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Professor, Schulich School of Business, Economics & Sustainability, York University, Toronto, Canada

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BERNANKE/YELLEN/GREENSPAN JOINT STATEMENT:

โ€œ.. this is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets ..โ€

(via @apnews.com)

12.01.2026 15:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3457    ๐Ÿ” 1204    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 102    ๐Ÿ“Œ 114
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Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.

12.01.2026 02:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33444    ๐Ÿ” 8721    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 989    ๐Ÿ“Œ 571

Danger averted

28.10.2025 05:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love This Hour Has 22 Minutes- Canadian comedy at its best!

25.10.2025 14:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: 

The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated.  The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words.  These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canadaโ€™s heritage for this generation and future generations.

The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past

Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation.  We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

All collections are of equal importance.  Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell.

The collections and their contents are not edited or censored.  Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canadaโ€™s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project. All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell. The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

PLEASE REPOST ๐Ÿฅบ๐Ÿ™

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadiansโ€™ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal peopleโ€™s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

23.08.2025 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 251    ๐Ÿ” 162    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

That is how to respond to an unlawful request. Well done!

19.08.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed The Kanien'kรฉhรก:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylinesโ€”and shatter the lie behind Millerโ€™s whitewashed nostalgia.

12.08.2025 17:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18334    ๐Ÿ” 6652    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 834    ๐Ÿ“Œ 325

Must read

03.08.2025 20:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 116    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.

01.08.2025 20:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1451    ๐Ÿ” 578    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 38

SIM planned new activities - AOM 2025 Copenhagen

28.07.2025 15:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@aomsim.bsky.social

28.07.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

ONE welcome to Bluesky

28.07.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Canadian here with family living in the US - cannot understand how a country as rich as the US would privatize health. A universal healthcare system is so much better - it is better for businesses and a social strength. Why should a cancer patient worry about affording her care?

12.07.2025 01:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They certainly do!

14.06.2025 17:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Brilliant!

14.06.2025 02:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Early voted - #ElbowsUp! Please go out and vote ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

27.04.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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She accidentally overpaid her cell bill โ€” by $13,000. After nine months, Koodo still hadnโ€™t returned the money Hazel Maki, 84, finally received a refund from Koodo after Star advocate Diana Zlomislic stepped in. "I think they were really hoping I'd die before they paid me," the retired

@Telus and @Koodo - was the damage this story did to your reputation worth it? Taking advantage of the elderly is unforgivable - do better.

www.thestar.com/business/the...

22.04.2025 02:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Passage from Carl Saganโ€™s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states โ€œ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When youโ€™re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but thereโ€™s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my childrenโ€™s or grandchildrenโ€™s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and whatโ€™s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Passage from Carl Saganโ€™s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states โ€œ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When youโ€™re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but thereโ€™s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my childrenโ€™s or grandchildrenโ€™s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and whatโ€™s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

โ€œThe dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential mediaโ€

20.03.2025 10:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 204    ๐Ÿ” 67    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

This is a must read - brought tears to my eyesโ€ฆ..

16.03.2025 04:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A poignant and powerful story of unimaginable sacrifice. Canadian costly liberation of the Scheldt from the fascist nazi army. And why the Dutch are forever our allies. RIP ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโ˜ฎ๏ธ #ww2

16.03.2025 00:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 108    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

You are wrong

14.03.2025 02:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Bernie Sanders is holding MASSIVE rallies in packed venues, bigger crowds than Trump was getting, and legacy media is practically silent. Bernie is talking to workers rather than hanging out with socialites with mediocre plastic surgery at Mar-a-Lago, and it's just not interesting to corporate media

09.03.2025 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8197    ๐Ÿ” 2176    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 237    ๐Ÿ“Œ 134

As an economist, all the Trump team needs to take an ECON 101 class pronto! This Canadian business economist is happy to volunteerโ€ฆ

04.03.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Slava Ukraini

28.02.2025 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

NL Premier Andrew Furey is an orthopaedic surgeon who knows how to work under pressure. Politicians in Canada know that Trump is an erratic bully who is destroying the US from within and trying to take US allies with him. Just like a tough hockey game we are refreshing our lines! We will be ready.

26.02.2025 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You are brilliant and funny!

23.02.2025 04:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations Team Canada!! What an amazing hockey game ๐ŸŽ‰

21.02.2025 04:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Beautiful letter - thank you for all you do! Canadians are rooting for warriors like yourself.

21.02.2025 01:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. Theyโ€™re Trying to Publish It Anyway. The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of Americaโ€™s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study โ€œtoo important to die.โ€

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. Theyโ€™re Trying to Publish It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

10.02.2025 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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