Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 2hI 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. 0100
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 3hPOLITICAL 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 12525
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 8hWhen 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.digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.caProvincial Constitutions, the Amending Formula, and Unilateral Amendments to the Constitution of Canada: An Analysis of Quebec’s Bill 96This 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... 03820
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦🇨🇦 Kari Raymer Bishop @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 2hYes. 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. 151
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 2h85,000+ 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. 1131
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 3hWhy would my guess be that the actual numbers of 'non-residents' making this worse tiny? 230
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 3hGlad 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? 9272
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 3hPOLITICAL 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 12525
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 8hWhen 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.digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.caProvincial Constitutions, the Amending Formula, and Unilateral Amendments to the Constitution of Canada: An Analysis of Quebec’s Bill 96This 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... 03820
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026wake 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. 1012740
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026I, for one, have been consistently pro-escalation. 0120
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026Yeah, they're on year 15 of trying to work on it. 160
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026No 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...nationalobserver.comAmerica still doesn't understand how deep the rift goesMemo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you 33462160
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026Great, 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. 55014
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026This might be the Pitchbot's best pitch ever. 05712
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Whether 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. 231647299
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026Yes, 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. 110
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 29/09/2026No missing the boat - two completely different boats. 100
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/09/2026I'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!) 42310
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Definitely 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. 0195
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/09/2026The 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. 47121
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/09/2026This is why elections at all levels should be publicly funded and we should do away with anything other than small individual donations. 010
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/09/2026Ew, John, WTF... Canada's brand of partisanship does nothing but make everything worse. 4304
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/09/2026The 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. 5565
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not 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/...thestar.comPremiers keeping cards close on constitutional changes pitched in Alberta referendumEDMONTON - 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 13014
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've never liked ICE. Even back when they used to call themselves the Klan. 179106872212
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/09/2026This Max Scherzer day is fun as hell. #Jays 3440
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Must read @patricklennox.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/alberta-sepa...thewalrus.caAlberta Separatism Is Built on a Big Lie | The WalrusDanielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis 04427
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/09/2026This 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. 2397
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I 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 61378422
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sunday Schadenfreude 🔥 0186
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Michael Karanicolas @karanicolas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Boycotts aside, this kind of thing seems like a pretty good reason to avoid American products at least for the foreseeable. 33911
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026What the ever loving fuck is happening... (also, this *looks* a lot like it's AI-generated). 9473
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Susan 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 804141948
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Probably time to stop calling them judges 371146248
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Elaine Hyshka @ehyshka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026blog.catie.ca/2026/08/17/w...blog.catie.caWhen evidence, economic arguments and the law aren’t enough: Responding to political attacks on harm reduction | CATIE BlogAcross Canada, harm reduction is under attack. Innovative and evidence-informed programs have been cut, reversed and shuttered. Politicians are retreating from progressive drug policies. 066
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026Sure. 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. 020
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026But 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. 4372
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026Canada has train service that is not only considerably worse than most comparable rich countries; it is considerably worse than many much poorer countries. 2467
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 26/09/2026If only passenger train service was functional in this country... 57310
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 25/09/2026Yep, but even then not necessarily like this. 010
Reposted by Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026tucker 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 50968208