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Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social Dad, Grandpa, Former Teacher, Skateboarder,
ONDP Shadow Minister for Sport, Technology, and Democratic Reform, MPP for Spadina—Fort York
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Andrea Chittle MD MPH CCFP @andreachittle.medsky.social Passionate about public health, with a focus on demystifying The Great Mimicker (syphilis). Settler in Treaty 3 Territory. Opinions are my own. (she | her)
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Jennifer M @jennifermeacher.bsky.social Cat lover 
Robyn Hoogendam @rhoogendam.bsky.social Feminist researcher |📍 Ottawa | 🎓 PhD in Public Policy | ✨ Bridging research and action for change | 🐱 Cat enthusiast | she/her 🏳️🌈
Michele Girash @micheleg.bsky.social I'm probably out hiking.
Lesley Frank @franklyless.bsky.social Sociologist @acadiaU, mom of 4, grandma of 5. Canada Research Chair in Food, Health and Social Justice - scholar of family and child poverty, food insecurity in early childhood, health inequity, social policy. Author of Out of Milk: Infant Food Insecurity
Marc-André Gagnon @m-a-gagnon.bsky.social Professor in public policy at Carleton University.
Focus on the political economy of the pharmaceutical sector.
Current research project: https://carleton.ca/ghostmanagement/
Also a big fan of craft beers, slap bass, and Japanese death metal.
@ricktelfer.bsky.social @ricktelfer.bsky.social 
Katrina Miller @katcecile.bsky.social ED at Canadians for Tax Fairness.
CCPA Ontario @ccpa-on.bsky.social Official account of the Ontario office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Evidence-based research and commentary for the many, not the few!
Morna Ballantyne @mornaballantyne.bsky.social I am working alongside many others to bring about a publicly managed, publicly funded universal system of early learning and child care in Canada
Patrick Brethour @patrickbrethour.bsky.social Editorials editor at The Globe and Mail in Canada, Globeandmail.com
Rachel Gouin @rachelsmind.bsky.social Nonprofit leader. Mental Health. Fan of journalism and politics. Francophone. Do my best thinking with tea ☕️ and on my bike 🚲
Ryan Romard @rromard.bsky.social Sociologist | Research Analyst | Spicy data analysis and visualizations.
Personal website: https://rromard.netlify.app/
More writing at: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/author/ryan-romard/
Lindsay McLaren @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social
University of Calgary professor - political economy of health. Animal lover (except the occasional human)
Centre for Global Social Policy @cgsp-cpsm.bsky.social CGSP is a research centre devoted to advancing social policy in Canada and around the world.
CGSP is located within the University of Toronto's Sociology Department.
https://cgsp-cpsm.ca/
andreadoucet @andreadoucet.bsky.social Care thinker. Distinguished Professor. Former Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work/Care. Forthcoming Books (2026): "Care Leaves and Care Time for All";. "International Handbook on the Listening Guide". Co-Coordinator @LeaveNetwork. Slow Scholar.
Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social We're a grassroots organization of concerned citizens working to save an essential Canadian institution - join us ! 🇨🇦✌️
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*Not affiliated with the CBC*- A Andrew Jackson @ajgalbraith.bsky.social Retired union economist
Generation Squeeze @gensqueeze.ca A think and change tank promoting wellbeing for all generations and championing generational fairness to preserve what Canadians hold sacred—a healthy childhood, home and planet. Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization, Canada. linktr.ee/gensqueeze
Fay Faraday @fayfaraday.bsky.social Filipina fighting for intersectional, anti-racist economic and social justice. Law. Art. Education. Movement building. Based in Canada.
JChianello @jchianello.bsky.social I'm running to be the next Ottawa city councillor for the fabulous ward of Kitchissippi in the Oct. 26, 2026 municipal election!
Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) @incomesecurityon.bsky.social The Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC) is a specialty community legal clinic advocating for income security for low-income Ontarians. Posts ≠ legal advice. Check out our website at www.incomesecurity.org.
BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social bcpolicy.ca | We are an independent, non-partisan research institute committed to advancing transformative policy solutions to the most pressing challenges facing people in BC. Join us!
Kate Bezanson @kbezanson1.bsky.social Mum. Professor. Policy, politics, and law nerd. Senior Advisor to Office of the Prime Minister of Canada. Views own. 🇨🇦
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social Former national security analyst, Associate Professor, Senior Fellow Centre for Strategic Statecraft. Research on national and international security based in Ottawa, Canada 🇨🇦
CCPA Manitoba @ccpamb.bsky.social We are a charitable non-partisan research institute for social, economic and environmental justice.
