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Blue Jays Problem Isn’t Necessarily Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

The Toronto Blue Jays main problem isn't Vladimir Guerrero Jr., but the team would do well to make him part of the solution. The post Blue Jays Problem Isn’t Necessarily Vladimir Guerrero Jr. appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 25 • 2:04 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Edmonton Star Forward Speaks about Coach Mike Babcock

Before Mike Babcock coached a game for the Columbus Blue Jackets, he was dismissed from the organization.Now, he steps into his fourth head coaching job in the NHL with the Edmonton Oilers in a few weeks at training camp.According to star forward Leon Draisaitl, this is the coach that the Oilers need to get over […] The post Edmonton Star Forward Speaks about Coach Mike Babcock appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 24 • 2:31 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Family entertainment company WildBrain acquires Personality AI

TORONTO — Family entertainment company WildBrain Ltd. has acquired Personality AI, which uses technology to create interactive characters using generative AI.

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Aug 24 • 11:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • ca.finance.yahoo.com
Draisaitl And What The Leadership Group Expects From Babcock
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Aug 24 • 12:42 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nemesis Brad Marchand Trolls Maple Leafs Star On Social Media

There are few players in the National Hockey League who have been as big a thorn in the side of the Toronto Maple Leafs over the last several seasons than Brad Marchand.Marchand, who has played for the divisional rival Boston Bruins and Florida Panthers, has been one of the most instrumental players for both teams […] The post Nemesis Brad Marchand Trolls Maple Leafs Star On Social Media appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 23 • 10:29 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Centralia business targeted by scammer posing as sheriff’s deputy

Police say a caller told a business employee to take cash from a register and load it onto prepaid gift cards.

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Aug 23 • 11:05 AM EDT • Business • komu.com
Today on Pinstripe Alley

The season series between New York and Toronto comes to a close.

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Aug 23 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Yankees Announce Roster Move Ahead of Cody Bellinger’s Return

The New York Yankees announced a roster move after their 4-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on August 22. Utilityman Max Schuemann has been optioned to Triple-A Scranton Wilkes-Barre. Following today’s game, the Yankees optioned INF/OF Max Schuemann to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. — New York Yankees (@Yankees) August 22, 2026 Schuemann’s demotion paves the way […] The post Yankees Announce Roster Move Ahead of Cody Bellinger’s Return appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 22 • 9:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Pa. hospital waited hours to report death of behavioral health patient: coroner

In return, the Montour County facility said: "We have responded to requests for information and will continue to cooperate with authorities."

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Aug 22 • 7:16 PM EDT • Health • pennlive.com
Toronto Blue Jays Announce George Springer Decision During Yankees Series

The Toronto Blue Jays fell 3-1 to the New York Yankees in their series opener Friday night.Now, as the Blue Jays welcome Vladimir Guerrero Jr. back into the lineup after he spent time on the seven-day concussion IL, manager John Schneider made some notable changes ahead of Saturday’s game. The matchup will feature Toronto ace […] The post Toronto Blue Jays Announce George Springer Decision During Yankees Series appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 22 • 4:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Montour County coroner: Man dead hours before 911 call from Danville health facility

The Montour County Coroner’s Office claims an behavioral health facility near Danville is “refusing to comply” with the investigation of a patient’s death. Authorities are investigating the death of 31-year-old…

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Aug 22 • 1:38 PM EDT • Health • thetimes-tribune.com
Maple Leafs Captain Auston Matthews Ripped As Overpaid

The Toronto Maple Leafs and former general manager Brad Treliving managed to get captain Auston Matthews to agree to a four-year, $53 million contract to remain with the club through the end of the 2027-28 NHL season.Right now, Matthews counts $13.25 million against the salary cap as one of the highest-paid players in the NHL. […] The post Maple Leafs Captain Auston Matthews Ripped As Overpaid appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 21 • 10:19 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Coroner: Man found dead hours before 911 call at Danville behavioral health facility

The Montour County Coroner's Office and Mahoning Township Police are investigating the death of a 31-year-old man at a behavioral health facility in Danville, w

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Aug 21 • 4:19 PM EDT • Health • fox56.com
America’s Gerontocracy Needs a Public Physician

Congress should create an office of physicians that report to the public on American leaders’ medical fitness for duty.

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Aug 21 • 1:04 PM EDT • Health • theatlantic.com
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Toronto Blue Jays Announce Starting Pitchers for Series Against Yankees

The Toronto Blue Jays secured a series victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday with a 5-1 win.They’ll have a quick turnaround, though, as they begin a weekend series against the New York Yankees in the Bronx on Friday and have already announced their probable starting pitchers via MLB.com.Blue Jays Announce Probable StartersFriday’s game […] The post Toronto Blue Jays Announce Starting Pitchers for Series Against Yankees appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 20 • 6:51 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Part of Keystone Building collapses onto Columbia ceramics business during storm

Emergency crews responded to storm damage in Columbia, Lancaster County, after severe weather swept through the Susquehanna Valley.

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Aug 20 • 6:31 PM EDT • Business • wgal.com
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Bieber Shuts Down Rays Again: Rays 1, Toronto 5

Shane Bieber last faced the Rays on July 23rd in what was potentially an audition to acquire the veteran pitcher. In that game, he scattered three hits and a single run as Toronto won the contest 3-1. The Jays did some buying and selling at the deadline, and Bieber remained with the club to the […]

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Aug 20 • 5:03 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Missouri court allows new Trump-backed U.S. House districts to be used in November election

The ruling Wednesday by Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green is a victory for Republicans seeking to hold onto their slim majority in the U.S. House. But the case is likely to end up in the state Supreme Court.

