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Soory.
Canadian economist focusing on healthcare.
Sideline in Blue Jays blogging at https://www.bluebirdbanter.com/
Canadian economist focusing on healthcare.
Sideline in Blue Jays blogging at https://www.bluebirdbanter.com/
No it’s fine, I’ll simply take on a $882k mortgage on a $900k three bedroom in Halifax. No way that turns out badly!
February 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
No it’s fine, I’ll simply take on a $882k mortgage on a $900k three bedroom in Halifax. No way that turns out badly!
Right, the laptop jobs will go where the yuppies want to/can afford to live, and everything else follows. Same reason Texas keeps booming at the expense of California.
January 29, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Right, the laptop jobs will go where the yuppies want to/can afford to live, and everything else follows. Same reason Texas keeps booming at the expense of California.
It’d be nice to have a politician with a modicum of vision doing that. I don’t think it’d convince everyone but I do think there’s an opportunity. I mean, I live here, I see a future for the province, but it’s not being pushed in the discourse.
January 28, 2026 at 5:52 PM
It’d be nice to have a politician with a modicum of vision doing that. I don’t think it’d convince everyone but I do think there’s an opportunity. I mean, I live here, I see a future for the province, but it’s not being pushed in the discourse.
You’re right about diversification, but even then there are a lot of people here not well equipped to change. I think the oil patch was really one of the last holdouts of the world where someone without much formal education could just work their way into a solid middle class life.
January 28, 2026 at 5:49 PM
You’re right about diversification, but even then there are a lot of people here not well equipped to change. I think the oil patch was really one of the last holdouts of the world where someone without much formal education could just work their way into a solid middle class life.
A tough thing to deal with is that Alberta really hasn’t reckoned with global oil consumption is peaking, meaning prices are never going back to what they were. A lot of people here think it’s the feds holding us back from a return to the glory days of 2007, and that just isn’t true.
January 28, 2026 at 5:35 PM
A tough thing to deal with is that Alberta really hasn’t reckoned with global oil consumption is peaking, meaning prices are never going back to what they were. A lot of people here think it’s the feds holding us back from a return to the glory days of 2007, and that just isn’t true.
Yeah, the tariff shit has been a problem but TBH we’re pretty used to getting bent over by the US on trade. Even the annexation stuff could probably be moved past in time. Direct interference in our sovereignty is the kind of thing the relationship never comes back from.
January 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Yeah, the tariff shit has been a problem but TBH we’re pretty used to getting bent over by the US on trade. Even the annexation stuff could probably be moved past in time. Direct interference in our sovereignty is the kind of thing the relationship never comes back from.
Love the iroshizuku inks
January 23, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Love the iroshizuku inks
And Canada is now blue, Trump pulled Carney’s invitation
January 23, 2026 at 6:31 PM
And Canada is now blue, Trump pulled Carney’s invitation
Yeah, true. If you’re showered and with shoes on and you’re good enough for the plane. Too many people don’t even get that far though.
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Yeah, true. If you’re showered and with shoes on and you’re good enough for the plane. Too many people don’t even get that far though.
You should treat others with respect. Dressing appropriately is an outward expression of that.
Duffy, and the admin as a whole, treat people with contempt, so the ask to dress with respect just scans as hypocritical bullshit coming from him even though it’s basically reasonable out of context.
Duffy, and the admin as a whole, treat people with contempt, so the ask to dress with respect just scans as hypocritical bullshit coming from him even though it’s basically reasonable out of context.
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
You should treat others with respect. Dressing appropriately is an outward expression of that.
Duffy, and the admin as a whole, treat people with contempt, so the ask to dress with respect just scans as hypocritical bullshit coming from him even though it’s basically reasonable out of context.
Duffy, and the admin as a whole, treat people with contempt, so the ask to dress with respect just scans as hypocritical bullshit coming from him even though it’s basically reasonable out of context.
