You make the excellent suggestion that one ought to adjust for inflation. So let me do that for you. Real washing machine prices have been falling for years. That stopped when Trump imposed tariffs on them. Then the tariffs expired, and you'll never guess what happened next.

Unless I missed one, the answer for the post-1945 period is Laurier-Sainte-Marie in 1990 when PC got 4.5% and Gilles Duceppe dominated (first by-election following Meech Lake). This excludes by-elections when the govt didn't run a candidate.

The difference: The upsetting things said by Trump and Vance are not true. The upsetting things said about Trump and Vance are true. Trump really did mount a violent coup against the Constitution. He and his relatives really did take bribes in office, including from foreign

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That was deeply satisfying to watch.

My brother has stood up to bullies his whole life, and we all know bullies fold when someone stands up to them. People forget he’s trained in MMA for years—he’s not afraid of these far-right cowards. It’s time we all stand up to them.

The Premier highlighted Alberta's impressive economic growth, but pointed to big challenges handling historic levels of population growth (esp. in K-12). Will make large one-time capital spend on school construction (~$8.6b over 3 years) Context: yes, that's big. It's roughly

Globe editorial: Why Canada needs a federal election sooner rather than later theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor…

+1 to Steve. The inquiry is tabling public documents during hearings, showing portions only on screen, but then refusing to make those records available to media so we can report on entirety of the document. Instead, without consultation, it decided to withhold the docs for hours

Productivity is a national crisis, and Canada’s Productivity Summit will help develop solutions to support long-term prosperity. The Oct. 16-17 Summit is hosted by UCalgary’s School of Public Policy and sponsored by the Government of Alberta. Details here:

The right to self defense is guaranteed in the UN Charter. If Putin doesn’t want Ukraine to defend itself, he should have not invaded Ukraine. (And the Charter doesn’t say you can only use you own weapons for self defense!)

He had a good moment confronting a moron. It was caught on video. If he’d left it at that, people would have thought, good for him, he stood up to a bully. But then, like everyone else in politics, he had to turn it into an opportunity for self-aggrandizement and partisan

🔈 from the TIFF Q&A: Q: “You don’t think that Russia is the main reason for this war? You really don’t understand that?” Trofimova: “I think there are a lot of other factors involved. Yeah, like they are definitely sending troops in to solve whatever grievances there are.”

Globe editorial: The challenges of involuntary drug treatment theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor…

Important piece by Trevor Tombe: Provincial finances are in worse shape than the PBO suggests - The Hub thehub.ca/2024/09/19/tre…

especially on humanitarian grounds. But harnessing that potential in a democracy requires public support in populations that feel the distributional tradeoffs. The political economy matters a lot. We lost sight of that w/ carbon tax. Let's not do it with immigration. 3/3

This hearing is not to be missed…how entrenched underlying assumptions and inertia of framing leads to erroneous policy choices U.S. Helsinki Commission

My thoughts in The Globe and Mail on a better way to resolve labour disputes in the federally-regulated transportation sector. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Globe editorial: Mr. Trudeau, we’re still waiting for the names of those who collude against us theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor…