William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025As I wrote, my experience living in Quebec led me to spread the gospel of its importance and uniqueness to an increasingly less receptive English Canada. The government claiming out-of-province students are extractive and harmful to Quebec society is both inaccurate and insulting. 100
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025Beyond the wild accounting there is also this bananas policy: 000
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Exploiting secrecy loopholes and differences in the administration of taxation on cross-border commercial activity: a tale as old as Western civilization. 110
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025At the time, I hand-waved Trump's attempts at this during his first term, as he used only words and not state power. 000
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025China has tended only to do this for public-facing statements and officials. The US, meanwhile, appears to be targeting the internal policies of otherwise obscure corporations. 100
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025"China is uniquely situated to leverage this type of market power due to its enormous, growing consumer base and authoritarian structure." Not unique any more! 110
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 29/03/2025In practice, this manifested in many high profile instances of foreign MNCs parroting Chinese gov talking points or explicitly endorsing controversial positions in their home markets. Famously, Dreamworks included a map in the background of a children's movie depicting the nine-dash line. 100
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025This would be so funny if it didn't belie something so terrifying. 000
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025This is precisely right and if other universities or, indeed, Columbia's admin, think pre-emptive compliance will save them they are gravely mistaken. 010
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025A woke DEI hire who casually dominated the league immediately upon arrival. 000
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Hyperbolic? Probably. But terrifying nonetheless! 000
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Primary undergraduate: 6 universities, all in the bottom 8 including the lowest 4. 110
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Comprehensive: 8 universities, all in the bottom 9 including the lowest 6. 100
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Medical/doctoral: 5 universities, all in the bottom 6, including lowest 4. 100
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Browsing this year's MacLean's University rankings reveals the severe state of higher ed in Ontario: Every single Ontario university has a terrible student-faculty ratio across all three categories. Not a single institution that isn't at the very bottom of this metric. 110
William D. O'Connell @williamoconnell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024A very succinct (and damning) analysis of the insularity of Canadian progressive politics. 000