Chris Ross
@chrispyross
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I like climate policy and hiking | Calgarian in Montreal | MA @mcgillu Poli Sci | Surveys @MediaEcosystem | PCT '23 | UWC | Not a doomer
Joined January 2021
Excited to share my MA thesis! I asked if Erin O'Toole persuaded Conservatives about carbon pricing. The answer is complicated. A thread /1
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I think this is the true book ender date for the wildest year in Canadian politics that I have ever experienced.
Tomorrow marks one year since Trudeau tried to fire Chrystia Freeland as FM to replace her with Mark Carney, but ended up firing himself instead.
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@timeanddate make an amazing website to play around with the numbers https://t.co/A7kygfPrbq
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today had 8h46m of daylight in montreal. By the 21st it will be 8h42m but by christmas it will already start increasing to 8h43 📈. Then the long climb to June. A third the amount of night in 3 months lets go :)
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I really appreciate this piece from @ezraklein (and its amplification by @mattyglesias). But I think the ideas being teased out here would benefit from a prescient piece Alexis Madrigal wrote more than a decade ago.
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Where on the climate change "tip of the iceberg" meme would this go? Below the water surely
From @hausfath's new piece over at CarbonBrief on the causes of the last three years of accelerated warming. Chart below specifically shows range of estimates of warming caused by the International Maritime Organization's 2020 regulations. (That's Hansen's estimate at the top)
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I think it'd be very cool if Australian kids started improving in a wide range of metrics because of this social media ban. So many things are deeply complex that an unambiguous policy win would be sick
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One of the more interesting stories in the rental market is the convergence of rents in different areas - three years ago, the spread between Edmonton and Vancouver was $1800, now it's only $1200. Shift to remote work? Disillusionment with the big cities? Something else?
While the average asking rent continues to decline in Canada, the trend is primarily driven by larger price reductions in the highest-cost markets. More affordable markets have been relatively flat, or even increasing, leading to a narrower range of rents nation-wide.
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Hey Siri, why will oil sands firms be unwilling to commit capital to CCUS?
Canadians want a pipeline. Carney wants an industrial carbon tax. Sign for pipelines not taxes: https://t.co/TnAe0fhOXs
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Great post on their website. A third of Canadians are idk/neutral
Regional breakdown in new Leger poll on support for a new bitumen pipeline running from Alberta to BC coast
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And if someone can back up their comment with evidence of some form, ideally a plot
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Genuinely wondering about what public policies anywhere has helped on the supply side of grocery prices.
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🚨New working paper🚨 We find that issue-specific bipartisan appeals credibly signal policymaking intentions We show why bipartisan lawmaking persists amid congressional conflict: progress comes through issue-specific pathways rather than broad consensus between Ds and Rs 🧵👇
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@the_lineca Tldr, relying on heavy industry (i.e. industrial carbon pricing) makes A LOT of sense when you consider the politics of climate change policy tradeoffs.
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I wrote about it in @the_lineca
https://t.co/dRPLllwsl6
readtheline.ca
And why our policies changed to match the politics.
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In regards to MoU discourse, just want to reshare this polling I fielded during the federal election
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I'm here for the wicked-fication of childhood media
First look at ‘STEPS’, a new animated film that follows Cinderella’s evil stepsisters who are actually depicted as kind & misunderstood Starring Ali Wong and Stephanie Hsu as the stepsisters Releasing in 2026 on Netflix
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