Ian Brodie
@irbrodie
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Author of https://t.co/7ASvosqHj5 Politics bestseller At the Centre of Govt. Tweets are all personal views.
calgary, alberta
Joined January 2011
OECD per capita GDP dataset. As % of US per capita GDP.
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RT @MLInstitute: For panel III of our Rethinking Higher Education conference, Prof. Mark Harding of @uofg moderates a discussion on the rol….
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The only person with the power to make your life unliveable is you. The only person.
@irbrodie I would generally agree but, if you’re a student, those people have the power to make your life unliveable and, if you disagree with them publicly, you can be sure they will do that.
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Honoured to be on a panel with such distinguished colleagues.
For panel III of our Rethinking Higher Education conference, Prof. Mark Harding of @uofg moderates a discussion on the role of govt in shaping universities, ft. Prof. @ryan_p_alford, Prof. @irbrodie & Peter Mackinnon
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A terrible decision. But every society has holy writs that cannot be challenged.
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One cannot control the actions of others. One can only control what one learns from their actions.
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RT @DwightNewmanLaw: To their credit, @CBCSaskatoon has now admitted that their use of a statement two weeks after I made it without indica….
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your fellow students. Be open to learning from everyone. Don’t ever judge someone based on a single tweet. This prof is the heir to Sam Noumoff, from whom I learned many things. And then, yeah, live yourself a good life, make a ton of money if you want, and endow a chair.
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McGill alum here. This tweet provides bad advice in my opinion. Why go to university at all if all you are going to learn is to belittle and mock people? I say, do the opposite. Learn that there are serious people with other opinions. Challenge them seriously. Make the effort to.
To students en route to McGill University, just remember, you don't have to take these professors seriously. They are losers. Mock and belittle them in class. Laugh at them. Then get a real job outside of the academy and actually achieve things in the world.
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In 100 days, the original inter provincial pipeline was approved with legislation on the eve of a federal election, permitted, and was already under construction on its way to Wisconsin.
Yet 100 days into his term and Mark Carney hasn’t built one damn pipeline! As always, @Sean_Speer keeping it real.
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So … Canada was the country violating USMCA these past few months?.
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Last year I was invited to dinner with a senior government official that specified “aloha smart”. We were in Hawaii. I had to look up the term.
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And it looks like you and I are on the same panel?.
Looking forward to attending the @ubc_ccl fall conference, which has a superb set of speakers at a smaller workshop - and Supreme Court of Canada Justice Mary Moreau is giving a public lecture during the conference - the @ubc_ccl adds so much to @ubcokanagan!!.
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Jimmy Lai is a genuine hero of the times.
Jimmy Lai fought for freedom in Hong Kong, marching in demonstrations and starting a pro-democracy paper. The Chinese government is about to imprison him for life after subjecting him to more than 1,600 days in solitary confinement, @RobertSirico writes.
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The Finnish guy golfs and has experience with Russia per last weekend’s WSJ. Also seems to treat Mr Trump as a serious person.
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New firms keep entering the market and going bankrupt. We have a lot of competition, just not a lot of successful competition.
I believe both these things are true: . 1 - Flight attendants should receive ground pay (when FAs aren't in the air but are working). 2 - Canada desperately needs more domestic airline competition, to break the near duopoly that exists in domestic air travel.
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Given the high inflation of the past few years and the economic dislocation of trade wars, the invisible hand needs to reset the price of all sorts of goods including labour. Arbitration awards help in the short term, but eventually the price of this upheaval will be paid.
Is the Conservative Party still backing CUPE now the union is in an illegal strike position? The real question in this dispute is: do we want a stronger, more robust economy, or do we want to be Italy?.
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Personally, I don’t need a government agency to tell me who is or is not a historically important person.
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