Ian Vandaelle
@IanVandaelle
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U.S. initial jobless claims at 6.65m and this graph is bonkers.
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Short-selling: Buddy pays you $5 to borrow your bike for a few months.
Buddy sells your bike, bets he can buy it back later for less when he needs to return it to you.
Bike prices go down? He makes $. Bike prices go up? He buys back your bike for more than he sold, loses $
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@Justin_Ling
Lukoil was a primary supplier to the Come-By-Chance refinery in Nfld (capacity of ~135k barrels per day) which was idled in March 2020, and is being converted to a biofuel facility.
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A very happy birthday to
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, a man of questionable culinary tastes but excellent commodity takes.
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Now, call me a prairie boy if you will, but if I remember correctly, two things are true: 1) nothing ruins tractor tires faster than driving on pavement and 2) tractor tires are fucking expensive.
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A year since
@StephHughes95
made a deeply questionable decision. I’m pretty happy with the result.
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So, the last day at
@BNNBloomberg
has come, so now onto where I'm going.
I'm extremely excited to join the gang over at
@financialpost
as financial services reporter. I plan on still writing about pretty much anything, can't let my weird knowledge of Centerra Gold go to waste.
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Business leaders
@PerrinBeatty
&
@WBrettWilson
question how, or even if, Morneau can salvage tax plan
@BNN
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Some personal news, as the kids say: I’m leaving
@BNNBloomberg
. 11-ish years is a hell of a trip for a guy who swore up and down he would never work in broadcast - hell, the only other thing I’ve done for 11 years is literally being alive.
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That's two! I'm a Pfiderna man, and grinning like an idiot.
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The thing about living just off University Ave is that I can’t tell if the honking is protester-related or if there’s just some dude trying to merge into the left-turn lane at the last minute.
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Protect, my foot. Take the jab or resign, anything else is moral and ethical cowardice. You take an oath to protect citizens? You get vaxxed. Shameful that we have to say this.
@TPSOperations
The Toronto Police Association has just announced it's opposing the mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations announced today.
"The TPA must make every effort to protect all of our members and therefore, does not support this mandatory vaccination announcement or mandatory disclosure."
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Pretty clear geographies for Postmedia and Torstar after today's deal. Blue is Postmedia, Red is Torstar
#cdnmedia
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A long pandemic, but goddamn, got to see Mum & Pops Vandaelle for the first time in literally years. Hell of a weekend, had so much fun I only managed to remember to take one pic over almost three days.
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TASTING NOTES ON NO NAME BEER: it tastes like beer. It's as if you described fermented barley juice to someone, and they made it going off no other information.
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Make transit free, institute a congestion charge for downtown.
Jesus, fare evasion emforcement is essentially a charge on people being poor.
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Finished the Xmas shopping and wrapping tonight, which puts me approximately four days ahead of schedule. I scarcely recognize the man I have become.
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the
@BNNBloomberg
pet content you neither asked for nor expected.
@greg_bonnell
's dog doesn't get a namekey.
@AndrewBellBNN
's vicious Havanese demanded it.
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Management said to send in a work from home picture, help everyone feel more connected.
Importantly, they didn't say anything about being a snarky jackass about it.
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I don’t know it means anything, but it feels like it does, at least around here. Today marks 10 years at
@BNNBloomberg
for me. I don’t think I’ve ever done anything else for a decade beyond being alive. The viewers and readers, man, I can’t thank you enough.
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I, for one, advocate we bring the carrot *and* the stick. Incentivize getting the vaccine however we like - ice cream, lotteries, literally whatever, I don’t care - and require vaccination to do, uh, non-essential things. Wanna go to a bar to watch the game? Passport.
This, I fear, is true. In Canada, we can likely push the unvaccinated rate down to 10%, with a ton of work. And then we're strapped to the US, which is stuck around 50%, with Fox News blaring anti-vaccine propaganda because ... I don't know. Vaccines shouldn't be partisan.
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The kids are having a lazy Sunday, just hanging out on the couch together.
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There's no real relief in sight for Toronto renters staring down a drum-tight market - one bedroom rent up 20.2% y/y in Q2 - according to
@JohnPasalis
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*Shuts barn door*
Ah, well done. And Christmas remains intact!
*Peers off into the distance*
Man, lotta horses out there, wonder where they came from. Alas, I guess we’ll never know.
*dusts hands*
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Could not be more excited to read this excellent gift from
@StephHughes95
. This is what happens when you have an entire household of business journalists.
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Say what you will about the pandemic, but the fact that staying home on a Friday night to watch hockey, order a pizza and drink beer constitutes me fulfilling my civic duty is WILD.
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News! The BNN Bloomberg Powers That Be have given me the producer keys to Bloomberg Markets and The Real Economy. More importantly, I have been given permission to annex
@amberkanwar
's desk. (The latter will end poorly for me.)
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@thomasforth
@stephenfgordon
May not count, but the reinvention of Brussels sprouts has rendered them edible.
