Interesting to see that HALF of all econo activity in Canada is just gvts providing: health care, education, infrastructure, pensions. The other half is the private sector selling things. Cuts to govts are cuts to GDP growth...shocking ;) @policyalternatives.ca www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

Some great coverage on my latest analysis of what programs may be lost due to the 15% fed program cuts in the @ottawacitizen.com : ottawacitizen.com/public-servi... @policyalternatives.ca

Budgets are meant to be good news docs. This one will downplay all that will be lost with 15% cuts in most depts. We've scoured dept docs to identify programs likely to be "sunset" and the 52 depts likely to use this strategy @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇

Canada’s $10-a-day child care program is cutting fees—but is it creating enough spaces? My new report from @policyalternatives.ca shows big promises, mixed results, and a growing role for for-profit care. Here’s what the data tells us🧵👇👇👇

Now calculated potential staffing cuts from the fed public sector cuts announced in July. TLDR, they'll be big, probably over 57,000 by 2028-29. I got some good coverage in the @ottawacitizen.com but here are the brief details🧵👇👇 @policyalternatives.ca ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

My latest look at the Carney cuts in the @thestar.com, but this time it impacts crown corps like the CBC, Via Rail and CMHC. These could all see their transfers cut by 15% Priorities in the campaign but now targets for cuts @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

For the record, I meant it as a cautionary tale not a manual! But it looks like my big projections of federal cuts are coming .... worth 15% of spending. @policyalternatives.ca theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... 1/x

In the 2025 federal election, LPC platform promised $13 bil/yr in "government efficiencies" through AI and capping growth but no one kicked the tires on this one. These cuts would be devastating if implemented @policyalternatives.ca PA 🧵👇👇

The main party platforms are finally out and to easily understand them I created a wordcloud with all party planks weighted by their 4yr $$ value: bigger font = worth more, smaller font=worth less. See if the parties put their money where their mouths are ⬇️⬇️⬇️🧵 @policyalternatives.ca

You want more #election platform crunching? We’ve got more! V3.0 has CPC, Liberal, NDP, Green & Bloc platforms. 1st up, how much you’d save from personal tax cuts and/or get in cash transfers in $$ on average per filer by income deciles @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇 www.datawrapper.de/_/relj9/

New from @policyalternatives.ca: How the parties’ tax cut and cash transfers promises compare. By @davidmaccdn.bsky.social #cdnpoli #federalelection www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Tax and cash transfer promises are flying fast and furious in this federal #election. I’ve been modelling them all and here are the average impacts for NDP, CPC and Liberals by deciles of pre-tax income. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇 for by program and poverty amounts.

Both the Liberals and Conservatives have pledged changing the rate of the lowest federal tax bracket from 15% to 14% (Liberal) or 12.75% (Conservative). I'll be doing a deep dive later, but here are the preliminaries on these almost identical #election policies @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇

Canadians are experiencing serious news deprivation as local news outlets are closing at an accelerated rate. Our latest report examines 2,900 radio, TV, print and online outlets for the trends in your province and community. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇👇

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The point of Cdn #tariff actions should be to make it hurt, but only south of the border. The goal should be to have Americans notice they are in a tariff war and that its serious so the US tariffs stop, and quickly. Some action can decrease our prices in this #tariff war @ccpa 🧵👇...

Everyone remember #CERB during the pandemic? With American #tariffs we're going to need worker supports like that all over again, they should start today for affected industries and they need to include... @policyalternatives.ca 🧵