Newspapers? Clearly, housing and unsustainable growth in the NPR population contributed, but my understanding is the source of the fire under Miller’s ass was mostly the latter.

The first-order problem that motivated the u-turn on foreign students was not ON housing. It was the bulging population of migrants who had come to Canada expecting to transition to PR and were unable to. A growing undocumented population is not a problem you want to ignore for long.

I have.

Newfoundlander on Signal Hill. Perfect!

Well done, Fabian! Tried to make the same point here. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Pogues in 1994 at RPM in Toronto with Spider Stacy up front. Would much rather have seen Strummer in Brixton!!! Will tell you offline how that night ended with me being escorted by security out the RPM back door.

Here it is. Nice! Same real spending in 2023-2024 as 2001-2002.

I wonder how much can be explained by aging populations. A bigger share of budget going to healthcare and smaller share to education. What’s happened to real transfers per domestic postsecondary student?

Nice! Lots of interesting and important dynamics packed into two charts, for sure. :)

Excellent stuff! Only quibble is I wonder if the student-TFW tradeoff matters. Marginal increase in foreign students in recent years has been close substitute for low-wage TFWs. Migrants seeking Canadian jobs learned study permits are best option.

And paying big tuition fee premiums. Question is what happens to these “extra people” in coming quarters. To what extend do they leave denominator or remain working in low-wage jobs. This will influence if we get back to GDPpc trend which is what this “maximalist” will be following. :)