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Aug 20 • 11:20 AM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Scientists discovered four snakes curled together in a burrow for 38 million years as the volcanic ash preserved their remarkable fossils

A snake fossil discovery in Wyoming has given palaeontologists an unusually close look at the lives of these ancient reptiles. Four complete skeletons belonging to a newly recognised species, have helped researchers understand an early member of the ‘boa family’ and the history of small, burrowing snakes in North America.

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Aug 20 • 5:10 AM EDT • Science • timesofindia.indiatimes.com
River Valley Health Fund, CFOV award $139,000 in grants to local organizations

WTOV NBC 9 provides local news, weather forecasts, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Steubenville and nearby towns and communities in the Ohio Valley area including, in Ohio Steubenville, St. Clairsville, Wintersville, Cadiz, Bellaire, Toronto, Martins Ferry, Barnesville, Shadyside, Bridgeport, and Mingo Junction and in West Virginia Wheeling, Weirton, Moundsville, New Martinsville, and Wellsburg.

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Aug 19 • 2:05 PM EDT • Health • wtov9.com
Sen. Darline Graham avoids giving direct answer to national security question in S.C. debate: 'Not my thing'

It was a high-profile misstep a week before she faces a runoff election in her bid to hold onto the South Carolina seat to which she was appointed last month.

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Aug 19 • 1:49 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
Analyst does not hold back on ‘Gretzky-like’ Caitlin Clark

Caitlin Clark made her Canadian debut Tuesday, scoring 24 points and dishing out seven assists as the Indiana Fever pulled out a 101-95 win over the expansion Toronto Tempo. The game was also the first opportunity to see the Caitlin Clark phenomenon north of the border. Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons, who had previously written…

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Aug 19 • 12:07 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Astronomers detect fastest known star in Milky Way

Star’s extreme proximity to Sagittarius A* means it could open new window onto black hole’s fundamental properties

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Aug 19 • 12:00 PM EDT • Science • theguardian.com
Toronto's Newest Sports Team Revealed Its (Very Surprising) Team Mascot

I didn't see that coming.

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Aug 19 • 11:43 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Paleontologists stunned by 2024’s most jaw-dropping fossil discoveries - Futura-Sciences

France’s Show-Stopping Fossil Finds How could we kick off this year in paleontology without highlighting the three blockbuster discoveries on French soil? While France is already renowned for its fossil-rich lands, it was the finds in Hérault’s Cabrières site in the Montagne Noire range that truly wowed the scientific community...

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Aug 19 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • futura-sciences.com
‘Best Duo in the WNBA’ — Robert Griffin III, Sports World Marvel As Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell Make History vs. Tempo

The Indiana Fever improved to 24-12 tonight as they further solidify their standing as a top-four team in the WNBA. They were led by none other than Caitlin Clark and Kelsey Mitchell in their 101-95 win over the Toronto Tempo.

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Aug 19 • 1:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not For Their Own Kids.

At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.

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Aug 18 • 5:01 AM EDT • Technology • nytimes.com
Last business on Mohr Concrete property hangs onto hope

True Discount, the last daily-operated store on the Mohr Concrete property, stays optimistic about business while development conversations continue.

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Aug 17 • 9:44 AM EDT • Business • oakpark.com
Former Oilers Coach Reveals True Feelings Of Connor McDavid

It goes without saying that Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid is regarded as the top player on the face of the Earth right now, and his Hall of Fame credentials are already set in stone despite his career being barely over a decade old.McDavid has also played under numerous head coaches since being selected first […] The post Former Oilers Coach Reveals True Feelings Of Connor McDavid appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 17 • 1:57 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Toronto Blue Jays Announced Dylan Cease News During Yankees Series

The Toronto Blue Jays took the first two games of their weekend series with the New York Yankees and had right-handed pitcher Dylan Cease on the mound for Sunday’s finale.Cease left the game with the Yankees holding a 2-1 lead in the sixth inning.He finished his outing with 6.1 innings pitched, allowing two hits and […] The post Toronto Blue Jays Announced Dylan Cease News During Yankees Series appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 16 • 6:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Cowboys 53-man roster projection after first preseason game

Did any of the backup performances from Saturday's win earn their way onto the 53 in the latest projection?

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Aug 16 • 5:45 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Republicans won the redistricting competition. Don't tell that to this California congressman

President Donald Trump last year told GOP-controlled states to redraw their maps before this year's midterm elections to increase the number of winnable seats for Republicans in order to help the party hold onto the U.S. House.

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Aug 16 • 1:37 PM EDT • Politics • pbs.org
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Arsenal rout Man City in Community Shield masterclass

Arsenal powered to a 3-0 win against Manchester City in the Community Shield on Sunday, delivering a swaggering statement of intent ahead of their Premier League title defence.Only City, in 2019, have gone onto become Premier League champions among the previous 15 winners of the Community Shield.

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Aug 16 • 11:59 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Locarno Winner ‘Forgotten Spaceman’ Adds Khan & Kumar Media, Prism Entertainment as Executive Producers Ahead of Toronto Bow (EXCLUSIVE)

“Forgotten Spaceman,” the documentary short by BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Elham Ehsas that won the Leopard of Tomorrow (International Competition) award at Locarno’s Junior Jury Awards, has added Khan ...

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Aug 16 • 7:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • yahoo.com
Locarno Winner 'Forgotten Spaceman' Adds EPs Ahead of Toronto Bow

Elham Ehsas documentary about Afghanistan's first astronaut adds Khan & Kumar Media, Prism Entertainment as executive producers.

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Aug 16 • 7:05 AM EDT • Entertainment • variety.com
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Post-game live reaction: Seahawks vs Cowboys Preseason Game 1

The Seattle Seahawks marched down the field with Drew Lock at the helm, aided by two big penalties on the Dallas Cowboys, before punching it in for a 7-0 to kick off the game. After taking more than seven minutes off the clock, wide receiver Montorie Foster Jr. scored the first touchdown of the preseason […]

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Aug 15 • 10:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Maple Leafs NHL Prospect Ranking: No. 9, Tyler Hopkins
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Aug 15 • 7:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Today on Pinstripe Alley

It’s Camp Bump Day in Toronto, which would excited me more if the lineup wasn’t 1968 vintage.

