Inflation has many concerned, and it's a complex issue. So I'm happy to share some results of work with my colleague, Prof. Sonja Chen: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Not yet peer-reviewed, but there's some interesting results I'll preview here. 🧵 #cdnecon #cdnpoli

I still have a colleague on Council chewing me out for supporting a public inquiry on the LRT debacle. Taxpayers & passengers of our public transit system deserve the truth, deserve a better process & there will be accountability. I will read the report in full & act on the recs.

(2/6) What struck me about the report wasn't the unproven technology, inexperience, lack of integration, deliberate misdirection, etc. My takeaway is the project was doomed from the start, all the way back to Jim Watson's 2010 campaign promise: the $2.1 billion pricetag.

I think somebody is going to make a lot of money from it, and they are probably big donors to the Ontario PC Party. Maybe it got thrown in with the Greenbelt as a sweetener.

REALITY CHECK Canada has one of the cleanest least corruptible democracies in the entire world. Our elections are very secure even when foreign actors try to influence them. No one entity can break into our elections to change the outcome. I say that living in a province led

Last week, I was thrilled to stop by The Spaniel’s Tale, Hintonburg’s newest LGBTQ+ led bookstore. 📚 Congratulations to Stephen and Cole on this incredible accomplishment. And thanks for contributing to a more welcoming and inclusive community.

Actually, I secretly can’t wait for Netflix to pull this one on me. I will joyously jettison them.

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“One day all these cars will be electric.”

HoC behaviour continues decline. Exchange in cmtee today where Cooper CPC MP basically accused Public Safety Minister Mendicino of lying yet nothing done. That's a clear violation of parl decorum. There is a particular procedure required to accuse another MP of lying. #cdnpoli

The system is coming together... 1 NVIDIA Spark 4 Dell GB10s 5 Blackwell GPUs for a mini home cluster. 3 networked together for ability for a 400+ billion param model (3 petaflops of compute at a unified 384 GB of memory) ... serving 3 models to the other 2 units hosting