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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Here we go. Time for session one (for me) of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) annual conference. A session on Municipal resilience in the face of multiple, inter-related threats. Learning time!

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Yeah. Nice reboot of their old 1988 ad.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’m gonna bet that you won’t find the senior advisors of any other party leader wearing one of these.

Jenny Byrne wearing a red “Make America Great Again” ball cap with a Hill Times write up about her influential position with Poilievre.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

For the curious, here’s the original:

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Translation: if this keeps up, the foundation of American constitutionalism is dead. It will be a failed state run by the whims of rich people, with compliance enforced through basic economic deprivation.

An image of lyrics.

You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Yes. Definitely. Except they may also be right.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hey, Canadian media: where are the stories on this? I understand that the tariffs are first priority but… this is really serious. Get on it, will ya?

Screen capture of multiple stories about Musk’s invasion of US government financial systems, none of which are from Canadian outlets.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

It’s been a long time coming. I always wanted to attend this event with my dad but we never did. Now that it’s in my city, I couldn’t miss it. I grabbed a ticket to the opening game and here we are, 10 minutes to puck drop.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Good god, yes. I could not believe my eyes when a friend got one of these… then Christmas came and there it was! I did not leave the couch for days.

Image of a 1978 handheld game called “Electronic Quarterback.” It is white plastic with a bright green panel with five red and blue buttons, two switches, and a small LED screen.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This is the disconnected, childish assessment of a deeply immature and dangerously powerful person.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We are going to die… sooner than anticipated.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

This is always a day for personal reflection for me. War had a deep, intergenerational impact on my family. Remembrance is about “never again,” not glory. There is no glory in war. The costs are high and ripple through families with quiet violence.

Old, sepia-toned picture of my grandfather as a younger man.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

From the conclusion of a paper I wrote in 2015 (with @JonathanRose). Our systems of discourse are becoming more and more democratically unstable. And potential fixes now seem even more politically and practically out of reach. Buckle up.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I have no doubt at all that he grew up watching Moonraker and, instead of dreaming of being Bond, his heart sang with the ambition of Hugo Drax.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

This is the Ottawa we need right now. Calm, kind, compassionate, and focused on solutions. Acting from fear simply breeds hate and solves nothing. Good for Jamine. Thank you. Now we need every compassionate Ottawa resident who’s able to stand up and help. Don’t let fear win.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

This’s what toxic, entitled hypocrisy looks like. This, from an elected official who has repeatedly begged for compassion from her constituents to make allowances for her own serious mental health battles… now denigrating basic mental health supports… to score partisan points.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

This description (from Ivison) captures much that is wrong with the political culture in this country. The parties and the pundits seem to only see the partisan lines and over-excited participants on each "side." This isn't a damn sport. This is not your NFL fantasy league. /1

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