in Mathematics & Statistics would eliminate 7 of 8 teaching positions and reduce first-year course sections students depend on. As the provincial budget approaches, faculty are urging government to reinvest in Memorial. 1/2
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Danny Dyer @lyingb.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is my department. I may lose many of my colleagues, who are excellent teachers and have taught almost all of our first year courses for years and years.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It’s murder. Just murder.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I think so. t.co/pPMcZiASuP
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https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/22/trump-venezuela-empire-greenland-nato-europe/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=dHJ1bXAtdmVuZXp1ZWxhLWVtcGlyZS1ncmVlbmxhbmQtbmF0by1ldXJvcGU=...
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Used to be a lot of talk about the WEF on social media - global elite conspiracies and all that - Watching Trump brag about all the great things he has done for the uber rich in Davos must have been hard. Really hard.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Trump actually threatened three different NATO members today, but apparently US news things the key takeaway is that he says he won’t use force …
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Canadaland @canadaland.com · 14/10/2025
It’s election time in Newfoundland and Labrador — and beef with Quebec is back on the menu.
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Can Newfoundland Finally Stand up to Quebec?
This week, host Sam unpacks how a 1969 deal turned Newfoundland’s mighty river into Quebec’s cash cow, earning Hydro-Québec billions while leaving Newfoundland with scraps. Now, decades later, the province says it’s finally taking back control.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Come meet the St. John's city council candidates running for the at-large seats "under the whale" tomorrow. They'll be serving up their visions for the city.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Releasing today - the 2025 regional living wages. Our takeaway this year - too many people are working long hours for incomes that don't cover a conservative estimate of essential household expenses. Report here: www.policyalternatives.ca/.../2025-liv...
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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · 13/06/2025
🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City Campaign School - Building a Campaign and Communicating Change panel featuring: Deatra Walsh Jess Puddister Shannie Duff 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall 📱 Register via QR code! It's Free! See you tomorrow!
Happy City Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Building a Campaign and Communicating Change discussion. Features three professional headshots: Deatra Walsh (white woman with curly brown hair wearing dark top against red wooden siding background), Independent Consultant; Jess Puddister (white woman with long blonde hair and glasses wearing dark blazer against yellow wooden siding background), Strategy and Operations Manager with Nunavut Nukkiksautiit Corporation; and Shannie Duff (white woman with short curly reddish hair wearing gold/yellow top against blue background), Former Mayor of St. John's. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Wow immigrants are almost entirely hardworking members of the community and America would be worse off trying to deport them all? You’re telling me this now for the first time
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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · 12/06/2025
🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City Campaign School - Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Youth panel featuring: Hope Jamieson Jen Crowe Doug Pawson Grant Horwood 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall 📱 Register via QR code! It's Free! Stay tuned for more announcements!
Happy City Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Youth discussion. Features four professional headshots: Hope Jamieson (white woman with blonde hair wearing red top and black jacket), Affordable Housing Researcher and Consultant; Jen Crowe (white woman with brown hair wearing black blazer), Executive Director of Choices for Youth; Doug Pawson (white man with receding hairline wearing light blue collared shirt), Executive Director of End Homelessness St. John's; and Grant Horwood (white man with gray hair wearing dark suit and blue shirt), Secretary of Happy City St. John's. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
More great St. John’s politics content.
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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · 11/06/2025
🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City Campaign School - Inclusive Civic Engagement with Municipalities panel featuring: Rob Nolan Dr. Schwartz Dr. Giwa Sarah Worthman 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall 📱 Register via QR code! It's Free! Stay tuned for more!
Happy City Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Inclusive Civic Engagement with Municipalities discussion. Features four professional headshots: Rob Nolan (white man with brown hair and beard wearing dark sweater), CEO of MNL; Dr. Elizabeth Schwartz (white woman with curly brown hair and glasses wearing gray top), Assistant Professor of Political Science; Dr. Sulaimon Giwa (Black man wearing yellow shirt), Associate Professor of Social Work; and Sarah Worthman (white woman with blonde hair and glasses wearing orange/yellow top), Writer & 2SLGBTQIA Activist. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · 10/06/2025
🗳️Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City Campaign School - Meet our panelists! Climate Change, Public Transportation, Infrastructure and Resilience panel featuring: Dr. Tolulope Akerele Dr. Mahyar Masoudi Luke Quinton 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall 📱 Register via QR code!
Happy City St. John's Municipal Election Campaign School flyer announcing panelists for Climate Change, Public Transportation, Infrastructure, and Resilience discussion. Features three professional headshots: Dr. Tolulope Victoria Akerele (Black woman with glasses wearing black top), described as Visionary Leader, Urban Planner and Researcher; Dr. Mahyar Masoudi (man with glasses wearing blue patterned shirt), Assistant Professor in Department of Geography; and Luke Quinton (white man in red checkered shirt with arms crossed), Writer and Audio Producer. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
More exciting @happycitysj.bsky.social content
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John Cluverius @johncluverius.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@owasow.bsky.social is one of the best political scientists thinking about broader impacts of protests and demonstrations on politics, in case you follow me and don't follow him.
