This 👇🤨 Seeing a lot of this

I can hear the WLU team practicing down the hall - this is a great case competition with @bankofcanada.ca ! They're all working so hard, best of luck to everyone

People are funny.

For my teaching colleagues: Whenever I'm dealing with grade distributions, I remember this post from @frwoolley.bsky.social for the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative. Fortunately, it's archived: worthwhileblog.ca/2011/04/19/w... (That simple last transformation is so useful sometimes)

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Trains are good. More trains please.

“Why aren’t we as shitty as the Americans?” is one hell of a question to be asking right now.

Sigh

1/ Hi #EconSky, I’m a #EconJobMarket candidate from @ubcvse.bsky.social I study the effect of Rent-Geared-to-Income (RGI) housing in Toronto & Montréal using parent–child-linked administrative tax data. Thread below🧵

My kid is reading Reddit comments about my class

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Sooooo, are they winning?

Friday. TGIF

I have over 2000 students writing an exam right now.

I live in a 1920s neighbourhood. My neighbours have windows “raised high enough that it looks over the six-foot fence on that side, right into the backyard of” my yard 😳 Folks in the newer ‘burbs will survive 🙄

Me too.

Tuesday

Monday

I don’t watch baseball. Good night

I need a bigger pillow.

Our Brownbag Seminar Series back! 🎉 🗓 Oct. 27 (10 AM PT/11 AM MT/12 PM CT/1 PM ET/2 PM AT) Monica Jain (Wilfrid Laurier U.) & Ramisha Asghar (BOC) Perceived Monetary Policy Transmission Amarpreet Kaur (UBC Okanagan) Drinking Water Advisories and Property Values: Evidence from Utility-Supplied Water

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🇨🇦 Thanksgiving. We have so much food. But wild rice is still my favourite little indulgence. What's yours?

Big picture: This is super-cool 😎🇨🇦 in the geekiest way for me, but just generally good for so many CDNs Details I'm looking for: Communication matters. People will need to review their file, and know what happens if they don't correct it. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

🇨🇦 I know everyone is thinking about pie, but the jobs numbers came out today. Employment up, unemployment rate steady overall. I updated a few figures. Employment rates of moms and dads age 25-54, by age of youngest child

One such paper to find: What Proportion of Tax Returns Could the Canada Revenue Agency Complete? (open access) utppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

This 👇🎉 🇨🇦!!

As a labour economist I might be expected to be interested in the labour market outcomes. On the other hand as a public economist I think the ethics results are worth more attention; part of the case for publicly-sponsored religion is better social cohesion rather than private benefits.

After a long day of system\tech failures <rant> Wifi down Goodnotes glitches w/out wifi Apple pen wont work doc reader wont connect to projector Uni software prevents showing slides on screen Replacing my human faculty assistant with 'smartsheets' </rant> Sigh

So a lot of what I do at work relies on the wifi

This must be fiction. I mean, really. On cost-benefit, the frog wins

Weeeelllllllll....🤷‍♀️

We often talk about how updating our IT infrastructure for programs like Employment Insurance matter. But pause to think if how we administered thus in 1951. My grandmother's UI card

There are more people than I realized who think speed limits are really just guidelines, not real laws, that provide an opportunity for officers to stop and fine you if they don't like you that day. (I don't think this is a good thing.) We have cameras in school zones. Slow down.

Started to sign up for a charity run challenge today, but they required using Facebook, giving them a lot of my info... Can't do it.

Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques September issue is now available, with open access @utpressjournals.bsky.social for a limited time! Here's what you can find... 🧵 utppublishing.com/toc/cpp/51/3

Reminder: every year there are businesses across 🇨🇦 that do not survive. This happens whether or not minimum wages increase. It just happens, and we can sympathize, but perhaps it just wasn't meant to be. Source: Statcan, Key small business statistics ised-isde.canada.ca/site/sme-res...

October 1 - many provinces in 🇨🇦 increase their minimum wage a bit. Looks like I might be talking about it on The Current in the morning (8:30ish). A useful reference I keep bookmarked: minwage-salairemin.service.canada.ca/en/general.h...

Love this! Needed this. Thank you @alexusherhesa.bsky.social

Curious: why am I hearing radio ads in southern Ontario for the Pathways Alliance oil sands?

So I admit I can't keep up with US policy lately, but someone did a cost-benefit on efforts like this, right?

Outdoors. I like outdoors.

Looking forward to next year's garden. Some of these are bound to grow

This morning, as I drove slowly through schools zones and parks, tail-gated by a large truck clearly angry I was doing the (clearly posted) speed limit, I thought of the importance of always having enforcement in place. *Always*

There are many things on my to-do list I won't finish today. But I got my sabbatical application in!

If you had asked me about course prep 20 years ago, this would not have come to mind

Is there a non economist book describing all the "commonsense " & "gut feelin" type policies that are proven expensive, ineffective, and potentially causing bigger problems. Perhaps a series. The world needs this.