Steve Lafleur
@stevelafleur.bsky.social
Research Director, Building New Foundations for Economic Growth program @IRPP. 🇨🇦
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This would be “worst NFP print since Dec 2020,” adds the Goldman desk.
(WSJ) - U.S. nonfarm payrolls likely shrunk by 50,000 roles in October, economists at Goldman Sachs said.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This would be “worst NFP print since Dec 2020,” adds the Goldman desk.
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HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down
QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months?
HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down
QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months?
HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals
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live by the median voter's belief that the President has an affordability dial in the oval, die by the median voter's belief that the President has an affordability dial in the oval
*BESSENT: 'WE INHERITED AN AFFORDABILITY CRISIS'
*BESSENT: 'WE INHERITED AN AFFORDABILITY CRISIS'
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
live by the median voter's belief that the President has an affordability dial in the oval, die by the median voter's belief that the President has an affordability dial in the oval
*BESSENT: 'WE INHERITED AN AFFORDABILITY CRISIS'
*BESSENT: 'WE INHERITED AN AFFORDABILITY CRISIS'
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My cartoon in today's Toronto Star
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Red Poppies
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Red Poppies
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
Molly Lamb Bobak
1977
I don't have a view on the strategy of the shutdown. But it seems that:
1) it helped Democrats in NJ/VA/etc.
2) it raised the national salience of healthcare (a good issue for Ds).
3) even though capitulation may anger D base, Rs now need to take a hard vote on ACA.
1) it helped Democrats in NJ/VA/etc.
2) it raised the national salience of healthcare (a good issue for Ds).
3) even though capitulation may anger D base, Rs now need to take a hard vote on ACA.
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I don't have a view on the strategy of the shutdown. But it seems that:
1) it helped Democrats in NJ/VA/etc.
2) it raised the national salience of healthcare (a good issue for Ds).
3) even though capitulation may anger D base, Rs now need to take a hard vote on ACA.
1) it helped Democrats in NJ/VA/etc.
2) it raised the national salience of healthcare (a good issue for Ds).
3) even though capitulation may anger D base, Rs now need to take a hard vote on ACA.
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Today marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew of 29 sank during a violent storm on Lake Superior.
In Minnesota, we continue to honor their legacy.
www.startribune.com/ss-edmund-fi...
In Minnesota, we continue to honor their legacy.
www.startribune.com/ss-edmund-fi...
Washington: 50 years after Edmund Fitzgerald wreck, story endures despite ballad’s myths
Gordon Lightfoot’s song both preserved and distorted the doomed ship’s history, Robin Washington writes.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Today marks 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald and her crew of 29 sank during a violent storm on Lake Superior.
In Minnesota, we continue to honor their legacy.
www.startribune.com/ss-edmund-fi...
In Minnesota, we continue to honor their legacy.
www.startribune.com/ss-edmund-fi...
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i think ezra is basically on the money here
Opinion | What Were Democrats Thinking?
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
i think ezra is basically on the money here
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fwiw...I guess my take after thinking about this for a bit...
1. the real villains remain the Rs, who have decided as a matter of policy that people should die rather than get health care, and who see starving people to death as a reasonable way to force concessions. (1)
1. the real villains remain the Rs, who have decided as a matter of policy that people should die rather than get health care, and who see starving people to death as a reasonable way to force concessions. (1)
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
fwiw...I guess my take after thinking about this for a bit...
1. the real villains remain the Rs, who have decided as a matter of policy that people should die rather than get health care, and who see starving people to death as a reasonable way to force concessions. (1)
1. the real villains remain the Rs, who have decided as a matter of policy that people should die rather than get health care, and who see starving people to death as a reasonable way to force concessions. (1)
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The Fed must set different interest rates in Spokane
Spokane has been killing it with housing reforms:
eliminating parking minimums near transit
increasing height maximums
Reducing lot minimums
THE RESULTS? The proof is in the puddin':
eliminating parking minimums near transit
increasing height maximums
Reducing lot minimums
THE RESULTS? The proof is in the puddin':
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The Fed must set different interest rates in Spokane
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Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
Alright, I'm back in Canada after two weeks away. What'd I miss?
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Alright, I'm back in Canada after two weeks away. What'd I miss?
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Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Trump is like a toddler: time he spends asleep is to be prized, not resented. Every minute he sleeps is a minute he is not tantruming or breaking things or smearing his own shit on things.
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Last time I wrote a book, the Wall Street Journal reviewer made up a different book that said the opposite of mine and attacked it, so this begrudgingly positive review for Nations Apart is a major advance: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘Nations Apart’ Review: The Republic by Region
The strongest divisions in our politics may emerge from patterns of early American settlement.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Last time I wrote a book, the Wall Street Journal reviewer made up a different book that said the opposite of mine and attacked it, so this begrudgingly positive review for Nations Apart is a major advance: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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The claim originated on a satirical news site called the “Dunning-Kruger Times.”
