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1/x For more than a decade, our provincial government has been defunding our university. Now, contract faculty positions are being cut, class sizes are increasing, while students' tuition has increased 2x-4x over the last 2-3 years. Literally, paying more to get less... #munfa #MUN #newfoundland #labrador #postsecondary #university #canada
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1/x For more than a decade, our provincial government has been defunding our university. Now, contract faculty positions are being cut, class sizes are increasing, while students' tuition has increased 2x-4x over the last 2-3 years. Literally, paying more to get less... #munfa #MUN #newfoundland #labrador #postsecondary #university #canada
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1/x For more than a decade, our provincial government has been defunding our university. Now, contract faculty positions are being cut, class sizes are increasing, while students' tuition has increased 2x-4x over the last 2-3 years. Literally, paying more to get less... #munfa #MUN #newfoundland #labrador #postsecondary #university #canada
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Do you research and write in any of these areas?
- Cities and Outskirts
- Waste Futures
- Time & Temporalities
- Space
- Art and Research Creation
- Energy and Climate Change
- Settlers and Colonialisms
- Monuments and Ruins
- Cultures and CitizenshipWe’re looking for article ideas for our section in the Oxford Intersection on Cultures of Waste.
Learn more about the Call for Papers and how you can submit:
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New book for nerds of waste (such as myself). Free, open access at the link:
https://academic.oup.com/book/59620
Corvellec, Hervé, ed. 2025. Waste as a Critique. 1st ed. Oxford University PressOxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198907077.001.0001.
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"One obvious response would be to repatriate
a share of excess profits petroleum companies are capturing from a price shock which has no relationship to the
real supply or production cost conditions of the Canadian industry. Many countries in the world (including oil-pro-
ducing industrial countries like the U.K. and Norway) set higher taxes (of 50% or more) for petroleum profits
generated during periods of high prices." https://centreforfuturework.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/A-Sequel-We-Dont-Want.pdf -
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"The Atlantic provinces regulate retail prices for gasoline, to prevent unreasonable price hikes during
periods of price volatility. The assumption that petroleum prices must inevitably or naturally follow the gyrations
of financialized global futures markets is unjustified." https://centreforfuturework.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/A-Sequel-We-Dont-Want.pdfhttps://www.cbc.ca/archives/complaining-about-the-cost-of-living-1968-edition-1.5475240
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"It was a policy choice in the 1980s that Canadian
oil prices would follow global trends. This practice is not universal: many oil exporting countries regulate domes-
tic prices to keep them below the prices they charge for exports" https://centreforfuturework.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/A-Sequel-We-Dont-Want.pdfhttps://www.cbc.ca/archives/when-ronald-reagan-visited-canada-after-becoming-u-s-president-1.5478214
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6/n "Some analysts conclude that
as a net exporter of oil, high oil prices must be ‘good’ for Canada. That assumption is wrong: since the country
does not ‘share’ its revenue from various sources like a unified, happy family, the record profits coming to the
domestic petroleum industry have no direct impact on incomes or living standards for Canadians (other than
those who own substantial stakes in the petroleum industry). Even Canadians in oil-producing provinces will be
net losers from this price shock." p. 31 https://centreforfuturework.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/A-Sequel-We-Dont-Want.pdf -
5/n "one constituency which unequivocally benefits from higher oil prices is the Canadian petroleum indus-
try. Energy policy in Canada allows the industry to charge Canadian consumers (as well as export customers) full
world prices. This freedom is backed up by the industry’s capability to divert Canadian production to external
markets if Canadians (again, even those in oil-producing provinces) do not pay world prices." p. 28 of https://centreforfuturework.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/A-Sequel-We-Dont-Want.pdfHere's some good background: https://www.desmog.com/2026/04/29/revealed-british-ad-giants-billion-dollar-greenwash-of-u-s-oil-industry/
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"Since Canada is a major net exporter of oil, there is no self-evident reason why petroleum prices, inflation, and
interest rates in Canada need to be roiled so directly by events in the Persian Gulf."https://centreforfuturework.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/A-Sequel-We-Dont-Want.pdf
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This is "A Sequel We Don't Want". Yet there are things #Canada can do to mitigate tidal wave that is on its way. Here's a new report that lays out some specifics:
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It's about 80 days in now. Estimates suggest 80% of coordinated oil reserves have been depleted.
"At 80 days, this matches the 1973 oil embargo in duration — but the scale is categorically different. The '73 embargo removed 4.4M bbl/day; this closure blocks 20M bbl/day. IEA coordinated reserves are approaching exhaustion at 80% depleted. Oil at $143/bbl is entering demand-destruction territory where economic activity contracts not by choice but by necessity. The fertilizer window for Northern Hemisphere planting has closed — 2026 harvest yields will be materially lower regardless of when the strait reopens. Financial markets have repriced sovereign debt across the Gulf and emerging markets. Multiple central banks have been forced into emergency rate decisions. Food inflation is now a certainty for late 2026."
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Just over a month ago: "Writing today on April 16, 2026 from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, it feels eerily like January 2020. Back then, here, something we now sum up as ‘Covid’ was obviously on the horizon, like a tidal wave you could see approaching, but who’s depths and currents you couldn’t possibly fathom from the shore. Something like that is on the horizon now."
https://joshlepawsky.site/semiconductors-and-the-limits-of-capes-and-bays-geography/
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Have a listen, https://pca.st/episode/89cf2b37-371f-4e27-8e1d-bd63ab92996f #thedatafix
Chemical, with Josh Lepawsky