Ken Muldrew

@andrew_leach Since his columns are now just streams of Rob Anderson's (mostly) unattributed quotes and thoughts, the love is understandable.

Find someone who loves you as much as Don Braid loves a sabre-rattling Premier. The more the sabre is made of glass the better.

@andrew_leach Back the tax, jack (up) the tax, don't attack the tax, the tax pays back, the tax don't raise the price of schweinshaxe...gotta be a slogan here somewhere.

So, since 2018, oil and gas, transportation, buildings, heavy industry, and electricity (all covered by carbon pricing) have seen drops in GHGs (about 7% in each sector and the economy as a whole). Agriculture, where emissions are almost fully exempt from pricing, is flat.

@andrew_leach Legalese is so non-intuitive. Do you read 13(2) as saying that cogens that provide more electricity behind the fence than they export to the grid are totally free of the CO2 limit in 9(1)?

Updated Clean Electricity Regulations are out. Regs: canada.ca/content/dam/ec… And RIAS: canada.ca/content/dam/ec…

@drdagly @JMeddings @jmeddings.bsky.social

One post about health care efficiencies and the trolls are out. Where’s @JMeddings when I need him most. 😂

@doctorow Hearn and Bednar also delivered a set of public lectures on the topics in the book. You can watch them on youtube (scroll to the end of the list): youtube.com/playlist?list=…

The Canadian national identity involves a lot of sneering at the US, but when it comes to oligarchy, Canada makes America look positively amateurish. 1/

@josh_wingrove US trade deficit with Canada is about 10% of trade volume. Hardly massive (nor is it remotely a problem for the US).

Trump on his meeting with Trudeau:

@trevortombe Proactively defang anonymous reviewer #2; a clever strategy.

Fun fact!! Working papers in economics are standard practice. 🤓

@andrew_leach Such a pain in the ass to capitalize using a phone, too. It's almost the only thing where this guy doesn't take the laziest path available.

Reading the capitalization in a Trump release feels like reading the capitalization in the Canadian Constitution Act, 1867.

@CanuckSteve1VP @andrew_leach Monetarism, balanced budgets, and markets for everything (regulated only where they have been shown to fail).

@andrew_leach What is "neoliberalism" exactly?

Pour one out for the "recovering academic" who had arrived in my mentions to explain how the real issue is that the left has moved to the centre and embraced neoliberalism.

@andrew_leach A position also taken by Jamie Galbraith in The_Predator_State (at least to the extent that they ceded all attempts at planning (e.g. industrial policy) to markets).

@jimwachowich The corruption of this man is so breathtaking, it shines and stinks like mackerel in the moonlight.

From FB. This captures how I feel.

@JasonPYYC "Your revolution is over, Mr. Lebowski. Condolences. The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job".

The UCP is telling you to “get a job” when they created the lowest wage growth and highest unemployment province in Canada. Funny they didn’t tell ex-MLAs like the following to get jobs, they kept them on government $$ Jeremy Nixon, Rosin, Milliken, Madu, Olsen, Frey, Shandro

@andrew_leach Is there much activity around putting HV transmission underground to avoid the increasing frequency of weather related catastrophes (e.g. wildfires in CA)? That would be costly.

A 20-year doubling is a little more than 1% above CPI inflation on average. What's more interesting is what's happened in the last 5 years.

@andrew_leach Paracelsus (about 500 years ago): "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison."

That's what the chemtrails are for, Shane.

@andrew_leach @VassB @denisehearn_ @AudreysBooks @MaxBellSchool Kayfabe: tacit agreement to behave as if something is real, sincere, or genuine when it is not (e.g. professional wrestling, free markets, consumer sovereignty).

Only a few hours to go until @VassB and @denisehearn_ launch their new book at @AudreysBooks at 7pm tonight. Hopefully you can join us there: I'll be leading a conversation/Q&A with the authors who are this year's @MaxBellSchool Lecturers. There will be wrestling analogies.

@andrew_leach So you are not able to answer "and so on."? Very damning.

Rick's going to be mad when he finds out that I do bike year round, I do have solar power in my home, and that I have previously held the Enbridge Professorship in Energy Policy at the U.

@andrew_leach Looking forward to my time in the barrel on Thursday.

Every time I get a COVID shot, I'm good for exactly 4 hours, then I get crushed. Got the shot at 3 today. We're 70 minutes into the being crushed phase.

@andrew_leach Seems they were just warming up for their main gig (trolling over the Indian Diplo-assassins).

The concern trolling is set to 11 today. I'm inundated with climate change deniers who, trust them, are vegan to save the planet, and people who would love renewable power to work but they are really worried about the emissions in the concrete and the plastic in the pv panels.

@JMeddings Pharmacies are booking covid/flu shots now for appointments starting on Oct. 15. Strange that the Prov. Gov. remains silent.

Other provinces are launching vaccination campaigns. In Alberta it seems our Minister of Health isn't even sure that "vaccines" have been approved by Health Canada...

@TheBreakdownAB The 15-minute-city police are preventing them from driving!

This is more than wild, it’s totally bonkers! Only 9% of road usage in Edmonton is from Edmonton residents? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli