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Canadian Tax Journal call for proposals: Policy Forum on National Defence and Public Finances. Canada has set targets to sharply increase defence spending. What does this mean for public finances? Write for the CTJ Policy Forum! Proposals due April 15th. www.ctf.ca/EN/Publicati...

Canadian Tax Journal call for proposals: Policy Forum on National Defence and Public Finances. Canada has set targets to sharply increase defence spending. What does this mean for public finances? Write for the CTJ Policy Forum! Proposals due April 15th. www.ctf.ca/EN/Publicati...

Dub Gleed

West Coast, Vancouver Island, B.C. Arthur Lismer 1955

lol oil prices now right back to where they were before the 'peace' posts on early Monday morning. HOOCOODANODE

Consider the possible state of the world (described below) where there is an AI-overbuild-generated financial crisis akin to the 2008 financial crisis. The scenario involves projected income flows from data centres falling short of debt payments, which then cascades through the financial market.

Spring Roster Kenneth Lochhead c. 1993

My new @opinion.bloomberg.com piece is on US aluminum tariffs - and some of the many, many reasons why they may very well be the dumbest tariffs in the world (and why the Iran war has made them even dumber). Seriously. 🎁: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

BC in a very different position relative to their WECC neighbours when it comes to snowpack this year.

The federal government *dramatically overcompensated* for abuse by some colleges in international student visas, and now Canada's long-term prosperity and its university systems both get to suffer unnecessarily as a result.

Sea lemon, starfish, and mollusks.

Want a thrill? Walk across a dam in North Vancouver after an atmospheric river 😵‍💫

The oil price shock seems like a very positive shift in our terms of trade. Why hasn't that affected CAN$ very much (yet)? - are there offsetting shifts? - is it just a delayed reaction thing? - should I think of the 2005-2012 high C$ era more about the capital account than the current account?

British Columbia gets yet another credit downgrade

The prompt month WTI futures is hovering near $100. The 1-year strip is around $84. Alberta’s budget forecast for the same 1-year strip is $60.50. Every $1 increase adds $680MM to Alberta’s budget. At this point we are looking at a « mark-to-market » budget change of +$16 billion 😳 [1/2]

Carolyn Rogers shouts out Sharon Kozicki's recent speech about supply shock impacts on @bankofcanada.ca decision making: when to "look through" price increases and when to act, from a demand pressure and a supply pressure side. Here's the speech. It's excellent. www.bankofcanada.ca/2026/03/cana...

Current 10-yr bond yield in US: 4.2%. Current 10-yr bond yield in CAN: 3.39%. www.marketwatch.com/investing/Bo...

Bank of Canada holds rate at 2.25% www.bankofcanada.ca/2026/03/fad-... but the calm before the storm? "weaker economic activity and uncertainty elevated, risks to growth look tilted to the downside."

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING

VENEZUELA DEFEATS THE UNITED STATES TO TAKE HOME THEIR FIRST WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC CHAMPIONSHIP 🇻🇪🏆

EUGENIO 🇻🇪 🇻🇪 🇻🇪 🇻🇪

Anyway, again let me emphasize. I like the EU. I like trade with the EU. I'm very fond of EU pastries and museums. I like PM Carney's idea of a new trade bloc. But we should not waste a further breath on EU membership. It's not for us. We are in the Americas, not Europe. That is actually relevant!

Sigh. "Canada should join EU" is having another news cycle. Here is my thread from month ago. I am a total Europhile and we should explore ways to increase our cooperation with Europe. But EU membership is strongly against our national interest. (Yes, I know about Hans Island.)

An interesting account of how using AI tools can increase the productivity of one researcher. But I would encourage everyone to consider the general equilibrium effects of this. If researchers like Paul can now put out 10 papers a year (and maybe 20 next year and 40 after that) what happens?