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Aug 15 • 6:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Blue Jays Coaching Staff Explains Incredible Season Turanround

The coaching staff for the Toronto Blue Jays explained why the team has made such a surprising season turnaround.Don’t look now, but the Blue Jays are just 1 GB from the third and final American League Wild Card spot, which is currently held by the Detroit Tigers. Considering the team seemed completely dead in the […] The post Blue Jays Coaching Staff Explains Incredible Season Turanround appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 15 • 3:08 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Toronto Blue Jays Vladimir Guerrero Jr Leaves Yankees Game

The Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr has left Friday night's 3-1 win against the New York Yankees. The post Toronto Blue Jays Vladimir Guerrero Jr Leaves Yankees Game appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 15 • 12:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Toronto Blue Jays Vladimir Guerrero Jr Leaves Yankees Game

The Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr has left Friday night's game against the New York Yankees. The post Toronto Blue Jays Vladimir Guerrero Jr Leaves Yankees Game appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 15 • 12:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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New York Yankees Announce Roster Decision with Recently Signed Player

The New York Yankees are currently taking on the Toronto Blue Jays in an AL East showdown with AL Wild Card implications. Before the Blue Jays series, the Yankees organization announced a handful of roster decisions, and one of them had to do with recently signed player Mitch Garver. More MLB on Heavy: New York […] The post New York Yankees Announce Roster Decision with Recently Signed Player appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 14 • 11:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Bruce Willis makes rare appearance at daughter Tallulah's wedding

Bruce Willis showed up for his daughter Tallulah Willis's wedding as he navigates the progression of frontotemporal dementia.

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Aug 14 • 7:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Bruce Willis makes rare appearance at daughter's wedding

Bruce Willis showed up for his daughter Tallulah Willis's wedding as he navigates the progression of frontotemporal dementia.

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Aug 14 • 7:52 PM EDT • Entertainment • centraloregondaily.com
Trump visiting Long Island to boost Bruce Blakeman’s gubernatorial run with speech on crime

Trump is also hoping to bolster GOP chances of holding onto the House of Representatives in the fall midterm elections, although analysts say he could weigh down candidates in suburbs where he is deeply unpopular.

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Aug 14 • 12:07 PM EDT • Politics • nydailynews.com
Beshear criticizes plan giving ICE officers Kentucky-made electric shock gloves

Gov. Andy Beshear, D-Ky., says the gloves, which are made in Kentucky, would be going onto the wrong hands if they are used by federal immigration officers

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Aug 14 • 10:24 AM EDT • Politics • spectrumnews1.com
Alumni Spotlight: Naya Moser, MSPH '24 | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Alumna Naya Moser is a health promotion & programs manager for the Lung Health Foundation in Toronto.

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Aug 14 • 8:00 AM EDT • Health • publichealth.jhu.edu
Blue Jays Announce Starting Pitchers For Crucial Series vs Yankees

The Toronto Blue Jays are gearing up for a crucial three-game series with the New York Yankees this weekend. After taking a massive series against the Boston Red Sox, Toronto will be looking to keep up the winning ways against another American League East rival. The Blue Jays have been trying to battle back from […] The post Blue Jays Announce Starting Pitchers For Crucial Series vs Yankees appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 13 • 6:36 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Abbey Murphy Says Oilers “Shocked” Her On Tkachuk Wingmen Podcast

It won’t be long before the Edmonton Oilers open Training Camp in preparation for the upcoming 2026-27 NHL Season, but as is the case with every NHL club, they hosted Development Camp for the club’s young draft selections earlier in the summer.And during Development Camp, there was a special guest on hand – none other […] The post Abbey Murphy Says Oilers “Shocked” Her On Tkachuk Wingmen Podcast appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 13 • 1:22 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Mental health experts share tips to ease students’ back-to-school anxiety

WTOV NBC 9 provides local news, weather forecasts, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Steubenville and nearby towns and communities in the Ohio Valley area including, in Ohio Steubenville, St. Clairsville, Wintersville, Cadiz, Bellaire, Toronto, Martins Ferry, Barnesville, Shadyside, Bridgeport, and Mingo Junction and in West Virginia Wheeling, Weirton, Moundsville, New Martinsville, and Wellsburg.

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Aug 12 • 9:48 PM EDT • Health • wtov9.com
CORTIS puts phones down and turns up the energy at Infosys Theater at MSG, bringing fans closer

CORTIS turned the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden into a pulsing neon club last week, kicking off their first North American tour with a show telling

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Aug 12 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • amny.com
Braves Acquire Blue Jays Castoff Infielder Shortly After Cut

The Atlanta Braves continue to search for long-term infield options and have now turned to a former Toronto Blue Jays option.

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Aug 12 • 9:22 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Peter Chan’s Toronto Selection ‘The Road Not Taken’ Boards Moebius

Moebius Entertainment boards international sales for Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s Toronto premiere ‘The Road Not Taken.’

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Aug 12 • 8:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • variety.com
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All-Star catcher Adley Rutschman makes his debut for Red Sox

Three-time All-Star catcher Adley Rutschman went 1 for 3 and walked twice in his Red Sox debut as Boston lost its fourth straight, 5-3 to Toronto.

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Aug 12 • 8:36 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
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Blue Jays beat Boston 5-3, hand Red Sox 4th straight loss

Ernie Clement drove in the tiebreaking run in the sixth inning, Brett Bateman had two RBIs and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 5-3.

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Aug 12 • 8:33 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Red Sox take 4-game losing streak into matchup against the Blue Jays

The Boston Red Sox head into the matchup with the Toronto Blue Jays as losers of four straight games.

