It’s election time in Newfoundland and Labrador — and beef with Quebec is back on the menu.

Come meet the St. John's city council candidates running for the at-large seats "under the whale" tomorrow. They'll be serving up their visions for the city.

Releasing today - the 2025 regional living wages. Our takeaway this year - too many people are working long hours for incomes that don't cover a conservative estimate of essential household expenses. Report here: www.policyalternatives.ca/.../2025-liv...

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City Campaign School - Building a Campaign and Communicating Change panel featuring: Deatra Walsh Jess Puddister Shannie Duff 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall 📱 Register via QR code! It's Free! See you tomorrow!

Wow immigrants are almost entirely hardworking members of the community and America would be worse off trying to deport them all? You’re telling me this now for the first time

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City Campaign School - Affordable Housing, Homelessness, and Youth panel featuring: Hope Jamieson Jen Crowe Doug Pawson Grant Horwood 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall 📱 Register via QR code! It's Free! Stay tuned for more announcements!

More great St. John’s politics content.

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City Campaign School - Inclusive Civic Engagement with Municipalities panel featuring: Rob Nolan Dr. Schwartz Dr. Giwa Sarah Worthman 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall 📱 Register via QR code! It's Free! Stay tuned for more!

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🗳️Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City Campaign School - Meet our panelists! Climate Change, Public Transportation, Infrastructure and Resilience panel featuring: Dr. Tolulope Akerele Dr. Mahyar Masoudi Luke Quinton 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall 📱 Register via QR code!

More exciting @happycitysj.bsky.social content

@owasow.bsky.social is one of the best political scientists thinking about broader impacts of protests and demonstrations on politics, in case you follow me and don't follow him.

🌟 We're hiring! Happy City seeks a Website Coordinator for Major Events - Summer 2025. 8 weeks, 35 hrs/wk, $16/hr. Apply by June 13 at happycity.ca

@happycitysj.bsky.social has a very exciting day of discussion about municipal politics and policy challenges as a lead in to this fall's municipal elections - really looking forward to this.

🗳️ Ready to make a difference in your community? Happy City is hosting a Campaign School for the St. John's Municipal Election! Keynote Speaker: Joshua Smee, CEO Food First NL 📅 June 14, 9AM 📍 MUN R. Gushue Hall Mezzanine (DH2002) 📱 Register via QR code! It's Free!

The NATO 2% goal has always been a shell game, but it is absolutely the lowest, of low hanging fruit, to fold the Coast Guard into the national defence budget (as other countries do) to substantially *increase defence spending. Maybe we could even fund effective SAR now? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Have to say, I'm pretty proud to see my work cited in this list of people - obviously this is an awesome lit review.

2025 Vincent Lemieux🏆 winner - gagnante Congrats!!! Meaghan Williams @uoft.bsky.social Jury Koning @uofgpolisci.bsky.social @russellawilliams.bsky.social MJ Zahar @umontreal.ca

Congrats to all the finalists - they were amazing. If you get asked to be on this jury… do it. I learned so much. And congrats to Meaghan Williams.

St. John's peeps: Head's up if you are interested in the upcoming municipal elections, @happycitysj.bsky.social is hosting a campaign school for people trying to get more involved. Panels on running campaigns, policy issues confronting the city and snacks.

Just reposting this for all my Memorial University peeps wondering why they are being asked to get rid of more people. It’s easy. This government has other priorities. It’s a choice.

Not sure they’re going to be able to wedge a season 3 of Andor in the timeline. 😩

2025 Vincent Lemieux🏆 Congrats!!! R Chabot @mcgill.ca| S Lleshaj @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social |M Williams @uoft.bsky.social CITATIONS conta.cc/43aradd Winner👉🏽June 4 TMU cpsaconference.ca/sessions_det... Jury Koning @uofgpolisci.bsky.social @russellawilliams.bsky.social Zahar @umontreal-en.bsky.social

If you want to hear the best arguments against hydrogen as a climate solution, this podcast is for you!

@aleach.ca and I just published a new paper. We look at the impact of a succession of 3 economic shocks - the crash in global oil prices in 2015, COVID19, and the war in Ukraine - on Canadian climate policy. I think 1st 50 downloads are free. /1 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TUANI...

President To Accept Gift Of Beautiful Enormous Wooden Horse

Mark Carney did what he had to do in Washington today. I assume it was awful. Any adult who has a rudimentary understanding of the world would understand that. I get that Danielle Smith is facing her own scandals she wants to deflect from, but what an AWFUL moment to undermine Canada

NEW from me: Tariffs are already stalling the economy—trade war threats and uncertainty caused imports to surge to record highs in Q1. Companies & consumers have forgone business-as-usual to stockpile foreign goods, dragging GDP growth down🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/tariffs-ar...

It’s just … amazing.

Don't even think about looking at your old twitter account right now.

resist the mainstream media urge! watch indie!!!! (please)

Pretty awful night for parachute candidates so far…. Protip to party leaders: don’t do that.

Results will be coming in soon. Join @nationalobserver.com and @ricochetmedia.bsky.social we've got a stellar panel lined up and reporters across the country bringing you updates. We'll also have a live blog and analyses throughout the night. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/25/o...

🚨 New #OpenAccess publication in @ripejournal.bsky.social, together with Tony Heron (York) and Darrin McDonald (Leeds Beckett). Do have a read by clicking on the link below! ⬇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

complete batshit insanity

The "problem" with this isn't that the "tariffs would have to be much higher", or that it would "require congressional approval" ... it's that it's COMPLETELY INSANE. Media fails every single day to deal with the reality of what Trump is. Your headline here is "Trump spews delusional nonsense"

The world may be gone to crap, but I’m really enjoying a very Red day in the car while the kids practice.

The cost of axing the carbon tax in today's Conservative Platform costing is $0. Because it didn't raise any revenue for the government. Which must be a challenging thing to wrap your head around if the Conservatives convinced you to focus your anti tax sentiments on that ...tax.

The Beaverton demands same debate invitation as The Rebel, even though we’re not as big a joke

He is a fumbler. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

So the goal isn't to create lots of jobs for American's putting tiny screws in iPhones? Shocker. www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/t...

"The combination of interest rates soaring amid a slump and the currency plunging despite rising interest rates isn’t what we normally expect for advanced countries, let alone the owner of the world’s leading reserve currency. It is, however, what we often see in emerging-market economies."

I have zero expertise on the markets, but I know this is bad.

100% It may take some time to fully understand what has happened the last 14 days. But this will loom large as an explanation.

These are a couple of Canadian-made products that we have tried and liked. #BuyCanadian

A 10% universal tariff, 25% tariffs on steel & cars and a full on trade war between China and the US is not a comfortable place for either the US or global economies. Not the catastrophe it was before the U-turn but still pretty grim.

Pierre Poilievre promises to approve an LNG project that’s actually been approved since 2016 but that investors won’t build because they want more public funds to make it economically feasible.

It’s another Trump “dump and bump”, but you’ll pay for the inevitable slump.

TL;DR: The new U.S. tariff rate against our two largest trading partners is either 10%, 25% or 35%, and so far no one I've reached out to at the White House is able to tell me which.

The government of Newfoundland and Labrador's transfer to Memorial University (not including the medical school) was $371 Million in 2014. 11 years later it is $313 Million. Just ignore inflation... You have to quite the galaxy brain to tell people you have increased the budget.