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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦

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Professor of political science. Author. Dad. Constitutional law, rights, governing institutions, and Canadian politics. Books: Legislating under the Charter; Constitutional Pariah; Governing from the Bench

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 2h
I laughed HARD when ***Tom Morello*** was being introduced to do a musical set on Kimmel last night and ahead of it we get a message that the musical act is sponsored by Uber Eats.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 3h
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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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 8h
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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🇨🇦 Kari Raymer Bishop @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 2h
Yes. I said it just makes it look like they are doing something about it rather than expanding services. It appeals to the pettiness of residents who don't want outsiders to have access to their limited programs.
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 2h
85,000+ spots. A little over 1,200 non-resident registrations - about 1.5%. Barely an issue. The real problem is underinvestment in facilities for as long as memory serves. This city’s leadership and electorate are profoundly frustrating.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 3h
Why would my guess be that the actual numbers of 'non-residents' making this worse tiny?
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 3h
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 · 3h
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...
uwaterloo.ca
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 8h
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 · 12h
Also, socks on top of socks? Fucking psychos.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 12h
No thanks. I'll stick to jeans and ONE shirt.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026
You first, fuckfaces.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026
I, for one, have been consistently pro-escalation.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026
Yeah, they're on year 15 of trying to work on it.
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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 · 29/09/2026
Yes, I do want our target on the right thing. I've (fairly recently) moved over to Team 'Tax Billionaires Out of Existence". Surely 999 million is enough.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026
No missing the boat - two completely different boats.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/09/2026
Nope.
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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
This is why elections at all levels should be publicly funded and we should do away with anything other than small individual donations.
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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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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Not sure if it's wise to let a bad faith actor drive, instrumentalize and pre-empt the constitutional space while all others (Ottawa included) remain silent.... www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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Premiers keeping cards close on constitutional changes pitched in Alberta referendum
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's counterparts across the country are keeping their cards close to their chest on where they stand on the major constitutional reforms Smith is sending
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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 Max Scherzer day is fun as hell. #Jays
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Must read @patricklennox.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/alberta-sepa...
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Alberta Separatism Is Built on a Big Lie | The Walrus
Danielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis
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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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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/09/2026
Guy is a walking joke.
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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
Ugh. Gross.
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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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Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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When evidence, economic arguments and the law aren’t enough: Responding to political attacks on harm reduction | CATIE Blog
Across Canada, harm reduction is under attack. Innovative and evidence-informed programs have been cut, reversed and shuttered. Politicians are retreating from progressive drug policies.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026
Uhhh literally.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026
Sure. But how about a train between Calgary and Edmonton? Oh, wait, doesn't even exist. How about Waterloo to Toronto more than once a day? Y'know, like a real country.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026
But at least now we'll build the passenger cars that go slow, get stopped by leaves on the tracks, and often have to wait for freight to go by before moving at all.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026
Canada has train service that is not only considerably worse than most comparable rich countries; it is considerably worse than many much poorer countries.
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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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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 25/09/2026
Yep, but even then not necessarily like this.
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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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