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BNN has installed a 120 inch monitor, and we're months away from broadcasting in-studio. Like responsible broadcasters, plans are being made for an Xbox connection.
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Call options: You pay Buddy $5 to agree to sell you his bike in a few months for $100, if you want.
Bike prices go up to $150 in that time, you still buy the bike for $100.
Bike prices fall to $50? You say “naw, I won’t buy the bike,” Buddy keeps his bike and still has your $5.
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Alternatively, move to Canada, where every house is a shoes-off house.
If you’re a shoes-off household, here is some gear to make your guests more comfortable.
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This has been my oversimplified explanation of the things that have caused fintwit to leak into regular hellscape Twitter.
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Put options: you pay Buddy $5 to agree to a deal for you to sell your bike to him in a few months for $100, if you want.
Bike prices fall to $50 in that time, you still sell it for $100.
Bike prices rise to $150? You don’t sell the bike, Buddy still has your $5.
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Got two sets of chopsticks for a Friday night Chinese food order so I wouldn't be judged for ordering this amount of Chinese food for one.
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Yeah, they’re 18. Life catches up with you and things crystallize. Let the kids be kids, I’m not the foreign correspondent I imagined myself at that age, I talk economics all day and love it.
I spoke to a university sports media class about sports journalism and literally every student said they want to get into industry either b/c they want to be on TV or want to go to games.
Modestly disappointed not one had slightest interest in pursuing investigative journalism.
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Whoever invented the duvet cover is a goddamn sadist. Fighting to put that thing back on the duvet is like putting snakeskin back on the snake.
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The budget is always fun, but I missed the camaraderie and shenanigans of covering a normal budget. Being budget tired without the gang just doesn’t hit the same.
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Today in “
@RoyceCMendes
has a scary chart” news. Long story short from Desjardins, the clock is ticking for the BoC to get inflation under control so it has a lever to pull with further stress on households from mortgage renewals looming in 25/26.
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I think the driver's license renewal process exists only to remind you of the inexorable march of time, he says, as a man who just renewed his driver's license.
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Look, you can’t complain about snow on March 246th. That’s just life in Canada.
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Now that
@JamesonBerkow
has officially announced his return to
@BNNBloomberg
, I daresay he'll be back on the air soon and ... puttin' on the ritz.
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I'm sure there's plenty of volatility in month-over-month data, but this change in U.S. steel imports from May to June is something else. (cc:
@forgefirst
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technically I say the same thing about myself every thirteen days
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Finally fired up The Queen’s Gambit, and beyond the fact it’s fantastic, I’m kinda hoping this reignites an interest in chess so I will have people to play against again.
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My folks are back in Mum’s hometown, and they stopped at an old burger joint. 40 years on, they’re on the damned photo wall and I am DYING. (1981)
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@StephHughes95
@Variety
Okay, I’m glad that Detective Pikachu is the template. Call this cautious optimism, with a dash of “oh no what if they ruin it”
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With prices up 12.6% y/y, active listings down 35.2%,
@JohnPasalis
says, and I paraphrase "things ain't great" in Toronto's housing market. (Not just millennials - Bank of Mum and Dad feeling the pinch)
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Making another batch of pickles while listening to Three Dog Night, if anyone wanted confirmation this pandemic has turned me into my mother.
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Two years of in-office work through the pandemic couldn’t break me. One month of IT replacing my keyboard with a membrane unit did. In any case, I resolved it myself.
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Not the type of shot I usually associate with May 2-4, but damn if it didn't go down smooth.
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Well, I bought a bike.
Did I spend more on the bike than I intended? The answer is yes.
Is the bike sick as hell? Also yes.
Are there regrets? Hell no I'm declaring this my birthday gift to me.
Is it my birthday? No.
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Screw it, it’s the last weekend before December, we’re setting up the tree.
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RBC's warning that housing affordability has eroded to its worst level since, uh, I was born. All about the run-up in prices, not any deterioration in household incomes - ownership cost is now 52% of median household income
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RBC's Josh Nye reckons a soft landing is increasingly becoming a "distant prospect" as the Bank of Canada - among others - undertakes an aggressive rate hiking cycle to quell inflation not seen in decades. My latest:
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I’m a tv producer. If an anchor blew past this many cues to wrap, I’d just roll the goddamn commercial break and cut them off mid-sentence.
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It is officially cold enough in Toronto to make me consider wearing a winter coat.
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I was an idiot 21-year-old intern they saddled Babad with at the adjacent desk in my first business journalism gig. Two things: couldn't have gotten a better education, and he gave me hell in the funniest, most acerbic way when I forgot to buy another tin of coffee at my turn.
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UPDATE: CAROLYN WILKINS JUST GOT TIFF MACKLEM'D IN FAVOUR OF TIFF MACKLEM.
@decloet
@shellykhagan
If WIlkins gets Tiff Macklem'd in favour of Tiff Macklem I'll be convinced the Bank of Canada is engaging in some kind of performance art.
