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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

Re-upping this, and looking forward to taking the 9 year-old to see it next week.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦

Brand New Day is... a great movie. Kinda Thunderbolts-esque 3rd act resolution. Great character stuff. Some good action. Well acted. A couple surprise appearances. Top 15 Marvel film.

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Brand New Day is... a great movie. Kinda Thunderbolts-esque 3rd act resolution. Great character stuff. Some good action. Well acted. A couple surprise appearances. Top 15 Marvel film.

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A reminder that provincial secession is not actually constitutionally possible.

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Great look, guys! Keep administrating. 🙄 breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The BreachUniversities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidencebreachmedia.ca
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A monumental decision today for law nerds by the SCC, declaring privative clauses that purport to oust judicial unconstitutional. But the Court's reasons are as interesting for what they *don't* include: only but one brief reference to the "sovereignty" of the legislature. 1/n

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I'll believe these numbers matter when the criminal motherfucker is impeached, removed from office, and in jail.

Greg Sargent

Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...

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Indeed, the lesson of the "Freedom Convoy" is that it was better to allow lawlessness by hateful, anti-science rabble occupying the nation's Capital than to clear them the fuck out after *three weeks* as if the country was willing to apply the rule of law.

Michael DeMoor

Even in Canada, I fear that the key lessons politicians have “learned” from the pandemic is that it is less political trouble for them to let people die than it is to do what’s necessary to keep them alive.

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AND WHY ARE ANY PEOPLE WHO THINK OF THEMSELVES AS DECENT HUMAN BEINGS STILL ON 'X'????

Gregg Gonsalves

"If there is a question to ask, then, it is this: Why does Musk get a pass? Why do politicians, journalists and commentators treat his far-right racist radicalism as a sideshow rather than the core of his political, ideological and industrial project..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

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This is why Tech CEOs are the opposite of the geniuses the media portray: AI is NOT real "artificial intelligence". It doesn't reason. It synthesizes information in ways that fools people into thinking it is generating something original. Passing the Turing Test /= 'the singularity'.

Karl Bode

CEO said a thing!

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Whoever is behind these AI-written 'book club' scam emails deserves the death penalty.

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I've played around with AI enough to know what it is - and any academic using it as more than a fancy search engine is playing with fire. It is capable of some degree of synthesis, often flawed, and that's about it. If you're letting it do your thinking for you, you're a fraud.

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They existed, but actually the pandemic produced a massive right-wing backlash that has greatly increased vaccine hesitancy and antivax attitudes.

Still a Prairie Girl

There were a lot of anti-science, anti-government, anti-vax people before COVID. The convoy just gave them a voice.

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An agenda of evil. And never forget that there are a LOT of people in Canada who gave credence to the anti-science, anti-vax "Freedom Convoy" and we're seeing the results: measles outbreaks and fools not getting their kids standard vaccines.

Nick Tsergas

This is absolutely going to have an effect on AI search results and bot-summaries. Looking closely at how the page is constructed, that seems to be the point.

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Supremely gratifying to see Yan Campagnolo and Camille Bontems publish a new article in McGill Law Journal on the Quebec National Assembly's purported abolition of the oath requirement, contrary to our constitutional amending rules... lawjournal.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

View of L’abolition unilatérale du serment au roi par le Québec est-elle constitutionnelle ? lawjournal.library.mcgill.ca
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I mean, we knew this. A *majority* of Canadians benefitted from the federal carbon pricing scheme due to how the rebates were structured. Mark Carney didn't just hurt the climate fight, he took your money.

Aaron Wherry

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