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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · 02/06/2025
🌟 We're hiring! Happy City seeks a Website Coordinator for Major Events - Summer 2025. 8 weeks, 35 hrs/wk, $16/hr. Apply by June 13 at happycity.ca
Job posting graphic with blue gradient background and decorative orange and teal dotted patterns. White text reads 'We're Hiring!' followed by 'Website Coordinator - Major Events, Summer 2025'. Details include '8 weeks // 35 hrs/wk // $16/hr' and 'For more info & to apply, visit happycity.ca, Deadline: Friday, June 13'. Happy City logo appears in bottom right corner showing blue city skyline silhouette.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
@happycitysj.bsky.social has a very exciting day of discussion about municipal politics and policy challenges as a lead in to this fall's municipal elections - really looking forward to this.
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Happy City St. John's @happycity.ca · 09/06/2025
🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City is hosting a Campaign School for the St. John's Municipal Election! Keynote Speaker: Joshua Smee, CEO Food First NL 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine (DH2002) 📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!
Happy City St. John's Municipal Election Campaign School flyer. Features a professional headshot of keynote speaker Joshua Smee, CEO of Food First NL, wearing a white collared shirt with small pattern details. Event details: Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM, located at MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine, DH2002. Includes QR code for registration. Sponsored by Memorial University, Harris Centre, Deucor, and The Hub. Red and blue color scheme with white background.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The NATO 2% goal has always been a shell game, but it is absolutely the lowest, of low hanging fruit, to fold the Coast Guard into the national defence budget (as other countries do) to substantially *increase defence spending. Maybe we could even fund effective SAR now? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney to announce Canada will meet 2% NATO spending target by March | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce that his government plans to meet the NATO benchmark target of two per cent of the country’s gross domestic product by the end of the current fiscal year ...
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Have to say, I'm pretty proud to see my work cited in this list of people - obviously this is an awesome lit review.
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🇨🇦 CPSA ACSP 🇨🇦 @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
2025 Vincent Lemieux🏆 winner - gagnante Congrats!!! Meaghan Williams @uoft.bsky.social Jury Koning @uofgpolisci.bsky.social @russellawilliams.bsky.social MJ Zahar @umontreal.ca
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Congrats to all the finalists - they were amazing. If you get asked to be on this jury… do it. I learned so much. And congrats to Meaghan Williams.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
St. John's peeps: Head's up if you are interested in the upcoming municipal elections, @happycitysj.bsky.social is hosting a campaign school for people trying to get more involved. Panels on running campaigns, policy issues confronting the city and snacks.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Just reposting this for all my Memorial University peeps wondering why they are being asked to get rid of more people. It’s easy. This government has other priorities. It’s a choice.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Not sure they’re going to be able to wedge a season 3 of Andor in the timeline. 😩
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🇨🇦 CPSA ACSP 🇨🇦 @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
2025 Vincent Lemieux🏆 Congrats!!! R Chabot @mcgill.ca| S Lleshaj @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social |M Williams @uoft.bsky.social CITATIONS conta.cc/43aradd Winner👉🏽June 4 TMU cpsaconference.ca/sessions_det... Jury Koning @uofgpolisci.bsky.social @russellawilliams.bsky.social Zahar @umontreal-en.bsky.social
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Ethan Elkind @ethanelkind.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
If you want to hear the best arguments against hydrogen as a climate solution, this podcast is for you!
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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@aleach.ca and I just published a new paper. We look at the impact of a succession of 3 economic shocks - the crash in global oil prices in 2015, COVID19, and the war in Ukraine - on Canadian climate policy. I think 1st 50 downloads are free. /1 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TUANI...
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Climate policymaking in crisis: the impact of declining oil prices, COVID-19, and the Ukraine war in Canada
Public support for environmental policy historically has declined at times of economic crisis. We consider the impact of three economic shocks – a crash in global oil prices, the COVID-19 pandemic,...
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CDRE Fool Mental Jackass VI @uncle6.org · 12/05/2025
President To Accept Gift Of Beautiful Enormous Wooden Horse
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Mark Carney did what he had to do in Washington today. I assume it was awful. Any adult who has a rudimentary understanding of the world would understand that. I get that Danielle Smith is facing her own scandals she wants to deflect from, but what an AWFUL moment to undermine Canada
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NEW from me: Tariffs are already stalling the economy—trade war threats and uncertainty caused imports to surge to record highs in Q1. Companies & consumers have forgone business-as-usual to stockpile foreign goods, dragging GDP growth down🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/tariffs-ar...
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Tariffs are Already Stalling the Economy
Tariff Front-Running is Already Showing Up as Reductions in US GDP Growth
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It’s just … amazing.
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Don't even think about looking at your old twitter account right now.
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sophia de guzman rivadeiro @sophiadr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
resist the mainstream media urge! watch indie!!!! (please)
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Russell Alan Williams @russellawilliams.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Pretty awful night for parachute candidates so far…. Protip to party leaders: don’t do that.
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Results will be coming in soon. Join @nationalobserver.com and @ricochetmedia.bsky.social we've got a stellar panel lined up and reporters across the country bringing you updates. We'll also have a live blog and analyses throughout the night. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/25/o...
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Election Night Live with Canada's National Observer and Ricochet Media
Want election analysis that goes beyond tonight's results — brought to you by journalists, not spin doctors?
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Gabriel Siles-Brügge @gabrielsilesb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett). Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Performing trade: ‘Global Britain’ and the UK’s post-Brexit free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand
Why did the United Kingdom (UK) prioritise post-Brexit free trade agreements (FTAs) with Australia and New Zealand, despite the almost negligible economic benefits on offer? We address this puzzle ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/04/2025
complete batshit insanity
"Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!"
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