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  • Canada has more manufacturing jobs per capita than the US.

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  • We need to let go of the rule of thumb that Canada is 1/10th the US in population.

    It’s not just a nitpick to say that’s off now.

    Canada has had a more rapidly growing population such that it’s been 1/9th that of the United States for most of a decade.

    A quick calculation on current population estimates puts it as 347.5 / 41.5 million = ~ 8.4.

    That said, Canada still has more manufacturing jobs per capita even with the correction.

  • Canada has more manufacturing jobs per capita than the US.

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  • I appreciate that you recognize that so-called ‘labour productivity’* is primarily a measure of the quality and technological level of the capital that the labour is working with.

    Too often, comparative measures of labour productivity and discussion focuses on hours worked, vacation days etc.

    These are very much second-order.

    Education levels are not second-order but Canadian workers are more literate and better educated across the board than the US manufacturing workers.

    So, the real question in manufacturing (as it is in housing construction), “Why is the Canadian private sector so unwilling to invest in ongoing technological upgrading let alone innovation?”

    • ‘Labour productivity’ was originally a measure of how much a given number of workers could produce with a fixed piece of land. Crop improvements and technology increased that in the agricultural revolution.

  • Opinion: Mark Carney has shown a confidence in the existence of Canada

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  • This really is a great piece.

    Interesting first-person perspective on Carney as a fellow graduate student at Oxford.

    But it was the latter half of the piece, that reflects on how Canadians who study in the UK or US are constantly subjected to overly aggressive declarations that deny Canada as a nation, which really hit home for me.

    As a Canadian who attended graduate school in the US, I experienced almost verbatim every denial and put down in this piece.

    And so many more constant and dumbfoundingly bizarre nonsequitur microaggressions. (One of the American I shared office space with lashed out that Canadians didn’t have any ‘real’ Black people so we had to borrow them from Jamaica to compete as athletes in Track and Field.)

    So many of these offensive remarks were self contradictory - e.g.,

    • Canada doesn’t exist as a nation or culture but at the same time Canadian students are vocally criticized for being ‘so nationalistic’
    • there’s no need to include Canada in a listing of macroeconomic indicators of major economies because it’s ‘just a regional economy in in North America’ but only the US indicators are included. Meanwhile, California is profiled and discussed as a separate economy because it’s ‘so large’.
    • or a renowned professor who I worked for as a research assistant observing at some random point when he realized where I had done my undergraduate degree ‘Oh, you went to a real place’ - which given how difficult it was to get into that school and program, should never have been a question.

  • Nice Job Guys

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  • Actually, most campaigns send out a collection team in the day after election day to take down the big sign as well as signs put up on public property. They also typically pick them up from lawns as requested.

    Some will wait a day or two to celebrate the win but sign pickup

    Most candidates keep the signs from one campaign to another. It takes a while for new signs to be printed at the beginning of a campaign. So, using old signs means getting signs up in the early days before your opponents and saving costs.

  • Canadians supporting Trump, how do you rationalize it?

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  • Can we talk about deaths per capita and military and civilians contributing to war effort per capita for a country that was NOT itself attacked?

    Yes, there were U-Boats attacking merchant marines on the east coast and Japanese balloons flying in on the west. But the societal contribution to a war not in our soil was and is astonishing.

  • "American Woman" by The Guess Who

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  • Perhaps because there’s a big dose of misogyny intertwined with the critique of American Exceptionalism.

    Think about how the song would play with genders reversed.

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  • Also, you don’t want to be looking to log into dodgy wifi when travelling with a burner phone to another country.

    Physical guides are more secure and don’t require downloading to a burner device.

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  • I believe one or two of the new senators have joined Mastodon as well but haven’t seen much from them yet.

  • So I fell in love with a shawl design

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  • Just be sure to wash and block before connecting the blocks.

  • So I fell in love with a shawl design

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  • I love making samples, so working up 8 x 8” / 20 x 20 cm samples of a lot of different stitches is fun for me.

    There’s an old Bernat pattern that I have for an Afghan made of squares of very many different classic crochet stitches. It’s a great practice and skill building project.

    If you choose a good palette of solid colour yarn, it works out nicely. If that kind of throw isn’t the kind of thing you like in your home, they’re always a gift or charity option.

  • Nearly half of Quebecers cancel U.S. trips amid tensions, boosting local tourism

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  • Parksville is likely far more commercial and developed than you recall.

    But the beaches remain.

  • Nearly half of Quebecers cancel U.S. trips amid tensions, boosting local tourism

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  • Here are some suggestions with a kids lens:

    Vancouver Island

    • get mid Island then over to the west coast
    • Parksville - large sandy beaches to dig in
    • ferry to Denman Island and then to Hornsby Island - fossils! https://hornbynaturalhistory.com/category/fossils/
    • Qualicum Beach - gravelly and lots of seniors, but a great place to see bald eagles picking up clams and oysters, dropping them to break them open and diving to eat.
    • Cathedral grove on Hwy to Port Alberni, accessible old growth forest
    • Alberni - old forestry interpretation site with a logging train in the Cherry Creek area
    • Drive to Tofino - an adventure in itself
    • Long Beach
    • whale watching

    If you go to Vancouver, many of the classic stops are worth it

    • the Aquarium
    • Whale watching
    • Grouse mountain gondola and mountain top
    • Capilano suspension bridge and the fish hatchery and environs
    • Seabus
    • UBC museum of anthropology

  • Nearly half of Quebecers cancel U.S. trips amid tensions, boosting local tourism

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  • Pursuing the void: The discovery of Canada’s new longest cave system

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  • Mapping and confirming the existence of a system larger than the world renowned Castleguard Cave system is the story here.

  • White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group

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  • Well, there was something of the kind of CANZUK sharing earlier. But that included SA and India in a kind of outer layer with less complete access.

  • Algorithms are breaking how we think - Technology Connections

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  • There’s absolutely no incentive to log in to YouTube now that subscriptions and bells do nothing to control your feed. End stage enshittification.

  • Trump claims the trade deficit with Canada is a $200B subsidy. Experts disagree

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  • I do know about the latter. Knew some folks that taught there.

    Few courses are taught by tenured faculty at the Ivies. Junior faculty have to justify final grades, PhD students and sessional have to justify any grades lower than B- on any assignment.

    Coupling that with the ‘legacy admissions’ where children of alumni have a lower bar to admission, anyone with a B- average has a questionable degree.

    No matter how good their programs are, for the lowers tier of students, they’re just institutions of transmitted privilege. Which is why the complaints about DEI mechanisms to balance that are so suspect.

    I wasn’t aware whether UPenn was on the same system but it’s a huge thing for private universities reliant on tuition fees and big alumni donations.

    It’s interesting how California is shutting down the practice of legacy admissions, and Stanford and USC are feeling the sting.

  • Trump claims the trade deficit with Canada is a $200B subsidy. Experts disagree

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  • But Trump was able to graduate?

    Is Wharton one of those US schools (like Harvard) where anyone lower than a tenured professor has to write justifications to file anytime they give a student less than a B-?

  • Trump claims the trade deficit with Canada is a $200B subsidy. Experts disagree

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  • Both Trump and Musk have degrees from the supposedly reputable Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

    If these two are evidence of their quality of graduates, it really raises questions about whether it was another US institution where ‘legacy’ and money buy admissions and it’s impossible not to graduate.