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Michael J Armstrong
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Associate professor of operations research at Brock University. I teach quality improvement & game theory. I research the economic aspects of cannabis legalization.
https://brocku.ca/goodman/faculty-research/faculty-directory/michael-armstrong/
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Here's an article I wrote about government cannabis revenues 2 years ago.

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Ontario Cannabis Store earned $234 million but taxpayers got nothing
The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) is now the most lucrative provincial cannabis agency in Canada, thanks to four consecutive profitable years selling recreational cannabis. Yet throughout that time, it...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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FYI @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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12% fewer Canadians have visited the USA by air.
This line plot displays Statistics Canada's estimates of the number of Canadian travelers returning from the USA by airplane each month. For each month, the count was lower in 2025 than in 2024. The solid line represents final counts and the dashed line represents leading indicator estimates.
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Or if you prefer the story in Russian:
могла ли атака легкой кавалерии в Балаклавском сражении завершиться успехом?

inosmi.ru/20191028/246...
Британские ученые доказали: в 1854 году в Крыму их генерал не ошибся (The Conversation) (The Conversation, Австралия)
Реконструкцию известного эпизода Крымской войны вывели на математический уровень. Была ли смелая атака британской кавалерии, в которой погибли две трети... | 28.10.2019, ИноСМИ
inosmi.ru
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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In fairness, the British didn't do much better in that Crimean conflict ...

theconversation.com/could-the-ch...
Could the Charge of the Light Brigade have worked?
The Charge of the Light Brigade was brave but fruitless. Could it have worked if the feuding British leaders had interpreted their orders differently?
theconversation.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM