Philip Hoyt

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[Philip Hoyt @philiphoyt]

@Ramsey_Kilani You should sing like Celine Dion

[Philip Hoyt @philiphoyt]

We should just point our fingers and laugh instead of retaliating

[Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi]

Hot off the presses, @The_Budget_Lab just published a preliminary estimate of the economic & fiscal effects of the Trump Admin's 25/25/10 Mexico/Canada/China tariff proposal, with a special lower 10% rate on Canadian crude oil imports. Some high-level conclusions follow...
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[Philip Hoyt @philiphoyt]

@EricDLombardi And they borrow at lower rates due to the US dollar being the main reserve currency globally.

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@pokerfcp @Afinetheorem @Noahpinion It's a great example of the effectiveness of deregulation, and in fact Toronto does need that too.

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@cselley There's no evidence that bunching was better under byford. He was great at PR and made a few visible improvements to the TTC. He cared about transit and made that clear to everyone. He did not fix bunching. It's always been a problem.

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@cselley Also absurd, according to the Bloc: Canada

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@anotherglassbox I hear he likes water, and I understand communists also like water. Very concerning.

[Philip Hoyt @philiphoyt]

@MikePMoffatt @beheshtialex I think it's partly irrational and due to antipathy towards developers. Some of that antipathy is nimbyism, but some of it might be due to the OMB and its successors which are, imo, necessary and good but created an environment where developers play the role of villain.

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@cselley It upsets me that it's been sitting there doing nothing for 20+ years when it could have been making people almost barf from laughing.

[Philip Hoyt @philiphoyt]

@cselley Food safety for one.

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@Ramsey_Kilani @EricDLombardi Reduce the barriers to housing construction so low that we start building in volume and housing becomes a commodity again.

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@damienmoule Improvements in the state of good repair backlog as well as an increase in the police budget are factors as well, no? Both very run of the mill, arguably small-c conservative priorities.

[Philip Hoyt @philiphoyt]

@Noahpinion which is why Disney's mission statement is "Make ridiculous amounts of money".

[Philip Hoyt @philiphoyt]

@donnelly_b The Pacific Palisades Farmers market. Too soon?

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@alexbozikovic It sounds like you're saying we *should* be building more traditionalist architecture.

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@EricDLombardi Here's an even better idea - Trump should buy Canada *from Toronto*. The rest of Canada never has to deal with us again, we get 10T.

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@DougSaunders I was unaware of support for the petroleum industry, and I bet if you asked any conservative they would tell you that Trudeau destroyed the petroleum industry in Canada. Liberals really should stop try to buy votes from political opponents, assuming that's what the goal was.

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@EvanSambasivam Conservative and Liberal parties generally give their leaders one chance to prove themselves (by forming government), Jagmeet will have had 3 chances already. He should have gone a long time ago.

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@smiteri I get why the liberal party wants this but I think everyone else wants an election.