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Aug 12 • 8:30 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Blue Jays win 2-1 to hand the Red Sox their 3rd straight loss

Charles McAdoo homered and Jameson Taillon pitched four scoreless innings before leaving with an injury as the Toronto Blue Jays beat Boston 2-1 to hand the Red Sox their third loss in a row.

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Aug 11 • 7:32 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Red Sox bring 3-game losing streak into matchup against the Blue Jays

The Boston Red Sox look to break their three-game slide with a victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Aug 11 • 7:25 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
The U.S. Healthcare System is Already Mostly Socialized

Now that Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s open Senate seat, the outcome of this crucial race will depend mainly on two things: Whether Republicans succeed in demonizing El-Sayed because he’s brown and a Muslim, and whether they succeed in demonizing him as a left-wing radical. I will defer for the now the question of whether bigotry will be effective this year, although I will address it another day. What I want to address instead is El-Sayed’s signature issue — healthcare. Yes, El-Sayed advocates Medicare for All, a position the usual suspects denounce as “socialism.” I will get to the politics of his stance soon. Today, however, I want to talk about the substance. We should be clear that El-Sayed doesn’t even call himself a socialist. On the contrary, he explicitly disavows the label, saying “I’m a capitalist who just knows about capitalism”. In fact, as I explained in a previous post, the policies that El-Sayed advocates qualify him as a social democrat, not a socialist. Still, El-Sayed advocates a system under which the government would pay almost all medical expenses. Isn’t that socialism? Well, if that is the criterion then much of U.S. healthcare is already socialist. In fact, the government’s role is so large that U.S. healthcare is better described as partially privatized socialism than as anything resembling a free market. Let’s start with the raw numbers on health insurance, which pays the bulk of Americans’ medical expenses. Americans receive health insurance either from private companies or from public programs, overwhelmingly Medicare and Medicaid. Here’s what the breakdown of coverage and spending between private and public looked like in 2024: While a majority of Americans with health insurance get it from private companies, well over 100 million of us are covered by government programs instead. And these government programs pay more total dollars for medical bills than the private insurers do. Why do government programs that cover a minority of the population account for a majority of health insurers’ outlays? Mainly because Medicare covers seniors, and we’re expensive. Also, while Medicaid covers many younger Americans, disabled and elderly beneficiaries account for most of its spending. Even by the raw numbers, then, U.S. health insurance looks as much public as private. But that understates the government’s role: Private health insurance in the U.S. is both highly regulated and heavily subsidized. This is obviously true for the insurance coverage purchased by tens of millions of Americans through the exchanges established by the Affordable Care Act. But employment-based health insurance, which covers 161 million Americans, is far more of a government creation than most people realize. For employment-based insurance exists largely because of huge implicit government subsidies that come with major strings attached. Here’s how that works. If your employer pays you $10,000, that’s taxable income. But if your employer pays $10,000 toward a company health insurance plan that meets certain criteria, it isn’t taxable. That’s a huge effective subsidy, running at more than $300 billion a year. Take that subsidy into account, along with the more than $100 billion per year spent subsidizing policies purchased under the ACA, as well as the outlays on Medicare and Medicaid, and net effect is that the government pays for more than two-thirds of Americans’ health insurance. Granted, there are strings attached. Roughly speaking, employment-based health plans can’t discriminate based on medical history — that is, they can’t deny coverage to employees with pre-existing conditions — and they also can’t offer the plans only to highly compensated employees — a health plan that is only for the C-suite is considered taxable income. So given the restrictions of the federal tax code, employer-based health insurance is a lot like Obamacare, which also prohibits discrimination based on medical history and provides subsidies to make insurance affordable to lower-paid workers. The fact is that virtually all of private healthcare insurance is already well under some form of government control through regulation and tax subsidies. How should we think about this system? First of all, is Medicare socialist? Don’t tell anyone, but the way Medicare operates — it covers every senior’s medical expenses, whatever they turn out to be, while being funded by taxes that depend on one’s income — could be summarized by the old Marxist slogan “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” And back in 1961, when Ronald Reagan was the face of a last-ditch effort by the American Medical Association to block the creation of Medicare, he denounced Medicare as “socialized medicine” and warned that it would destroy our freedom. In reality, American freedom survived until Jan. 20, 2025, while Medicare is immensely popular, with an 82 percent favorable rating in the most recent KFF survey. Medicaid, government health insurance for lower-income Americans, comes in at 73 percent. This is in sharp contrast to public views about private insurers, who are widely disliked if not hated and accused of denying essential care. Furthermore, if Medicare is socialism, then the whole U.S. health insurance system, with the government paying most of the bills and placing conditions on private insurers, is almost equally socialist. If you insist on calling any program the government pays for and regulates socialist, then U.S. healthcare would best be described as a partially privatized form of socialism. And one must ask, what is the point of the part that is privatized? Do private insurers add anything positive? Or are they simply parasites, skimming off money that could have been paying for care? The case for viewing insurers as parasites is strong. Many Medicare benefits are now delivered via Medicare Advantage, that is, plans paid for by the government but run through insurance companies. MedPAC, an independent advisory commission, estimates that last year Medicare Advantage plans were overpaid by $84 billion, thanks to practices such as “upcoding,” in which patients’ health problems are overstated to get larger sums from Medicare. Assessing the waste from employer-based insurance is harder, but most evidence suggests that private insurers have substantially higher administrative costs than Medicare does. Furthermore, the complexity of private insurance, with multiple payers all trying to deny care when they can, is a huge burden both on providers — doctors, nurses, and hospitals — and on patients. What do private insurers offer to compensate for these costs? One must go through intellectual contortions to avoid the conclusion that they are, in fact, parasites. Which brings me back to El-Sayed. In supporting Medicare for All, he’s basically calling for an end to the partial, parasitic privatization of a healthcare system that is already hugely dependent on public funding. When one looks at it that way, it’s not at all a radical proposal. Admittedly, the political lift requires overcoming the opposition to higher taxes to pay for Medicare for All. Political realism rather than economics was the reason I and many other progressives supported Obamacare, with all its complexities, rather than demanding an immediate move to Medicare for All. But the political calculus may very well have shifted since the 2000s, as Americans are fed up with a system of unaffordable premiums, rampant claim denials, and byzantine claim administration. Moreover, funding healthcare insurance through taxation would allow for a much more progressive distribution of the cost. That is, compared to the present system, middle-income households would pay less as high-income households would pay more. And the U.S. would stop wasting large sums on pointless administrative costs. So let’s be clear: El-Sayed’s healthcare platform is perfectly reasonable on the merits of cost, fairness and health efficacy. And with private insurers never more hated, while millions of Americans are losing their health insurance, 2026 may be its time. MUSICAL CODA

