Dylan Kelso

Policy, housing, and Mariners/Canucks talk. Proud Albertan.

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

Alphonso Davies will be available to play against Qatar, head coach Jesse Marsch announced 🇨🇦

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@NoContextBCGov No Context, you have a looooong memory.

And I'm here for it.

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Back to 2013! Quality headlines back then.

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https://t.co/pm5lvlN3R2 is absolutely incredible right now.

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Ah shoot. They patched the glitch that was time warping us back to 2013.

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@PubliqueJo @SteveSaretsky Larger ships coming into port sounds great for a country currently focused on building trade capacity and diversifying our trading partners.

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Yikes.

[Kenneth Chan @iamkennethchan]

BREAKING... B.C. government has FIRED the European contractor chosen in 2024 to build the new replacement George Massey Tunnel.

A new bidding process will now be conducted. #bcpoli #vanpoli #vanre

https://t.co/07g8cSo33W

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@TSN_Sports Missed wide by a little bit.

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@warderlan89 @TrollFootball I watched the game. Canada dominated, but at no point did it feel like Canada's domination would be converted for goals due to a lack of clinical finishers on our side.

Still should have won by 2, and I'm still proud of their effort!

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@A_Airseemawhich @Noahpinion He's a politician, acting like it, and it is best not to forget that.

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@justBlakePrice Hey @justBlakePrice :)

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@justBlakePrice Given his recent play, but his experience in big games in the past, I like the idea of him coming off the bench quite a bit, actually.

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@TrevorLoke @EricDLombardi Exactly. It is a big, meaningful departure from even the (mostly vapid) era of mid-2000s-2010s optimistic political sloganeering.

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Ontario liberals, please pay attention to this guy.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

This pathetic attitude is among the worst things about our political culture in Canada and I cannot reject it enough.

It gets cloaked in the language of progressivism but it is deeply cynical, ugly, and regressive.

Story time!

Growing up, I was hugely inspired by RIM (BlackBerry). It was one of the reasons why I wanted to go to Waterloo.

I thought it was so cool one of the most innovative companies on earth was an hour away from home.

In fact, my program, Nanotechnology Engineering, was able to exist in part due to the philanthropy of Mike Lazaridis, who funded the Institute of Quantum Computing and Nanotechnology (along with the Perimeter Institute for theoretical physics, which is a brilliant asset for the province and country). Balsillie, for his part, has spent tens of not hundreds of millions of his personal wealth on advocacy and institutions to make Canada a better place. But he too was castigated in our media.

Through high school, I saw how Canadas media took an axe to RIM founders (Mike and Jim), and basically cheered on the decline of the business against competition from Apple and Google.

It was a complete disgrace.

Well, in 2013 I got my second co-op job there, just as they rolled out BB10 (the QNX operating system). 6 weeks into my co-op, my entire department was laid off (Modems/Semiconductors).

Nearly every one of my colleagues ended up moving to the US. Some of the most capable talent on earth, poached in weeks. It was loss that was absolutely devastating to witness.

I have no doubt people like Bruce cheered on the spectacle, just like he would cheer the downfall of Shopify if it were to ever happen; despite the champion it’s been for the country, the thousands of good jobs it’s created, and all the spin-off businesses that have created huge wealth for Ontario.

Well let me be clear that I will have none of this nonsense.

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@MKjuma19 @oldcanadaseries Nah. He was 15 when he joined the Vancouver Whitecaps.

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Absolutely incredible!

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

WORLD RECORD IN NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP PRELIMS 🤯

Ja'Kobe Tharp ran a 12.75 in the 110M hurdles to set a new world record!

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@Giuliano89_LOC @purelivn Incredible. I hope you don't take it for granted.

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@Giuliano89_LOC @purelivn Vezio! I stayed in a little AirBnb in that little mountainside village. The walk up the hill from Varenna was not fun to do multiple times a day. Ha!

[Dylan Kelso @KelsoDylan]

I've managed to keep my house plants alive for a few years 🤷‍♂️

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Alexander the Great conquered the entire known world by the age of 33. What have you done?

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

While some debate whether we're in an outright recession or a just a zero-growth economy, the exchange obscures the more serious problem facing Canada: secular stagnation.

For years, the Trudeau government's combination of unprecedented immigration levels and expansionary fiscal policy boosted headline GDP while masking deeper economic weakness. Population growth increasingly substituted for productivity growth.

It's worth asking whether Canada may have already experienced recessionary conditions absent the largest immigration surge in modern history. Had population growth remained closer to historical norms, aggregate GDP growth over the past several years may well have turned negative.

If anything, the Carney government's cuts to immigration growth have only exposed rather than caused the structural weaknesses in Canada's economy.

The real question isn't whether Canada is in a technical recession today. It's whether we've spent years obscuring one with unsustainable population growth.