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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 7h

Someone tell Blanchet

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 7h

“The reality is that there is no fiscal crisis. No precipice.”

Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 10h

This is a really useful table from the folks at IFSD — especially if we're about to talk a lot about public debt and the cost of carrying that debt.

www.policymagazine.ca/budget-2025-...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 10h

This is a really useful table from the folks at IFSD — especially if we're about to talk a lot about public debt and the cost of carrying that debt.

www.policymagazine.ca/budget-2025-...

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 9h

Step 1: sue them - www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Step 2: take all their stuff

Step 3: get someone else to make better cars with their stuff

Ottawa threatens legal action against Stellantis | CBC News

The federal government is threatening automaker Stellantis with legal action if the company doesn't "respect its obligations" to Canadians, according to a letter obtained by CBC News, years after the ...

www.cbc.ca

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 10h

IME it will only give you ferry routes if you start near the ferry. Once you get on a bus, any bus, it will suggest 30 minute plus walks over a quick transfer through the ferry and then to a second bus.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 10h

Yup, I've had exactly the same problem. Even if I specify the arrive or depart times, which makes it take traffic into account on its projections, it force-excludes the ferry. Apple maps does the same thing. Its incredibly annoying.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 11h

Self-financing my ass, this is why you don't do "dynamic scoring" on budget items.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 11h

www.cbc.ca/news/politic... - You know, Darren Major, you can figure out whether the Bloc's proposed measures would be "self-financing". Spoilers: they're not, especially not the OAS increase.

Don Davies also continues to be extremely unserious. "Read my mind or it's election time!"

Opposition parties are pitching their own ideas ahead of Carney’s first budget | CBC News

The Liberal government will need the co-operation of at least one other party to pass its budget — and the opposition benches are starting to signal what they want to see when the federal financial pl...

www.cbc.ca

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 11h

We need to Morbius it.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 13h

Rosemary Barton would like you to understand that absolutely no politician in Canada would campaign on such base and puerile conspiracy theories. Please ignore the seventeen posts by Pierre Poilievre about it on X, the everything site, in the past month. Its rude to bring those up.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 14h

Every year, millions of low-income Canadians miss out on benefits they’re entitled to.

We’re stepping in — with new Automatic Federal Benefits. Canada’s new government will pre-file taxes for up to 5.5 million Canadians, getting them back money that would otherwise go unclaimed.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 15h

Sure, because the past decade or so of environmental strategy has consisted of either trying to trick people into eating their peas or figuring that sooner or later malnutrition will spontaneously trigger worldwide veganism.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, the idea that we can just sneakily do good policy and if we don't tell people about it they won't notice is a bad one. Everything needs marketing.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 15h

"What do you believe inflation is" should be a mandatory question before anyone is allowed to complain about inflation. Because there's some *wild* ideas out there.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 18h

Wow surely nobody would keep repeatedly increasing the tariffs then

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 18h

BESSENT: ONE TIME PRICE ADJUSTMENT FROM TARIFFS IS NOT INFLATIONARY

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 16h

Florida’s solution has been to push the risk onto the government, which kicks the can down the road.

I agree with @lurkerenvoy.bsky.social that the best messaging is benefits. Electrification IS better. That plus renewables solves the problem. @techconnectify.bsky.social is great at selling this.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 16h

This is why I like Carney's framing of "a rupture" - which creates a situation where there's no option of "keep doing what we are", but also where there's no clear right answer. I think Stellantis is going to regret subjecting their plants to 10,000 Tariffs Grandpa's whims, but maybe not!

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 17h

How can an modern wind & solar project in Canada compete with industrial supply at $2 / MWh?!? Yes, only Hydro-Québec gets that pricing, but I believe that far below-market price carve-outs like that have widespread competitive consequences.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 17h

I wasn't aware of the details here, though the financial arm-twisting is quite familiar from reading accounts of various 19th century railroad projects.

I also think this is an important piece of why Canada's so bad at renewables projects!

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 17h

This is exactly what I'm planning on doing with our older daughter, who is being prepped through exposure to the Tiffany Aching books.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 18h

More fodder for my theory that Canadian politics involves a delicate balance of regional interests that are *strongly* in tension and also largely unknown outside of the affected regions.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 18h

Your audience demands more Canadaposting.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 18h

Fact Checking Fillmore: Mayor told town hall Halifax’s bike lane network will cost $165 million

reported by @suzannerent.bsky.social

Fact Checking Fillmore: Mayor told town hall Halifax's bike lane network will cost $165 million - Halifax Examiner

At a recent town hall, Andy Fillmore said there's a phase two to the AAA bike lane network that will cost an extra $65 million. But that's not correct.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 18h

"But what about Germany? They're doing great!"

Germany does indeed appear to be quite effectively controlling its public debt, largely by also under-investing in its economy. The fixation on the deficit as the sole determinant of a budget's worth is unhealthy! Stop it!

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 18h

The extent to which EU industrial production is currently held up by Irish pharma exports to the US is not healthy, and Germany seeing *another* 4.6% production decline over the last year is especially bad.

A graph of EU Industrial production growth, Yoy, Aug 2025

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 19h

While we’re on city water, we have managed to reduce our usage 15% or so week-to-week from last year.

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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 19h

The hydro stuff is a particularly sore spot because, first, usual rant about how Canada is shit at l renewables. But also there used to be a (taco themed) Nfld poster on masto who loved going into detail about how shit the province’s grid was and how much work it needed.

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