Greatpiece by Ilona Dougherty and @brettehouse.bsky.social. So obvious, but so very little comment on the girl/boy job split in industrial strategy. THANK YOU for using my chart from @jasonkirby.bsky.social's Globe "Charts To Watch" charatapalooza this year. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

What do *you* do when surrounded by jerks all day long? Another sassy piece, littered with brilliant observations, from @sproudfoot.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Capt’n Canada 🫡

Why I read @lindsaytedds.bsky.social and you should too. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/s...

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Waddup with oil? *violent week in the Strait ends with prices down from mid week. *Inventory stocks continuing to decline *refining margins for gas at the pumps around 2x seasonal norms *"pricing shifts continue to vastly exceed what can be explained by hot money moves" still driven by demand/supply

What is the care economy and why does it matter, given trade wars, crisis in the mideast, soaring prices and climate chaos? Great convo with Todd Hirsch, former chief economist for @atbfinancial.bsky.social (a bank owned by the Government of Alberta since 1938) www.linkedin.com/events/74574...

Such beauty, such joy. Together.

Low hire, low fire, more job search story continues in Canada's labour market. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo... Expect the convo about youth employment to pick up steam. Wage growth of 4.5% not from bargaining but from loss of low-paying biz/jobs. CARE continues as the job juggernaut.

A beautifully researched and written piece about the current, troubling state of child care in Canada by @davidmcginn.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... For any politician seeking more growth and productivity, it's an own goal if you don't invest publicly in this critical service.

Ivermectin in an anti-parasitic. It kills parasites. Viruses are not parasites. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Does he own stock in it?

Thought other politicians just hated Mamdami's guts so much because of racism, but he seems to be setting the kind of standards they Really don't want to meet so maybe he scares the shit out of them because he's showing everyone how easy it would be to actually do their damn jobs

A beautifully researched and written piece about the current, troubling state of child care in Canada by @davidmcginn.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... For any politician seeking more growth and productivity, it's an own goal if you don't invest publicly in this critical service.

Tributes have poured in for Ted Turner, who transformed the news media landscape when he started CNN in 1980. Among those honoring him are Fox News owner and competitor Rupert Murdoch and US President Donald Trump, who regularly brands CNN as 'fake news'

Solar plus storage: $54 Coal: $70-85 Gas (methane): $100 The math gets pretty simple.

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

ZELENSKIY SAYS RUSSIA MOVING AIR DEFENCES TO PROTECT MOSCOW AHEAD OF PARADE CREATES SPACE FOR UKRAINE'S LONG-RANGE ATTACKS

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

Louise Arbour is Canada's new Governor General. She was top prosecutor at the international court. She brought charges against President Milošević, secured the first conviction for genocide since 1948, prosecuted sexual assault as a crime against humanity. This is a powerful statement.

Thank you, Julie K. Brown for always speaking truth to power. Congratulations on your Pulitzer Prize. The entire world applauds your courage.

“.. On Polymarket, the Journal found, 67% of profits go to just 0.1% of accounts. That means less than 2,000 accounts netted a total of nearly half a billion dollars.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

On this day in 1898, Septima Poinsette Clark was born. She became a tireless advocate for education and civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr., called her the “Mother of the Movement.” Her motto was “literacy means liberation.” #WeTheMen

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

In Canada, per CAA Regular today per liter (~4x per gallon): 184.7 cents/L Yesterday: 180/L A week ago: 168.3/L A month ago (before the federal fuel excise tax cut): 177.8/L A year ago: 132.9/L Prices highest in BC (204.3)and NL (199.6) lowest in AB and SK ( ~180, though was 182.9 y'day in AB)

Paging Alberta

Ya, the left really needs to tone down the rhetoric....

Y'day/today I would have loved to conversate about the Sovereign Wealth Fund (and new avenue for us, as "retail investors", to not just to Buy Canada but Save Canada) and, of course, the Economic Update. Alas, I was previously booked to observe the Hoodoos standing on guard in the Rockies.

Excessive debt leverage to finance M&A and cut costs (a hallmark of private equity) meets blind-eye auditing. This is what could go wrong: $2B in short term financing goes "missing" and$11.6B USD in liabilities bankrupts this auto parts behemoth. Greed that leads to destruction, again and again

It also very likely means even even more UAE barrels than it was already exporting above and beyond its quota limits, which is bearish for the post-war oil market—however, so long as Hormuz remains closed, it will make little difference to realized flows.

BIG news today in OPEC land. “UAE says it has decided to exit OPEC and OPEC+ as of May 1 in line with country’s strategic and economic long-term plan, according to state-run WAM. Some thoughts below 🧵

Worried about Canada's economic fate, given our reliance on trade and who our major trading partner is? You cannot do better than read this @justinling.ca piece. Brilliant summary... and negotiating advice www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

So just to recap, in the last minute CSPAN says it was a false alarm, CNN says the shooter was killed in the lobby, and the pool report says he's in custody, do I have that right?

President Trump evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Association dinner following an apparent security incident.

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

At the NonProfit Chamber conference in Calgary, and am surrounded by so many people with such smarts and so much sass and style it feels like a New York City of social policy and economic development! ❤️

An agribusiness in North Carolina confiscated immigrant workers’ passports and visa documents with the explicit goal of trapping them in their jobs, according to a class action lawsuit filed Friday. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports. prospect.org/2026/04/22/n...

"Two sources familiar with the talks say U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has asked Canada to unilaterally change or scrap domestic policies, from dairy to provincial bans on American liquor, or the Online Streaming Act and the Online News Act, before it will sit down to negotiate."

It can exist without us. We can't exist without it.

The Naked Budget 2½: The Smell of Expiry deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/17/t...

Schrodinger’s strait

Yellen: Kevin Warsh will struggle to establish credibility with colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee if he argues that productivity gains from artificial intelligence justifies lower interest rates. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

😂“He was behind substantially,” Trump said of Orbán. “I wasn’t that involved in this one." www.ft.com/content/d13b...

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

The Rump calls the Pope "WEAK on crime, and terrible on Foreign Policy". PP calls the PM "badly educated in economics". Only hubris. No humility.

“.. prompting allegations of blasphemy and calls for him to take down the post before it was deleted.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Breaking from @policornerca.bsky.social: CityNews has cut ties with Queen’s Park reporter Tina Yazdani, while at least two of her stories about the Ford government have quietly vanished from the web without explanation. www.policorner.ca/p/scoop-the-... #topoli #onpoli