Derek Antoine

Quick calcs: U.S. tariff is on 80% of #cdnecon exports (not on services), trade-weighted average rate of 15% (25% goods; 10% energy).

If U.S. demand falls in proportion to the tariff (to illustrate), then that's a $160 billion hit ($100b direct + $60b upstream), ~3% of total.

Canada as a state would add 54 mostly Dem members of congress, 2 Dem senators, and put additional 54 Pres. electoral college votes in the Dem column.

a large white house with columns and a tree in front of it ALT: a large white house with columns and a tree in front of it

Everyone’s Christmas tree today:

You have to buy it because: man.

Ontario shutting down supervised consumption sites without assessing harm to drug users: auditor Health Minister Sylvia Jones once promised that ‘people are not going to die,’ but the province hasn’t tried to figure out if they will or not, the auditor general reports

The 10 supervised drug consumption sites being forced to shut down this spring prevented nearly 1,600 fatal opioid overdoses in one year, Ontario’s auditor general has found.

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Thought for sure it would be fish tank of lobsters.

Cervical Cancer Mortality Among US Women Younger Than 25 Years This study examines trends in cervical cancer mortality in US women aged younger than 25 years before and after the introduction of human papillomavirus vaccines.

The HPV vaccine has been recommended in the US since 2006. New study out today shows that cervical cancer deaths in young women in the years that followed have plummeted, decreasing 15% per year from 2013-2015.
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Welcome one and all to Bluesky. Folks, please add a short description of who you are so I know who I’m following back.

Installing E.V. Chargers is Finally Paying Off for Retailers Companies see charging as a potentially profitable business in and of itself, not just as a spur for foot traffic and sales.

EV chargers pay off for retailers. So do bike lanes and pedestrian-only streets/superblocks. The answers are in front of us: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...

Bluesky right now feels a little like all the Whos gathering to sing after the Grinch stole their floofloovers and jingtinglers.

Bluesky is bumpin these past days. Wonderful to see new and old faces here. And not over there.

Oudshoorn: Poverty, addiction, mental illness not causes of homelessness, success is The homelessness crisis in London is an outcome of our successes: rapid growth and high desirability leading to an increase in housing costs

“Our wealthiest, most desirable cities have highest rates of homelessness as ppl compete for 🏡. Poverty, mental illness & addictions then serve not as causes, but as discriminators of who is most likely to become homeless when 🏡 is deeply unaffordable.” lfpress.com/opinion/colu...

My 2024 resolution is to reconnect with all you smart, wonderful, entertaining people I lost touch with throughout the pandemic. #NYE2024

Following BC’s smart move last month, feds to revive CMHC wartime blueprint housing to speed construction approvals apple.news/AGHHs6xLLTU6...

She looks like a beauty.

Hoping this place is better than the other place.