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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 44m

Glad to see there are important issues being address in Ottawa. What the fuck even is this? Are the Gatineau folks swamping Ottawa pools or something?

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 5h

When Quebec first purported to unilaterally amend the Constitution of Canada, few seemed to care. I dove headlong into writing a scholarly treatment calling out the BS: digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol60/i... Now QC politicians falsely claim the prov can abandon core institutions of gov't.

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Provincial Constitutions, the Amending Formula, and Unilateral Amendments to the Constitution of Canada: An Analysis of Quebec’s Bill 96

This article critically analyzes provincial authority to unilaterally amend the Constitution of Canada. Via an assessment of the purported amendments in Quebec’s Bill 96, which would recognize Quebece...

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 55m

POLITICAL SCIENCE JOB AD: Tenure-track position in International Relations at the University of Waterloo. We're *very happy* to announce this. Applications due Nov. 1st; job start date July 2027. Details here (pdf): uwaterloo.ca/arts/sites/d...

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Provincial Constitutions, the Amending Formula, and Unilateral Amendments to the Constitution of Canada: An Analysis of Quebec’s Bill 96

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 9h

No thanks. I'll stick to jeans and ONE shirt.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22h

wake up babe, new Skynet/ Matrix/ WOPR/ robot apocalypse strategy just bounced: they're going to use the brain-rotted guy in charge of health policy to tell us to all start licking measles homeopathically.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No matter what happens in the 2026 midterms -- or even the 2028 presidential election -- Canadians will never trust the United States the way it used to. The north remembers. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/o...

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America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes

Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026

Great, next get me some inter-city public transportation between Waterloo Region (the 10th-largest census area in Canada) and Toronto (the largest) that doesn't take 2 hours.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026

This might be the Pitchbot's best pitch ever.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whether it’s Benjamin Netanyahu empowering Hamas, presiding over a massive intelligence failure that let them kill 1,200 Israelis on October 7th, and then killing 74,000 Palestinians in response or Zohran Mamdani pointing out that he did this, both men have fueled their bitter feud.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/09/2026

I'm mostly impressed by how flat after-tax income inequality is over the decades in Canada (and market income inequality since 2000) despite an insistence on importing US rhetoric about "rising inequality" by some Canadian commentators. (We do have a big wealth concentration problem tho!)

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Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Definitely part of it. We've also compartmentalized most substance use disorder prevention and treatment outside of the conventional healthcare system, and rely too heavily on unregulated private treatment models and informal peer support.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/09/2026

The answer to this question seems straightforward to me. We live in a society where drinking alcohol is normalized, if not 'cool', and we elect Premiers whose big ideas are things like Buck-a-Beer. In other words - as with many policy problems - the reason they seem vexing is that we're idiots.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/09/2026

Ew, John, WTF... Canada's brand of partisanship does nothing but make everything worse.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/09/2026

The problem is the result would almost surely be to further decentralization/provincial powers, which is inherently a terrible idea given how utter shit they are at governing.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've never liked ICE. Even back when they used to call themselves the Klan.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/09/2026

This is just further proof to me that the bubble will eventually pop. Maybe not next year, but in the next five or ten, the bubble will pop catastrophically, when these Tech goons try to monetize their 'product' for the masses, but turns out it's only useful in very discrete contexts.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I keep coming back to this clip against the background of AI companies infesting higher education. And I feel like I need to show this in class to students, for them to understand why not to trust these bastards

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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday Schadenfreude 🔥

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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Boycotts aside, this kind of thing seems like a pretty good reason to avoid American products at least for the foreseeable.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026

What the ever loving fuck is happening... (also, this *looks* a lot like it's AI-generated).

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Probably time to stop calling them judges

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026

If only passenger train service was functional in this country...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026

tucker carlson is a foppish frozen TV dinner empire heir, a virulent bigot, and a grotesque opportunist/propagandist. it's embarrassing that NPR editors think he needs more attention for his phony-ass pivot away from a nightmare he helped build

NPR headline for tucker carlson interview: "Tucker Carlson has reconsidered Trump. And quite a bit else."

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 25/09/2026

Illiberal perversion of 'secularism' (i.e., not secularism but merely forced irreligion viciously attacking minorities). And cowardly federal politicians won't even speak out against it.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 25/09/2026

As others point out, Ontario is not too different. Ford is an unbelievably bad premier, even if he is a bit less evil than Smith, and yet Ontarians shrug and re-elect his party.

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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes we do.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 25/09/2026

Brutal that 41% still support someone as fucking horrible as Danielle Smith.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 25/09/2026

I don't care about whether "fraud" is the correct word, but this AI abuse shit is blatant academic misconduct, universities should come down hard on faculty who do this, and no principled scholar should cite these people. medium.com/techx-offici...

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Meet a Professor Who Wrote 200+ Papers This Year — Using AI

200 Papers, 14 Books and a Growing Debate Over AI in Research

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026

It turns out "Daniel Robson" is also a prolific contributor to the Western Standard His first articles for WS were published February 2026, the morning after the Tumbler Ridge school shooting Since then, it's a lot of criticisms focused on crime, immigration and pro-Palestinian protesters

Daniel Robson is an independent Canadian journalist specializing in extremism, terrorism, and crime. His work Tocuses on nauonal ana communirv secuntv. as well as the legal. Institutional. and voicv dimensions of public safety. He writes on emerging threats, digital extremism, and accountability in Canada.

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Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This story is pure rage-bait to anyone under 50. A couple enjoyed a multi-million dollar windfall, essentially through dumb luck as property prices rose, and now get a dedicated CBC story to complain about how that might be slightly dampened due to new affordable housing.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/09/2026

New reporting from @globalnews.ca: “The gunman accused of opening fire at police outside an Ontario synagogue left the army after expressing conspiracy theories about COVID-19”

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Belleville gunman spouted COVID-19 conspiracies while in army, say sources | Globalnews.ca

The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unfortunate that this is likely to be the new, time-consuming reality for editors. Handled with rigour, care and integrity by @perreaux.bsky.social & @irpp.org. This is how you build and maintain a trustworthy publication. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/09/dani...

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Why Policy Options removed an article published under the name Daniel Robson

Policy Options removed an article after concerns about the contributor’s identity could not be resolved. Here is what happened and why.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Kelly Blidook @kblidook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is always opportunism in politics & Canadians are used to leaders playing games with elections. But what Eby did here is beyond what most will accept - not surprised if it makes otherwise potential supporters hate him.

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Paul Adams @pauladams29.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is absolutely devastating.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 24/09/2026

Trying to avoid controversy by adopting a veneer of "political neutrality" and letting one of your opening acts be kicked off your tour is NOT apolitical, it is in fact very political.

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