Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦
@blakeshaffer.bsky.social
Associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary. Former energy trader.
blakeshaffer.ca
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This just out: Canada no longer holds measles elimination status. See my recent analysis in The Walrus. www.canada.ca/en/public-he... @thewalrus.ca
Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada on Canada’s Measles Elimination Status
Following over 12 months of transmission across the country, PAHO confirms Canada's loss of measles elimination status. We are coordinating efforts with provinces and territories to restore the status...
www.canada.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This just out: Canada no longer holds measles elimination status. See my recent analysis in The Walrus. www.canada.ca/en/public-he... @thewalrus.ca
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Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago
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"I am openly defying a court order so I can starve children if Democrats don't let me take healthcare away from millions"
once again we are in 'too evil for a saturday morning cartoon' territory
once again we are in 'too evil for a saturday morning cartoon' territory
Trump says the SNAP money that he’s been ordered by a court to release won’t be released until the government shutdown ends.
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"I am openly defying a court order so I can starve children if Democrats don't let me take healthcare away from millions"
once again we are in 'too evil for a saturday morning cartoon' territory
once again we are in 'too evil for a saturday morning cartoon' territory
I love that demand flexibility has gotten to the mainstream point of being featured in the NY Times.
Kudos to Tyler for his persistent and very clear push for this smart solution to manage demand growth. 🔌 💡
Kudos to Tyler for his persistent and very clear push for this smart solution to manage demand growth. 🔌 💡
I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
November 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I love that demand flexibility has gotten to the mainstream point of being featured in the NY Times.
Kudos to Tyler for his persistent and very clear push for this smart solution to manage demand growth. 🔌 💡
Kudos to Tyler for his persistent and very clear push for this smart solution to manage demand growth. 🔌 💡
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I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I have a @nytimes.com op-ed today on managing power demand growth. Central point: load growth is an opportunity to *offset* upward rate pressure (and avoid gas overbuild), if we plan the system to make fuller use of infrastructure we’ve already paid for. 🔌💡 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
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I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Postdoctoral Position in Behavioral and Environmental Economics
jobportal.ku.dk
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
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Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Your daily dose of climate hope. From the team at RMI: rmi.org/wp-content/u...
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An Air Canada flight right now
November 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
An Air Canada flight right now
@paulisci.bsky.social headline potential!
NEWS: Mildly sexy lumberjacks perform at St. Albert's Arden Theatre
Mildly sexy lumberjacks perform at St. Albert's Arden Theatre
Canadian Steam, an improvised comedy project, stars David Milchard, Eduard Witzke and Scott Patey
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November 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@paulisci.bsky.social headline potential!
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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An Australian vulture company that funds lawsuits made a massive profit off the UCP government via Andrew Nikiforuk.
Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Alberta’s Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners | The Tyee
Two firms that invested far less are getting $238 million. Taxpayers face more such hits.
thetyee.ca
October 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
An Australian vulture company that funds lawsuits made a massive profit off the UCP government via Andrew Nikiforuk.
Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Alberta's Big Payouts to Spurned Australian Coal Miners via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
“There hasn’t been an American diplomat posted here in 100 years who has been as unlikeable, as obnoxious, as egotistical as Mr. Hoekstra. He is a third-rate bully who imagines that any of us who exist outside of the U.S. are inferior.”
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“There hasn’t been an American diplomat posted here in 100 years who has been as unlikeable, as obnoxious, as egotistical as Mr. Hoekstra. He is a third-rate bully who imagines that any of us who exist outside of the U.S. are inferior.”
“Allowing the matter to pass without comment will set a terrible precedent and simply encourage further breaches of protocol.”
If we’re not going to PNG this guy, at least haul him in. Amen.
If we’re not going to PNG this guy, at least haul him in. Amen.
Our Hoekstra Response Should be a Lesson in Diplomacy, Fen Hampson writes www.policymagazine.ca/our-hoekstra...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“Allowing the matter to pass without comment will set a terrible precedent and simply encourage further breaches of protocol.”
