Matthew Mendelsohn

Political identity shapes our information ecosystem.👇

Calcified partisanship "makes older Americans vulnerable to hyperpartisan news..."

And "may partially explain the high rates of engagement with dubious news domains..."

Partisanship & Dubious News academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

This is great.

As you know, many people, including you, have been working on this for maybe, what, 10 years?

Good to see it out in the world. It will have a real impact in quality of life for some low income Canadians

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What does it really mean to “take ownership?”

We talked to some Taproot employees to hear what it means to them to work for an employee-owned company.

Spoiler alert: lots of pride and rewards.

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#EOT #CdnPoli #OwnershipMatters

If you're an American interested in understanding the mood in Canada, this is an excellent, well-written piece (paywall).

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

The CEO of Enbridge believes that Canada's climate regs cause more uncertainty than the collapse of the rule of law and the rise of gangster capitalism in the US.

The values of some of our corporate leaders are going to destroy us.

www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...

Opinion: This is what the opening move of the U.S.’s attempted annexation of Canada could look like A Trump annexation effort would likely start in the North. It’s time to take the possibility seriously and have a hard conversation about Canada’s maritime Arctic sovereignty

A lot in here.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Canadians would be wise to listen to what the U.S. ambassador has to say Criticisms of Pete Hoekstra and comments perceived to be undiplomatic are misguided

Wow.

Goldy Hyder gaslighting Canadians about the US ambassador gaslighting Canadians.

Is there a word for a double gaslight?

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Graph showing breakdown of top 100 billionaire donor spending on outside political spending groups.

One hundred billionaire donors poured a record $2.6 billion into the 2024 elections—1 of every 6 dollars spent.

New analysis from @rfunkfordham.bsky.social on the last 15 years of #CitizensUnited’s impact on democracy. 2/3 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Canada's exploding wealth inequality requires tax changes Our current tax code is not asking the wealthy to reinvest in our economy, and that failure is weakening services and programs working Canadians may use to get ahead.

Clearly true.

You wouldn't know this is clearly true if you followed our legacy media and spokespeople for corporate Canada, claiming massive tax cuts will cure what ails us.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

I know that was your nickname in high school.

Political staffer pro tip to help contextualize the news of the day

First ministers get more letters from citizens about cetaceans in captivity than any other issue.

People really like whales and really don't like people who hurt whales.

I hope the Yankees win tonight! Go Yankees!!

Tomorrow I don't care who wins, as long as the game goes 16 innings.

That 40-cent wage hike isn't the biggest threat to Toronto's smallest businesses. Here's what is Commercial rents have skyrocketed and local entrepreneurs often have to negotiate with multibillion-dollar companies, a business group says. Guess how that's turned out.

What could it be? I think I know.

www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

We need Ukraine as much as it needs us Kyiv is not merely a victim — it is an exemplar for western democracies and defence industries preparing for future wars

Really great to see @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social's voice back out there and clear about the interests of democratic nations and the threats we face. Slava Ukraini.

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Rewatching “A Face in the Crowd” for the first time in 40 years for no reason in particular.

Elia Kazan’s life and career seem to be quite relevant again.

I support appointing expert committees and advisory groups. They are an essential part of many policy processes. Particularly on something like this where the government has little expertise.

I hope the federal government is seized with these risks.

The make-up of the advisory committee does not give me hope. Some good people, but heavily tilted away from a realistic confrontation with the risks we face.

I hope I'm wrong.

It is indeed useful!

Fatalism is my emotional posture, but I guess helpful advice is also a choice one can make.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Social media nearly ruined my life. This is how I saved myself — and how we save kids today Deleting apps is only one option, and often an unrealistic one.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

#Elbowsup has to be more than a slogan. We need to start saying no to predators.

Canadians don't have to say "more please" to things that will clearly leave us more vulnerable and less sovereign.

Why do economists care about inequality in incomes and wealth?

1) Inequality tends to dampen overall economic performance. One of most immediacy effects is on consumer spending. Low-and middle-income households spend a larger percentage of each dollar that they earn when more spending is in…

my latest for the Star, pointing out the v obv disconnect between bill C2 — the Strong Borders Act — and the whole elbows up thing

pro tip: you can’t claim the entire security & economic partnership is over and then willingly hand over all sorts of info sans warrant to the US

The federal government is leaving investment dollars on the table—but it can fix that in the budget At the recent Victoria Forum, community and philanthropic leaders outlined creative community finance and impact investment ideas that could mobilize big pools of private capital to invest in local bu...

The community finance, social finance and impact investing markets in Canada are ready to scale. They ain't cute pilots anymore.

Will the federal government support enabling legislative and policy infrastructure?

socialcapitalpartners.ca/the-federal-...

“People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.“

-1984, Orwell

Glorious ride today!

Education at a Glance 2025, Part 1 | HESA The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its annual stat fest, Education at a Glance (EAG), two weeks … Continued

According to data provided by Statscan to the OECD, Canada's tertiary education system is experiencing BY FAR the fastest public disinvestment of any country in the developed world. (I am not sure the specific figures are 100% accurate, but the conclusion is still irrefutable)

Over the past decade, lectures for my 20th c. US history course -- all written before the Trump era -- have increasingly struck students as being secretly about him. Wallace, McCarthy, America First, the "great replacement theory," etc.

Stories written as cautionary tales now feel like subtweets.

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