Derek Schimanski
@DerekSchimanski
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Coffee drinker. Dog owner. Political philosophy nerd.
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Joined September 2019
What if Santa isn't fat, but merely lactose intolerant?
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Having @Katie___Simpson consistently in Washington for this kind of news coverage is a very persuasive argument *against* defunding the CBC. I don't see any of our private broadcasters (CTV, Global, etc.) who have a consistent presence in DC like @CBCNews does with Katie.
Leavitt: The president believes Canadians would benefit greatly from becoming the 51st state
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Oh, for pete's sake. Is this dumb chart *still* making the rounds? Output per hour is deflated by producer prices, and compensation is deflated by consumer prices. When you use the same price index for both, the gap disappears.
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The current discourse would be much saner if we accepted that *all* Prime Ministers are appointed, not elected.
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People, the King and the Palace aren’t going to comment unless the Canadian government pushes it with big-A advice. And you can be sure the British government will be pushing back hard on the Canadian government diplomatically. The UK would basically tell Canada: dont you dare.
‘Not something we would comment on’: Buckingham Palace on Trump threats to annex Canada
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For you would-be clever folks wondering how taxes affect the climate, here's the mechanism: 1) Taxes affects human behaviour. 2) Human behaviour affects the climate.
If the carbon tax really does end up going down and politicians genuinely care about minimizing costs on individuals then we're pretty much giving up the fight on climate. The entire point of a carbon tax is that it is the single lowest cost way to reduce emissions.
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Biden from the Oval Office: "I revere this office, but I love this country more. It has been the honor of my life to serve as your president ... but this sacred task of perfecting our union, it's not me ... it's about we the people ... we are a great nation bc we are good people"
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Alternative fact based economic story: We lack competition in Canada with too many monopolies & oligopolies making massive profits while Canadian pay higher prices and have fewer choices.
Politicians in Ottawa "are eagerly targeting, vilifying and scapegoating 🇨🇦’s largest firms as if they are pariahs. At a time when the investment climate remains incredibly challenging, it is a dispiriting development in C-suites across 🇨🇦." - @theoargitis
https://t.co/SgZjD9Lide
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Unpopular but correct take: Affordability is a story about incomes, not prices. No-one cares (or should care) if someone making $100k/year is paying more to heat their larger-than-average home.
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One more ATIP story before I go - Bell asked Ottawa for laws, regulations to ensure access to American TV content #CRTC
https://t.co/QRxr0XXQ9u via @nationalpost
nationalpost.com
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The new table makes use of "scanner data" (I.e. the actual recorded transaction cost/payment) whereas the old dataset made use of posted prices in store. So, old prices: what was advertised in store New prices: what people actually paid at the counter Source in next tweet.
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As twitter's future gets less and less clear, I have diversified out to Mastodon and Reddit. Here's all my accounts:
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C-18 is like the govt setting up photo radar to generate revenues from fines and throwing a hissy fit because people stopped speeding.
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Opinion polling isn't the problem. The way we elect our representatives is the issue. Knowing how my fellow Canadians are feeling about the election shouldn't cause voter angst. Move to an electoral system that rewards voter participation, like PR, and this problem goes away.
In the wake of record-low turnout for an Ontario election, the province's chief electoral officer is calling for a ban on publishing the results of political polls for the final stretch of the campaign.
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I'm reminded of John Bracken. The Conservatives courted him so hard that they literally changed the name of the party to appease him, only to kick him to the curb 5 years later.
Just more proof of how debased our politics has become, and that parties are being reduced to branding exercises, and now you have people who want a leader from a different party to inhabit the Liberal shell like a hermit crab. What an absolute state grassroots politics is in.
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As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.
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I'm not saying Mastodon is worthless. It's just not a Twitter replacement. It's its own thing. Treat it like a bunch of special interest boards that can cross-communicate. That's kind of neat, but it isn't Twitter. /end
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