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Aug 11 • 6:33 AM EDT • Health • paulkrugman.substack.com
Blue Jays Provide Latest Health Update on Spencer Arrighetti

The Toronto Blue Jays have provided the latest health update on starting pitcher Spencer Arrighetti, who came over at the trade deadline. The Blue Jays traded center fielder Daulton Varsho and cash to the Astros for Arrighetti, a young, controllable starting pitcher who had fallen out of favor in Houston. He was on the IL […] The post Blue Jays Provide Latest Health Update on Spencer Arrighetti appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 10 • 10:20 PM EDT • Health • sports.yahoo.com
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Red Sox bring 5-game road win streak into matchup with the Blue Jays

The Boston Red Sox visit the Toronto Blue Jays aiming to extend a five-game road winning streak.

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Aug 10 • 7:34 AM EDT • Sports • spectrumlocalnews.com
Google is finally letting a rival app store onto the Play Store

Aptoide Games is coming to Google Play in the US, giving Android users an easier way to try an alternative gaming app store.

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Aug 10 • 6:10 AM EDT • Technology • androidauthority.com
China Box Office: 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' Retains Crown

Sony's 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' held onto the top spot at the mainland China box office during the Aug. 7–9 weekend, pulling in $28.9 million.

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Aug 10 • 1:44 AM EDT • Entertainment • variety.com
The Messy Mixture of Old Age and Political Power

Is it really true that the excessive influence of the elderly is corrupting government? If so, it raises the question of what we can — or should — do about it.

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Kawhi Leonard's Latest Announcement Sparks Debate During Investigation

The superstar is the topic of discussion for one of the biggest scandals in NBA history, but that wasn't stopping his offseason plans.

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What we learned as Phillies ‘grind' past Jays after 'pen lets lead slip

Derek Hill walked off the Blue Jays in the 12th, helping the Phillies end an exhausting series with a needed win.

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What we learned as Phillies survive Jays after ‘pen lets another lead slip

Derek Hill walked off the Blue Jays in the 12th, helping the Phillies end an exhausting series with a needed win.

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Bruce Willis' wife backs California bill to track rare brain disease

Emma Heming Willis, wife of actor Bruce Willis, visited the California State Capitol this week to advocate for legislation that would add frontotemporal dementia (FTD) to the state’s neurodegenerative disease registry.

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Sabalenka and Norrie exit Canadian Open in last 16

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Former Maple Leafs Star Cracks NHL’s Top Five Wingers

A former Toronto Maple Leafs star made the list of Top 5 NHL wingers, a placement wrought with question marks. The post Former Maple Leafs Star Cracks NHL’s Top Five Wingers appeared first on HEAVY.

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Top-ranked Sabalenka, Pegula stunned in Toronto fourth round

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Shares Concerning Injury Update After Phillies Game

Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. made a concerning announcement after a game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

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World number one Sabalenka ousted in Toronto by Alexandrova

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5 dead, 4 hospitalized in Louisiana from flesh-eating bacteria outbreak: health officials

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Blue Jays face the Phillies with 1-0 series lead

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Rybakina advances while Andreeva exits at Toronto

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Blue Jays' Rudy Martin: DFA'd by Toronto

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Trump’s middle finger to the GOP’s midterm worries

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No.1 Sabalenka and Pegula advance at Toronto

Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka advanced to the fourth round of the WTA Toronto Masters on Thursday by defeating China's Zhang Shuai 6-3, 6-4.American third seed Jessica Pegula advanced to the round of 16 by defeating Uzbekistan's Kamilla Rakhimova 6-4, 6-0 in 68 minutes.

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Coco Gauff addresses transgender athlete debate with powerful statement

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Butterfly lilies wing their way to Science

Many animals and plants show left-right differences in how their bodies or organs are arranged, but we still know little about how such asymmetries evolve or how genes control them in natural populations. Mirror-image flowers, in which female and male sex organs are deflected to opposite sides in left- and right-handed forms, provide a notable example of such asymmetry. Here, we studied South African butterfly lilies, where individual plants produce only left- or right-handed flowers. Their mirror-image flowers promote outcrossing by depositing pollen from each floral form onto a specific region of a pollinator’s body that matches the stigma position of the opposite form. This suggests that selection for efficient pollen transfer between forms maintains this natural polymorphism. Our work uncovers a hemizygous supergene that coordinates the left-right orientation of female and male sex organs in mirror-image flowers by linking two independently acting genes for style and stamen handedness in a single, nonrecombining genomic segment. This architecture ensures the coinheritance of a matched pair of organ orientations that is essential for efficient cross-pollination between floral forms. At the developmental level, we show that floral handedness emerges from the interaction between an intrinsic tissue chirality and a gravitropic response that orients the style and median stamen relative to gravity. Together, these findings reveal how a supergene, hormone and microRNA signaling, tissue chirality, and an external physical cue combine to produce and maintain a stable left-right polymorphism in natural plant populations.

