What a week! Time for a record and a beer. Happy weekend, all. 🍻 🎶

Not sure which demographic analysis supports this conclusion. if interested in migration and aging a few suggestions for serious reading ft.com/content/3e92cb… via @ft

My dad became a Canadian citizen today. 🇨🇦 🎉

Excellent piece on the economic challenges of heightened immigration by Corbin Duncan at the The Economist. It was a pleasure discussing the issues with him. His final sentence captures the crux of it perfectly.
economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Lots of money to be made off the dreams of the world’s poor and desperate.
thestar.com/news/canada/co…

I would love to read a deep dive investigative piece on the international student explosion at Conestoga College. I’m convinced that ApplyBoard had a part to play in it all.

Diverging SEPH and LFS estimates receiving more attention. Explanations given miss main factor - surging NPR population and impact on LFS sampling weights. Time for Statistics Canada to provide clarity.
nationalpost.com/news/economy/j…

Another week done. Time for some old skool and a beer. See ya on the flip side. 🍻 🎶

Gold Investor Mikal Skuterud No, this doesn't confirm that 'media questions are pre-screened by handlers.' And Mikal, thanks for input but we got input from a lot of people and only used a small fraction.

My colleague, Mikko Packalen, has long argued that economists failed in assessing the costs of COVID public health measures, especially the costs imposed on our children. I struggle to disagree with him.

Likely why PMO preferring these outlets!

I've been told by someone with experience that the Shadow Minister of Immigration is the worst job in Parliament because the only job expectation is to never touch the third rail. When criticism in an entire policy domain is shut down, we have a failure of democracy.

Polite, indeed. The show’s producer emailed me and my coauthors in advance asking for questions on immigration to pose to the PM. We offered two hard balls. Neither was asked.

LPC taking much blame for immigration debacle but good governance needs effective opposition. On immigration, CPC and NDP opposition has in recent years been little better than useless.

'an increase in industry concentration and a decline in firm entry rates have a negative effect on firm investment, and the effect is larger among small firms.'

Mikal Skuterud Andrew Griffith To Mikal's point. I think it's fair to say some economists were ahead of the curve on this. Here's a column I wrote almost exactly a year ago on this exact thing.
financialpost.com/news/economy/e…

And then they were down to 27. Most recent departures appear to be Willa Black (formerly VP, Cisco Canada) and Murad Al-Katib (President and CEO, AGT Food and Ingredients).

.Matt Lundy does evidence-based journalism better than anyone else in this country.