Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦
@jrobson.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. MPM @Carleton; parent; gardener & sometime tradesperson; social & tax policy; worried about details
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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦
@jrobson.bsky.social
· Aug 30
That is one of the most grim observations I've read in some time. But perceptive...
Just going to pin this to my feed as I think it nicely summarizes my niche.
100% this.
But read the whole thread. Well worth your time.
But read the whole thread. Well worth your time.
One last thing: this invasion is an interesting coda to one specific Q1 2025 Trump-ism: “we don’t need their oil,” in reference to Canada.
Maybe they don’t.
Maybe they don’t.
January 3, 2026 at 6:54 PM
100% this.
But read the whole thread. Well worth your time.
But read the whole thread. Well worth your time.
reviving Keystone XL seems a lot less likely this morning
January 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
reviving Keystone XL seems a lot less likely this morning
Note, he never says “democratic”
Trump: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition."
January 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Note, he never says “democratic”
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Annex Canada, bomb Mexico ... the USMCA review this year may have some bumpy patches.
Trump on Sheinbaum: "The cartels are running Mexico. She's not running Mexico. We could be politically correct & nice and say, 'Oh, yes, she is.' No no. And I've asked her number times, 'Would you like us to take out the cartels?' ... something is gonna have to be done with Mexico."
January 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Annex Canada, bomb Mexico ... the USMCA review this year may have some bumpy patches.
And Trump is about to head into his lame-duck phase, which will make him easier to deal with, eh?
January 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
And Trump is about to head into his lame-duck phase, which will make him easier to deal with, eh?
Bootlegged in the sense of being broadcast & recorded up here in Canada. Us with our online streaming rules and broadcast licensing the USTR has called non-tariff barriers to trade.
I trust the Americans who have been happy to see the tape will be loudly defending Canada…
I trust the Americans who have been happy to see the tape will be loudly defending Canada…
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Bootlegged in the sense of being broadcast & recorded up here in Canada. Us with our online streaming rules and broadcast licensing the USTR has called non-tariff barriers to trade.
I trust the Americans who have been happy to see the tape will be loudly defending Canada…
I trust the Americans who have been happy to see the tape will be loudly defending Canada…
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Hundreds of public servants to learn about job cuts in the new year nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/21/h...
Hundreds of public servants to learn about job cuts in the new year
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Hundreds of public servants to learn about job cuts in the new year nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/21/h...
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Labour admits 60% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown
Labour admits 60% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown
Exclusive: Scale of government’s anti-fraud fiasco is four times higher than previously admitted
More than 60% of parents who had their child benefit stopped by HMRC using incorrect Home Office travel data were not fraudulently claiming the support from abroad, it has emerged.
The scale of the government’s anti-fraud fiasco is four times higher than previously admitted, with 15,000 of the 23,500 parents targeted by HMRC now identified as legitimate beneficiaries living in the UK. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Labour admits 60% of parents wrongly targeted in HMRC child benefit fraud crackdown
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14 2-yr Postdoc positions at 3 unis, any field (that is under pressure in US), deadline Jan 9
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
14 2-yr Postdoc positions at 3 unis, any field (that is under pressure in US), deadline Jan 9
A dense network of interconnectedness and interdependence is about to get denser.
OpenAI is in early talks to raise $10 billion from Amazon and use its AI chips
OpenAI May Raise $10 Billion From Amazon, The Information Says
OpenAI is in initial discussions to raise at least $10 billion from Amazon.com Inc. and use its chips, a potential win for the online retailer’s effort to broaden its AI industry presence and compete with Nvidia Corp.
bloom.bg
December 17, 2025 at 4:24 AM
A dense network of interconnectedness and interdependence is about to get denser.
If you work in academia (or just follow the sector), this new mixed methods study of Ontario faculty is worth your time: uwo.scholaris.ca/items/82005d.... Congratulations to Dr. Anne-Marie Bresee
Workloads and well-being in the academic workplace
Despite an extensive body of literature on higher education, few studies address how both contract and tenured professors experience the academic workplace shaped by neoliberalism. This dissertation h...
uwo.scholaris.ca
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
If you work in academia (or just follow the sector), this new mixed methods study of Ontario faculty is worth your time: uwo.scholaris.ca/items/82005d.... Congratulations to Dr. Anne-Marie Bresee
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Drunk raccoon found in liquor store suspected in karate studio break-in
Drunk raccoon found in liquor store suspected in karate studio break-in
The "trashed panda" is also suspected of burglarising snacks from the Department of Motor Vehicles.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Drunk raccoon found in liquor store suspected in karate studio break-in
A hat-tip to @althiaraj.bsky.social for spotting the poison pill in the draft budget legislation in Parliament apple.news/Ai261EfiGREW...
and to a good friend for sharing her piece.
I read the bill last night and then I blogged. open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
and to a good friend for sharing her piece.
I read the bill last night and then I blogged. open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
I'm reading the BIA Part 1. What, you're not?
FML - It's Saturday night and here I am...
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A hat-tip to @althiaraj.bsky.social for spotting the poison pill in the draft budget legislation in Parliament apple.news/Ai261EfiGREW...
and to a good friend for sharing her piece.
