Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦

Buy-side & sell-side, mostly ETFs.

Also here for music, comedy, math, & science takes.

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

@RodGordilloP @choffstein @MikePhilbrick99 This is incredible! Well done, Rod!

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

@CraigBaird Only the 2nd time I’ve actually read both books (and thus only the 2nd time I’ve voted).

Beginning to realize there’s a ton of great Can Lit I need to consume.

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

@nic_carter Vietnam / the draft.

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

@CraigBaird Finally, the first such poll in which I’ve read both books and can cast an informed vote!

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

My late friend Danny Schur wrote the music & lyrics to “Strike!: The Musical”. I had the pleasure of seeing it at Rainbow Stage in Winnipeg in 2019, the 100th anniversary of the strike. An incredible moment for Manitobans … the strike, and the show!

https://t.co/Cwsbff3clv

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

On May 15, 1919, the largest strike in Canadian history began when 30,000 workers in Winnipeg went on strike.
The Winnipeg General Strike was a watershed moment in Canadian history and came to an end on Bloody Saturday.
This is the story.

📸 Archives of Manitoba

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[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

@fermatslibrary I dunno, I don’t see any zeros in 2³⁴ x 5³⁴. 😛

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

This was always a plan if I ever won the lottery. Maybe I’d be good at baseball, who knows? What do a MLB club owner have to lose?

[Trevor Bauer (トレバー・バウアー) @BauerOutage]

Hypothetical: You’re the owner of an MLB team. I offer to take $0 salary and sign a minor league contract and go to Low A.

If the “he sucks now” crowd is right and I get lit up, you cut me, lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.

If the “clubhouse cancer” crowd is right, you see it immediately at Low A and cut me. You lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.

If there’s massive negative PR, which we already know there won’t be, you just cut me and move on. The story is dead in a couple days, you lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club.

But, assuming none of those things happen, which they obviously wouldn’t, if you like what you see, you can promote me to AA and re evaluate me there. Then AAA. Then the big leagues. If I earn it, which you’d be 100% in control of deciding. If you don’t think I’m good enough, you lose $0 and there’s no risk to the big league club.

You could take away my “antics”. You could take away my social media. You could ask anything of me. If I don’t comply, you cut me, lose $0, and there’s no risk to the big league club.

What logical reason is there to not do this? At worst, you cut me and there’s no risk to the big league club. At best, you get a Cy Young winner for $0 who you know can still pitch and could help the big league team if and when you see fit.

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

Wild is that Canada is #3.

[Eric Balchunas @EricBalchunas]

Geographic breakdown of the ACWI (all country world index), which is based on market cap, is wild. US nearly 2/3.

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

@engineers_feed 30+40+15

[Brian Willott Farms @BrianWillott]

They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

@EricBalchunas Having spent most of my formative years in Toronto around that time - and on the hunt for getting whatever gigs I could - I can say the character of Toronto Past is perfectly represented.

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

@EricBalchunas The fact that the closing track, “All You Need Is Love”, was mostly recorded live (except minor vocal overdubs) on video with an orchestra during a worldwide via-satellite concert in 1967 (the US launched their first satellite just 9 years earlier) still blows my mind.

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

Ranked balloting would have been helpful here.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Thunder Bay:
Originally two communities (Fort William and Port Arthur), a referendum was held on June 23, 1969 to choose a name for the new amalgamated city. Thunder Bay won with 15,870 votes, over Lakehead (15,302) and The Lakehead (8,377).

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[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

The Vegreville Pysanka, or Ukrainian Easter Egg, isn't just a very famous roadside attraction, it is a true marvel.
It influenced the design of the Space Shuttle.
It was a notable first in computer modelling.
Oh, and it is also a weather vane!
This is its story.

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[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

@67Dodge Most of this stuff is ~10x higher now. Except housing. Wow.

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

Saw the Flying Fathers at Copps Coliseum with my father in the late 80s. I’ll never forget a priest scoring a hat-trick by throwing into the net a stick with 3 pucks tied to it. What a great game.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

From 1963 to 2009, Canadian Roman Catholic priests took to the ice for charity.
Through 907 games, they raised $4 million and only lost six games.
Not bad for a team whose backup goalie was a horse.
This is the story of the Flying Fathers!

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[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

@honest_math Agreed. That twist seemed a bit of a stretch and unlikely given what was on the line.

Will be seeing the movie soon.

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

Daylight saving is not enough. You need to be daylight investing.

[Myron Genyk 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @MGenyk]

Fascinating read.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

An incident involving a Russian drone in Kyiv last month, which has not been previously reported, set in motion a chain of events that would allow Ukraine to seize the momentum at the front with the help of an unlikely ally: Elon Musk, reports @shustry. https://t.co/xzwU1ya1kl

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

“Bohunks” and “garlic eaters.”

Some of the popular insults used to describe Ukrainian immigrants to Canada like these👇a century ago.

Many faced prejudice and discrimination because they weren’t “heritage Canadians.”

During the First World War, there were calls for their “remigration.”

Thousands were imprisoned in force labour camps, because they were deemed “enemy aliens,” on the absurd pretext that peasant farmers from Galicia might start an uprising in Canada on behalf of the Austro-Hungarian Empire where they were born!

Despite all of that, they settled and built much of our northern prairies on the toughest farmland, clearing trees by hand, living in mud huts until they could build a house, erecting magnificent onion domed Churches to reflect their unique Byzantine ritual culture.

They and their descendants have been a great blessing to Canada, and are the reason that we have a special connection to that wonderful country.