Joel Wood 🇨🇦

Joel Wood 🇨🇦

@joelwwood.bsky.social

Environmental Economist at Thompson Rivers University. Biking enthusiast. Great horned owl attack victim. Kamloops 🇨🇦

2,935 Followers 2,056 Following 6,285 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏉 🏆️ Ireland beats Scotland 43-21, keeping their Six Nations title hopes alive and winning the Triple Crown for the fourth time in five years.
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Unprecedented corruption. Literally asking for billions of dollars.

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Even if you roll the Alberta Liberal and Green votes into the NDP column, this is still a pretty big UCP majority.

And that’s before the Avi Lewis effect kicks in here.

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FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

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CANADA 🇨🇦 FOR THE WIN

THE CANADIAN WHEELCHAIR CURLING TEAM HAS WON GOLD.

THEY ARE PARALYMPIC CHAMPIONS. THEY WENT UNDEFEATED.

CANADA DEFEATS CHINA IN A THRILLER.

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11 hours ago
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TO THE FINAL END

Tie game.

Canada has the hammer.

Gold medal on the line.

Buckle up.

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MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices FRANKLIN, TN—Insisting that she hoped the spike in oil costs was only the beginning of a long upward trend, MAGA voter Kaitlyn Leonardi told reporters Tuesday that she loved high gas prices. “I don’t ...

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices https://theonion.com/maga-voter-claims-she-loves-high-gas-prices/

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11 hours ago

Poor Ernie. Imagine living in the Fun Store and then you're sent to go live in the Jerk Store for a while.

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Also shouldn’t this be the front page story everywhere? It’s the entire trajectory of the war - literally two weeks after starting it Trump has been so thoroughly humiliated he’s pleading for China and France to come win it for him. The US on its knees, begging, in TWO WEEKS.

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Seeing Wolf Parade perform The Song in the city where Heated Rivalry was filmed is kind of like the music-supervision version of a champagne birthday #hamont

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after a night of russian missile attacks on Ukraine, I decided my saturday needed something stupid and fun. so I built a random econ paper title generator.

current favorite: Craft Beer Variety as an Instrument for Public Trust in Economists

small joys. dariia-m.github.io/econ-title-g... #Econsky

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I believe that our problems are about *evidence* and how evidence is used in the world, and that working to empower more people to understand and use better evidence is a battle worth fighting.

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Clutch hit and stick for Canada.

Ideson delivers facing three Chinese stones.

Oh my my my. To the 7th end we go. The Canadians lead 3-2. China has the hammer.

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a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near ALT: a cartoon character holding a sign that says the end is near

Spent most of my career talking down the endless stream of unjustified oil market alarm.

Now I’m acutely alarmed to the point of disbelief, the oil market is still shockingly sanguine, and I feel like this guy.

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This S.F. bike club found a secret to success: A pastry at the end of every ride Fat Cake bike club has become San Francisco’s most popular group ride thanks to two key ingredients: an inclusive atmosphere and delicious baked goods.

San Francisco has a bicycle club called "Fat Cake" that ends every ride at a bakery. @stephenlamphoto.bsky.social & I had to check it out.

The visuals in this are amazing. So were the pastries.

Gift link! 🎁 🚴‍♂️

www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

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1 week ago

EXCLUSIVE: Ottawa admits to restricting intelligence with U.S. over Op. Southern Spear concerns.

Read my update here: substack.com/@thestateoft...

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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died.

apnews.com/article/juer...

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In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

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Regression Discontinuity Sickos:

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Map of the ME showing the two straits

Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread.

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Nearly $1M spend by Kwantlen Polytechnic student association sparks ministry investigation vancouversun.com/news/bc-mini...

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Tough loss. That game was sooooo close. There were some epic rallies in that final set

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Ugh USherbrooke wins 15-13 in the final 5th set and wins the Quarterfinal

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Tie game 9-9

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Realizing he’ll never be able to travel internationally because universal jurisdiction for war crimes

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Can really hear the TRU fans cheering!

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Live on CBC Gem!

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TRU Wolfpack Womens Volleyball currently leading the 5th set against USherbrooke at USports Nationals

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U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on quashing the DOJ grand jury subpoenas for Fed Chair Jerome Powell:

"The only reasonable inference is that the Government targeted Powell 'out of malice or an intent to harass'...

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New episode! Cara and I talk about why apartments are so small in Canada, and why it's nearly impossible to find something that can house a family with kids.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watc...

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