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If you are running a pro sports franchise that can't afford to pay hourly staff for the duration of the virus disruption: ask yourself, how good are you at running a pro sports franchise, and how good are you at being a damn human being?
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At this point in the Netherlands-Argentina match, I can’t say with absolute certainty that *I* haven’t somehow earned a yellow card.
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@RaeRoer
@Justin_Ling
A U.S. private equity firm called Cresta. Refinery was already owned by another American PE firm called Silverpeak, which has retained a minority interest.
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Jesus Christ, even the iguanas in this place are journalists. (Hand on heart, I did not stage this, I walked in and she was like that.) cc
@StephHughes95
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I would sooner walk into the forest, never to return, than endure another virtual holiday party.
“Canadian workers have a message for employers that are considering hosting a virtual holiday party this year: please don’t.”
Why Canadians want to skip the virtual holiday party this year
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The bros behind us at the bar are loudly talking about their REIT investments.
@jefflagerquist
and I are talking about Pixar movies.
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I have only now considered that this evening's mother's day zoom call will be the first time my mum has seen my pandemic beard.
pray for me
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My sister's been digging up old family photos while she's back at my folks' place and holy shit this is just uncanny. I am not, it should be noted, the man on the right. (this account will eventually go back to talking about business and economics)
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ANDY THE ENTIRE NEWSROOM SMELLED LIKE A DECOMPOSING FOOT AS A RESULT. You also had your fan behind the bag to distribute the funk. I turned that off too.
I left a half-eaten fragrant bag of lupini beans on my desk and when I got off air, colleagues had...
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I've already hidden Berkow's new mug.
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gf came in guns a blazin' with the birthday gift. woman just knocked it out of the park
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I’m mostly just surprised people still have things *left* to give up for Lent.
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Got my first pandemic haircut and whoo boy, the short hair does not do an adequate job at hiding the bags under my eyes.
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Goddamnit Elon.
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Watched a race, called my dad, fed a lizard. I'll count this as a productive day. (The lizard likes kale. Technically, she did not respond to my question, but that's alright.)
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They pay no rent, have no job prospects, and yet I love them to bits.
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I assume everyone else is using Quarantine Good Friday to rewatch season one of Veronica Mars, no?
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I should note that I couldn’t have afforded to move to Toronto if not for that dirt-cheap rent, which effectively allowed me the ability to pursue a career in my chosen field.
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Scotia's Derek Holt says there's a "solid case" for a 75-100 bp BoC hike in one fell swoop, with inflation running at a three-decade high, though Scotia's base case is still 50 bp in June, 3% peak this cycle. (peak may just come sooner)
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My favourite part of Toronto real estate listings are the "extras"
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Today I've bought an armful of discount Hallowe'en candy and a bunch of beer, so I think we all know where this is logically heading.
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Michelle is among the finest journalists I've had the pleasure to work with. Whip-smart, deeply curious and willing to go the extra mile to get the story done. I'm very excited to see what she does over at Yahoo. Was lucky to share a newsroom with her for seven years.
Wanted to jump on here and quickly announce... Last Friday was my final day at
@BNNBloomberg
!
I'll be starting a new gig next week as a business reporter for
@YahooFinanceCA
! I've only heard incredible things about the team and I'm so excited get writing for them!
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My buddy Matt is back in our hometown for a parade, and man, do I sometimes miss Alberta.
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I am going to a first birthday party for my friends' son, and I am suddenly struck by the fact I have no idea what to get a one-year old.
Scotch? A collection of mid-century essays on American life?
I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas.
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@fhoro
In 2011 or so, a friend of mine bought some bitcoin for about $6 apiece. I called him an idiot. He sold them the next year for about $12, and called me an idiot. Moral of the story? We're both idiots.
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NOVEL
HOBBY
SNAGS
GIANT
TIMES
CHECK
(Thank god the Americans spell “cheque” wrong.)
Tried to think of a 6-letter/6-word QT response to the NYT buying Wordle. But life is too short.
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GUYS I NOW HAVE REMOTE TERMINAL ACCESS AND I AM JAZZED.
That is all, we can now go back to this account's regular activity of pet photos and Star Trek. (Maybe some finance/business to boot, we'll see)
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Another run for quarter round for the front and stain thereafter is needed, but hot damn, has this radiator cabinet project progressed from raw lumber to something that is better than raw lumber.
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Ah, good. I was wondering where I could find a terrifying, disorienting situation where escape seems elusive and things are at times bleak while we search feverishly for a solution to the matters at hand, all in a small room.
Thankfully, nature finds a way.
Escape rooms owners are getting creative to keep business going during lockdowns
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longtime viewers will be shocked my commentary did not make the final cut
Obligatory blooper from my July inflation explainer video and some moral support from my partner who was working from home that day.
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Make 👏universal 👏 subsidized 👏 childcare 👏 a 👏 thing.
Jesus Christ, I can’t believe this is still up for any kind of debate
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nobody asked for your opinion, new european study
Glass of wine good for the heart? No, says new European study
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