I read the bill last night and then I blogged. open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
and to a good friend for sharing her piece.
I read the bill last night and then I blogged. open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
I feel like the currents in the stream have picked up and are overtaking any efforts at hydrographic engineering.
December 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I feel like the currents in the stream have picked up and are overtaking any efforts at hydrographic engineering.
Page 12 of the new US National Security Strategy (accidentally?) refers to other nations as “counties”
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Page 12 of the new US National Security Strategy (accidentally?) refers to other nations as “counties”
Imagine if the PM had just taken time to meet with Coastal chiefs *before* signing the MOU with Smith…
Carney vows to meet Coastal First Nations after chiefs vote against pipeline to B.C. nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/02/c...
Carney vows to meet Coastal First Nations after chiefs vote against…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Imagine if the PM had just taken time to meet with Coastal chiefs *before* signing the MOU with Smith…
A reminder that Franklin is a book character from Canadian author Paulette Bourgeois and Canadian illustrator Brenda Clark.
As a Canadian, Franklin would only be able to enlist if he already had a Green Card (PR).
As a Canadian, he would have the right of return to Canada if deported from the US.
As a Canadian, Franklin would only be able to enlist if he already had a Green Card (PR).
As a Canadian, he would have the right of return to Canada if deported from the US.
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 AM
A reminder that Franklin is a book character from Canadian author Paulette Bourgeois and Canadian illustrator Brenda Clark.
As a Canadian, Franklin would only be able to enlist if he already had a Green Card (PR).
As a Canadian, he would have the right of return to Canada if deported from the US.
As a Canadian, Franklin would only be able to enlist if he already had a Green Card (PR).
As a Canadian, he would have the right of return to Canada if deported from the US.
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The Smith-Carney bitumen pipeline accord would very probably get a better reception at an Alberta NDP convention than at a UCP convention.
That's where we're at now in Alberta politics.
That's where we're at now in Alberta politics.
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Smith-Carney bitumen pipeline accord would very probably get a better reception at an Alberta NDP convention than at a UCP convention.
That's where we're at now in Alberta politics.
That's where we're at now in Alberta politics.
This racist screed is « non-compatible with Western Civilization ».
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
This racist screed is « non-compatible with Western Civilization ».
Remember kids, if you raise taxes and reduce tax-benefitted savings incentives, investors will run away.
Oh wait!
Oh wait!
Investors pile into UK bonds and sterling after budget reut.rs/3MqOwq0
Investors pile into UK bonds and sterling after budget
Investors piled into long-dated UK bonds on Wednesday, pushing yields down by the most since April, and boosted the pound after UK finance minister Rachel Reeves' budget helped alleviate some concern about Britain's long-term finances.
reut.rs
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Remember kids, if you raise taxes and reduce tax-benefitted savings incentives, investors will run away.
Oh wait!
Oh wait!
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Our @ubcvse.bsky.social application deadline is coming up soon for next year's MA and PhD entrance cohorts. Full details in the QT below!
The Vancouver School of Economics is still accepting applications to its MA and PhD programs. We would encourage anyone who is interested in the techniques used for addressing important economic questions.
Learn more at: economics.ubc.ca/graduate/
Learn more at: economics.ubc.ca/graduate/
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Our @ubcvse.bsky.social application deadline is coming up soon for next year's MA and PhD entrance cohorts. Full details in the QT below!
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Applications are open to join us as an Early Career Cdn. Urban Leader or an Urbanist-in-Residence. Visiting experts are practitioners in civil society, the arts, business, media, or govt. & (emerging) leaders in their urban-related sector. Apply by 26/01 https://ow.ly/wU6o50XurfA
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Applications are open to join us as an Early Career Cdn. Urban Leader or an Urbanist-in-Residence. Visiting experts are practitioners in civil society, the arts, business, media, or govt. & (emerging) leaders in their urban-related sector. Apply by 26/01 https://ow.ly/wU6o50XurfA
I just can’t even…
This is within 48 hours of the US State Department reportedly amending its official policy to say that public funding for reproductive health care when it includes abortion and gender affirming care are *human rights violations* in the eyes of the US Govt.
Way to Larry Summers.
This is within 48 hours of the US State Department reportedly amending its official policy to say that public funding for reproductive health care when it includes abortion and gender affirming care are *human rights violations* in the eyes of the US Govt.
Way to Larry Summers.
The women that brought him to power might be raising their collective eyebrows.
Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting.
Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social
Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting.
Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I just can’t even…
This is within 48 hours of the US State Department reportedly amending its official policy to say that public funding for reproductive health care when it includes abortion and gender affirming care are *human rights violations* in the eyes of the US Govt.
Way to Larry Summers.
This is within 48 hours of the US State Department reportedly amending its official policy to say that public funding for reproductive health care when it includes abortion and gender affirming care are *human rights violations* in the eyes of the US Govt.
Way to Larry Summers.
that was faster than I would have expected, but still so destructive while it ran
Is anyone still saying we need this in Canada?
Is anyone still saying we need this in Canada?
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
that was faster than I would have expected, but still so destructive while it ran
Is anyone still saying we need this in Canada?
Is anyone still saying we need this in Canada?