Also, so many relevant and helpful references embedded in @carajackson.bsky.social's recently published @aefpweb.bsky.social Presidential Essay. Thank you - from a education finance graduate student! 😍
Look, causal inference studies can be good or bad regardless of where the person who produced it works, what field their degree is in, and whether they have a PhD. You have to actually look at what they did. There are no shortcuts.
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NEW: The Ford government is moving to take direct control at the top of some local governments in Ontario, offering its appointees enhanced powers and shrinking the size of two councils. #Onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1175717...
🚨New working paper alert! 🚨
The US spends huge $ on special education services for students with disabilities. Is that spending effective?
Today we released a working paper suggesting it is.
"Special Education Substantially Improves Learning: Evidence from Three States"
Let me explain...
In today’s newsletter I walk through new efforts to do away with school district boundaries.
It’s a tangled web of good faith intentions and…a stealth right-wing strategy to weaken public school advocacy.
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Did a series of videos with Markus Brunnermeier on Claude Code (more to come)
Video 1: Getting Started with CC
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Thank you so much for hosting this webinar and sharing it broadly! ♥️
WiCCD adopts and endorses the Statements released by the CLA and TAS against comments made by the TPA and the Premier in the wake of the Zameer trial.
CLA's Statement is found here:
criminallawyers.ca/the-criminal...
TAS' Statement is here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/the-ad...
Stable housing and meaningful supports are essential to dignity and inclusion. The fact that many adults with developmental disabilities have nowhere else to go is unacceptable, and we must work together to fix it.
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
Graphic with navy and teal gradient background. Text reads: International Long Covid Awareness Day. March 15. Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal. Along the left side are two stacked photos from last year’s events. In the top photo, a man wearing a white N95 mask, a hat, and a blue jacket is sitting on a stool and speaking into a microphone, Pillowcases are placed on the steps behind him as part of a Long Covid awareness project. In the bottom photo, a woman in a teal sweatshirt is standing and speaking into a microphone. She is wearing a white N95 mask. A banner along the bottom of the graphic reads: Join us as we raise awareness & support the Long Covid community. Beside this is a teal and grey Long Covid ribbon.
Join us today in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary or Vancouver
covidsociety.ca/priorities/l...
#LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness
This is a nuclear bomb to Ontario's democracy. The Ford government wants to obfuscate absolutely everything it does.
My contribution to @thewalrus.ca
on what the coverage of #IranWar is missing:
External war does not automatically produce democratic transition. It can strengthen the very security institutions that suppressed the #WomanLifeFreedom movement.
thewalrus.ca/iran-foreign...
Red broken heart graphic on a navy blue background. The text overlay on the heart reads: "Having Long Covid is heartbreaking because… sweeping my apartment means spending a day in bed." Above the heart, highlighted text reads: "Share what it’s like to live with Long Covid by March 1." In the bottom right of the graphic is a teal bubble; inside, the text reads "your experience here" with an arrow pointing to the heart.
Red broken heart graphic on a navy blue background. The text overlay on the heart reads: "Long Covid is heartbreaking because… it’s robbed my son of his childhood and his education." Above the heart, highlighted text reads: "Caregivers: Share your Long Covid experience by March 1." In the bottom right of the graphic is a teal bubble; inside, the text reads "your experience here" with an arrow pointing to the heart.
March 1 is the deadline to share your Long Covid story for our public awareness project. Submissions will be displayed at our Long Covid Awareness Day events on March 15th, to highlight the many different ways #LongCovid is heartbreaking.
Submit your story here: covidsociety.ca/priorities/l...
ORIGINAL SIN comes out on Tuesday!
If you’re in the US & want a signed copy, order from Black Pearl Books in the next week. Just be sure to note that you want it signed (& any instructions about the inscription) in the order notes at checkout.
shop.blackpearlbookstore.com/item/ymASTSS...
Excellent overview and explanation of #PostExertionalMalaise by @oonaghcousins.bsky.social and shared with me this morning via the #VisibleHealth app by Harry Leeming 👇
www.makevisible.com/blog/post-ex...
HT Todd @sunsopeningband.bsky.social Davenport 🙏
#LongCovid #PEM #Pacing
🚨LIVE AT 11AM ET TOMORROW🚨
How do ordinary people become agents of state murder?
@yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social joins me on Bubble Pop to grapple with this defining question of the current political moment.
Get notified: www.youtube.com/live/PNqCmxF...
There is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Important read
The flu is everywhere. So why aren’t Canadians getting vaccinated for viral illnesses?
theconversation.com/the-flu-is-e...
Wonderful news, @benking01.bsky.social! You're an inspiration. ♥️ I completely understand the motivation to do whatever it takes to pick up where you left off, prior to contracting COVID and it's awful aftermath. Here's to an energetic and fulfilling 2026. 💫
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Extension to Jan 15.
We have reached over 1000 signatures,
Please sign and share!
Time to pump the brakes on foreign ownership of our mainstream media sources. Please consider signing this Sponsored Parliamentary Petition to let our decision makers know that this is a serious issue.
End media monopolies.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Is one of your goals for 2026 to write more? One question I get all the time is, "How do you make time to write?" So, here is my unsolicited writing advice for the new year:
This image shows gauges with the Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 10.0 Alberta: VERY HIGH - 12.4 British Columbia: HIGH - 7.6 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 10.3 New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 10.5 Newfoundland & Labrador: HIGH - 9.1 North: VERY HIGH - 10.3 Nova Scotia: HIGH - 9.9 Ontario: HIGH - 9.2 Prince Edward Island: HIGH - 6.6 Quebec: VERY HIGH - 10.4 Saskatchewan: VERY HIGH - 14.0 A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."
Canadian COVID Forecast: Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 2, 2026
SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: AB, MB, NB, North, QC, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, NS, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 55 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
This is what I've been sharing with folks who come to me privately & ask me to "do something" about the Alberta government. I respond to them and say "it needs to be your voice, not mine". I'm already out there doing all of @jaredwesley.ca's 10 points. Be brave, do just 2 steps for your own future.
Yes, Bishop! 👏🏾 In 2016, my church, St. Stephen's Anglican, sponsored one family's relocation to Calgary from Syria with two other churches. It took three (3) churches to help one (1) family. Faith communities do not have the volunteer capacity or financial capacity to do the work of the government.
No one:
Smith: The 1930s were a glorious time for education and healthcare in Alberta. Let's return to that.
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This isn't a conservative vision.
It's radical and retrogressive.
GPA episode link: QuantitudePod – A podcast dedicated to all things quantitative, ranging from the relevant to the highly irrelevant. share.google/WhktcCxhWBzl...
Very funny episode. We've all got stories. 😂 & 😭
