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This is practically the first serious, policy-focused analysis of Trudeau's awful, awful $1.3b border extortion payment. The one that Very Serious People dismissed as a nothingburger and even as proof of Trump's weakness. Thanks to @rondeibert.bsky.social for doing the work.

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By this time last year, Doug Ford was handing out novelty-sized cheques to municipalities for meeting housing targets. This year, the province’s housing tracker hasn’t been updated with data more recent than October when only ~11 munis were on track to hit targets. www.ontario.ca/page/trackin...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The argument that cyclists on Bloor Street affected by future lane removals can just take the subway sure would seem to also apply to drivers today who are griping about the bike lanes. www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

bill gates was never the “good” billionaire

submitted 17 hours ago • 29 comments

How do housing shortages affect family and household demography? Long story short, @jensvb.bsky.social & I offer a cultural explanation and find evidence that housing shortages largely explain variation in how people live together across Canada from 1981-2021. homefreesociology.com/2025/03/11/h...

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Canada needs better passenger rail well before 2039, and the public deserves an explanation of why the co-development phase is expected to cost billions.

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A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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It’s a jarring moment of cognitive dissonance to see Dr. Ahmad applying her considerable firsthand knowledge of insurgency and guerilla warfare to her own country. But she’s right. We’d stop being nice, and lay down our lives theconversation.com/why-annexing...

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My own extreme war-measures proposal is rather more humble, albeit limited to current trade-war conditions. And, I hope, opens a more serious conversation about maintaining open trade and international economic relations in spite of the United States www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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I'm sure we can find some middle ground between the original grandiose renderings and this new unassuming warehouse entrance right?

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

The centrepiece of a $30 billion transit system. Absolute bottom of the barrel crap designed by an engineering firm.

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land tax would fix this! also, Toronto really needs to reckon with the fact that most of our historic buildings are far too small for the city we are today. Save the gems, but we can’t keep every house that’s walking distance from the financial district. This should be an apartment building.

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"Mr Poilievre has been slow to adjust. This week he suggested, with all the sensitivity of Liz Truss, that the answer to the tariffs was to cut taxes." - deep insult from a Brit!

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Doug Ford increased our reliance on American methane from 4% of Ontario’s power generation to 17% by cancelling ~800 renewable energy projects and refusing anything but nuclear. As a result, we can’t actually cut off energy to the US. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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One of the insights of neoliberalism in development is that all tariffs are like this - they empower corrupt actors and reduce productivity, independently of the effect of retaliation on comparative advantage. Pre-Trump US tariffs sent a similar message: "invest in lobbying, not productivity."

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

ICYMI: We identified the operator of one of an anonymous Hitler-quoting self-described ‘Aryan' that is followed by Vice President JD Vance. His name is Geoff Martin, and his father is the president of Trinity Western University, a private Christian college in Canada.

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The experience of Stockholm and London and now Staten Island (!!) is that people start to like congestion pricing once it's in place

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for $20K a month you could hire a PhD in your business's area of focus AND a fulltime research/reference librarian to be their bestie and i guarantee it would be a better, more useful, and more productive investment

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americans need to realize how extraordinary a feat it is to make doug ford look good

submitted 8 days ago • 96 comments

There are experts with a deep well of knowledge on topics that many of us are just glomming onto now. Blayne Haggart did his PhD on Canadian policy autonomy in the context of North American integration. If you see media outlets platforming Kevin O'Leary types, ask them to do better & provide names.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

1/People associated with Build Canada are citing the Chretien-era deficit reduction years as a Canadian version of DOGE, which is really just another great example of how success in business does not mean that people remotely understand politics or public policy. thetyee.ca/News/2025/02...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

To once again highlight the distortions of First Past the Post: Last night the Liberals won 0.9 seats for every 100,000 votes. The Ontario PCs won 3.7 seats for every 100,000 of theirs.

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So _now_ can the Ontario Liberals, NDP, and Greens figure out a goddamn way to work together to pass election reform in 4 years time?

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French justice system cancels the A69 highway project between Toulouse & Castres: It’s the first time in French history that a highway has been stopped because its environmental costs outweighed its other benefits.

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 21 days ago • 88 comments

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

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In 5 years of operating a housing first program, Milwaukee has: -reduced overall homelessness by 46%, and had unsheltered homelessness go down by 92% -saved $30 million in public money. At the end of the day it's quite simple: end homelessness by housing people. www.governing.com/urban/year-a...

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This meta study totally wrecks all literature on "degrowth". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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My column on Doug Ford’s housing record: the wrong things, done badly. Gift link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/90421fe...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

What penalties will there be for city staff actively misleading the mayor and council, not to mention the public? Based on recent past experience, the mayor and council will band together and apologize that anyone ever questioned staff's integrity.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

On every streetcar route in the city, FAR more people are taking transit than are on in cars. Yet, the streetcars are regularly delayed because we STILL prioritize cars on all those routes.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

DOGE's new AI, built to scan federal workers' emails to see if they get to keep their jobs, is the latest in a number of AI schemes from Musk. We might scoff at how dumb these ideas are, but the truth is, they're not even supposed to work. They're built to eliminate accountability.

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Doug Ford, who is destroying Ontario's healthcare system, thinks you can't see past his bullshit about the causes of the province's emergency room crisis. Please, please vote for somebody else. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/when-it-co...

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It's hard to shake the sense that if generative AI were any other tech trend—without the AGI mythology, the industry-wide bias confirmation, the historic levels of investment many firms treat as sunk costs—the AI boom would either just be one pretty successful app or dead in a ditch altogether.

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