T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦
@tryangregory.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist. Genome size, junk DNA, applied evolution, sci comm, SARS-CoV-2 evolution. Onions have 5x more DNA than you do. He/him.
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Canada needs money so desperately the government is going after low income people who took pandemic benefits in good faith.
But it doesn't need money desperately enough to keep the luxury tax on yachts, or the slightly higher tax rate on capital gains Carney cancelled.
But it doesn't need money desperately enough to keep the luxury tax on yachts, or the slightly higher tax rate on capital gains Carney cancelled.
Canadians fight back as CRA cracks down on pandemic benefit recipients
Federal Court swamped as Canada Revenue Agency allegedly targets thousands of low-income Canadians over pandemic benefit errors
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November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Canada needs money so desperately the government is going after low income people who took pandemic benefits in good faith.
But it doesn't need money desperately enough to keep the luxury tax on yachts, or the slightly higher tax rate on capital gains Carney cancelled.
But it doesn't need money desperately enough to keep the luxury tax on yachts, or the slightly higher tax rate on capital gains Carney cancelled.
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Last point, then back to Saturday things for a while: if your take is "Carney signed this without actually intending to get a pipeline built" you are validating the mistrust that populist Albertans and their allies hold.
If that is true, they are right to mistrust this agreement, and "Canada".
If that is true, they are right to mistrust this agreement, and "Canada".
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Last point, then back to Saturday things for a while: if your take is "Carney signed this without actually intending to get a pipeline built" you are validating the mistrust that populist Albertans and their allies hold.
If that is true, they are right to mistrust this agreement, and "Canada".
If that is true, they are right to mistrust this agreement, and "Canada".
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With TMX the federal Liberals basically did what Carney is promising to do—pushed a pipeline to the coast over BC and Indigenous objections. They even federally funded it, dispensing with the need for a business case.
It didn't even move the needle. Why would a second pipeline be different?
It didn't even move the needle. Why would a second pipeline be different?
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
With TMX the federal Liberals basically did what Carney is promising to do—pushed a pipeline to the coast over BC and Indigenous objections. They even federally funded it, dispensing with the need for a business case.
It didn't even move the needle. Why would a second pipeline be different?
It didn't even move the needle. Why would a second pipeline be different?
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This gets at the fundamentally flawed approach of the federal government: they are trying to find a policy solution to an identity problem.
It is part of the polarized, populist identity to be opposed to an Ottawa and Liberal Canada are not them. No policy will change that, as TMX revealed.
It is part of the polarized, populist identity to be opposed to an Ottawa and Liberal Canada are not them. No policy will change that, as TMX revealed.
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This gets at the fundamentally flawed approach of the federal government: they are trying to find a policy solution to an identity problem.
It is part of the polarized, populist identity to be opposed to an Ottawa and Liberal Canada are not them. No policy will change that, as TMX revealed.
It is part of the polarized, populist identity to be opposed to an Ottawa and Liberal Canada are not them. No policy will change that, as TMX revealed.
I've seen "climate economists" and "centrists" frame this as a win for climate because carbon prices yadda yadda. Mental gymnastics.
climateinstitute.ca/news/mou-alb...
climateinstitute.ca/news/mou-alb...
Federal-Alberta MOU risks unravelling Canada’s climate policy
While promised improvements to industrial carbon pricing are positive and important, other aspects of Alberta-Canada MOU will undermine policy effectiveness across the country.
climateinstitute.ca
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I've seen "climate economists" and "centrists" frame this as a win for climate because carbon prices yadda yadda. Mental gymnastics.
climateinstitute.ca/news/mou-alb...
climateinstitute.ca/news/mou-alb...
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Althia also roasted this pipeline agreement on ‘At Issue’ yesterday along with Chantel Hebert. Coyne seemed on board with it.
youtu.be/pf3UPGAXnZc?...
youtu.be/pf3UPGAXnZc?...
At Issue | Carney’s Alberta pipeline partnership
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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November 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Althia also roasted this pipeline agreement on ‘At Issue’ yesterday along with Chantel Hebert. Coyne seemed on board with it.
youtu.be/pf3UPGAXnZc?...
youtu.be/pf3UPGAXnZc?...
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Good work by @althiaraj.bsky.social on the inside story of Guilbeault's resignation, from his being frozen out by PMO, given false assurances, and being made to wear the government walking back on pledges he made to Elizabeth May to secure her support. No kidding it was untenable for him to stay.
Althia Raj: Mark Carney lost the minister who was the green conscience of his government. Here’s how it happened
The inside story of Steven Guilbeault's resignation from cabinet over Ottawa's energy deal with Alberta.
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Good work by @althiaraj.bsky.social on the inside story of Guilbeault's resignation, from his being frozen out by PMO, given false assurances, and being made to wear the government walking back on pledges he made to Elizabeth May to secure her support. No kidding it was untenable for him to stay.
