Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦
@tammyschirle.bsky.social
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Professor of Economics, labour/policy researcher at WLU. Mom, gardener & beer drinker in Kitchener 🇨🇦. Work stuff: https://sites.google.com/view/tammyschirle
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This must be fiction. I mean, really.

On cost-benefit, the frog wins
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WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents
tammyschirle.bsky.social
Weeeelllllllll....🤷‍♀️
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I know this is literally not true, but it feels like 50% of Ontario provincial politics is about alcohol.
tammyschirle.bsky.social
I had to do exactly that on our campus (Uni & Hazel) a couple weeks ago, with a regional police officer standing by - she just laughed, this was ridiculous.
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I keep framing this year as my 50th year on this planet, which absolutely 🤯. I've done a lot of cool things in the past 5 decades, and I know you have too. Enjoy this last day in your 40s!
I'm trying to decide what to do with my last day in my 40s, coming soon. Ideas?
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Along the same lines, my grandfather was a steelworker. Didn't get your death benefit stamp in time? 🤷‍♀️
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We often talk about how updating our IT infrastructure for programs like Employment Insurance matter. But pause to think if how we administered thus in 1951.

My grandmother's UI card
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There are more people than I realized who think speed limits are really just guidelines, not real laws, that provide an opportunity for officers to stop and fine you if they don't like you that day. (I don't think this is a good thing.)

We have cameras in school zones. Slow down.
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I know, they've probably taken it from somewhere else by now anyway, but I just couldn't
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Risk Scenarios and Macroeconomic Impacts: Insights for Canadian Policy

Kevin Moran, Dalibor Stevanovic, Stéphane Surprenant

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University of Toronto Press
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The Cost of Standing Up to Protectionism: Price and Welfare Impacts of Canada's 2018 Retaliatory Tariffs

Tazia Khushboo
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University of Toronto Press
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A Course-Level Analysis of the Grade Gap between Off-Reserve Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Students in British Columbia

Kevin P. Mongeon , Janique Dubois
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University of Toronto Press
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tammyschirle.bsky.social
But I was cancelled 😞

Will write up some notes later anyway.
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Reminder: every year there are businesses across 🇨🇦 that do not survive. This happens whether or not minimum wages increase. It just happens, and we can sympathize, but perhaps it just wasn't meant to be.

Source: Statcan, Key small business statistics
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Looks like AB hasn't changed their min wage since 2019? With the real wage dropping, shouldn't this problem have improved my now?

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October 1 - many provinces in 🇨🇦 increase their minimum wage a bit. Looks like I might be talking about it on The Current in the morning (8:30ish). A useful reference I keep bookmarked: minwage-salairemin.service.canada.ca/en/general.h...
Current and Forthcoming General Minimum Wage Rates in Canada- Canada.ca
minwage-salairemin.service.canada.ca
tammyschirle.bsky.social
October 1 - many provinces in 🇨🇦 increase their minimum wage a bit. Looks like I might be talking about it on The Current in the morning (8:30ish). A useful reference I keep bookmarked: minwage-salairemin.service.canada.ca/en/general.h...
Current and Forthcoming General Minimum Wage Rates in Canada- Canada.ca
minwage-salairemin.service.canada.ca
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So... feeling a little frightened. I'd really like to see a list of the "minor" "mistakes" that should be forgotten, and even supported.
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Curious: why am I hearing radio ads in southern Ontario for the Pathways Alliance oil sands?