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Randy Besco @randybesco.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

New work on on Immigration attitudes, out in @irpp.org with @natashagoel.bsky.social We show dramatical increase in anti-immigration opinion in Canada over the past couple of years. Its very different than previous shifts like in 1990s...

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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Another labour market surprise (and another great Labour Force Survey summary from StatCan www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...): Canada's unemployment rate surprises everyone by moving DOWN to 6.5%, driven by a rise in part-time jobs and more youth getting jobs. A 🧵on what's driving the story.

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The Daily — Labour Force Survey, November 2025

Employment increased by 54,000 (+0.3%) in November, driven by gains in part-time work. The employment rate rose 0.1 percentage points to 60.9%, while the unemployment rate fell 0.4 percentage points t...

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Dennis Buchanan @lawyerbuchanan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Does he understand what a 'pause' is? You're paying a massive amount of taxpayer money to a company owned by a high ranking member of a foreign government that is STILL threatening crippling tariffs and talking about annexation. To supply critical infrastructure they'll hold over our heads.

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Alex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Some context here: In the U.S. the tariffs are like one of 5 major political stories this weekend. In Canada they are everything. Wall to wall coverage. The clicks on our tariff copy are setting records - never seen a reaction like this to a single-day news event.

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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

By continuing to insult Canadians and threaten Canada’s sovereignty and economy, Trump is simply reinforcing the determination of Canadians and their leaders to stand up to him. Also, notice what’s not in this message: anything about fentanyl, the stated reason for these tariffs.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Got nervous for a second there as Trump turned to “Manifest Destiny” - though now it apparently refers to Mars…

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Sarah Kate Ellis @sarahkateellis.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Meta is becoming a front line antagonist to the LGBTQ community and they’re utilizing their platform in order to do that. Using free speech as a shield to harass and antagonize a marginalized community needs to be called what it is, which is harassment. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Mark Zuckerberg says corporate culture was ‘neutered’ as Meta scraps DEI

The move reverses a years-long approach to diversity, equity and inclusion policies that the tech giant once embraced as critical to its success.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 25/08/2024

The disconnect between the headline and the main chart in this article is amazing. Gen Z men have preferences indistinguishable from 2 of the other 3 male cohorts and less pro-Trump than the other one. Fascinating data otherwise, though.

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Jack Santucci @jacksantucci.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Please have a look at my article on the US party-list debate. It’s part of an excellent symposium on proportional representation. This is intended as a teaching piece, not advocacy. Writing it for non-specialists took a lot of time last summer. Thanks! democracyjournal.org/magazine/70/...

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Avoiding the PR Mistakes of the Past

America is having a reform moment. According to Pew Research, hundreds of jurisdictions are adopting or considering “alternative” electoral systems. Several began doing so only in the past few yea...

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

New FOREVER WARS is about the expansion/normalization of drone surveillance over a big street party and the expansion/normalization of conspiracy and material support charges against resistance to climate disaster and institutional racism. They only *seem* like two random topics…

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Drones Over Brooklyn, RICO for Cop City Protesters

As the Air Force pursues AI-powered drones for combat, the NYPD uses older models to spy on Caribbean Brooklyn. What starts as military tech doesn't stay as military tech. PLUS: Georgia files egregiou...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

I wrote about this moralizing nostalgia, so pervasive among the nation’s elites, last week - and why such ahistorical tales not only obscure rather than illuminate the political conflict, but provide fertile ground for a politics of reaction: thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/moralizing...

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Moralizing Nostalgia Leads to Bad History – and Helps the Anti-Democratic Right

David Brooks’ “How America Got Mean” offers an ahistorical tale that obscures rather than illuminates – and provides fertile ground for a politics of reaction

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Yifat Shaik @yifatshaik.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Gotta love Toronto's house flippers

Paula Fletcher: "So lucky no one hurt! Thanks so much to ⁦⁦
@Toronto_Fire for quick action last nite after second story under construction collapsed in east end. Now for Buildings Department to find why what should never of happened did happen."

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

Polarized Speech on Online Platforms "Right-leaning users twice as likely to use polarized rhetoric about immigration as left-leaning users while left-leaning users are somewhat more likely to be polarized around healthcare." Fulay & Roy's (2023) new preprint Polisky

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Polarized Speech on Online Platforms

While political polarization has increased as measured through surveys, currently we lack comprehensive, longitudinal, and ecologically valid measurement of the polarization of online political...

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Jack Santucci @jacksantucci.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

New polisky work with J. Anthony, D. Kimball, and J. Scott on attitudes toward electoral reform by partisanship and race: doi.org/10.1080/2156.... Thanks to New America ERRG and the CMPS team.

This paper presents results from a series of survey experiments testing the effects of various arguments on relative evaluations of ranked-choice (RV) and choose-one ballots. We examine data from the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS), allowing for comparisons across racial groups… Arguments about the impact of electoral systems are found to influence public preferences more than descriptions of those systems' key properties.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

New study finds that framing pro-environmental policies in ways that appeal to people’s need for closure (e.g., we should tackle climate change otherwise it’ll result in long-term uncertainty) reduces conservatives’ opposition to those polices. Polisky #socialpsyc 🧪 doi.org/10.1111/asap...

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