Martin Schmalz @martincschmalz.bsky.social Professor of Finance, Economics, and Real Estate
University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk
Mathew Lawrence @mathewlawrence.bsky.social Founder & Director @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
https://www.common-wealth.org/
Co-author of Planet on Fire & Owning the Future
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/authors/lawrence-mathew
Neha Nandakumar @nehanandakumar.bsky.social Tech Policy Researcher @ GoodBot
MA Philosophy (Simon Fraser Uni) | BA Sociology & Anthropology (Ashoka Uni)
Currently researching social media scam proliferation & ethical approaches to AI
https://www.nehanandakumar.com
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Kris Straub (كريس)📍PAX West @krisstraub.com LOCAL58TV, Candle Cove, All Houses Matter. Cartoonist, presenter, humor scientist. K’thriss on #acqinc, PAX. He/him 🇪🇬
Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca A better world, by listening.
Davis Legree @davislegree.bsky.social Editor of The Wire Report. Ketchup chip aficionado. Diehard Bruins fan. Greatest chunker of the golf ball to ever live.
Tips/Contact: dlegree@thewirereport.ca
Frank Murphy 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @thesidewalkballet.bsky.social ⚪The economy of cities⚪Short block grid⚪3mph urban design
https://frankkevinmurphy.blogspot.com
"Lively diverse intense cities contain seeds of their own regeneration with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves” Jane Jacobs
Gregory Taylor 🇨🇦 @gregorytaylor.bsky.social U Calgary associate professor. Communications policy and various random thoughts, usually music.
Ben Dooley @bentdooley.bsky.social Jill Bennett Show Lead Producer Got a tip or story idea? ben.dooley@cknw.com. Born with Spina Bifida
James Nicholson @jamesnicholson.bsky.social Producer @canadaland.com / media criticism
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Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca 🔎 Ontario Reporter and Digital Production Lead @pressprogress.ca
DMs open for news tips and interesting crockpot recipes
Chris Hayes @chrismwhayes.bsky.social @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
common-wealth.org
Cressa Maeve Áine @beeragon.bsky.social girlhood rot
fuck AI
beeragon@gmail.com
Instagram.com/beeragon
Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social oil market researcher
founder of https://CommodityContext.com
former bank economist
markets, code, barbecue
The Canadian Shield Institute @canadianshieldinstitute.ca Developing public policy to fortify Canada's sovereignty for the 21st Century. Learn more at canadianshieldinstitute.ca
Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social The aim of Just Money is to encourage policy and scholarly debate around the monetary design of financial capitalism, its historical roots, its distributive implications, its social and ecological costs, and its alternatives: https://justmoney.org/
Marsha McLeod @marshamcleod.bsky.social Investigative reporter @winnipegfreepress.com | Tips welcome: mmcleod@freepress.mb.ca, marshamcleod@protonmail.com
Iglika Ivanova @iglikaivanova.bsky.social Co-Executive Director @bcpolicy.bsky.social, previously senior economist @ccpabc (bc office now closed). Co-Director, Understanding Precarity in BC Project. Mom. Working towards a more inclusive & sustainable economy. Opinions are my own.
Wendy H. Wong @profwhw.bsky.social Author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT). Award-winner. Polisci prof. Contrarian. Lover of dogs, family outfit matching, and tinned fish. www.wendyhwong.com
Cori Crider @coricrider.com Build better tech. Break monopoly power. Back law enforcement.
https://futureinstitute.tech
https://www.coricrider.com
Josh Tabish @joshtabish.bsky.social Senior Director, Canada at @progresschamber.org
Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social Labour Studies Professor at Brock University | Teach & research collective bargaining, unions & labour politics |
brocku.ca/lsavage
Danyaal Raza @danyaalraza.com family MD | UofT associate prof | writing + research on health systems & doing better | danyaalraza.com
Kristen Hutchens @kristenhutchens.bsky.social Public Policy Executive | Adjunct Professor | Focused on AI, Crypto, and Financial Regulation | Grateful American | Personal Account
Adam Mongrain @adammongrain.bsky.social ED, More and Better Housing Canada
Montréal, Québec
EN/FR
Ed Price @edwardprice.bsky.social
Talk loftily and have a big schtick.