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Museum Of Natural History & Science Researchers Identify New Bird-Like Dinosaur Species In Northwest New Mexico

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Chartbook 464 The"China squeeze" - the politics of development counterfactuals.

There are three types of China shock discourse. Each has a distinct temporal register. China shock 1.0 was a phrase coined by US academics in the 2010s to retrospectively summarize the impact on particular US labour markets, which they identified through painstaking empirical investigation. China shock 2.0 on everyone’s lips in Europe in the mid 2020s is an alarm raised by trans-Atlantic policy thinkers warning of a coming disaster which they project onto Europe’s ailing car industry. The third type of China shock discourse - commonly known as the “China squeeze” launched most recently by Indian economists Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian in the pages of Foreign Affairs - mobilizes a different, more speculative temporal register: the counterfactual realm of alternate history. The China squeeze argument asks not what has happened, or what is going to happen, but what might have been. Specifically, what options for economic development might have been open to Global South economies like India or the economies of sub-Saharan Africa, had it not been for China’s spectacular industrialization since the late 1990s and the persistent competitiveness of China’s manufacture in low-skilled segments. Chatterjee and Subramanian’s argument is that whilst China has built a powerful position in electrical machinery and other high-skill manufacturing, which is now delivering China Shock 2.0, it also continues to run a trade surplus in low-skill, labour-intensive manufacturing. This surplus is large and has remained largely unchanged in fifteen years. Indeed, in the 2010s, in trade with low-income countries, China’s surplus rapidly increased. On their reading, this squeezes low-income producers in low-skill sectors in which they “should” be able to compete. Source: “China’s Mercantilist Squeeze on Developing Countries” Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian. Peterson Institute for International Economics 26-7 May 2026 Chatterjee and Subramanian’s wording is telling: (emphasis mine) The canonical trajectory of economic development in the post-World War II period is for countries to transition from agriculture to manufacturing, first in low-skilled manufacturing and then later on to high-skill manufacturing (Herrendorf, Rogerson, and Valentinyi 2013). At the global level, this implies that high-income countries (HICs) that once specialized in low-skilled activities cede manufacturing export space to poorer countries that come along to occupy that space. In 1965, advanced economies accounted for about 60 percent of global value-added exports in four key low-skilled manufacturing sectors, i.e., apparel, leather, textiles, and footwear. Over time this share declined and began to be occupied first by the East Asian tigers and, beginning in the late 1990s, by China. Today China accounts for about 50 percent of the global market. The question is whether China, with its rising prosperity, is continuing to behave like its richer counterparts and ceding export space to poorer followers or to behave unlike them and continuing to occupy space. In terms of the conceptual maneuvers it performs, of the three China shock discourses, the “China squeeze” argument is by far the most ambitious. After all, it bases its critique of China on a counterfactual imagining of the world. Like any counterfactual argument, to construct this alternative reality it must rely on a heuristic model. To make their argument Chatterjee and Subramanian mobilize two key claims. The first reference point is the actual history of rich-country industrialization, what they refer to as the “canonical path”. The idea is that countries transition from agriculture to light industry and low-skilled manufacturing and from there up the value chain. To make this useful as a standard of comparison and a means to construct a normative standard, they adjust sectoral export shares for two factors: 1. the underlying level of economic development of the exporting country, as measured by national income and 2. the degree to which the sector in question is internationalized. The idea being that for a high income country to have a high export share in low-skill sectors is anomalous and even more so if that particular product is highly internationalized and thus suitable for being “conceded” to lower-income competitors. Where should this process end? Here Chatterjee and Subramanian introduce their second benchmark. Their normative idea of a global development path is one in which, in due course, low-skill manufacturing exports are distributed in proportion to a country’s share in the global labour force. They imagine, in other words, a world of proportional, polycentric global development without much national specialization in low-skill manufacturing. A useful benchmark is that, in labor-intensive manufacturing sectors, a country’s share of world exports should be broadly commensurate with its share of the world’s low-skilled labor endowment. … In the Heckscher-Ohlin model, this would be true if value added per worker and export propensities, i.e., fraction of output that is exported, are the same across countries. It is this pleasant liberal vista of orderly global development, progressing towards a general distribution of low-skilled manufacturing against which they judge reality and conclude that the low-income countries are suffering a “China squeeze”. China is not exiting low-skill sectors fast enough Allowing for its gdp level and the degree of globalization, China’s share of low-skill manufacturing exports is far higher than it “should” be. Relative to population, its low-skill share of exports is far too high. That in turn yields the conclusion that huge numbers of jobs - the authors suggest tens of millions - are being hoarded by China. For the four sectors captured in figure 4, this excess in value-added exports is $110 billion in 2022. For all low-skilled sectors overall captured in appendix figure D.1, excess value-added exports amount to $365 billion. The crowding out of LMIC exports by China is therefore substantial. Both these claims have in common that they are strong structuralisms. The first is that development paths ought to resemble each other. The second is that broadly speaking as far as low-skilled manufacturing is concerned, all countries are alike. If the world currently diverges from the distribution of trade implied by these assumptions, if China is not following the advanced economy path and has huge exports, this must be the result of “policy”, which the authors then put in question as illegitimate or unfair. Thus the naturalistic construction of a canonical path leading to a “level” distribution of low-skilled manufacturing reveals itself to be a polemical tool. From the point of view of China shock polemics, this discourse is no doubt welcome. But as an account of economic history, it must surely be regarded as nothing short of bamboozling. Development paths do not follow a regular, natural sequence. As David Fishman put it aptly, “development is not a queue”. They are always and everywhere, through and through political. Development is not so much a process, as a project. Each such project is more or less well adjusted to its context. As Gerschenkron taught uneven and combined development implies differentiation rather than simple imitation on a single parth. It may be true that Europe and the US exited relatively early from low-skill work. But clearly technology has changed. As C&S themselves point out, China no longer enjoys a low wage environment. Do they really believe that such huge differences can be accounted for either by industrial policy, which as they admit does not operate powerfully in low-skill sectors, or by exchange rate manipulation? What is overwhelmingly dominant in explaining the persistence of “low-skill” manufacturing in China are surely the network effects of complex supply chains. Indeed the label of “low-skill” may miss the point. The degree of globalization which Chatterjee and Subramanian decide to conjure away in their model of the development path - to allow for the fact that Europe and American textiles exporters did not enjoy just-in-time logistics in the 1950s - obscures the point that the networks through which Chinese factories supply the world are themselves key parts of the low-skill industrialization project. China isn’t knocking out 1970s style “cheap”. It has redefined the entire product cycle. C&S’s casual reference to “T-shirts” is telling. In today’s “fast fashion”, there is weight on both terms. Fashion and fast. China’s success in delivering on both at unprecedentedly high speed and at unprecedentedly low cost, isn’t a low-skill operation at all. If we see development trajectories not as the serial repetition of the same, but as distinctive, crafted projects that cumulate in complex agglomerations of skill, technology and labor, then this explains why the assumption that low-skilled manufacturing should follow the distribution of population flies in the face of all experience. As countless cases attest, low-wage, low-income developed economies are not by themselves the makings of a competitive production base. As Leon Liao puts it quite fairly: “International trade has never been allocated according to population. A country’s population gives it no natural claim to an equivalent share of global exports." And the remarkable fact is that Subramanian alone and with co-authors has long been making this point, not to pillory China, as is the case of the tendentious _Foreign Affair_s and Peterson pieces, but to highlight the great counterpart to China’s industrial success, namely India’s relative failure. The much-quoted Foreign Affairs piece showed low-skill export shares only for China, not for India. If you put both countries in the picture as Chaterjee and Subramanian have done on other occasions, the picture looks like this. China is far above the line, but India, almost as large in terms of population, is no less anomalous, just in the opposite direction. As far as global populations are concerned, and the imagining of tens of millions of “squeezed” jobs, it is this Sino-Indian pair that account for a huge share of the action. What this graph reveals is not China’s cheating, but India’s “greatest development failure”, at least this is the argument made Arvind