Whole lot of cops, fire and Toronto city staff here to clear out the homeless encampment at St Stephens. I thought that was on church property and none of the city’s affair

"'We must replace woke culture with warrior culture,' says the MP who lost an easily-winnable Carleton riding in April, and needed to be handed a riding so blue that it could be mistaken for Frank Sinatra’s eyes." www.thebeaverton.com/2025/10/rest...

Today in signs that go hard

We hope that other cities across the UK will learn from Cardiff’s leadership and take action on #carspreading. cleancitiescampaign.org/carspreading/

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Come Fly Away with Us As We Take A Gander at Flying Cars open.substack.com/pub/rideon/p...

Just got an e-mail from Google telling me that they will change my region from “Canada” to “United States — Oregon” in 30 days, unless I change it back. They seem to be taking Trump’s annexation threats a little too seriously.

Matthew Lucky: "We need to trust science in the right way, which entails maintaining a healthy understanding of the very real limits of what it can say." www.promarket.org/2025/10/09/h...

“Scammers in B.C. and Ontario are preying on new victims by pretending to sell the beloved Girl Guide cookies.” nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

Keith Gerein: "Alberta's malnourished restaurant inspection system has become indigestible" edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

The “law and order” party continues to violate IP laws. faroutmagazine.co.uk/homeland-sec...

"Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ones, a key economic concept known as 'creative destruction.'" www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Andrew Coyne: "I’d say this is a solution in search of a problem, but it’s more like an accelerant in search of a flame. Birthright citizenship works fine. Leave it alone." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

President Lee Jae-Myung’s Plan to Reboot South Korea time.com/7317953/sout...

Alberta beef entering Mexico’s Costco market where U.S. cuts once reigned: The Mexican government also announced it was ending ban on Canadian pet foods made from bovine meal www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

Whether one likes supply management or not, politicians who support it have no credibility when they also complain about high grocery prices. Supply management is designed to raise grocery prices. You cannot have one without the other. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

Bill Kaufmann: "Company pitches AI-driven robotic construction as solution to housing crisis" calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

"For all the endless talk by right-wing pundits and politicians about the Trudeau government killing Gateway, it was actually the courts that put a stop to it. ...concluded that the federal government had failed to adequately consult affected First Nations." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/16/o...

This is something we have written about elsewhere awhile back, but given the fact municipal elections will be held in Alberta on October 20, we thought it would be timely to cover it again now. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/why-can-it...

Learning to Listen workshop series lnkd.in/gUSRy_bK

The latest on "Ride On" from me and @michaellemagnum.bsky.social. rideon.substack.com/p/how-to-cre...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Halifax Regional Municipality identified more than 1,200 properties near the Shubenacadie Lakes System likely to be affected by major floods. The study released on the municipality's website an interactive map predicting floodplains for 1-in-20 and 1-in-100 year floods.

LCC's eyes have been wide open to this for a very long time - we've listened to our walk/wheel campaigning allies and it's exactly what we say about being able to cycle. And if hardworking folk can only fit activity in as part of a commute, safe spaces for cycling & walking are BOTH essential.

We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

'Banana republic stuff': Top economists react to Trump firing BLS statistics chief edition.cnn.com/2025/08/04/T...

My thoughts on the Air Canada flight attendants strike, cleaned up and expanded based on valuable reader feedback. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/my-thought...

My latest on the Air Canada flight attendant strikes and the teaching of monopsonies in general. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/more-forei...

Inspired by recent articles published on Substack by Canadian Returnee, I give you the following article. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/why-univer...

So sad to see the Worthwhile Canadian Initiative go. I have been following it every morning for nearly 15 years, and I often encouraged students to read specific posts from it. I still cite stuff from early teens as they stuck in my head after all these years. worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_c...

So I would ask my financial advisor about this possibility, because it looks to me like locking in high interest rates now might be beneficial for savers -- bad for borrowers -- given my belief Trump will indeed bring the U.S. economy down with a bang. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/the-wile-e...

Resources for Teaching Tariffs marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Economists support sales taxes — with lower-income rebates such as the GST/HST credit — and especially carbon taxes, not only because they are a good source of income, but because they discourage over-consumption rather than income-generating behaviour. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/economic-a...

"Imagine singing on Dark Side of the Moon, being signed to The Beatles’ Apple Records, and backing up Dionne Warwick, but no one knows who you are. That’s exactly how to describe Doris Troy." faroutmagazine.co.uk/doris-troy-c...

Japan proposes 'economic zone' linking Indian Ocean to Africa, seeks greater role in the region abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

"In this episode of The Line: Alberta Podcast, Rob Breakenridge is joined by Dr. Kent Fellows, assistant professor of economics at the University of Calgary and fellow-in-residence at the C.D. Howe Institute." www.alberta.readtheline.ca/p/podcast-th...

“So while I still stand behind my other arguments in my previous post ... I want to be open and honest that I could very well be wrong on how long-term interest rates will move in the U.S., and therefore in Canada.” wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/will-trump...

“...provide additional information to explain why the ‘Coyne Affair’ — as it has come to be known amongst nerds like me — is very different from what is happening between Trump and Powell in terms of politically interfering with central bank independence” wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/canada-fig...

Abdul Matin Sarfraz: “At a premiers’ summit in Huntsville on Tuesday, Ford refused to rule out an electricity export tax, while Smith firmly said no.” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/22/n...

The quote from my last article shared here suggests Ford continues to want a tit-for-tat strategy in dealing with Trump. But as I argue here, that is not working. We need to follow a grim trigger strategy for at least as long as Trump is in power. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/the-civili...

In the article I shared a few minutes ago from the National Observer, I quoted arguments regarding energy export taxes. Here is an article I wrote several months ago where I compared and contrasted export taxes with import tariffs. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/import-tar...

In an article I quoted earlier, even Harper changed his mind regarding how close Canada should be to U.S.! Here is something I wrote awhile back where he showed similar signs of discontent with Trump, making him more aligned with Canadians like Chrétien. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Junaid B. Jahangir: “The focus in my course ‘Economics for Everyone’ aims to critique traditional tenets of economic theory to discuss issues with inequality and also to teach economics in a way that is accessible and interesting to students...” theconversation.com/how-disney-c...

Junaid’s article is something I will be reading repeatedly to keep in mind that as much as I admire traditional approaches to teaching Economics, the alternatives he explains are also important as both substitutes and complements to those approaches. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/on-junaid-...

Do you agree that Alberta should remain in Canada? www.forever-canadian.ca

It is the goal of Deciduous Corp. to apply the SEI model in Canada, starting with Calgary, and the purpose of this specific article is to explain some of the research that we have done into the program. wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/how-we-at-...

Elections Alberta approves Thomas Lukaszuk’s ‘Alberta Forever Canada’ citizen initiative petition albertapolitics.substack.com/p/elections-...

The latest from me and @michaellemagnum.bsky.social on whether LRT is the new streetcar. rideon.substack.com/p/is-light-r...

Jason Markusoff: "The provincial government that routinely demands Ottawa stay in its jurisdictional lane is keen to swerve into another jurisdiction's lanes. "Bicycle lanes." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...