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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 08/08/2026

New office set up. Should've added these monitors years ago instead of working just off a sole laptop screen all this time like a pauper.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17/07/2026

Very cool to see my latest chapter out, with @katepuddister.bsky.social, on provincial constitutional unilateralism and weak federal powers. Thanks to the editors for the invite to write!

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/06/2026

I'll take it. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/06/2026

I was curious what ChatGPT would say, so I asked it. This is basically right:

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17/05/2026

I might have to spend the weekend working on my CPSA papers, but I will do it in my summer office.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 05/05/2026

Page proofs! My chapter in Richard Albert et al., eds. "Rewriting the Canadian Constitution" book, coming soon via University of Toronto Press.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 01/05/2026

Here's Google's AI answering a question I asked about when the Alford case was heard at the SCC. See that description at the bottom? IT'S COMPLETELY INACCURATE.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 19/04/2026

Yeah, who needs space to situate and justify the importance of your contribution in existing knowledge or explain the implications of your findings when you can just blurt out what your non-generalizable focus group 'experiment' did or said.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17/04/2026

Nice to see my latest journal article IN PRINT(!) - part of a special double issue of the National Journal of Constitutional Law in honour of the late Peter Hogg. My thanks to Jamie Cameron and her co-editors for the invitation to contribute.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 16/03/2026

Coming soon, a peer-reviewed piece from me on Canada's approach to online hate speech, and why the UK provides a better alternative to the Trudeau/Carney approach. My thanks to Dax D'Orazio for the invite to write and to Richard Mailey for guiding the publication process at Constitutional Forum.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 16/03/2026

My university replaced one of the few food places on the south end of campus with a solitary vending machine. #BudgetCrisis

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 04/03/2026

Fuuuuuck this. In the midst of a budget crisis and hiring freeze, my university has money to pour into the AI slop bubble.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 06/02/2026

Page proofs in my inbox, coming soon to the National Journal of Constitutional Law!

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 30/01/2026

The Spring/Summer UTP catalog is out! Page 27 is lookin' goooood. @uoftpress.bsky.social utppublishing.com/pb-assets/bo...

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 12/01/2026

I see the publisher has a marketing page up for my next edited book - with the amazing @katepuddister.bsky.social - so I'm thrilled to be able to publicly share the (very cool) cover:

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 02/01/2026

Finally finished the Back to the Future time machine. #LEGO

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/12/2025

Starting to think the freezing rain is gonna get bad...

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/12/2025

Lookit what i got for Christmas! Apparently sold out globally in 10 minutes.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/12/2025

Thrilled to get Minh Do's brand new book in my hands, from @ubcpress.bsky.social. Very proud of my brilliant friend (and former student).

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 04/12/2025

Just received the copyedits for our forthcoming book with University of Toronto Press. This will be my 9th book (6th edited collection). Another amazing group of contributors!

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/11/2025

Some major accumulation here in Waterloo, and it's still snowing...

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/09/2025

Watched Firefly with the kiddo, so today we watched the Serenity movie. Kiddo just came up to me, "look, I made the front of a Reaver ship!"

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/09/2025

I went out and bought a physical copy, because, and damn. $6.73? I was a mildly outraged old man "In my day, you could get a newspaper for 25 cents!"

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 30/06/2025

"The country demands your obsequience." People like this are fucking psychos.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 07/05/2025

Only like the 3rd day of the year I've been able to work outside on the deck.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/04/2025

If you want to see why younger generations are so open to voting for right-wing populists, take a look at this depressing-as-fuck chart. Curious what the data says for Canada - might not be as bad but I'd be the trends are similar.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/03/2025

I guess I'll end this thread with this, from Carney's thesis supervisor. I don't think she's entirely wrong to push back on this, as it is a bit of a stretch, and an obvious political attack more than it is a meaningful election story.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/03/2025

Page proofs are in... My 8th book, a great, substantive collection in honour of Janet Hiebert. Coming soon!

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/03/2025

There are no mirrors in the National Post offices... #projection

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 30/01/2025

Trump blames DEI for deadly midair collision. This is real life, apparently.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 25/12/2024

THE Christmas Movie. Merry Christmas, everyone!

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 07/12/2024

This image is a great of example of two things: 1) the bizarre recent focus on 'GDP per capita' in Canada doesn't tell us much about anything. 2) The variance between US 'average 'vs' median wealth, compared to the consistency of Canada's, tells you much about wealth inequality in the two countries.

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