The arena is packed for the @pwhlcharge.bsky.social first game of the season, it is so deeply healing to watch these amazing women play, and to watch the community get behind them!

Went down some rabbit holes trying to find how much Canada has collected in import duties - finally found the line in the fiscal monitor - last March Canada collected $427M, this March it shot up to $1,044M. Table 2, here: publications.gc.ca/collections/...

The cat has a brand new Oilers bunny hug for the game - we’re doing our part to defeat the Panthers!

Donald Trump says Canadian and Mexican tariffs "all set" for tomorrow - S&P falls 2% in response:

And with the news that tariffs are back on for Feb 1st, the dollar goes back down:

Canadian dollar responds to news that Trump won't impose tariffs today - jumps up by about a cent ... let's see where it lands at the end of the day!

My panel yesterday with Quentin Parrinello , Brigitte Alepin, and Daniel Kostzer looked at the ways the tax system in Canada allows wealth concentration and distorts power, and what we could do to change it.

Sure, here it is. Not only are their exports to us smaller in absolute terms (about 2/3rds of what we sell them), their economy is much larger, and a bigger share of the total is final consumer goods.

The top two sectors in terms of value are the same as the top two in terms of US share - not great - our highest value export sectors would have the biggest share hit with a 10% US tariff. And NAFTA 2.0 is set to be renegotiated, so he's definitely going to want to squeeze us.

Donald Trump is talking about a blanket 10% tariff on all goods entering the US, so I was curious about exactly how much stuff we sell them - it's a lot, by share of exports and by amount of money - even for food, which I expected to be more diversified, it's about half.

Got my Narwhal toque just in time - it’s starting to feel a lot like winter out there!

Oh, and for everyone who *can't* afford to buy a house, this chart is a big f*ck-you - Even if these programs help you, do you think the required down payment for a starter house will increase by more or less than $29K over the next five years? It's just so inadequate to the current moment.

I'm taking a virtual meeting from this cool workstation set up at the CUPE conference, but they've got swivel chairs so I have to keep my camera off because I cannot not swivel on the chairs.

It was so lovely to hear Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage talk about their book on Ed's career & social democracy ... feeling somewhat hopeful about what we can build together.

Instead, author Alex Purdye explores pressure from investors as a contributing factor to sellers inflation - which then means that the solution isn't just breaking up oligopolies - it requires market interventions that directly target profits.

Here's what Canada's looks like - lowest affordability since 1990 (in this one higher is worse).

I was so happy to see this response from the labour movement in Saskatchewan when the current government decided the popular thing to do is to direct teachers to out vulnerable kids to their parents, or drive them further into hiding.