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Thanks @adamtooze.bsky.social & @financialtimes.com for showing every supply crisis is an opening for profit-taking & profit-led inflation persists. adamtooze.substack.com/p/top-links-.... Egg oligopolists cash in & buy back shares as Americans pay. Yet some still blame "excess demand" for inflation

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Hey Hockey Canada: Please make Mike Myers honorary captain of the 🇨🇦 hockey team at the Olympics

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Wonderful and timely article from @fwilson2.bsky.social & Robert Chernomas at @umanitoba.bsky.social fleshing out Canada's 'C.D.Howe moment': winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal.... Canadian companies certainly have the money, if they have the will to make this happen.

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Yesterday, #SOSMedicare wrapped up! Two days of powerful discussions, strategy-building, & mobilization to defend & expand public health care in Canada. From inspiring speakers to hands-on training, participants sharpened their skills & built plans to fight for health care in the federal election.

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The Centre for Future Work in Vancouver has posted 3 new videos to our YouTube channel that are useful resources for campaigners mobilizing to oppose both Donald Trump's annexation threats, and our own home-grown right-wing populists. #canlab /2

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Rich primer by @taylornoakes.bsky.social for @readthemaple.bsky.social on the history of Canada-US free trade & how current crisis validates concerns raised by FTA critics (incl. me!) in the 1980s: www.readthemaple.com/time-to-thin.... I stress we need a strong united coalition to stand up for Cda.

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I've been a 'union economist' my whole career, so I can't overstate how honoured I was to receive a lifetime membership today from the Australian Education Union for research showing the economic & social benefits of public education. #canlab /2

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I’m ready!! #MapleLeaf

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This is the latest email update from the Centre for Future Work in Canada, this one focusing on resources we have produced for the campaign to stop Trump's trade war: mailchi.mp/78b8010a404c.... You can subscribe for future issues via that link, or at centreforfuturework.ca/contact/. #canlab

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More good news in today's StatCan LFS data. Strong job creation, broadly spread across regions and industries, rising employment rate, fall in unemployment rate despite uptick in participation. More evidence emp/pop rate bottomed out last Oct, rate cuts have turned the tide. #cdnecon

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This fine initiative from the Council of Canadians & partners has already signed up 50,000 Canadians (including me!) committed to preserving & strengthening a viable, independent, inclusive country. Please visit, read the pledge and add your support: engagement-canada-pledge.ca #PledgeForCanada

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It's been a wild 24 hours since this interview last nite on @cbcnews.ca Channel re the economic impacts of Trump's tariffs & the needed elements of the 🇨🇦 response: cbc.ca/player/play/.... But a 30-day delay changes nothing about the threat we face & the need to respond. #cdnecon

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The tariffs are mad; but what’s equally mad is that they somehow come as a surprise, when Trump has campaigned non-stop on this and controls all branches of government Precious time has been lost, but it’s not too late for countries to mount an effective response 1/x

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Thank you Charlie Angus, Council ofCanadians, and all the partners for this vital, timely call to action: cpac.ca/headline-pol... I was honoured to sign—we need a broad coalition movement to stand up for something that’s more than the northern subsidiary of the USA. #cdnpoli

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Here’s my commentary in today’s @thetyee.ca regarding Alberta’s continued slippage in the national wage rankings: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202.... It’s no accident, it’s deliberate. And it’s no wonder Albertan workers are mad—and fighting back. #canlab

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Article | « La fermeture d’Amazon est un acte de terrorisme économique », un texte signé @jimbostanford.bsky.social. L'article original en anglais est à lire dans @canadiandimension.bsky.social.

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NEW: Amazon’s message to workers is clear, writes @jimbostanford.bsky.social. Don’t even think about demanding better wages and conditions—we will shut you down and destroy your life. Amazon closures an act of economic terrorism:

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The Centre for Future Work has partnered with the Alberta Fed of Labour on a new report about the continued erosion of real wages in Alberta: centreforfuturework.ca/2025/01/28/a.... Real wages elsewhere in 🇨🇦 are rebounding; but they fell another 0.8% in Alberta in 2024 #abpoli #canlab

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I will join Matt Galloway on CBC’s The Current this morning 845ish to discuss the Trump tariff threats, dissect his arguments about the trade balance, and consider the broader economic impacts. #cdnecon #cdnpoli #canlab

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The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

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Again, let me emphasize, the threatened tariff on Canada is not meant to instigate a 'trade war'. This is not 'oh I don't like your stumpage fees so I'll tariff your softwood and then we tariff their orange joice'. The threatened tariff is just plain aggression, using tariffs as the tactic.

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Canada's response to Trump tariff threat must go beyond just the trade response. In TorontoStar.bsky.social, I outline the bigger emergency national plan we will need: 1. emerg aid to export industries 2. emerg aid for workers 3. reorient growth strategy www.thestar.com/business/opi...

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Welcome back to 1875: free trade negotiations with the US have collapsed, and American expansionism is on a roll. We needed a National Policy then—and we need a new one now. My take for @TorontoStar: www.thestar.com/business/opi... #cdnecon #cdnpoli #canlab

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👏 10 years ago the SCC ruled the right to strike was protected under the Charter. "For one brief moment, we were at the centre of the universe! The SFL decision is one of the most important labour rights decisions in Canadian history" Rick Engel. More recollections here👇 sfl.sk.ca/news/the-big...

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Amazon is an example of how our laws fail workers. Of how the obscenely wealthy can circumvent laws and rights and democracy. But democratic govts can make a difference with political will. You stand with workers or with oligarchs. It’s that kind of moment. #cdnpoli

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More blackmail from the US oligarchy: cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…. Unbelievable assault on our labour laws. Was Bezos plotting this as he sat in Row 1 at Trump's inauguration? Quebec should hit back hard at all Amazon operations, incl. auto cert of the outsourced firms. #canlab

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The guest on that episode was Jim Stanford and he's on here: @jimbostanford.bsky.social

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The U.S. has a huge advantage in services trade – which is why Donald Trump never talks about it www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/22/o.... My commentary for @nationalobserver.com

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Here's my chat with [email protected] for CBC's Front Burner podcast on making the case for Canada with Trump: cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p.... His to-and-fro bluster is clearly designed to keep us off-balance. But we should be confident about our value to the US: they need us, too. #cdnecon /2

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This is a rich mythbuster by Gabe Friedman for the Financial Post on what becoming the 51st state would really mean: financialpost.com/news/economy.... Borders are not just a 'friction'. They help to ground investment so we can be more than a northern hinterland in NA. #cdnecon

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Jim Stanford delivers the facts on why the threatened #USTariffs are based on a "wholly false premise" "Trump’s claim the bilateral deficit is $200 billion is an utter fabrication" #Canadasky #cdnpoli #cdnecon

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Re: Danielle Smith's defection from team Canada over Trump tariff threat It shows that resource dependency threatens Canadian sovereignty This is what has informed debates about Canadian industrial policy and trade through our economic history. More 👇 #cdnpoli

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