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1/ Just flipping through the Education at a Glance 2020 from OECD which dropped a couple of hours ago. I remain amazed as ever by the difference between @StatCan_eng can

I have trouble getting worked up about statue destruction because, being literate and capable of reading history, I understand that "history" and "statues" are distinct concepts, and the loss of

1/ I was prepared to let articles like this pass a month ago. Now, I think it's actively bad faith to be portraying parents' concerns about re-opening as simply "will

1/ Ok, by special request and as briefly as I can: stratification of higher education in Canada. At the basic level: you have a 4-year (university) vs. 2-3 year (college)

1/ For my UK tweeps this AM, I want to walk everyone through the Canadian* system of university admissions, just to show you how low-stakes this process can actually be.*most

1/ Amid all the back-to-school plan worries, I think what we are missing is that there are two different fears being expressed about a full-time re-open and I don’t think

1/ Anglo Toronto media will probably blow this off but I would argue that from a fedgov/treasury board perspective, this - not all the stuff about board governance or bank

1/ Morning. A few thoughts about yesterday’s WE testimony and what it tells us about how Ottawa makes decisions (sorry, this is going to go for awhile, feel free to

Minister Chagger is testifying to the Finance Committee on the CSSG now. Follow the fun here:https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20200716/-1/33582 1/ Whoa there is some big stuff here. The $19.5M was for a first

1/ opening schools for K-6 or K-8 in the fall is really not that difficult. The key variable for the most part is space: we need fewer students per class

So apparently the PM said this. I assume the public service would be comfortable releasing the actual research which led to this, yes? But see, this statement is really dodgy.

1/ One of the curious things about the pandemic in Canada is how it is changing federalism without anyone noticing. The (federal) CERB and CESB, for instance, are essentially taking