Werner Antweiler has an excellent paper on this point from 2016: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seeing some concern expressed that Camada is a net importer of electricity. As Blake shows, you have to be very careful about volume vs revenue. BC imports more kilowatts, but US pays more in total.

Ok I'm in the 7th of CAN USA. Nice HR by Bo Naylor. Can't believe Aumont came on in the 2nd round. Great job by Macko. 9 more outs, boys, Use 'em wisely.

Just starting the KOR DOM game. What an ALLYIME GREAT slide from Vlad. Truly one of the best I've seen.

Been really down about receiving an obviously-AI generated referee report for a journal where I'm an editor. Yes, I suppose it saved you a bunch of time in doing your scholarly duty. But I'm the one who has to read the whole damn thing and decide what to do with each of the AI/referee points.

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Way to go Team Canada! Dykxhoorn the 'Big Doctor' with the great save. Nice hits by Caissie. But, we still have to beat Cuba tomorrow to advance.....

Squint and you can see some snow!

Did a speed run through JPN CZE over breakfast. Czechia was in it until deep in the 8th! What a performance by pitcher Satoria, who is an electrician when not shutting out the reigning world champions for 4 2/3rds innings. Left the field to a standing ovation in the Tokyo Dome.

Watching MEX USA now. What a play at the plate! Duran to Kirky. Good hustle by Duran to get to the ball. Kirky made the scoop and tag look easy. Roman Anthony was really labouring around the bases. Does he have nagging injuries or just slow?

So close for Team Taiwan 🇹🇼. Final score was KOR 7 and AUS 2. Just needed one more AUS run to get into the "white" zone and one more run from each to get into the "Taiwan advances" green zone. This guy's chart is great. Weird that the WBC broadcast relied on him and didnt do the math themselves.

To give you a sense of how sensitive Alberta’s provincial budget is to global oil prices: At the current 1-year forward strip for crude oil, Alberta’s budget would go from a $9B deficit to an **$8B SURPLUS** Begs the question of whether AB should consider hedging these windfall gains at some point

Brutal D in the top of the 6th. Also, not sure Big Maple unc still got it. Three innings left....

Vladdy brought the home run jacket tradition to the WBC? www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s...

Update. After that PLAKATA I'm giving Vladdy credit for all four RD runs! bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Good slide by Vladdy there; contrbuted to the overthrow. Give Vlad credit for both runs this inning!

台灣 加油!!! What a great game. Like 5 lead changes! Tomorrow is Canada 🇨🇦 and Panama 🇵🇦. Will try to catch the Dominican game too because they're so fun.

Now from Puerto Rico back to Tokyo for Taiwan 🇹🇼 vs Korea 🇰🇷. Having the WBC tournament simultaneously around the world really flavours it. You get to see Asian and Latino baseball culture in back to back games. Also, games pretty much 24 hours around the clock. Any other tournaments like this?

Felt so bad that Nicaragua gave up the lead after being one strike away. Would've been a big win for them. Puerto Rico vs Panama going to extra innings! Such great games. How do we transition back from this to boring April regular season baseball.....

The Kingdom of the Netherlands WBC team always has the best names. Can't decide if the best is Chadwick Tromp or Wendell Floranus. (Most of the team is from Curaçao and Aruba, not Holland) www.mlb.com/world-baseba...

Great job Team 🇨🇦! Owen Caissie big smash was great. Loved Denzel Clarke running hard on that lazy fly. Bo Naylor gunning a few runners out. Philippe Aumont the 37 year old farmer from Gatineau getting the last out.

La República Dominica has a jonrón jacket! Gotta be a Vlad idea, yeah?

The CBC has this alert on its front news page. Top right, permanently posted. cbchelp.cbc.ca/hc/en-ca/art...

Ah jeez. A citizen just called my office saying there is a fake website set up to look like a CBC News story. The fake story uses my name and image (along with new Telus CEO Victor Dodig) to endorse some sleazy AI investing product. In March of the year 2026, is there really anything I can do?