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John Bowker

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Policy researcher, retired record & book peddler. Transit, housing, land use, energy, infrastructure & misc #onpoli wonkery. #ONDP. Tweets my own
Toronto, ON
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    John Bowker
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    11h
    Globe editorial on Ont’s soaring transit construction costs: “The scale of spending suggests bigger issues. An Auditor-General’s investigation or a public inquiry could help shed crucial light … However, what is needed even more is political will” theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editor… #onpoli
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    Globe editorial: Ford must get grip on soaring transit costs
    From theglobeandmail.com
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    John Bowker
    @bowker_john
    Aug 25
    “Trump’s new trade war with Canada threatens fresh harms to local economies in the Midwest, handing Dems a weapon in the homestretch of these contests to win over rural Americans & others who are experiencing this derangement in very concrete ways”
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    How Trump’s Crazed Fury at Canada Is Already Backfiring Badly for Him
    From newrepublic.com
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    John Bowker
    @bowker_john
    Aug 24
    KRUGMAN: The moose that roared, or why Donald Trump will lose his trade war with Canada: “The U.S. economy is far more dependent on Canadian goods than most Americans realize” thestar.com/opinion/contri… #cdnpoli
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    The moose that roared, or why Donald Trump will lose his trade war with Canada
    From thestar.com
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    John Bowker
    @bowker_john
    Aug 23
    CARVIN: “It is shocking to hear Canadian business leaders speak of returning to normalcy with the US ... The avoidance of normalcy is precisely what gives it leverage. Instability is not a problem it is trying to solve; instability is the point” thestar.com/opinion/contri… #cdnpoli
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    A deal with Donald Trump isn’t the end of instability. It’s just the start of it
    From thestar.com
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    John Bowker
    @bowker_john
    Aug 21
    UPDATE: during the Ford government’s “rigorous evaluation & assessment,” executives of the selected company paid thousands of dollars to attend cash-for-access fundraisers with the premier and the minister overseeing the public land sale thetrillium.ca/insider-news/m… #onpoli
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    John Bowker
    @bowker_john
    Aug 8
    After what it calls a “rigorous evaluation and assessment,” the Ford government sold publicly-owned Muskoka land, reportedly with the promise of an MZO, to a mysterious company led by a PC donor who is accused of fraud by Vaughan condo buyers thestar.com/real-estate/a-… #onpoli
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