“Far from fettering neo-liberalism, the state — or what remains of it — is wearing fetters itself. As are we all.” Inside the May issue: John Baglow on “Breaking Free of Neoliberalism” by Alex Himelfarb and “The Big Fix” by Denise Hearn (@denisehearn.bsky) and Vass Bednar. reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2025/…

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Fun fact: pro-competitive reforms were the most commonly-cited recommendation for reigniting investment in the OECD's 2025 Economic Outlook. 📈Denise Hearn (@denisehearn.bsky) and I sketch out what this could mean for🇨🇦if we run a full court press on competitiveness in IRPP policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/june…

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1pm ET #TheBigStory There is a way to make flying more affordable, but will the government actually do it? Cormac Mac Sweeney Brad Callaghan Competition Bureau Canada Fixing Canada: Is business competition dead? Vass Bednar Denise Hearn (@denisehearn.bsky) Then: siriusxm.ca/CanadaTalksLive Anytime: sxm.app.link/TheBigStory

On a depressing & scary day in geopolitics, at least the Vera C. Rubin observatory has given us the gift of perspective. How foolish we are against the scale of the grand cosmos. First images from the world's largest telescope were revealed today in stunning brilliance:

Thank you Sarah Rieger (Sarah Rieger) and Devin Friedman for having Denise Hearn (@denisehearn.bsky) and I on the Wealthsimple TLDR podcast to talk about - wait for it - competition. …lthsimple-tldr-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/cheap… ✈️

Thanks to Wealthsimple for having Vass Bednar and me on their TLDR podcast. Last week, the Competition Bureau dropped a spicy airlines report re: competition b/w Westjet and Air Canada + this podcast is a great quicktake: competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/how-we-fost… …lthsimple-tldr-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/cheap…

New article from Man Group showing a correlation between market volatility & extreme heat. "We have found evidence of a ‘climate factor’ in investing, with extreme heat adding 72 basis points of annualised volatility [6.6%] to US equity markets over the past two decades."

🧵 "This case could upend the market as it is currently constituted" - claims new paper by Denise Hearn (Denise Hearn (@denisehearn.bsky)) & Cynthia Hanawalt, as it examines Texas v. BlackRock as first lawsuit testing "common ownership theory" in court 1/10➡️

Using AI to generate your research paper? Cringe. Hiding instructions in your research paper, telling AI to review it positively? Based. Ok not really, but this is both hilarious and sad: asia.nikkei.com/Business/Techn…

Want some good climate / decarb energy news? This is pretty cool: youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Pmgq…

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Woke up today wondering about how LLMs and AI agents are changing Wikipedia – what was once the bastion of crowd sourced, collaborative (human) knowledge creation. Some Cornell researchers demonstrate that Wikipedia is already being affected -- marginally for now, but likely to