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The Pathways Alliance project would inevitably be a massive boondoggle if it ever gets built. It’s only purpose is to greenwash the oil industry and deceive Canadians into thinking we can be a clean petrostate.
Carney's latest pipedream explained
Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to see the Pathways Alliance project built in exchange for a new oil pipeline to the BC coast — a risky bet on the country’s economic future.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Pathways Alliance project would inevitably be a massive boondoggle if it ever gets built. It’s only purpose is to greenwash the oil industry and deceive Canadians into thinking we can be a clean petrostate.
And Quebec. There's no brilliant 4D chess here.
Alberta will never go Liberal if buying us a pipeline didn't do it but now they get to lose BC too!
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
And Quebec. There's no brilliant 4D chess here.
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I would offer that being an expert in business, might actually be the worst possible qualification for a politician when it comes to making decisions for actual citizens and the environment.
And if you think Carney must be a political super genius because he was a banker and economist etc etc., well, I'd like you to meet tech bros as proof positive that skills in one area don't always port over to another.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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That politics requires a vastly different set of skills (and temperament) than does central banking, finance or business is a lesson voters have failed to learn time and again.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
And if you think Carney must be a political super genius because he was a banker and economist etc etc., well, I'd like you to meet tech bros as proof positive that skills in one area don't always port over to another.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
I'd write this up but I don't want to. So, feel free to mad libs it.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
That politics requires a vastly different set of skills (and temperament) than does central banking, finance or business is a lesson voters have failed to learn time and again.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
Said otherwise, you can use econometrics to analyze the economy. Politics resists such definitive modelling.
There's no scenario in which Carney comes out looking good. If he doesn't want a pipeline he's being dishonest with Alberta and throwing Indigenous folks under the bus. If he does want a pipeline he loses any credibility he still has on climate. You don't win by playing games like this.
If you expect Mark Carney won't take pipeline blame whether it's built or not, I have bad news for you: opposition parties aren't going to be charitable in their framing and voters aren't always charitable, or consistent, themselves.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
Carney will be seen as Captain Pipeline.
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
There's no scenario in which Carney comes out looking good. If he doesn't want a pipeline he's being dishonest with Alberta and throwing Indigenous folks under the bus. If he does want a pipeline he loses any credibility he still has on climate. You don't win by playing games like this.
I wish the "He's just playing 4D chess" folks understood that, even if that were the case (it isn't), it means he's being dishonest with almost everyone he deals with.
This point is disturbing: Guilbeault "was also deeply troubled by the ease with which the PMO was casting aside its moral obligation to May. What was the Liberals’ word worth?"
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
Good work by @althiaraj.bsky.social on the inside story of Guilbeault's resignation, from his being frozen out by PMO, given false assurances, and being made to wear the government walking back on pledges he made to Elizabeth May to secure her support. No kidding it was untenable for him to stay.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I wish the "He's just playing 4D chess" folks understood that, even if that were the case (it isn't), it means he's being dishonest with almost everyone he deals with.
I bet it's because of puke-filled winter debt.
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Get Ready for a Puke-Filled Winter: Norovirus Is Back With a Vengeance gizmodo.com/get-ready-fo...
Get Ready for a Puke-Filled Winter: Norovirus Is Back With a Vengeance
CDC data indicates that norovirus is back on the warpath and getting plenty of Americans sick.
gizmodo.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I bet it's because of puke-filled winter debt.
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Good thing our leaders would never do something like this, right Canada? Right?
“For the Kremlin, the Miami talks were the culmination of a strategy, hatched before Trump’s inauguration, to bypass the traditional U.S. national security apparatus and convince the administration to view Russia not as a military threat but as a land of… opportunity” www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Good thing our leaders would never do something like this, right Canada? Right?
Lol. Look how those dummies labelled these toy insects.
November 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Lol. Look how those dummies labelled these toy insects.
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Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Northwestern’s leaders will likely try to justify their choice to appease fascist extortion with some BS about needing to help researchers get federal funds that were illegally withheld, so it’s important to note that virtually all of the researchers said not to.
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University reputations and finances often hinge on their position in global ranking tables that prioritize narrow aspects of academic life. Elizabeth Gadd writes about three changes that would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working. #Academicsky 🧪
To reform universities, first tackle global rankings
Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM
University reputations and finances often hinge on their position in global ranking tables that prioritize narrow aspects of academic life. Elizabeth Gadd writes about three changes that would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working. #Academicsky 🧪
Here. You probably need this.
This is incredible thank you @sesmith.lol here are some shrimp.
November 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Here. You probably need this.
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Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.
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"The register is the latest step in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to incorporate [magic beans] into federal government operations, which he has claimed will make the public service more efficient."
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Ottawa launches AI register showing how the tech is being used within federal departments | CBC News
Treasury Board President Shafqat Ali announced Friday morning the federal government has launched its first public AI register that outlines how artificial intelligence is being used or tested within ...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"The register is the latest step in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to incorporate [magic beans] into federal government operations, which he has claimed will make the public service more efficient."
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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