Jack Burkom

[Jack Burkom @JackHehre]

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[tobi lutke @tobi]

“I’ve now been disrupted at a podcast about Jewish entrepreneurs, at the opening of a Jewish community centre, and at a fireside chat about building companies. None of those events had anything to do with politics. The only common thread is me, a proud Jew, on a stage.”

Thank you @harleyf for saying it like it is.

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[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

Abundance liberalism gets its first Canadian test

The Ontario Liberal leadership race formally launched this week, and one candidate has already distinguished himself on substance.

@EricDLombardi, the 31-year-old founder of More Neighbours Toronto and occasional Hub contributor, released a policy platform that must rank among the most comprehensive ever put forward by a leadership candidate in Canadian politics. Leadership contenders typically campaign on biography and save the policy work for later. Lombardi has inverted the formula.

The substance is as notable as the scale. The platform’s signature commitments include making Ontario “the cheap-power capital of North America” on the theory that electricity abundance is how the province industrializes and decarbonizes at the same time, putting homeownership within reach before age 35, a tax-and-permitting agenda of “simpler taxes, faster permits, fewer subsidies,” and a major expansion of doctor training.

What unites these commitments is that they add up to a macroeconomic agenda oriented around growth rather than equity—a clear departure from the Trudeau-era progressivism that has defined Liberal politics for the past decade. The through-line is supply: more housing, more power, more infrastructure, more doctors.

That makes Lombardi’s candidacy the first major expression of Abundance liberalism in Canadian politics. Abundance thinkers in the United States, like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, have generated enormous interest outside progressive politics but considerably less inside it. It’s fair to say that the real energy on the American Left these days belongs to the Democratic Socialists, not the abundance agenda, and the red state/blue state divergence on data centre construction is just the latest evidence that progressive jurisdictions struggle to build even the things progressives say they want.

The question Lombardi’s candidacy poses is whether Canada is different. The hostility his campaign has drawn from the party’s progressive wing suggests the same forces are at work here. Whether a growth-first liberalism can win a Liberal membership vote is a test worth watching well beyond Ontario—it may tell us whether abundance politics can find a home inside a centre-left party anywhere.

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

Argentina fan 🇦🇷 waves an 🇮🇱 Israeli flag at the 🇪🇬 Egyptian Coach.

Watch his tantrum 😂

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Vancouver Condo King's Data: Sales at Generational Lows, Prices Falling — and a $3.2-Billion Rescue Designed To Halt the Correction Toward Affordability https://t.co/vkWdRLxi93

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Tamara Lich’s sentence ends in January 2027, but the Crown is forcing the entire case back to the Court of Appeal — still demanding 7 years in prison for Lich and 8 years for Chris Barber.

The Justice Centre has funded lawyers to defend Mr. Barber since 2022.

Ontario taxpayers have already spent roughly $15 million on this prolonged prosecution.

This is what political lawfare looks like.

[Richard Dias @RichardDias_CFA]

We’ll congratulate Mr. Carney for a clever bit of horse trading: condo bailout money for a West Coast pipeline. But in reality, it is a scathing indictment.

Only with a briefcase full of cash to the most undeserving, can we get the right thing done for ALL of Canadians.

[Jack Burkom @JackHehre]

Carney’s new federal agencies won’t fix old delivery problems https://t.co/8EZEcxjPI6

[Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis]

I figured this would eventually happen, but not as quickly as it seems to be happening and, for this, Paul Krugman should get credit. For years mainstream economists were unable to understand how trade and globalization work because they were locked into trade models that implicitly assumed that trade was balanced (except, occasionally, over short time periods) and that capital flowed towards its most productive use. That is why their understanding of trade had no relevance to the actual world of trade that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s.

But this couldn't last. As the problem of unbalanced trade became more obvious , and as policymakers were increasingly forced to ignore the advice of their economists and respond to real problems, mainstream economists would eventually begin to recognize how, in an unevenly globalized world, countries that aggressively intervene in their domestic economies and externalize the costs through trade surpluses are also effectively intervening in the domestic economies of countries that supposedly remain committed to "free trade".

Most economists still don't understand trade. But with Krugman now acknowledging that tariffs and other forms of trade intervention can be expansionary under some conditions and contractionary under others (as Ragnar Nurkse explained as long ago as in his 1944 book), I suspect that younger economists will develop a completely different understanding of trade, and one that is perhaps a little more realistic.

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

My most provocative view is that in light of overwhelming and tragic evidence of Canadian health care failures, single-payer dogmatism should be subject to the same disdain and ostracism accorded to other extremist political positions.

[Jack Burkom @JackHehre]

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[CTV News @CTVNews]

Heritage minister says Palestinian exhibit at rights museum ‘should be rectified’ https://t.co/H5AQlqkWvZ

[Jack Burkom @JackHehre]

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[Jack Burkom @JackHehre]

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[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

There are too many government announcements and not enough private sector announcements

[Meb Faber @MebFaber]

A few things I learned today:

1. Being born blind completely abolishes the risk of developing Schizophrenia.

2. If Paul Revere took his midnight ride this year, he could stop at 7 Dunkin locations.

3. Nigeria, with 240m people, generates less electricity than Wyoming, with 0.6m

4. Almost 40% of Stanford students report having a disability.

More:

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

I know I shouldn’t keep commenting on this, but it really blows my mind.

$1.45M per unit for 2,200 units that would have already been on the market, and at likely sold at lower prices than we’re buying them, had we not intervened.

It’s a an absolutely wild trade off.

With $3.2B, we could be capitalizing 6,000+ new “affordable builds”. More if we fixed how our housing system works.

This would have added even more affordable supply, helping more people while leading to more affordable market for everyone in general.

Given the scale of the homelessness/addictions issues we’re seeing in urban centers across the country, it’s just an unbelievable prioritization of public money.

If I had that money for Ontario, I’d be dedicating it to housing and treating those suffering on our streets, and giving people of this province their urban centers back. And I think the vast majority of people would prefer this use of money over a developer bailout.

It really tells us that this decision was not about creating affordable housing… because it is doing the opposite.

[Jack Burkom @JackHehre]

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[Jack Burkom @JackHehre]

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[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

Some good news today. The newest Supreme Court Justice, Glenn Joyal, is a man and intellect befitting of the role.

Over his career and in his decisions and public remarks, Joyal has been a consistent and principled advocate of judicial restraint and not using the Charter to usurp parliament's legislative role.

Joyal has been a consistent critic of, and has resisted efforts to legislate from the bench using ever expansive interpretations of rights unmoored from the text or intent of the framers of the Charter and Canada's post-1982 Constitutional Order.

He will be an important and much needed voice on Canada's highest court.

[Jack Burkom @JackHehre]

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