#EconSky My university is recruiting world-leading researchers (not currently at Canadian universities) to nominate through the federal government’s recently announced Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program www.tru.ca/research/res...

Trump taking "anti-woke" a little too literally.

Calling all economists! Want to work with us in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University. We are hiring a tenure track position in economics. Here is the ad mtroyalca.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posti...

you simply can't put RFK Jr in charge of your dairy supply and expect other countries to accept your exports.

Just went back and found this tweet from @scottycameron.bsky.social from September. Good chance it starts looking **very*** prescient.

Among the list of demands from Trump (to extend CUSMA) is resolving a dispute on the Montana/Alberta power line.

If you want optimism on EVs, and the Ford news has got you down, look beyond North America (for now)

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

As Alberta completes its first full year without coal in its power supply mix, renewables (wind, solar, and hydro) have reached 22% of total generation and natural gas makes up 78%.

On this first night of Hanukkah I’m thinking about Ahmed al Ahmed, the brave Lebanese-Australian who reminds us that despite all the terrible horror—in Bondi today, in Gaza, in Ukraine, in Darfur…—that there is still decency and goodness in this world. Thank you Ahmed.

But when Doug Ford runs a Reagan ad during the World Series they scream foreign interference…

If you do not have to go, you do not go.

Cisco has officially recovered from the dot-com crash

Wow... NYC's congestion pricing has led to big drops in PM2.5 and real improvements in local air quality.

This is great to see! 🇨🇦 And I’ll echo Juan’s pledge: Willing do what I can to help international researchers come to Canada

Nobel Committee should declare the winner of the World Cup.

Justice Colin Feasby was not pleased: "Changing legislation to circumvent a valid legal process commenced by the independent officer of the Legislative Assembly ... is the antithesis of the stable, predictable, and ordered society that the rule of law contemplates, and democracy demands."

It will soon be easier to count how many MLAs are *not* facing a recall petition #ableg

Just one week after signing an MOU with the federal govt agreeing to strengthen industrial carbon pricing, Alberta has changed its regulations, making the agreement harder to achieve. Read our full statement from Principal Economist @enveco.bsky.social ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/alberta...

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Great breakdown of the details of "the price" when it comes to carbon pricing by @robsonfletcher.com www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How do we connect data centers to the grid quickly and avoid driving up costs for other electricity consumers? The solution: a 2-part combo of flexible interconnection agreements & bring-your-own-capacity (BYOC) arrangements, according to a new report out today from Camus, my ZERO Lab, and encoord.

The always thoughtful Alex Stubb, Finnish President, writing in Foreign Affairs on the new world order www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president. Just fucking pathetic.

1) The editor of Cell Reports Sustainable, a new open-access journal from Cell Press, graciously invited me to do a short Q&A about our new paper, "Distribution grids may be a barrier to residential electrification." Pasting the Q&A in a short 🧵 if anyone's interested. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The pace of change, and magnitude, on this chart is 🤯

My favourite "let's build export capacity" pet project is: **Retrofit Roberts Bank to export Canadian crude rather the American coal!** Overcomes capacity limits in YVR harbour, also less risk (no bridges!). Could even justify expansion of TMX (TMXX). Thoughts?

I still can’t get over this piece. The US is giving up any claim to its status as “leader of the free world” in exchange for straight up grifting. This is the most damning thing I’ve read about this admin. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

spend years fanning the flames, don’t expect it to be easy to put out the forest fire

Quite the deep dive by the WSJ. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Great to see that BC-AB-SK interprovincial electricity transmission made today’s MOU announcement 🥳

Alberta’s emissions performance credits, which can be used to comply with the industrial carbon pricing system, are now trading at just C$17 per tonne. The frozen $95 per tonne headline price is largely irrelevant. (Data from ICE/NGX as of 11/25)

Alberta’s emissions performance credits, which can be used to comply with the industrial carbon pricing system, are now trading at just C$17 per tonne. The frozen $95 per tonne headline price is largely irrelevant. (Data from ICE/NGX as of 11/25)

Re-upping this as talk of strengthening the industrial carbon price resurfaces in the forthcoming AB-Fed MOU. Raising the headline carbon price does very little when tradable credits are oversupplied and trading at $29 per tonne… To strengthen the market will require tightening the benchmarks.

Why?

simpler at this point to just *Call the Election* #ableg #abpoli

Covid really broke some people’s brains. Shocking (and so very sad) that the vaccine story coming out of Covid is one of hesitancy and anger rather than amazement and gratitude for what is now increasingly possible.

Just came across this prescient old pic of a bus rolling past Trump Tower on 5th Ave in 2017.

Postdoc! Calgary is a large thriving city, an hour from the mountains.

🚨 Postdoctoral opportunities! 🚨 Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics* Term: 2 years Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance Start: July 2026 Details in next two posts 👇

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Huge crowds are out tonight at McDougall Centre in Calgary to rally against anti-trans Bill 9 and the Notwithstanding Clause. #transrightsarehumanrights #ableg #abpoli #canpoli transactionalberta.ca savethecharter.ca

Have we tried unplugging and plugging back in the world yet?

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Legitimizing violence against political opponents, and delegitimizing the opposition more broadly, does not end well for anyone. There are only so many opportunities to push back as a society.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Great piece by my colleague @watershedlab.bsky.social on the risk of landslide tsunamis on BC’s Northwest Coast and what it means for pipelines in the area [gift link] www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fe4f74c...

I should add that if you'd like to channel your disgust with Alberta's anti-trans government into a front-line charity doing lifesaving work for trans folks in Alberta, click below and throw some money at Skipping Stone www.skippingstone.ca/donate

NEW: Alberta's government has opted to use the notwithstanding clause to strip the Charter rights in sections 7 through 15 of transgender children, doctors, teachers, and sporting organizations as part of Bill 9.