If we’re not going to PNG this guy, at least haul him in. Amen.
If we’re not going to PNG this guy, at least haul him in. Amen.
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A note to Canadian parents: It’s Game 6 on Friday, so Halloween is over at 7:30 pm this year.
If you show up at my door after then, I’m giving your children chewing tobacco.
If you show up at my door after then, I’m giving your children chewing tobacco.
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
A note to Canadian parents: It’s Game 6 on Friday, so Halloween is over at 7:30 pm this year.
If you show up at my door after then, I’m giving your children chewing tobacco.
If you show up at my door after then, I’m giving your children chewing tobacco.
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This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll
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My kids are delighted that the World Series is going six or seven games 🤷
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
My kids are delighted that the World Series is going six or seven games 🤷
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Heads up #yycbike: 5 of my family’s bikes were stolen from our garage last night 😔. Please keep your eyes open for these bikes and please repost widely.
2019 Rocky Mountain Instinct
2006 Brodie Fury
2008 Trek 1500
2019 Trek Marlin 6
2022 Trek Marlin 5
2019 Rocky Mountain Instinct
2006 Brodie Fury
2008 Trek 1500
2019 Trek Marlin 6
2022 Trek Marlin 5
October 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Heads up #yycbike: 5 of my family’s bikes were stolen from our garage last night 😔. Please keep your eyes open for these bikes and please repost widely.
2019 Rocky Mountain Instinct
2006 Brodie Fury
2008 Trek 1500
2019 Trek Marlin 6
2022 Trek Marlin 5
2019 Rocky Mountain Instinct
2006 Brodie Fury
2008 Trek 1500
2019 Trek Marlin 6
2022 Trek Marlin 5
Let’s Go Blue Jays!
a man in a suit and tie with his arms in the air and the words it 's happening above him
ALT: a man in a suit and tie with his arms in the air and the words it 's happening above him
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October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Let’s Go Blue Jays!
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Remarkable case of false balance. Trump is disappearing people, blowing up boats, musing about third term. Mamdani wants rent freeze and free buses. “Extremes“
October 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Remarkable case of false balance. Trump is disappearing people, blowing up boats, musing about third term. Mamdani wants rent freeze and free buses. “Extremes“
Really looking forward to @dieworkwear.bsky.social’s take on this, err, German inspired attire.
Here is Gregory Bovino, the man in charge of ICE agents in Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Really looking forward to @dieworkwear.bsky.social’s take on this, err, German inspired attire.
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From Charlie Demers: "Now batting for the Toronto Blue Jays, Vladimir Guerrero III…"
October 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
From Charlie Demers: "Now batting for the Toronto Blue Jays, Vladimir Guerrero III…"
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It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
It will be interesting to see how overriding charter rights, forcing a rejected labour deal on workers, and threatening substantial fines will impact Alberta's plan to add and recruit 3,000 new teachers over the next 3 years.
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Not just the Charter (Sections 2 and 7-15), but also bypassing the Alberta Bill of Rights that was amended with great fanfare last fall by the Smith government. Plus the Alberta Human Rights Act.
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Not just the Charter (Sections 2 and 7-15), but also bypassing the Alberta Bill of Rights that was amended with great fanfare last fall by the Smith government. Plus the Alberta Human Rights Act.
If the govt can just dictate the terms of a contract—skipping past binding arbitration and legislating away recourse rights—and the public accepts that, well, then what reason would govt have to bargain in good faith with any public sector employees going forward?
Dark day indeed. Not acceptable.
Dark day indeed. Not acceptable.
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If the govt can just dictate the terms of a contract—skipping past binding arbitration and legislating away recourse rights—and the public accepts that, well, then what reason would govt have to bargain in good faith with any public sector employees going forward?
Dark day indeed. Not acceptable.
Dark day indeed. Not acceptable.