Subramanian, this time in co-authorship with Devesh Kapur, in their major book, A Sixth of Humanity. Independent India’s Development Odyssey which appeared with Oxford University Press earlier this year. In this highly critical work on India’s development, China is repeatedly evoked, not to criticize but as a benchmark against which to illuminate what India’s political economy has not delivered i.e. large-scale formal employment for hundreds of millions of citizens. Kapur and Subramanian leave no doubt, if you want to understand why China, not India was the main driver of manufacturing globalization from the 1980s, don’t look to slots opening up in the division of labour thanks to the liberal mindedness of advanced economies, look to the contrasting political economy of the Maoist PRC and India’s post-independence political economy. As Kapur and Subramian note: The great divergence between China and India did not begin in 1978 with the Deng reforms—it was well underway by then. In one of the great ironies of modern history, the conditions created by Maoism turned out to be a great launching pad for industrial globalization. As the comparison of India and China in 1980 makes clear, to imagine manufacturing would be equally distributed when populations are so differently endowed in terms of educational and nutritional is fanciful. Here is the data from Kapur and Subramanian, data which I explored back at the very beginning of Chartbook. As Kapur and Subramanian insist, the striking fact is that even as India’s growth accelerated from the 1980s, structural change has not. Formal employment in India lags woefully behind. Why? As Kapur and Subramanian note, the path-dependent impact of India’s poor early start was devastating. The list of factors they mention is long and weighty: We argue for a new five-fold explanation applicable at different stages of Indian history: in the initial stages, the legacy of two key pre-1980s policies, the neglect of agriculture and the strangling of the domestic private sector, were critical. The failure of broad-based agricultural growth militated against rural industrialization, which would have been devoted to satisfying local needs that would have necessarily been labour intensive. Then, when the boom came after 1980, the thicket of regulation and broader labour protections that were legislated prematurely in a nascent democracy, underpinned by a deep ideological aversion to private capital in general and big capital specifically, became a barrier to attaining the size that would be necessary to compete globally. Similarly, the reforms after 1991, while wide-ranging, did not quite encompass non-tradeable inputs critical to manufacturing, namely, land, logistics infrastructure and power. A combination of low investment (logistics infrastructure), regulation (land) and the continued monopoly supply by state governments (power), combined with residual socialism, kept costs at 75–100 per cent above efficient supply. These factors were compounded on the supply side by the government, which dominated the formal labour market and established exorbitantly high wages at the lower end of the skill spectrum. This made their employment in the labour-intensive sector by the private sector less attractive. Finally, when the services sector and its exports boomed, wages soared even further via a Dutch Disease effect: one successful tradeable sector killed and cannibalized another less-skilled tradable sector, namely, manufacturing. Thus, scarcity-inducing policies of the planning era, precocious democracy and a Gandhian aversion to size; inefficient, monopolistic supply of critical non-tradable inputs; the behemoth of government; and super-successful skill-intensive services successively undermined India’s unskilled labour employment opportunities. The employment failure seems to have been over-determined. … Less quantifiable but no less important are some of the sociological factors that have undermined manufacturing and factory jobs. Take the impact of the success of the IT sector—located in urban areas with better working conditions, such as air-conditioned offices, good schools for children and attractive entertainment options. It became a more attractive place for engineering and management graduates to flock to. … Consider manufacturing and female employment. Indian society makes it difficult for women to work, reflected in India’s unusually low female labour force participation (elaborated in Chapter XIII). Indian society, in particular the routine harassment of women in public spaces, makes it even more difficult for them to travel long distances to take up work.37 Combined with onerous regulations on creating hostels and dormitories for women—which, in turn, prevents multiple shifts of operation—factories need to be located in areas with a large female labour pool. While firms can take apparel plants to female labour or bring them to the plants by building large-scale dormitories, this raises costs. If there was a case for subsidies to encourage labour-intensive manufacturing, housing subsidies to build dormitories for women workers would be a good place to start. All of this meant, that when opportunities did open up, in part thanks to adjustments in China, India was in no position to take advantage. Here is the account of the 2020s from Kapur and Subramanian. It stands in dizzying contrast to the one-sided, “China squeeze” argument delivered in the Peterson and Foreign Affairs pieces: In 2022, for example, India’s share of global exports in clothing (the canonical labour-intensive sector) was 3.1 per cent compared to 32 per cent for China. This is extremely disappointing because China started vacating export space in this sector after the Global Financial Crisis as its wages started rising; it then vacated further space in the aftermath of geopolitical developments that led investors to seek alternative investment locations. Between its peak and today, China lost about 7.5 percentage points of global export share (worth about $43 billion in 2022); over this period, India’s export share remained stagnant at 3 per cent, while that of Vietnam and Bangladesh rose by 3.5 to 4 percentage points. China’s loss did not translate into any gain for India in terms of low-skill exports and employment. Put differently, when the conditions for dynamism and prosperity were established after 1991, and even more tantalizingly when the global export opportunities opened up, it was as if India was a high-wage economy and only skilled labour could benefit from the dynamism. It had converted its physically abundant unskilled workforce into an economically expensive resource, penalizing its use. It is not my mission here to argue for or against Kapur and Subramanian’s interpretation of India’s development trajectory. The point in this context is simply that the “China squeeze” such as it is can only be understood, in relation to the heavy burden of domestic constraints that Kapur and Subramanian so unsparingly enumerate. I am concentrating here on India because it is the great counterpart to China and the unspoken reference point of the “China squeeze” discourse. But the point is more general. Can anyone with a straight face suggest that the main problems afflicting the development of South Africa or Nigeria, the great centers of mass underemployment in sub-saharan Africa, are cheap competition from China driven by Beijing’s industrial policy and an undervalued RMB? Likewise, is the main problem of the American working-class the threat of Chinese competition or the manifest crisis of social reproduction in the United States itself? The point here, as in the discourse around China shock 2.0 in Europe, is to insist that we should not normalize the world and pathologize China, without actually investigating what is going on in America’s industrial wastelands, the German car industry, or India’s lopsided labour market. One-sided pathologization should be understood for what it is, a polemical gesture. Concepts like China shock and China squeeze are, what Reinhart Koselleck, following Carl Schmitt, would have described as “asymmetrische Kampfbegriffe”, or “asymmetrical counter-concepts” or “asymmetrical combat concepts”. If the function of arguments like the “China squeeze” is to alert elites in the rest of the world of the need to rejuvenate and energize their development projects, so be it. But let us see the resulting discourses as the mobilizing interventions that they are. Interestingly, a significant slice of China’s public sphere - the so-called industrial party - have been obsessed for the last twenty years with precisely these questions of counterfactual economic history. Since the mid 2000s, a massive online discourse developed around an alternative history in which Chinese techno-patriots were asked to imagine how they would proceed if they had the possibility of traveling back in time to transport modern technology into the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) thus averting the “great divergence” of the 18th and 19th centuries. It is a fantasy of course, but also a goad. The point was not directed at Westerners. The alternate history is dramatically nationalist, but few n the West had even heard of it until recently. The adherents of the industrial party are not liberal moralists. They don’t project natural ladders of international development and ask why others don’t cede space. They take the Realpolitik of global economic development for granted. Their pointe was directed against fellow Chinese. The rallying cry of the alternative narrative was this: Now that we are beginning to gain steam and push forward on our national development path, now that we are breaking out of the inferior position assigned to us even in the early years following WTO accession, do not lose yourself in humanistic imaginings about better futures. In the spirit of Deng, they called on China to embrace the hard truth of development. Perhaps one might of the Industrial Party as a cultural trend born out of desire for symbolic revenge against those who had inflicted the century of humiliation. In terms of the various temporalities of the “China shock” - retrospective, prospective and counterfactual - one might think of the Industrial Policy discourse as truly speculative, conjuring up the China shock that never was. Or perhaps one might better think of it as imagining a world in which a powerful China was no shock at all, but simply a defining fact of modern history. I love putting out Chartbook. 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Maple Leafs Plan Has Side No One Is Talking About

