Grant Bishop

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[Patrick Mahomes II @PatrickMahomes]

13K! 💪🏽

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

@trevortombe My @foundationecon partners and I also published a @globeandmail op-ed two weeks ago, highlighting this widened discount on EPCs/Offsets and explaining the challenges for strengthening TIER and Canada's wider industrial carbon pricing - see: https://t.co/q0vvEYDChW

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

@trevortombe @CleanProsperity published @emmadizon_ and my analysis on the discount of TIER EPCs/Offsets to the "headline" (or Fund) price (an update of a 2022 report with @bernstein_micha) last July: https://t.co/HepEh3uH6V

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

I’m dreaming of…

[Eli Lake @EliLake]

Why Jews wrote your favorite Christmas songs. Very proud of this episode. Special thanks to @AriLamm @JohnHMcWhorter David Lehman, my super star producer @gcollard5 and Alex Miller.

https://t.co/zIBmV5gL8g

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

@EliLake @AriLamm @JohnHMcWhorter @gcollard5 Thank you so much for this episode: so deeply important in this moment - heartwarming and heartstirring!

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

This limit on free speech must be urgently challenged. To this end, provincial governments should immediately initiate references to their courts of appeal.

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

In @globeandmail today, I write that a new “greenwashing” rule hastily crammed into the Competition Act under the omnibus Bill C-59 (against advice by @CompBureau) unjustifiably infringes the freedom of expression protected by Canada's Charter. https://t.co/JLwlkXF05R

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

While combatting greenwashing is critical, 74.01(1)(b.2) is overbroad, vague and poorly tailored, outsourcing acceptable speech to some nebulous "internationally recognized methodology" and chilling the flow of information essential to public debate on critical policy questions.

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

We all sometimes make math mistakes (I personally live in mortal fear of such errors) but the federal government should likely require public servants to pass a basic Excel test.

Kudos to @AaronHectorCFP for catching this in @JustinTrudeau's spin.

https://t.co/xabEM5zH42

[Aaron Hector, R.F.P., CFP, TEP @AaronHectorCFP]

Ok I got the answer on this for those who care.

The chart in the Trudeau video took the combined total net worth of the top 20% (5th quintile). The actual data behind the approx $11 million figure is actually ~$11 million but multiplied by a factor of 1,000,000.

It’s not a per household figure.

The video by Trudeau didn’t indicate the x1,000,000 scale nor did it say it was an aggregate total.

In my opinion this representation in the video makes it appear that the top 20% have an average NW of ~$11M when in reality on a per household it’s more like $3M. (Still a big number, but $3 is nowhere near $11)

So it’s based on real data, but I’d wager that very few people would have understood what they were being shown.

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

This wouldn’t lower food prices.

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

Per @NellieBowles: “Letting go of the prestige mindset is absolutely something we have to do. Because the old institutions have rotted themselves out. They are empty from the inside. They have the names; they have the gorgeous branding. The slogans are hollow."

[Honestly with Bari Weiss @thehonestlypod]

On leaving The New York Times to build an independent media company, @NellieBowles:

“Letting go of the prestige mindset is not easy… The old institutions have rotted themselves out. You have to accept that hollowness and live your life accordingly.” https://t.co/1JZSd8WZBR

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

Opinion (no soliloquy): It’s her best album.

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

@globeandmail My backhanded aim in writing this is to emphasize that carbon pricing is the economically efficient means of reducing Canada’s emissions and caution for the economic costs of other measures.

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

In today's @globeandmail, I outline with frustration and regret how to tactically retreat (for now) on Canada's carbon tax.  https://t.co/suZrP0Fn1p

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

@globeandmail It is admittedly awkward to make the case for an approach in which I don’t actually believe.  But this government has undermined its own policy with vote-seeking carve-outs, confusing sector-specific regulations and less-than-competent implementation.

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

@CBC @cbcgem @PresidentCBCRC @InklessPWFeed @spaikin @HubCAPodcast @Sean_Speer @tvo I lament @CBC's spiral, emphasizing how it once enlightened me. For @MasseyCollege's @WalterGordonSym now a decade ago, I authored these reflections for @PPGReview (also riffing off @CDHoweInstitute thinking) noting the issues now only more acute today. https://t.co/86uLQtX0rD

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

When @CBC's tragic obituary is written, it must duly note that, for all virtues of “telling Canadians' stories”, A Peoples’ Network's bid to retain viewership (while notifying of its @cbcgem price hike) singly touted “The Great British Baking Show” as its great on-deck content.

[Grant Bishop @GRABishop]

@CBC @cbcgem @PresidentCBCRC @InklessPWFeed While once a lynchpin public institution, @CBC’s present identity crisis is adeptly diagnosed by @spaikin on @HubCAPodcast with @Sean_Speer (despite the X/Twitterstorm it stirred), contrasting how @TVO serves with independent integrity in public interest. https://t.co/njAnX5Saj0