Writer.
All thoughts and words my own.
Don't use AI. I read, then reach for some paper and ink.
As should you.
www.edwardsprice.com
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social Author, independent investigative journalist, member ICIJ global network - environment, climate, and corporate capture my obsessions - allergic to hypocrisy, propaganda and greenwashing grifters. Still writing after all these years. Opinions my own.
Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux.bsky.social Popular music and media studies professor at the University of Alberta. Co-host of WDWK on CJSR 88.5 FM. Polaris Prize jury. Alberta Music board.
Music in Orbit now available: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-in-orbit/paper
Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social She/her. Assoc. prof at York University in Toronto. All things tech governance, especially internet of things, smart cities, femtech & platform governance. Book (open access): The New Knowledge: Information, Data & Remaking of Global Power
The Capitol Forum @capitolforum.bsky.social News & analysis informing policymakers, investors, and industry stakeholders on policy's impact on market competition
Send tips to tips@thecapitolforum.com.
Andrew Escobar @andrewe.ca fintech exec, open banking persister · board leadership & governance · former director open banking mx.com, corporate director cira.ca, and joinodf.com fintech fellow · https://links.andrewe.ca
Critical Takes on Corporate Power @criticaltakes.bsky.social What should we do about the power of multinationals? Fresh analysis, comment and reflection from civil society.
Non-profit. Run by Diarmid O'Sullivan.
https://criticaltakes.org
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Scotty Cameron @cdnecon.ca Public budgeting, forecasting, and tax policy in Canada & all over.
Clem DZ @clementinedz.bsky.social
LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social The global trade union movement's news and campaigns service. www.LabourStart.org
Andrew 🇨🇦 @ajottawa.bsky.social Pilot, Engineer, Explorer, Woodworker, Cat Dad, based in Canada 🇨🇦
https://youtube.com/@flyingincanada?si=Z2InAitdXtijj3EH
https://substack.com/@flyingincanada
Tamir @digitalprivacy.ca Tech & human rights lawyer | he/him
Director, Privacy, Surveillance & Technology Program, CCLA (https://ccla.org | @CanCivLib.bsky.social)
Formerly: hrw.org | cippic.ca
Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social UMass Amherst, Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Formerly Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab.
Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Coms, internet & media industries, regulation & history. Director of the Global Media & Internet Concentration Project. https://www.gmicp.org
@relkatz.bsky.social @relkatz.bsky.social
JJ Fueser @jjforward.bsky.social Union roots, community shoots. Researcher/campaigner @Metstrat; Board of RideFair, Fairbnb Canada
kate conger @kateconger.com tech reporter for the NYT!
co-author of CHARACTER LIMIT!
signal: kateconger.11
buy our book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737290/character-limit-by-kate-conger-and-ryan-mac/
tour dates & translations: https://linktr.ee/kateconger
@wjhart.bsky.social @wjhart.bsky.social Just a Dad hoping to make the city more liveable for everyone.
Jacob Parry @jacob-parry.bsky.social Journalist at @POLITICOEurope covering European competition and industrial policy.
Lauren Gellatly @lauren-gellatly.bsky.social Independent business policy advocate. Antimonopoly movement builder. Localist. On the team at Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Home = Charleston, SC.
NEWSLETTER: https://mailchi.mp/e7e4cd9a7332/hometown-advantage
Wellesley Institute @wellesleyinstitute.bsky.social Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the Greater Toronto Area through action on the social determinants of health.
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David Eaves @eaves.ca Associate Prof & Deputy Co-Director at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social at UCL, Investment committee CoDevelop.fund, co-founder TeachingPublicService.digital.
