'The Calgary School is not producing “maverick thinkers” who keep happening to fall into politics and happening to govern badly. It is producing a specific intellectual product with a specific political shape, and the badness is a feature of the design.' @lindsaytedds.bsky.social
www.cupw.ca/en/future-po... Canada Post 'is already supposed to raise rates, in conjunction with other revenues, in a manner sufficient to defray its costs. But...2018-2023, Canada Post only raised its rates 7% at the time when major post offices around the world raised theirs an average of 55%'
Since costs are borne by the person sending the letter, this seems like very poor planning (at best) by Canada Post: "Between 2018 and 2023, Canada Post only raised its rates 7% at the time when major post offices around the world raised theirs an average of 55%" www.cupw.ca/en/future-po...
‘violence in our classrooms is not a “student problem”—it is the result of systemic underfunding, unmet needs, and a lack of supports’ ett.ca/its-a-childs... @elemteachersto.bsky.social @nigelbme.bsky.social
Do you want to work at @policyalternatives.ca ? We've partnered with the School for Moral Ambition to offer an incredible Tax Fairness Fellowship. Its a 6 month paid position to put you on the front line of the debate. Apply now: www.moralambition.org/fellowships/...
New research out today showing the collapse of Canada's development assistance as featured in the @ottawacitizen.com this morning 🧵👇👇 @policyalternatives.ca ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
Thread from @davidmaccdn.bsky.social on his most recent analysis for @policyalternatives.ca: "The federal government now plans to cut Canada’s ratio of development assistance to Gross National Income (GNI) to its lowest level since 1964, setting development goals back by 6 decades."
'Canada has vacated the development assistance universe. The next three years of planned cuts will fundamentally shift Canada’s foreign policy focus away from peacekeeping and development to self-interested trade and defence. It is the end of Pearson’s dream.'
'The cuts baked into the last two federal budgets will halve our already low ratio of international aid to the size of our economy from 0.31% in 2024-25 to just 0.17% of GNI in 2028-29. The last time it was this low was in 1964, when it stood at 0.17% of GNI.'
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'Pearson’s 1969 vision was for Canada to contribute 0.7% of its Gross National Income (GNI) to international assistance....This analysis examines how the November 2025 budget cuts dismantle that legacy.' @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... ‘Canadian companies in the oil industry are bringing in an extra $170m in profits every day because of the war in Iran, which has pushed global oil prices up by more than 50%’ @policyalternatives.ca @hadrianmk.bsky.social @davidmaccdn.bsky.social
I wonder if there’s a restocking fee😉
Posted without comment because I know so many comments will be forthcoming….
www.merip.org/2026/04/cens... ‘Universities have also turned to surveillance technology, deploying video cameras, facial recognition systems, drones, identity-card readers and social media analysis to identify and keep tabs on student demonstrators.’
Yes. And quickly!
Canada needs a windfall tax on oil industry war profiteering -
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/15/o...
‘The PFA has attended the FIFA Congress every year since 2009. Palestine was included as a full-body member of FIFA in 1998.’
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... ‘IRCC would not comment on specific applications or decisions. In an emailed statement, it said that "visa applications are considered on a case-by-case basis based on the information presented by the applicant."’
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘How this decision is perceived will not only affect this project, but future projects as well. Business and government have the choice of building public trust or public opposition. So far, this process is only building the latter’ @simonenoch.bsky.social
FOM joined @albertanurses.bsky.social to celebrate the Canada Health Act's anniversary today!
Don't let this be the last! Help call on @mark-carney.bsky.social & @mark-carney.bsky.social to enforce the Act to protect public health care against AB's two-tier bill: Post cake for public health care!
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/15/o... ‘There are many things the federal government could do with an extra $46b…But the best approach would be to invest these proceeds in reducing our dependence on oil &, thus, our vulnerability to future oil shocks’ @hadrianmk.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”
Curious about what oil windfall profits look like in real time? Check out this thread by @hadrianmk.bsky.social and then read this report www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... to find out why we really need bette policy on corporate profiteering @davidmaccdn.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
Hey it's Friday and the Canadian oil industry made $1.5 billion in profits this week.
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www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'What image of Canada is he projecting globally by affirming colonial wars and genocides? Carney and his team should not forget that history will judge the events unfolding today.' @policyalternatives.ca
And yet vital to so many Canadians who still rely on it—and an extremely valuable infrastructure that could do much more than it already does.
