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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 7h

I'm just looking at how flimsy section 16 rights are in practice with the assumption that it continues to exist so long as Quebec needs to be accommodated.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 7h

I grew up in the shadow of Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada (APEC) in my neck of northern Ontario

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 7h

But I'm still stuck on the assumption that francophone rights are underpinned by Quebec. I get some of the calculus. But it's uncomfortable calculus.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 7h

I'm Franco Ontarian. I'm expecting lots of splash damage if it comes to pass

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 7h

1985. And the premier of Manitoba was trolling the opposition by speaking French in the legislative Assembly recently

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 7h

And how about francophones outside Quebec get 1/4 of what English Quebec gets in supports...

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 7h

Why abrogate the constitutional rights of francophones outside Quebec?

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 7h

The justice system doesn't launch formal government probes just because internet strangers are JAQing off in public about a public photograph. If you ever find an actual legal predicate, let me know.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 8h

Knowing a scumbag isn't a criminal offense. You seem to be wanting a whitewater or Benghazi shaped investigation before coming up with a predicate.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 8h

She's Robert Maxwell's favourite daughter, and he was a senior civil servant and a banker. I would have been more surprised if they never crossed paths.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 8h

No, I'm opposed to whitewater shaped endless investigation in the middle of a trade war.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 8h

He knows a scumbag. That's not criminal

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, and I also know what a whitewater-style fishing expedition is.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 8h

On what grounds? What law are you alleging he broke? Being at the same concert as a sexual assault perpetrator isn't a violation of Canadian law.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And they still create spinoff jobs. Oil and gas isn't an island. They eat, need a place to sleep...

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Proof is only relevant in math and grain alcohol :-). Epistemology, the science of how we know what we know can be a mind bender.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had it covered in a course on revolutions (post French Revolution) 3rd year, and briefly on a course on the soviet Union (3rd year since it helped explain the first Duma, but more on how things shook out rather than blow by blow). It was briefly covered in 4th year European historiography

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is that... Is that Sherrod Brown's music... It is...what's he doing with that steel chair... And his climbing on the top rope with a steel chair....

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Agreed. But Omar's bill in 2022 (the first democratic trifecta after Trump I) never made it out of committee.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The US has to invade the Hague if an American is held there on trial. And Biden, Kerry, and Wyden voted for this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

en.wikipedia.org

American Service-Members' Protection Act - Wikipedia

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America... This passed with more democratic party votes than republican votes in the Senate including Biden, Kerry and Wyden.

en.wikipedia.org

American Service-Members' Protection Act - Wikipedia

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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

hilarious and insane article. full of the sorts of people you meet all the time in left activism, who combine neuroticism and narcissism to bring down any institution they're allowed into.

bostonglobe.com

A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. - The Boston Globe

Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I recognize it from Brad DeLong's podcast.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pakistan supported the Taliban because it got the Pashtun militias to stop pushing for independence of the Pashtun territories from the Pakistani state for a bit and focused most of their energy on Afghanistan and the US for a while. It was always kicking the can down the road but they got 20 years.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I didn't find Crawford in the article, maybe it got rewritten after the snip. But when I first read the extract I zoomed in on Crawford since it's 45 min from where I'm standing

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Crawford is in Northern Ontario, not NS...

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Heranimos Swingle, Padded Gambeson Man @pashaspider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ea nasir cannot keep getting away with it

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So they delegated the power to the executive since they need to win a plurality of the electoral college and are less likely to do parochial tariffs (the chicken tax and softwood lumber I to V being the obvious exceptions that prove the rule before Trump)

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Before 1930, Congress loved pork barrel tariffs to protect against foreign competition, protect a domestic manufacturer or knife another state. During the great depression, confess realized they were too parochial with the tariff power (especially after the income tax)

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Smoot-hawley allows for the president to impose a tariff of no more than 50% ad valorum or ban the importation of a good if they make a determination that a us made good is given less favourable treatment than another foreign good.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No need to be manachean about this. The national policy did lead to Canadian industrialization. Why does he need to be a saint?

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yeah, Scalia used Jack Bauer saving LA in a talk in 2008. newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/berkele...

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03.05.2008 - Prime-time torture gets a reality check

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Readings Gíap really recontextualizes the Vietnam War.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And trigger time - all things being equal - beats Gucci gear

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I will say that 22lr and PCPs are a great way to get trigger time on the cheap.

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Since my request went ignore on linkedin

Dear Professor Kaufmann, Mr. Rasmussen, Mr. Davids, and Mr. Crowley,

I am a professor of economics at the University of Calgary. My research is in tax and transfer policy, inequality, and intersectional and gender-based policy analysis, and I work on measurement questions in research evaluation. I am writing to request the data and code underlying The Equity-Excellence Trade-off: A Study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program (Macdonald-Laurier Institute, September 2026).

So that you have it up front: I intend to publish this request. I will note in due course whether the materials were provided.

I could not locate a data availability statement or a replication archive in the report or on the MLI page for it. Specifically, I would be grateful for:

1. The analysis file underlying Figures 11 and 12, including the estimation sample.
2. The code used to construct the h-index measures, including the rule for computing the h-index in the year prior to appointment, and the retrieval date of the OpenAlex data.
3. The race and sex classifications assigned to each chairholder, together with the method used to produce them — the model or dictionary applied, the prompts or parameters, the coding protocol for the human reviewer, and any measures of intercoder agreement or validation against the program's published self-identification statistics.
4. Regression tables for the models presented in Figures 11 and 12, with coefficients, standard errors, and cell counts.
5. An accounting of the movement from the 2,008 profiles described in the data section to the estimation samples of 1,781 to 1,906.
6. The specification underlying the raw-scale coefficients of 4.8 and 3.2 h-index points, given that the displayed models are estimated on log-transformed h-indices.

I am also interested in whether you considered merging the chairholder registry with the councils' published awards data — SSHRC's awards search, NSERC's open awards files, and CIHR's funding decisions database. Tho…

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.

docs.google.com

Alex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley

(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Jason Kenney keeps telling us about his racism, and yet the commentariat in this country keeps trying to turn him into an elder statesman.

Jason Kenney

Eric Kaufmann @epkaufm is one of the most globally influential Canadian public intellectuals.

Together with @christopherrufo, he has been one of the Anglosphere's most trenchant and effective critics of woke extremism.

Follow him and is research.

Trigger warning: he is not politically correct.

Eric Kaufmann:

SCANDAL: It costs Canada millions to discriminate against white male academics

My latest in @nationalpost on the waste and race/sex discrimination driving the prestigious Canada Research Chairs programme:

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Molon labe - Xeres did come and get them at the end of the day.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Berries used to be a seasonal treat, not a supermarket staple.

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's like how a lot of the New Atheism was like a Linux distro running Calvinism under the hood. (Damnation, no chance of redemption, Sunday gatherings, fire-and-brimstone preaching...)

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Even then, it wasn't evenly distributed (see Jim Crow, lack of female rights (like a bank account or credit in her own name) and mostly concentrated in the Midwest and North East (and some small pockets of California)

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Martin R. Lefebvre PhD 🇨🇦 @martinlev.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I have ancestors who mustered against Benedict Arnold...

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