There is a side to the Toronto Maple Leafs plan this offseason that no one is really talking about, resembling one notable past attempt. The post Maple Leafs Plan Has Side No One Is Talking About appeared first on HEAVY.

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Aug 4 • 2:06 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Director Vincent Ward denies thinking Samantha Morton was Emily Watson on movie shoot: ‘Impossible’

Vincent Ward, the Kiwi director of 2005’s ‘River Queen,’ tells EW that it’s ‘impossible’ he could have confused his star, Samantha Morton, for Emily Watson on set, as Morton recently claimed.

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Aug 3 • 11:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Former Raptor Chris Bosh Sends Encouraging Message To Victor Wembanyama

Bosh, who has dealt with blood clots, extended his advice to Wembanyama, who has also dealt with the diagnosis.

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Aug 3 • 5:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science

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Aug 3 • 11:10 AM EDT • Science • wchstv.com
West Bend farmer worries sediment from city construction project might hurt his business

A West Bend farm owner is speaking out after sediment flowed onto his property during Monday’s rain, and he said the city might be to blame.

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Aug 3 • 9:30 AM EDT • Business • tmj4.com
Maple Leafs continue organizational overhaul with hire of Sidney Crosby’s trainer, Andy O’Brien

O’Brien will oversee strength and conditioning, as well as areas like nutrition, injury rehabilitation and sport science.

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Aug 3 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com