Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
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
- It's way worse than 'no lifeline' - It's a bullet to the head.
- "If Ontario’s colleges and universities sector was looking for a lifeline from the province to help stabilize its financial state, the 2025 Ontario budget doesn’t contain one." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social #onpoli
- The United States is broken, and it's remarkable how quickly many universities across the country are staking democracy's corpse through the heart to make sure it stays dead.
- NYU student speaker at graduation addresses Palestine; school is withholding his diploma for his speech www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
- One of my favourite annual traditions: Leafs playoff hockey.
- People who think this is a good idea tend to be deeply stupid.
- Something else, outside of cabinet? Like what?
- Is Ann Coulter this stupid or this disingenuous? I suppose it doesn't matter.
- If a million ChatGPTs were asked to write for a million years to come up with the stupidest version of humanity, they could not outdo reality.
- Indeed. Transparency is only a necessary ingredient for accountability, it doesn't do the work when the entire system - from Congress to the media to the Supreme Court - is populated mostly by cowards or immoral co-conspirators.
- (And of course, in Canada, the land where transparency goes to die, we don't even know the full extent of political corruption and other major problems infecting our systems).
- The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences is the largest academic event in Canada every year. I have attended every one since 2005 (excluding a two year experiment where the Cdn Poli Sci Association held its annual meeting separately). That they couldn't find a host institution...
