I've built a new tool!
You can upload your pre-analysis plan or registered report, pre-submission to a registry or journal, and it will screen it for completeness, clarity, and consistency. 1/ 🧵
I've set up a recurring appointment for myself to call the office of the Ontario premier to politely complain about one decision a week. You could do the same. There are so many issues. It takes 5 minutes. 416-325-1941
Or email if you prefer premier@ontaio.ca
Canada has legal obligation to cancel the export permits for the armoured vehicles being purchased by ICE.
Here is my piece on what is needed to get the Prime Minister to respect international and domestic law in dealing with the ICE paramilitaries.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-mus...
Heed all warnings from all directions, especially those that were whispered in rhythms you could not measure.
Some of my best friends are poets, escaping reverberations of sameness with nothing but the essentials of functional adverbs and decorative nouns. Watch them closely. Unlock the car doors and let them take your passenger seat when you see them fleeing on foot.
When I use my most caring and thoughtful words, I could measure them in iambic pentameter, spoon them out in stanzas of concern. Care, though, sometimes has urgency. Staccato, loud, frantic and harsh exclamations that echo in ears demanding action or immediate response.
Upcoming: 31 Jan is Hug an Economist Day. A hug is when one person envelops another in their arms and applies mild pressure in a soothing manner. Experts say hugs should be 20 seconds long for maximum benefit, but the average is between 5 and 10 seconds. holidaytoday.org/hug-an-econo...
Canadian companies criticized over ties to U.S. immigration enforcement
Anti-ICE protesters assemble across the U.S. after shootings in Minneapolis and Portland, Ore.
I light the candles at my table, where blessings abound because we have warmth & water, salt & sweetness, fat & bread, meat & wine. I light candles not to chase away darkness, but to show its limits. We can't pray away heartbreak, disappointment or grief, but are blessed by memory, love & humour.
We do to start meetings. In the past, I've seen them as equivalent to the national anthem for the First Nations whose lands we live on & to acknowledge that we' re all treaty people. Now, after the LA, I ask everyone to reflect on what it means to be a treaty person & our roles in Reconciliation.
Suppressive algorithms or not, racism harms everyone. Even those with privilege are trapped when they are taught to believe they’re entitled or talented, even when the system rewards mediocrity. Amplify at your own risk, I suppose. newsletter.economics.utoronto.ca/talking-abou... 8/8
These policies were designed to extract labor, grant selective privileges, and prevent solidarity. The divide-and-conquer strategy persists today. Systems still incentivize people to act against their own interests, reinforcing hierarchies that benefit those in power. 7/8
Examples of how racial categories are just political strategies abound:
Homer Plessy legally “Black” in Louisiana, but not in Brazil.
Mixed-race elites in Haiti petitioned for “legal whiteness.”
Apartheid South Africa avoided strict ancestry rules to keep more people classified as white. 6/8
Exploitation Through Racialization shows how census data from Brazil and the U.S. reveal shifting racial boundaries. Mixed-race people were advantaged in some contexts, disadvantaged in others—depending on what served elites. 5/8
Consider Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–77) in Virginia: Black slaves, white indentured servants, and free laborers rose up together. Elites responded by hardening racial lines, privileging poor whites over Black people. Divide and conquer became policy. 4/8
Race is not biology. It’s a social construct, but it’s not even consistent across time or place. McGee’s work demonstrates how colonial elites defined & redefined racial categories to divide workers and prevent collective resistance. 3/8
It's understood that for the past 11.5 months or so, social media algorithms (except here) suppress important scholarship like Dan McGee’s. The research shows how definitions of race were deliberately created by elites to maintain power. I want to make sure people see this. 2/8
Thread: This year, I wrote about 80 articles for @econuoft.bsky.social. The only one that did not reach its intended audience was about Dan McGee's paper entitled Exploitation Through Racialization. academic.oup.com/qje/article/... 1/8
Bills C-2 and C-5 violate human rights, Indigenous rights, and the environment. Rescinding the digital services tax was bad for our economy. Removing counter-tariffs weakened our position. Investing heavily in the military takes money from social programs.
🧵 I was really more hopeful when Carney was elected. I thought, since he promised to fight for Canada and had a good track record on the climate crisis, and promised not to cut social programs, we might be OK. I voted NDP, but I had some hope. I no longer have hope for this government.
Maybe it's not the rare nanobytes of sentiment left playing across the surface of your heart like the ghosts in Pacman that are the problem. Maybe the opposite would have been the better response. Maybe wearing that heart on your sleeve, letting it grow into the whole blouse would have been better.
Formal portrait of a middle-age white Canadian woman with frizzy reddish blond curls wearing a sundress.
No make up. No anti-frizz serum. Heatwave affect in effect. This mid-life is a good life and I want the same for everyone.
You made my day!
Thank you! It meant so much to me to be there and have the opportunity to speak at my old school, in my own neighbourhood, to families like mine and to kids (well, not kids anymore) whom I've seen grow up. Thank you for the opportunity!
After 2 years of interviewing economists from every branch of the discipline, I am convinced every econ text book from developmental, environmental, financial or labour, could have an illustrative chapter about the role of coffee in almost all aspects of resource allocation.
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party officially classified as an "extremist" organisation - promoting hatred of minorities, threat to democracy.
Nigel Farage backed and campaigned for AfD. Spoke alongside a politician who once said police should be able to shoot at refugees.
This painting makes me smile every time I look at it. Baruch Spinoza with a wide mouth bass. When I was 16, Spinoza taught me that the same decencies that bring people together can bring ideas together. It's more complex than that, but those were nice thoughts to have.