📍 Treaty 1 Territory
@mollymccracken.bsky.social @mollymccracken.bsky.social 
Jason Foster @abbeerguy.bsky.social Beer guy. Work prof at Athabasca University. Director of Parkland Institute. Be prepared to put up with beer posts, public policy posts and the-study-of-work posts. And whatever else takes over my brain.
@actwithmeaning.bsky.social @actwithmeaning.bsky.social 
Rebecca Graff-McRae @poliscirish.bsky.social Political researcher. Deconstructor of discourses. Dancer of jigs. Spectator of spectres. Herder of hooligans.
PhD in Irish political history. QUB alum. Research manager at Parkland Institute
@carolinaaragao.bsky.social @carolinaaragao.bsky.social 
Canadians for Tax Fairness @c4tf.bsky.social Non-profit, non-partisan research & advocacy for fair, progressive taxation
Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights @actioncanadashr.bsky.social Action Canada is Planned Parenthood Canada. We are a voice for sexual health and rights in Canada and globally. 
Rosel Kim @jroselkim.bsky.social she / her | books & snacks & things I’m watching | sometimes law | views are my own
Tavia Grant @taviagrant.bsky.social Investigative reporter at the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper tgrant@globeandmail.ca
Scottish Women's Budget Group @swbg.bsky.social The Scottish Women's Budget Group was founded to promote gender equality in the Scottish Budgetary process.
https://www.swbg.org.uk/
Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social The UK's leading feminist economics think tank. We put feminism into economics and economics into feminism.
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wbg.org.uk
New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social Change the rules. Share the wealth. Protect the planet.
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose
www.marianamazzucato.com
Mikal Skuterud @mikalskuterud.bsky.social Economics Professor UWaterloo, Director CLEF, Fellow-in-Residence CD Howe Institute. Disclosure Statement https://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~skuterud/disclosure/disclosure_statement.pdf
Nick Falvo (he/him) 🇨🇦 @nickfalvo.bsky.social Research Consultant || Editor-in-Chief, North America, International Journal on Homelessness || Research Affiliate, The Mandel School (Case Western Reserve University) || I have a PhD in Public Policy.
My website: https://nickfalvo.ca/- R Randy Robinson @randyrobinson.bsky.social
CCPA Nova Scotia @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social Your source for progressive economic & social policy research in Nova Scotia, providing public commentary & opinion on alternative policy positions.
Trade and Investment Research Project @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social A project of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives that pools expertise from NGOs, unions and academics studying trade treaties and globalization. Posts by CCPA Researcher Stuart Trew.
policyalternatives.ca
Simon Enoch @simonenoch.bsky.social Senior Researcher - Saskatchewan - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Interested in populism, propaganda and political economy. So stupendous, living in this tube.
Alex Hemingway @1alexhemingway.bsky.social Senior Economist @bcpolicy.bsky.social. PhD @UBCPoliSci. Former CCPA-BC. Social, economic & environmental justice. Views are my own. https://bcpolicy.ca/
Véronique Sioufi, PhD @verosioufi.bsky.social racial & socio-economic equity researcher/policy analyst @bcpolicy.bsky.social, previously @ccpabc (now closed)
x: @VeroSioufi
#freepalestine
Marc Lee @marclee.bsky.social Economist, talking head, Vancouver. 
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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VassB @vassb.bsky.social policy designer + writer
I run the Canadian Shield Institute (@canadianshieldinstitute.ca), where we make sovereignty make sense.
Subscribe to our newsletter, The National Interest.
David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social Notorious pro-vaxxer and pro-masker. Famously unfair to pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and the Toronto Star.
Weary of all these death threats with so little follow-through.
https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/fisman-david-n
Chris Neill 🐧 @chrisneill.bsky.social Associate Professor, Economics (education, labour, public econ, policy) at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, 🇨🇦.
Originally from 🇦🇺, I tend to prefer rivers that I can swim away in, rather than skate away on.
Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social Political scientist. Policy school exec director. Cat lover. Author of Academia Made Easier Substack and Skills Agenda column. She/her.
Gillian Petit @gillianpetit.bsky.social Economist PhD from Ucalgary. Researching Canadian taxes, income and social supports, and municipal policy/regulation. Co-author of "Basic Income and a Just Society". Public policy thinker. Ultra-runner. Mom
Ron Kneebone @ronkneebone.bsky.social Economist
Interested in policy responses to homelessness, poverty, domestic violence, and, for a change of pace, government finances.
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=RUFFYQQAAAAJ&hl=en
Andrew Leach @aleach.ca Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Alberta. Interested in climate change, constitutional law, and energy infrastructure. Find me here or on the web at aleach.ca.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social Health/Law/Human Rights. Thinking globally, meeting CanCon requirements. Disproportionately but not exclusively access to medicines/global health/humanitarian response/public health/infectious disease.