Digital Government & Digital Public Infrastructure, ReCollect co-founder & CEO, Father, Negotiator & Learner
Katherine Janson @katherinejanson.bsky.social Former investigative journalist l Strategic communications l Brand building l Social impact l Proud Canadian 🇨🇦
Yves Faguy @yvesfaguy.bsky.social Advocacy, Canadian Bar Association
Montreal
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social Professor, Political Science, Brock University
Knowledge governance, IPE, Sydney Swans tragic
Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Bloomsbury, 2023). Open Access.
@patderoch.bsky.social @patderoch.bsky.social
Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social I am an independent Senator, representing Alberta in the Senate of Canada. I live on Treaty Six Territory. Host of the podcast Alberta Unbound. She/her/elle Vive le Canada. Forever a Canadian. No to the Nine. senatorpaulasimons.ca
Ken Dowler @professorkendowler.bsky.social Professor of Criminology at Laurier Brantford. Author of the forthcoming book: Corporate Wrongdoing in Canada: A Harms Based Approach with Canadian Scholars Press. Research interests: Media, Copaganda, Corporate Harms and Wrongdoing.
Geoff Evamy Hill @gceh.bsky.social transdisciplinary PhD student at the University of Calgary
foresight, models, games and how they all intersect in support of the green transition. Calgary 🇨🇦
www.gceh.ca
Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) challenges the influence of Big Business and corporate lobby groups in EU policy-making.
🐘 @corporateeurope@mstdn.social
🔗 https://corporateeurope.org/en
👉 linktr.ee/corporateeurope
CanadianIGF @canadianigf.ca Canada's premier multistakeholder forum for digital policy dialogue and an NRI of the @intgovforum.bsky.social. Register for the next CIGF on November 4: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cigf-fcgi-2026-tickets-1987401299787
Prof Pınar Akman @profakman.bsky.social Competition Law Professor, University of Leeds - Judge, UK Competition Appeal Tribunal - Member, Innovation Advisory Group, Financial Conduct Authority - https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/staff/175/professor-pinar-akman
bl⚰️ke @metallicaisrad.bsky.social 👕 Sniper
📖 Lost In Cult
🎧 Something Rotten
🐶 Regan
https://www.snipershirts.com/
Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social Stanford economist:
Professor of Political Economy; Business & Sustainability.
GSB, SDSS, NBER, CEPR, UiO, TSE, 3ERCs, REStud editor for R&Rs only :)
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/bard-harstad
Colin Walmsley @colinwalmsley.bsky.social Maître de langue en anglais à Sciences Po Lille. RTs = complete & utter endorsements, views reflect the deepest, darkest beliefs of my employer .🇨🇦. 🏳️🌈. He/Him
Filip Lubinski @filip-lubinski.bsky.social PhD Researcher (EUI) - Competition Law & Complexity Science
Classic Literature: http://goodreads.com/fLubin
Alt Music: http://last.fm/user/fLubin
/Muay Thai+Trail Running/
Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social Economist
Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca The CCPA is Canada's leading progressive policy research institute. We offer independent, non-partisan research on social, economic & climate justice.
www.policyalternatives.ca
Instagram & FB: policyalternatives Also on Gander social: @ccpa.gander.social
Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social Editorial Collective advancing Democratic Public Finance, critical theory & intersectional praxis. In association with Monthly Review. https://moneyontheleft.org/; https://linktr.ee/Moneyontheleft
Scott Ferguson @videotroph.bsky.social associate professor somewhere
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social
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Christopher Parsons (he/him/his) @christopher-parsons.com Policy wonk. Street photographer. Torontonian. Not necessarily in that order.
Interests: privacy, national security, artificial intelligence, accountability, democratic governance.