Trump Posts Claim About Obamacare ‘Royalties’ That Originated On Satirical News Site
The claim originated on a satirical news site called the “Dunning-Kruger Times.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The claim originated on a satirical news site called the “Dunning-Kruger Times.”
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"The sad and shocking reality is that the authoritarian consolidation that took Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi eight or so years to accomplish (India’s 2009 Freedom House score was 77, Hungary’s was a whopping 90), Trump has accomplished in eight months."
By moi at @theunpopulist.net: Trump has consolidated more power in a shorter amount of time compared to other authoritarians because his brazen motto is that unless stopped, he'll act lawlessly. He has no interest in staying within the law.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-has-...
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Trump Has Taken Only Months to Accomplish the Level of Authoritarian Consolidation That Took Orbán and Modi Years
But America's aversion to tyranny gives it a much better chance of restoring its liberal democracy than their countries
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November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"The sad and shocking reality is that the authoritarian consolidation that took Viktor Orbán and Narendra Modi eight or so years to accomplish (India’s 2009 Freedom House score was 77, Hungary’s was a whopping 90), Trump has accomplished in eight months."
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Without a warrant, law enforcers surreptitiously install video cameras looking over a man's eight-foot privacy fence; Eleventh Circuit says ten-month surveillance okay because part of man's backyard was visible from a different angle. Cato cert brief argues for tougher 4A standard [Matt Cavedon]
Williamson v. United States Brief: Ten Months of Warrantless Video Surveillance Violates the Fourth Amendment
The Eleventh Circuit’s decision would invite the warrantless deployment of these technologies against any part of the home considered “exposed to the public.” Such a result would enable “near-perfect ...
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November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Without a warrant, law enforcers surreptitiously install video cameras looking over a man's eight-foot privacy fence; Eleventh Circuit says ten-month surveillance okay because part of man's backyard was visible from a different angle. Cato cert brief argues for tougher 4A standard [Matt Cavedon]
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Not the relevant takeaway here but Heggy keeps trying to sound tough by using poaster memes. Just comes off as desperate and weird.
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Not the relevant takeaway here but Heggy keeps trying to sound tough by using poaster memes. Just comes off as desperate and weird.
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The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...
‘The use of force shocks the conscience’: Judge issues sweeping injunction on Chicago tactics of immigration agents
A federal judge in Chicago issued a sweeping injunction that puts more permanent restrictions on the use of force by immigration agents during “Operation Midway Blitz.”
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November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Constitution protects the right to free speech and the right to peacefully assemble. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/06/o...
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The father was a U.S. citizen.
But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler
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November 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The father was a U.S. citizen.
But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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I want to thank the coffee growers of Colombia for their help with my morning today. Trade is good. Glad for Canada's free trade agreement with Colombia, facilitating $2.6b in bilateral trade to help both countries grow our economies. Yay. 🍁🇨🇴
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I want to thank the coffee growers of Colombia for their help with my morning today. Trade is good. Glad for Canada's free trade agreement with Colombia, facilitating $2.6b in bilateral trade to help both countries grow our economies. Yay. 🍁🇨🇴
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📅 Happening soon!
Join us Nov. 18 for the IRPP Fall Lecture with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, one of North America’s leading voices on health and science misinformation.
An evening of ideas, dialogue, and networking with Canada’s policy community.
🎟️ Register now: irpp.org?p=20841
Join us Nov. 18 for the IRPP Fall Lecture with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, one of North America’s leading voices on health and science misinformation.
An evening of ideas, dialogue, and networking with Canada’s policy community.
🎟️ Register now: irpp.org?p=20841
How to Escape the Fake: Making Good Policy in the Age of Misinformation - IRPP
Join us for an evening of dialogue and networking with Canada’s dynamic public policy community. This year’s IRPP fall lecture will feature Canadian author and scholar Timothy Caulfield, one of Nort...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
📅 Happening soon!
Join us Nov. 18 for the IRPP Fall Lecture with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, one of North America’s leading voices on health and science misinformation.
An evening of ideas, dialogue, and networking with Canada’s policy community.
🎟️ Register now: irpp.org?p=20841
Join us Nov. 18 for the IRPP Fall Lecture with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, one of North America’s leading voices on health and science misinformation.
An evening of ideas, dialogue, and networking with Canada’s policy community.
🎟️ Register now: irpp.org?p=20841
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Just horrific. These are crimes.
And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.
And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Just horrific. These are crimes.
And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.
And let’s be clear — this is by design. They’ve been forthright about that. The aim is to make it migrants suffer so much that they give up their due process rights and leave voluntarily.
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She believes in the sanctity of traditional Christian marriage.
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
She believes in the sanctity of traditional Christian marriage.