I remember walking out of the theatre thinking I’d finally seen the first major piece of popular art that really fully understood what was going on
August 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I remember walking out of the theatre thinking I’d finally seen the first major piece of popular art that really fully understood what was going on
1. Hell yeah, thank you
2. I guess Alan Roden's *just* graduated, but where would he slot in?
2. I guess Alan Roden's *just* graduated, but where would he slot in?
August 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
1. Hell yeah, thank you
2. I guess Alan Roden's *just* graduated, but where would he slot in?
2. I guess Alan Roden's *just* graduated, but where would he slot in?
Pitchers only really grow into their best stuff around the time they turn 37, everyone knows this.
July 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Pitchers only really grow into their best stuff around the time they turn 37, everyone knows this.
Rich Hill was probably there
July 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Rich Hill was probably there
Right, Vienna is almost exactly the same size as it was in 1910. It's grown by ~1/3 in the last 25 years, but that's just filling space that had been empty since the wars. Calgary, as an e.g., has more than tripled in the last 50 years. Just not the same set of problems at all.
June 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Right, Vienna is almost exactly the same size as it was in 1910. It's grown by ~1/3 in the last 25 years, but that's just filling space that had been empty since the wars. Calgary, as an e.g., has more than tripled in the last 50 years. Just not the same set of problems at all.
The “strong men -> good times -> weak men -> hard times -> strong men” meme, but it’s liberal governments and rightist governments
June 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The “strong men -> good times -> weak men -> hard times -> strong men” meme, but it’s liberal governments and rightist governments
I read this post and laugh, moments before stepping out my door and being mown down by a DoorDash driver barreling the wrong way down my one way street, staring at his app instead of the road.
June 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I read this post and laugh, moments before stepping out my door and being mown down by a DoorDash driver barreling the wrong way down my one way street, staring at his app instead of the road.
We were standing beside a gaggle of English zoomers waiting for sunrise, while they argue over whose mum is hot (Cole’s apparently, sorry Cole). As the first red rays just start to light the top tower, one looks over and goes “it is pretty good tho” “Yeah” “yeah” “yeah it is”. Teen boy excellence
May 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We were standing beside a gaggle of English zoomers waiting for sunrise, while they argue over whose mum is hot (Cole’s apparently, sorry Cole). As the first red rays just start to light the top tower, one looks over and goes “it is pretty good tho” “Yeah” “yeah” “yeah it is”. Teen boy excellence
We came close in a couple of ridings here in Calgary too. It’ll come with time I think, but for now it’s not Carney’s fault that we’re not heavily represented in cabinet.
May 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
We came close in a couple of ridings here in Calgary too. It’ll come with time I think, but for now it’s not Carney’s fault that we’re not heavily represented in cabinet.
I mean, there are two Liberal MPs from Alberta and one from Saskatchewan. I guess Manitoba could have a second one of their 7, but if the prairies want Liberal cabinet members we gotta elect some Liberals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
May 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I mean, there are two Liberal MPs from Alberta and one from Saskatchewan. I guess Manitoba could have a second one of their 7, but if the prairies want Liberal cabinet members we gotta elect some Liberals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s not a complete solution, but “no practical magic” goes a long way to defining a line. Transubstantiation of the eucharist? Sure, if you want. “These crystals are better than chemotherapy”? No, absolutely not, get out.
May 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It’s not a complete solution, but “no practical magic” goes a long way to defining a line. Transubstantiation of the eucharist? Sure, if you want. “These crystals are better than chemotherapy”? No, absolutely not, get out.
Yeah, the work of writing data cleaning and analysis code is a big part of understanding your data and considering your methods. Turning more of that into a black box would be bad. Now, automating the hours I spend dicking around with ggplot2 for every single project…
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Yeah, the work of writing data cleaning and analysis code is a big part of understanding your data and considering your methods. Turning more of that into a black box would be bad. Now, automating the hours I spend dicking around with ggplot2 for every single project…