A four-party race incoming? Only need one more to match Quebec...

Kind of brutal for Lewis, I assume there are a lot of undecideds so the -9% is coming off a relatively smaller share of the sample

From a technical/engineering perspective, I am sure that we could. Assembling the corridor is another matter and judging by the amount of NIMBY resistance to ALTO (where the route sits on an existing corridor to a large extent), it would probably be very challenging.

Which I guess in part begs the question of why no provincial NDP government has ventured anywhere near them...

The comparisons between the federal NDP and someone like Mamdani really seem off the mark to me - the issues facing federal and municipal politics are just wildly different. A lot of Lewis's policies seem to be a better fit for a provincial government or lower to implement

I don't know, the question is how much we as a society want to be spending on this government service. I would much prefer we scale back home mail delivery and spend the money on infrastructure, healthcare, etc.

It probably costs me occasionally, but I pretty much always try to submit within around half an hour of seeing the questions unless I think that there is a very strong chance more rumination time would help. But I also know people who always submit a few minutes before the deadline...

In the US 18% is very common as well as the lowest default option. Agree with the other commenters that I only tip for table service, or sometimes if I'm eating in the restaurant/café vs. taking it to go.

I had always hoped I could meet him someday. I remember my dad reading the newspaper one day when I was in high school and saying that someone with my name had won the Nobel Prize... I won't lean too much into nominative determinism, but it was an early exposure to the idea of economics as a field

Based on Greer's comments, it sounds like the US wants to impose tariffs on Canadian goods but expects tariff-free access to the Canadian market (something that other countries have nationally agreed to, I think). What does Poilievre think about this sort of arrangement?

If I could tell Donald Trump one thing, it would be that running a trade deficit is great! You are effectively getting a bunch of stuff in exchange for IOUs. And for whatever reason, the US has been able to maintain this situation for decades now

Being richer than the rest of the country is definitely a partial motivation for (at least) the independence movements in Catalonia, Northern Italy, and arguably Scotland. Quebec is somewhat unusual in having no real economic reason for independence

Starmer definitely had moments last year where he could have more clearly articulated how Britain still believes in the principles of good governance that they effectively exported to the US and across the globe. A real missed opportunity to regain global credibility

It is about time for a tuition hike, contrary to what some of these comments are saying. Universities cost money, and Ontario institutions have had their tuition revenues largely capped for years now even though costs have increased substantially

There seems to be a common refrain in Conservative circles that Carney is constantly doing things for the benefit of Brookfield (which is, you know, one of Canada's largest companies and has interests across the globe). Seems you can always find something that seems corrupt if you want to

I remember being just completely shocked to learn that he's from Vancouver...

Not "many businesses", Cambie did not and still does not have particularly high business density. The main complainant was one clothing store, Hazel & Co., on 16th Ave.

Can't wait for the 22 Minutes sketch! The episodes just write themselves...

I don't see any way for the Conservatives to make inroads if their messaging is that they will be better than the Liberals on issues like trade diversification

The US system is honestly crazy to me. Not making any attempt to align with the median voter theorem...

At various points the separatist Bloc Québecois has made one of their policy objectives increasing pensions, usually as a condition to support Liberal budget measures. Thankfully they've been completely rebuffed on this front so far

Knowing that Romansch was one of the Swiss official languages was a staple of my high school trivia league; really enjoyed this article! I think all the people involved could stand to recognize that even when writing is standardized a great variety of spoken forms can still co-exist

There's a relatively old fire hall/library in Vancouver (the aptly named Firehall Branch). A big draw for me when I was a kid

Well, the visual relies in part on the blue area being much larger than the green area. But in reality, many counties should still be in brown

Depicting only at most 5% of countries as having no universal suffrage seems highly dubious - are they counting places like Russia due to their sham elections?

Seems like COVID led to a huge productivity increase YoY (although with some pretrend). Maybe the rise of delivery/takeout?

I found a lot of the discourse at that time missed the fact that it's very reasonable to expect that high immigration numbers mean that some measures like GDP per capita will fall - there will obviously be some adjustment period for workers new to Canada to find the jobs that best match their skills

Not the right time of year, but in the summer you can see people "surfing" in the St. Lawrence behind Habitat 67, it's quite neat

-3 in Alberta is brutal, wow

I mean, it's cool that it has the Canada Line! But only, like, a fifth of the blocks have any retail...