Steve Morgan @steveubc.bsky.social Economist, professor of health care policy, and advocate for universal access to medicines in Canada and around the world. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally. #pharmacare he/him
Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social Senior researcher & political economist @policyalternatives.ca
Health services, public finance, care economy, privatization, policy solutions
SFU PhD candidate. Views mine
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/author/andrew-longhurst/
Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social Provost Prof. of Economics (UMass Amherst).
Inequality, labor market policies and competition.
Affiliations: NBER, IZA, MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative
Preorder my book, The Wage Standard: https://www.thewagestandard.com
Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer.
Also: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)
Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social Political economy Prof at the University of Ottawa. Current research: the politics of inflation and central banks; the early history of neoliberalism; practical ignorance; social theory. 
Hadrian @hadrianmk.bsky.social Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood (he/him) • Political economist @policyalternatives.ca • Climate, AI, industrial policy 🌎💡⚙️🇨🇦
Noah Zon @noahzon.bsky.social Public policy person - work with good people at www.springboardpolicy.com
NPR's Planet Money @planetmoney.bsky.social Don't just understand the economy – understand the world.
linktr.ee/planetmoney
Eric Robert Reguly @ereguly.bsky.social European bureau chief, The Globe and Mail. Rome and beyond. Author of Ghosts of War: Chasing My Father's Legend Through Vietnam ericreguly.com
Althia Raj @althiaraj.bsky.social "It’s Political" podcast host/producer, National columnist for the Toronto Star,
"At Issue" panellist on CBC’s The National.
Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social Current: http://www.mbpolicy.com Past: head of fiscal + econ policy for 🇨🇦’s PM & Ministers of Finance @JustinTrudeau, @cafreeland & @bill_morneau (2016-22) #cdnpoli
John Campey @johncampey.bsky.social “I’m just a boy, standing in front of an oligarchy, asking it to restore democracy, promote equity, respect diversity, and stop killing the planet.” 🇨🇦🏳️🌈🦩Retired non-profit ED, runner, gay, socialist.
Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social Labour Studies Professor at Brock University | Teach & research collective bargaining, unions & labour politics |
brocku.ca/lsavage
Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social Journalist, writer, author.
Ajuinata.
Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah @dowusuakyeeah.bsky.social Co-Director of Policy & Advocacy at Action Canada for Sexual Health & Rights • @npsia.bsky.social Alum • Rugby fan/player • Black Feminist • Antifascist • She/Her
📍Ottawa
https://linktr.ee/dowusuakyeeah
🌻🇬🇭🌈
Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social Author, journalist. New book: What She Said: Conversations About Equality. Quill & Packet mysteries with Kate Hilton. Bury the Lead (2024); Widows and Orphans (2025) Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lizrenzetti
Ann Decter @anndec.bsky.social Feminist settler, writer, advocate. All posts my own. Pacifist and prairie raised.
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
@clcroberts.bsky.social @clcroberts.bsky.social 
Unifor @unifor.org Canada’s largest union in the private sector. Follow National President @lanapayne.bsky.social
Stephanie Ross @stephross.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University
Unions | Labour Politics | Social Movements
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social Economist.
Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers
https://atkinsonfoundation.ca/atkinson-fellows/atkinson-fellow-on-the-future-of-workers/
Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social We are a non-profit organization founded by
@RBReich.bsky.social to inform and engage the public about the realities and impacts of inequality. | linktr.ee/inequalitymedia
AFL-CIO @aflcio.org America's Labor Unions, representing nearly 15 million members across the country.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com North America’s Trusted Source Of News
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Merch: https://the-beaverton.myshopify.com/
Mike Bujold @mikebujold.bsky.social Homeless Advocate, Equal Rights,2SLGBTQIA+, Union family, No Corruption, Masking, COVID Fighter, Vaccines OK, Ontario NDP Member (No sex Chat or Begging thanks!)
Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social Living on the north shore of the Great Lakes, on lands covered by Treaty 13 and the Williams Treaties🍁
I work to create pathways to wealth and ownership for working Canadians. #econsky #cdnpoli #cansky
#wethenorth #never51 www.socialcapitalpartners.ca
@hughmack.bsky.social @hughmack.bsky.social 
Miles Corak @milescorak.com
Professor of economics
The Graduate Center,
City University of New York
Senior Scholar
The Stone Center on
Socio-Economic Inequality
#socialmobility #childrights #inequality #jobs #poverty #socialpolicy #cdnecon #EconSky
https://milescorak.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.
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
Christine Saulnier (she/her) @csaulnier.bsky.social CCPA-NS Director; mom of 3; PhD poli sci; Acadian; justice-seeker; equity promoter. Cupe 3912 member. Opinions are mine. https://policyalternatives.ca/offices/nova-scotia