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[J-S Barr @JeanSBarr]

Le New York Times révèle des choses troublantes aujourd'hui concernant la guerre de tarifs avec les Américains. Selon leurs sources, les Américains n'auraient fait aucune nouvelle demande concernant la protection de la langue et se montraient flexibles sur ces questions.

Pire encore, le Canada avait accepté de plier sur la protection du contenu culturel canadien, incluant les contenus en français.

Ces révélations sont en complète contradiction avec ce que le gouvernement fédéral et le premier ministre du Canada nous ont dit. Tout ceci à l'aube d'une élection, dont les répercussions pourraient être très importantes pour notre avenir.

C'est scandaleux.

[Joseph Steinberg @jbsteinberg]

Just finished processing the new list of retaliatory tariffs. Here's my top 10 newly-tariffed product categories. Similar to what @tradewartracker posted a little while ago, although I'm using 2025 import data from the Canadian side.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Dominic LeBlanc faced questions from the American media that he would never face in Canada—and it was painful to watch.

[Joseph Steinberg @jbsteinberg]

Retaliation will impose clear economic costs for Canadian consumers, and it is unclear how it will change US behavior. Carney needs to lay out his theory of the case as to what he hopes to achieve with retaliation, and why the benefit exceeds the cost.

https://t.co/4sbjK1EHks

[Joseph Steinberg @jbsteinberg]

Even if the US "loses" the war with Iran (whatever that means), that does not imply that Iran wins. Iran's economy has been devastated. Just as there is no winner in that conflict, there is no winner here. The US-Canada trade war is a negative-sum, lose-lose situation.

[Joseph Steinberg @jbsteinberg]

Doug Ford is just as harmful to the Canadian economy as Donald Trump.

[Joseph Steinberg @jbsteinberg]

"Better known as the less charismatic, [less] intelligent, and overall [more] unimpressive brother of the late, great Rob Ford."

Stopped clocks...

[Joseph Steinberg @jbsteinberg]

I spend way too much time on social media debunking "economic slop" promulgated by lawyers pretending to be economists, so I built Show Me the Model: a tool that uses AI to check whether the economic reasoning in an essay actually holds up.

https://t.co/cfhWs6MI27

Give it a URL or paste some plain text, and the tool flags hidden assumptions, internal inconsistencies, and other problem areas, and tells you how a real economist would think through the issue.

Right now, it has 4 "personas:" macro, trade, IO/price theory, and labor. The tool first figures out which persona is right for the job, and then uses a parallelized prompt scaffold specific to that persona to process the source text.

Here are some example outputs based on some essays that triggered me hard:

Citrini Research's viral essay on how AI could trigger a self-reinforcing financial crisis rivaling the GFC:
https://t.co/ZNUFHqyEFT

American Compass on the harms of trade deficits:
https://t.co/Nasfvr36iY

@oren_cass on why Built-to-Rent should be banned:
https://t.co/niie7bVRoK

American Compass on the "China Shock:"
https://t.co/nZvoEaTdTv

@michaelxpettis on why China's trade surplus reduces global output:
https://t.co/LqocDslRrH

Try it yourself at https://t.co/cfhWs6MI27. You'll need to bring your own API key (OpenAI or Anthropic), and a typical analysis costs $0.50–$1.50.

It's super preliminary and will probably break on you. I'd love feedback about both the functionality as well as the quality of the output.

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

@TrudoLemmens Keep up your critical advocacy Trudo for those less powerful and the pursuit of true life and dignity.

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

@TrudoLemmens This is so shocking! Trudo, I appreciate your unabashed moral compass and humanistic work in highlighting the true indignity of medically assisted suicide in Canada.

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

@TrudoLemmens Absolutely shocking.

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

@TrudoLemmens Trudo thank you for your tireless work in standing up against the euthanasia expansionists.

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

@davidjthunder David, great to see you on this platform. Your voice of reason is much needed! From a friend in 🇨🇦

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

@DeanBaker13 @JamesSurowiecki True Dean...but we do need to understand the true causes of excess all cause mortality that many countries have been facing since spring 2021.

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

@IrvinStudin Signs of the Times - I consider this the best of art and social-economic commentary. Tragic but needed.

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

Surveillance of COVID-19 vaccine safety among elderly persons aged 65 ... https://t.co/4XOwRnHlG5

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

What do workers want? 5 key takeaways from the first citizens’ assembly on workplace democracy https://t.co/vbezRysKEJ via @ConversationCA

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

@NightShiftMD Brian you and your profession promoted divisive public health measures like vaccine mandates and lockdowns (or at the very least...you stood silently by).

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

@pafournier @DrJacobsRad Ok...so what do you attribute this death of an otherwise young, dedicated doctor who ran triathalons a week after getting boosted? https://t.co/vRQRbeRKmy.

[ThinkTankToronto @thinktanktoron2]

@MsAndreaMarie_ @CTVNews And we allow for bodily autonomy and for people to make informed medical decisions "free of coercian". Threatening people with job loss and also no access to EI is sick and will be viewed as a dark chapter in Canadian history.