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Prof at Memorial University. My research is on international political economy and public policy.
Come By Chance, NL
Joined January 2014
There is an election going on - if you feel like you are being left behind ask the candidates why they have no serious policy proposals to deal with this challenge.
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Releasing today - the 2025 regional living wages from @CCPANS Our takeaway this year - too many people are working long hours for incomes that don't cover a conservative estimate of essential household expenses. Report here:
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RT @HappyCitySJ: Happy City Campaign School - Meet our panelists!. Climate Change, Public Transportation, Infrastructure and Resilience pan….
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Well… we have had free trade since basically the 1950’s… so that would be okay … I guess. But… why did the President have to crash the global economy to learn how North America works?. Like… he could have read something, or listened to people? Just thinking out loud.
New U.S. ambassador says Canada could get ‘lowest tariffs of any country’
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I’d like to know what acctual Conservatives believe about this.
Conservatives believe there should be a by-election in Terrebonne. With a margin of one vote and numerous errors preventing some votes from counting, voters deserve the chance to have their intentions clearly expressed with a conclusive vote.
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We live in amazing times. I hug my kids close.
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The National Post is a joke. Don’t pay for it. It’s like the Enquirer in the grocery store line up: you don’t need it in your life.
'All of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s big talk about standing up to Donald Trump was exposed Tuesday as a bombastic sham'.
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Preference are complex. They do not translate the way advocates of ranked ballots and AV systems assume. Voters … are complicated. The key takeaway though is that converting Canadian politics into a two horse race is not a *safe “Conservatives can’t win” space.
Preparing for some post-election briefings for clients and associations. From the @abacusdataca post-election survey, look at voter flows from 2021 to 2025. Only 1 in 3 of those who voted NDP in 2021, did so again in 2025.
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Have you talked to the premier of Alberta?.
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Yes… we’re not even talking about services either. But if this is REALLY what you’re obsessed about we can buy less American manufactured goods and the US can decide if they still want energy. No idea how that’s a win for the US; but I’ll be in line to be a Canadian car.
Trade deficit not 1) a "subsidy", or 2) worth $200bn. The annualized US goods trade deficit with Canada is nearer $60bn a year, not $200bn. And that's deficit is effectively all crude—without crude, the US has maintained a steady trade SURPLUS with Canada to the tune of ~$30bn.
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RT @David_Moscrop: Neither Carney nor Canada would have benefited from the prime minister sitting in the White House and trying to antagoni….
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This basically. Though I assume in the greatest Neville Chamberlin tradition, at some point Trump will take a “piece of paper” he can call a deal. He really just wants the theatre. NAFTA: worst deal ever/USMCA: Best deal ever 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️.
Key takeaways from the Trump-Carney meeting: 1) no humiliation; 2) no clarity over what Trump wants in exchange for lifting tariffs; 3) no US openness toward a US-CAN economic and security deal; 4) threats of annexation remain; 5) the two countries will continue to drift apart.
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RT @justinmassie1: Key takeaways from the Trump-Carney meeting: 1) no humiliation; 2) no clarity over what Trump wants in exchange for lift….
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And … I wish him the best. This country needs it. He’s wedged between Trump insanity and Danielle Smith trying to engineer own-goals on Canada. You can not like the Liberals. Carney is not my “cup of tea”, but we really need to keep working together.
Look. It’s a tough day to be the PM. No one wants to go and participate in Trump’s theatre absurdism, but he did what he had to do. And he did it without going “Keir Starmer”. Trump got a lot of what he wanted in optics, Carney will probably stay focused in the real issues.
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Look. It’s a tough day to be the PM. No one wants to go and participate in Trump’s theatre absurdism, but he did what he had to do. And he did it without going “Keir Starmer”. Trump got a lot of what he wanted in optics, Carney will probably stay focused in the real issues.
Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind . Reporter: Oh I could
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Hellsite releases collective groan as remaining posters discover bots don't vote.
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Celebrating a very Red day in the car while the kids are at practice.
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RT @bennyjohnson: 🚨SAVAGE: President Trump let’s Canada know who’s in charge: . “We don't really want Canada to make cars for us, to put it….
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I don't know what it says about modern politics that one of the most successful anti tax campaigns I have seen was directed at non existent tax, but there it is.
This is good. It's the additional revenue that the CPC projets it will get from the elimination of the carbon tax. In other words, they're acknowledging that people got more back than what they paid -- in their own platform!
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