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Professional + Amateur + Immature Economist MPP Grad Program Director at the University of Calgary School of Public Policy (as yet, no one has ever called me Director Fellows though).
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It's preferable to the available alternatives.

I math-ed it out, and right now your DOGE dividend is on track to be $4.29. Let me show my work.

Advice: As Grok to write this email for you in such a way that Grok would decide you absolutely cannot be fired. Because it's gonna be Grok reading your email. This is the one and only time I will advise people to use Grok.

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

Salute to the CTV staffer who's showing a little extra love to the AP tonight 👍

I'm a Canadian before I'm a Calgarian, so this is just about the only time I will say this: Congratulations McDavid, well played. Fantastic Result.

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

One would have to do a full cost analysis to complement this, but it's worth noting that long-haul and regional (non Ontario/Quebec) operations account for 4% of passengers but 20% of via rail revenues (much of which is tourism).

Trump may perpetually delay the broad based tariffs on Canadian imports but they’ll have put industry-specific tariffs on most of Canada’s non-energy exports anyway. It’s not an energy exemption, it’s just tariffing everything else one by one and neglecting to get to energy.

"More than 200 passengers and crew were forced to spend an impromptu weekend in freezing temperatures on a Canadian island" www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

SHOCKED to learn that NONE of my trans friends are Olympic athletes. NOT ONE!!! It's almost as if what sporting events people think they should and shouldn't be allowed to compete in shouldn't bear any weight on the validity of their existence or basic human rights...

Telling someone who runs a simple OLS regression on time series that R^2 of 0.99 is meaningless because of serial autocorrelation

U.S. media: Interviewing retired Democrats about whether taking over Canada would help them electorally Canadian media: Interviewing retired counterinsurgency advisors on what a campaign of resistance against an armed invasion would look like

It's an interesting bit of MacroEconomic irony that, while Trump's threatened tariffs will not close the US/Canada trade deficit, the DOGE cuts might.

TOUCH THE STOVE! TOUCH THE STOVE! TOUCH THE STOVE! TOUCH THE STOVE! TOUCH THE STOVE!

Tomorrow marks the 11-year anniversary of the closure of BioShock developer Irrational Games and the subsequent founding of Ken Levine's Ghost Story Games, which has not yet released a game. Almost all of Ghost Story's original 15 employees have since quit.

Grade A+ Trolling. Truly full on S-tier No notes.

Some people see a contradiction in these two posts by Musk. To me, it confirms his admiration for Hitler.

Just a quick appreciation post for how amazing @kimcattrall.bsky.social was in this film. Watching her in this scene is a master class. That is all. #startrek

Still not as good as the original, but damn close. youtu.be/eNw122AAgD8?...

readout of call between uk pm starmer and zelenskyy a little different from trump on ukraine: “the prime minister reiterated the uk’s commitment to ukraine being on an irreversible path to nato, as agreed by allies at the washington summit last year.”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...

There you have it. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index (www.policyuncertainty.com) just hit an all-time high, surpassing its previous high from May 2020 - the teeth of the #COVID pandemic. Consequences: worse investment climate, higher risk premia, (likely) higher interest rates...

The fact that only 2% of professors identify as fascists shows just how insular and out of touch universities have become.

trump: we are going to conquer canada and make it a state canadian hockey fans: fine, we will boo your anthem at games media: these two actions are exactly the same level of bad

Super glad we torched our reputation with one of our closest allies by continually dangling a self-destructive trade war threat over their head, brilliant 14 Dimensional Chess move here

If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery if you have one. Gull Lake Alberta (taken of the beach from the lake)

Corey is TOTALLY wrong here. I buy MULTIPLE haircuts a year from my barber but he BUYS NOTHING FROM ME. He treats me very poorly even though I'm subsidizing his barber shop. Very UNFAIR. But, it would be great to add his barber shop to my property, think of the great things we could do.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/w....