Thanks for the response. My use of the word “material” was only in reference to the magnitude of the revision, which has been described by others as significant enough to impact debates on other issues, such as Canadian productivity for example. Wondering if we’ll see that on fiscal as well.

The Bank of Canada took note of these revisions in their latest report, but did not comment on fiscal policy implications, which is to be expected I guess.

Am I right in reading those revisions as material to Canada‘s fiscal position and/or targets? And if so who may be looking at that (non-govt)?

The number of cancelations Disney saw in the week after suspending Kimmel was 436% above baseline subscriber churn.

argh…that sucks.

With special guest start the Meth Gator.

Border issues are so six hours ago. We’re supposed to be talking about US banks accessing the Canadian market right now.

And the Canadian border is more than twice as long as the Mexican border.

Did they have a signed Guy Lafleur jersey for dessert?

There is very little evidence in the past 30 years that provincial govts of any stripe have been willing to put their money on the line to strengthen essential services. Harper transferred what, $900 million to Quebec to address the “fiscal imbalance,” and Charest paid it all out as a tax cut.

I may never be as active on bluesky as i was on pre-2018 twitter. Hard to trust again. i think folks are happy to be here but more wary.

i’m surprised I haven’t seen too many of the gc community here yet.

Postscript to this: i’ve now seen Luke Lebrun posting about some of the substantive differences with this platform and how they work. I think some people will be slow to trust, but there is reason for optimism.

The block tool may be better, but one of the reasons I’m here is to be able to enjoy engagement with different folks without being bombarded by bot armies operating with impunity. Big partisan accounts tend to attract that stuff, so I hope the T/C’s of this app are robust enough to keep things sane.

Haven’t logged off Twitter, still setting up my follows, but will be leaving soon.

Crackpots