Simon Enoch

the shredding of international liberal order's legitimacy is because everyone knows the answer to @edwardluce.bsky.social thought experiment www.ft.com/content/6176...

Remembering Paul Martin’s disastrous 1995 federal budget - CCPA A few short years ago, we were talking about how to “build back better” from the devastation of the pandemic. Today, in the midst of a new economic crisis, the talk of prosperity and security now cent...

From “build back better,” to “Hell or High Water,” excellent analysis by @kjscott.bsky.social on the disaster that was the 1995 Paul Martin budget. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Whenever these LLM guys say they think AGI/artificial superintelligence is in the works it's like hearing someone say that their next toaster is going to break the land speed record

To stop Gaza genocide, Canada must escalate pressure on Israel - CCPA Canadian companies, with the approval of the Canadian government, are supplying military equipment for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

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It’s time to rethink Canada’s approach to U.S. trade negotiations - CCPA July 21 was supposed to be Canada’s deadline to secure a new trade and security agreement with the United States. What it got instead was more uncertainty.

So-called efforts to show “good will” are little more than gifts to corporate America and the Trump Administration, eroding what leverage the country has.

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Federal government cuts are a gift to Canada’s authoritarian populists. - CCPA For cuts this is deep, it would require across-the-board job losses and major service reductions. In other words, if it proceeded it would represent a major disruption to federal public services and w...

“If the federal government continues to pursue this path, they will be remembered less as a bulwark against authoritarian populism, but more as its midwife.” www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Screenshot of Washington Post homepage. Lead headline is: "Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise." Lead image is of a woman in Gaza holding an almost impossibly emaciated child

Harrowing lead story and image on the Washington Post homepage right now. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

YouTube video by PD City Hall — Paul Dechene Jul 23 2025 - Clr Bezo Wonders Is Wascana Pool Roof-Ready?

The moment from today's executive committee meeting where Clr Bezo proposed putting a roof over Wascana pool. youtu.be/7qFbL-WWuvk #yqrcc

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

Fact sheet: The Golden Dome and Canada - CCPA The United States has proposed to develop the “Golden Dome,” the most ambitious missile defence system ever envisioned. The aim is to build a multi-layered “shield” from the ground into space, capable...

As Arms Control Today notes, the “dome of delusion” masks the many strategic, technical, and fiscal failures of prior missile defence efforts.

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An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

One simple trick to solve the government’s procurement woes? If the government is serious about streamlining the procurement process, it should declare a moratorium on the use of the public-private-partnership (P3) procurement model for new infrastructure.

"If the government is serious about streamlining the procurement process, it should declare a moratorium on the use of the P3 procurement model for new infrastructure." www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

The fed gov cuts to pay for military and wealthy tax cuts have rapidly expanded. My new analysis shows that most of the cuts will now be on transfers to other govs, non-profits and people. A stunning 1 in 5 dollars is just cuts to FN govs for basic social programs. @policyalternatives.ca 🧵👇👇

Where will the federal government cut to pay for military spending and tax cuts? - CCPA Supports to First Nations, veterans, new Canadians, and international aid could be on the chopping block—just for starters

University friends, Carney cuts could be $190 million to SSHRC, $597 million to all Tri-council funding. @profsmithsask.bsky.social @drmarcspooner.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Most provinces are refusing hundreds of millions in federal pharmacare funding - CCPA Provinces and territories that have not joined the new national universal pharmacare program are missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars in potential federal funding for cash-strapped public he...

A person in Manitoba benefits from free contraception, saving them hundreds of dollars each year, A resident of British Columbia has their diabetes medication covered publicly. Not in SK. Why are we refusing to join pharmacare? www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Opinion: Brace for more – and longer – strikes as ban on replacement workers takes effect Bill C-58 threatens to disrupt employers, workers, consumers and the broader economy

Just for the record, citing a Fraser institute study that is deeply flawed in no way defends your position. There is NO evidence that anti-scab legislation leads to more or prolonged strikes. This is pure nonsense and corporate propaganda.

Canada should build public cloud infrastructure rather than relying on U.S. tech giants - CCPA During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies. The Canadian government was in the process of choosing a partn...

“that infrastructure could serve the public good over private profit—without the need for extensive data collection to serve ad-targeting systems or the pressures to serve up extreme and misleading content to keep people engaged on exploitative platforms.”
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Roland Barthes’ mind explodes….

Quality, not just quantity, of news outlets matter—especially in rural Canada - CCPA Communities in Canada—particularly smaller communities—are starving for local news coverage.

“B/C these outlets are often more concerned with generating profits than they are with providing original content, they can easily fall prey to ‘journalistic boosterism’ - where local news media operates more as a cheerleader for local business interests”

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The Monitor – Summer 2025 - CCPA These days, there are many reminders to hold on to this one precious thing: our democracy. Not just ticking a box at election time, but working in between elections to protect the systems in place to ...

The Summer 2025 edition of the Monitor of now online!! Read it here!! @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Why did Canada just cave to Trump by scrapping the Digital Services Tax? - CCPA A lot doesn’t sit right about the Carney government’s capitulation to U.S. president Trump on the stillborn Digital Services Tax (DST), which would have taxed the largely untaxed revenues of tech comp...

“We just threw $7 billion onto Trump’s poker table—the expected five-year haul from the DST —simply to keep playing a rigged game with no clear end. What was gained here?”

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Sask. farmers brace for more uncertainty while awaiting Trump tariff news | CBC News The president of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Producers Association says his members will feel the impact of trade uncertainty "almost immediately."

Senior @policyalternatives.ca researcher @simonenoch.bsky.social said #Saskatchewan is in a somewhat advantageous position in tariff negotiations: "The U.S. needs...our key resources, mainly uranium potash and oil and gas...we have to stand up to...their bully tactics." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sask. farmers brace for more uncertainty while awaiting Trump tariff news | CBC News The president of the Saskatchewan Agricultural Producers Association says his members will feel the impact of trade uncertainty "almost immediately."

“And I think what's going on here is that the big American tech companies who have the ear of the president are extremely worried that this kind of tax has momentum and the countries all over the world are starting to implement it." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Poleconomy which was actually a Fraser Institute op: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polecon...

“In short, private schools, publicly subsidized using taxpayer dollars, have the potential to enjoy higher student funding levels, while public schools are expected to do more with less.”
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Whether you agreed with Mandryk or not, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of the province’s political history that simply cannot be replaced by a subscription service - regardless how much cheaper it might be.

Mandryk: The old, columnist pigeon says good-bye ... and thank you Delivering the news has always mattered. Words matter. Today, they matter more than ever.

Concerning that we’ve lost two political columnists in such a short spate of time - Hope this isn’t Post Media going for a subscription op-Ed service. leaderpost.com/opinion/colu...

Yellow Teamsters-branded thermometer showing a temperature around 125F

I spent the week talking to UPS Teamsters from around the country about what it’s like to deliver hundreds of packages in a heatwave, in trucks that still aren’t air conditioned, in a country without federal workplace protections for heat newrepublic.com/article/1972...

“People using AI to fight other people using AI, mediated by algorithmic bureaucracies, until someone, or everyone, just gives up.”