Posts are mine, not my employer’s.
https://christopher-parsons.com
Georgia Evans @georgia-evans32.bsky.social GR consultant @ Earnscliffe Strategies | board director & policy committee chair @caninternetsociety.bsky.social | enjoys singing, running & cycling
Bernardo Mottironi @bmottironi.bsky.social Microdata for macro questions, LUISS
https://sites.google.com/view/bmottironi
Jeannine Taylor @wiredwoman.bsky.social JT - Founder Publisher CEO @kawarthanow.bsky.social
Feminist. Arts & music lover, knitter, border collie mom, kayaker, vegetarian, mentor, supporter of women, smashing the patriarchy every day. #PTBO #PTBOKawartha
Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. Opinions are my own (but they are correct)
https://mattdpearce.substack.com
Michelle Arnold @michellearnold.bsky.social
Erik Peinert @erikpeinert.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Boston University Political Science. PhD Brown University. Comparative and international political economy. Competition, market power, and maybe lots of other things. Views my own.
https://www.erikpeinert.com/
CUPE SCFP @cupescfp.bsky.social CUPE is Canada’s largest union, with over 800,000 members. Le SCFP est le plus grand syndicat canadien avec plus de 800 000 membres.
AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social Director of ICCL Enforce https://iccl.ie/Enforce Previously Chief Policy Officer of Brave. FRHistS.
https://ie.linkedin.com/in/johnnyryan1
Dan Papscun @danpapscun.bsky.social Covering labor/antitrust @ The Capitol Forum | he/him | tips ➡️ dpapscun(@)thecapitolforum(.)com
Luke Goldstein @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social Reporter at the Lever. Lgoldstein at levernews dot com
Katie McInnis @klmac.bsky.social she/her 🏳️🌈 | personal account | past gigs: @duckduckgo @ConsumerReports @CenDemTech & @FCC | all my tweets have errors
Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social Writing about food and ag for the Open Markets Institute / Food & Power. Foodandpower.net
Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/
Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/
Ganesh Sitaraman @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social Professor, Vanderbilt Law School; Director, Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator
Jarod Facundo @dorajfacundo.bsky.social Journalist & researcher for The Antifraud Company
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Joe Van Wye @joevanwye.bsky.social
Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social We are a group of journalists & scholars in policy & economics working at the vanguard of antimonopoly to achieve victories that empower everyone. Learn more: openmarketsinstitute.org
Evan Schwartz @emschwartz.me Inventor & software engineer building Scour (https://scour.ing), a personalized content feed that scours noisy sources for articles related to your interests.
Blog and details at: https://emschwartz.me #rust #rustlang
Ron Knox @ronmknox.bsky.social Researcher and policy advocate at ILSR. Antimonopoly is the party. rknox@ilsr.org
Arnab Datta @arnabdatta.bsky.social Personal Account. Views my own & RT/Likes do not equal endorsements.
Currently at Employ America and IFP
advait @advaitarun.bsky.social capital markets & energy finance @ Center for Public Enterprise ☀️🏗️ • fmr US Treasury • bay area / dc • advaitcore.substack.com.
Center for Public Enterprise @publicenterprise.bsky.social Equipping the public sector with tools to deliver more inclusive economic development.
https://www.publicenterprise.org/
Elizabeth Wilkins @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social President, Roosevelt Institute, Roosevelt Forward. Proud Biden FTC, WH and DC AG alum. All views are my own.
Stephanie Butler @citizenbutler.bsky.social Impatient optimist. Keen on car-lite streets, climate action, degrowth, cats, stories, and good people doing good things.
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Living on xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ lands (Vancouver, Canada.)
Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social PhD. Social scientist and entrepreneur combining research and practice. Illicit finance expert, newsletter writer, consultant. Working to stop bad people from doing bad things with money. Co-host of Secure Line podcast.
Oversight @oversight1.bsky.social Oversight is about taming corporate power. It chronicles the harmful practices of today's giant corporations and provides up to date analysis of public policy initiatives in Canada, US, UK, and EU designed to curb those practices.
Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social Award-winning Illustrator and corn veggie enjoyer / no AI here
Literary agent - kelly@andreabrownlit.com
Links + portfolio - dominiqueramsey.com/carrd
Maria Langholz @marialangholz.bsky.social some mashup of dogs, marathoning, climate & politics
@colettemurphy07.bsky.social @colettemurphy07.bsky.social
Policy Options / Options politiques @policyoptions.irpp.org Policy Options - the digital magazine of the Institute for Research on Public Policy (@irpp.org)// Le magazine numérique de l'Institut de recherche en politiques publiques (IRPP)