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Always incredible to me how many people believe socialism is when the government doesn’t micromanage what homes you can build
The only time I see anything about this company it’s the government handing them money. Does it do anything useful yet?
"Cohere is a Canadian success story being written before our eyes" - Prime Minister @MarkJCarney
Again I wince as the answer to what would Build Canada like done tends towards lowering capital gains taxes. Ok 🙂
Our CEO, @lucyhargreaves4, joined Paul Wells on his newest podcast episode to answer a pretty important question: Who is Build Canada and what do we do? 🎙️
youtube.com/watch?v=_Ps2_HWG…
Even in Atlantic Canada, where supply reforms came more easily, big picture economic discussions put no effort into the actual nuts and bolts of how to get more housing
Feels like the BoC is doing mental gymnastics (“to anchor expectations”) instead of taking the simplest reading of the economy
BoC looked at the slack in the labour market and opted to "reduce the risk of high energy prices spreading more broadly" via some hypothetical expectations channel rather than pursue its objective "to actively seek maximum sustainable employment."
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This is based on a misunderstanding of what makes toll roads expensive or not.
Better to measure it per mile.
Far better to measure it per minute saved!
Dr Church’s class on industrial organization was one my favourites, and the most useful after graduation as well
Order of the University of Calgary recipient, Dr. Jeffrey Church, announced for fall 2026 convocation bit.ly/4ikx5E3
ALT Dr. Jeffrey Church.
There's a narrative out there that Mr. Anglin doesn't understand immigration-population growth dynamics
There is a narrative out there that the current federal government has dramatically cut immigration. It’s false.
The average annual permanent immigration level under Trudeau (2016-2025, excluding the anomalous COVID year of 2020) was 381,000.
The new government has frozen annual levels at … 380,000.
Yes, it’s about 100,000 less than the highest Trudeau year (2024), BUT it’s still about 100,000 higher than the highest Harper year.
“Last year, the government said it would freeze the number of new permanent residents at 380,000 a year until 2028. It also cut the number of international students it planned to admit over the next three years in half.”
Are not municipalities specifically responsible for regulating land uses?
“You can’t build a provincial economy on whale watching and coffee shops.”
We need to be a province that builds, makes and creates. We need a provincial industrial strategy and we need to get serious about the loss of industrial land to real estate speculation.
Once industrial land is converted to other uses, it is extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to get it back. And without that land, where exactly do we expect the next generation of manufacturers, skilled tradespeople and industrial employers to go?
This is one of the most consequential challenges we face in British Columbia, with a lot of damage already done. I hope the new government makes it an urgent priority.
Deny Sullivan 🇨🇦 retweeted
NEW — Gabriel Zucman, one of the world’s foremost experts on wealth taxes, has endorsed the BC Greens’ Fair Share Act:
“This excellent proposal for BC is not radical. What’s radical is to accept the status quo where the super rich live tax free in their own parallel society.”
This map is great because it would obviously flip Montana, North Dakota, Maine (senate), and Alaska. It’s even more impactful than just adding a state
In Santiago some of the buildings are angular planed towards the street. There are better examples but this building is also nice
