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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 4d

Tarps off, get on the police horse, and LFG!!!!!

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Sep 6

Defence!

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Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦 @tammyschirle.bsky.social · Aug 25

Adding to my list: The Time of Your Life: On the Economics of Longevity and Mortality, with @kevinmilligan.bsky.social (which happens to showcase some of the work we've loved doing for the past few years!)

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The Time of Your Life: On the Economics of Longevity and Mortality with Kevin Milligan | Canada's Economy, Explained | Episode 12

Canada’s population is retiring earlier and living longer. Even so, the age 65 retirement threshold, inherited from 19th-century Prussia, continues to anchor public policy and social expectations. In ...

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Aug 19

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Love his reaction here. Like, "did that really just happen?"

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Aug 10

MASON FLUHARTY ⚾

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Aug 7

I feel your pain, brother. This was me in May.

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Aug 2

Darn Jays are in a bad streak right now. But I recovered my mood by watching the 7th 8th and 9th of the MIA NYY game. Yankenfreude felt GREAT.

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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · Aug 1

No other way to slice it: this is incredibly fucked up.

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · Jul 30

A powerful earthquake off the coast of eastern Russia has prompted a tsunami watch for much of the British Columbia coast.

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Tsunami watch issued for much of B.C. coast after M8.7 quake off Russian coast | Globalnews.ca

The magnitude 8.7 quake struck 136 kilometres southeast of Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, shortly before 4:30 p.m. PST on Tuesday.

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jul 29

That's almost surely what he meant. I dont see that as a bad thing? Isn't pitch sequencing all about strategic behaviour?

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jul 27

Be like Max, kids...

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jul 24

Oh, I'm a big fan of Jomboy breakdowns and other content.

But this ep of Talkin Yanks was particularly full of schadenfreude for Jays fans!

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jul 24

Enjoyed some Yankenfreude last night listening to this....

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The Yankees Played the Worst Game Ever. | 1256

YouTube video by Talkin' Yanks

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jul 17

if you start writing simpsonian stuff about uncle fred from saltspring island I'll have your head

but more generally congrats!

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · Jul 14

64 ICONIC SYMBOLS

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THE SEARCH FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA'S BEST SYMBOL BEGINS NOW

Search for B.C.'s Best Symbol: Round 1 — Animals | CBC News

Iconic symbols connected to a particular place are formed in all sorts of ways, and there are so many across British Columbia. But which one is the best?

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jul 12

Meerkats....

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jul 12

Garden Saturday:

Lamb's ear: looks tasty but 🦌 dont eat!

Brunnera: big healthy patch.

Deer fern: in spite of the name, 🦌 don't eat it.

Mewr cats among the Japanese tassle ferns.

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jun 28

Oh yeah: Romano for RP.

For SS, Otto Lopez who grew up in Montreal and played for Canada in the 2023 WBC!

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jun 28

Who is Big Russ?

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jun 28

For the 2026 World Baseball Classic, here's a possible Canadian roster:

C: B Naylor, Hicks
1B: Freeman, J Naylor
2B: Joulien
SS: ??
3B: Toro
OF: O'Neill, D Clarke, Jared Young
SP: Pivetta, Quantrill, Soroka
RP: Brash, Cade Smith, Sabrowski, Zastryzny

Not bad. Looks like a .500 MLB team to me.

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cleforum.bsky.social @cleforum.bsky.social · Jun 26

SOLE "Oh Canada!" Session, Friday 9:45-11

"Investing in Mothers? The Long-Run Impact of a Universal Childcare Program on Maternal Work and Income"
Presented by Michael Baker, @econuoft.bsky.social , coauthors J. Gruber and @kevinmilligan.bsky.social

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jun 22

Hmm. Maybe our different tastes come from the fact you read a lot of fiction so you're used to (and perhaps enjoy) not knowing where it will go. I want all uncertainty resolved ASAP and tonnes of structure. Doesn't work so well in fiction. "And now I present a key plot point..."

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jun 22

What's more, I want every section to start off saying what it's going to do. If I have no idea where it s going then it's much harder to know what to focus on. "This section presents the results in three parts. First OLS. Then IV, then robustness." So helpful! Anyway to each their own.

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Jun 22

I want to know if there's going to be a model before or after the data. Are there going to be simulations. Perhaps how the results are going to be presented. It gets me working on what to expect and saves brain from contemplating false paths. I really do like them!

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