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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 7h

Jfc--not used lightly--it's one thing to speculate "they may have discussed their shared Catholic faith" in a speculative history or biography, but here and now in the news this week?? Seriously, @theglobeandmail.com?

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 8h

Carney and Vance’s shared Catholic faith could have been dinner-table conversation topic, experts say

A readout from the Prime Minister’s office says the pair discussed ‘common priorities’ at Tuesday event

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 9h

The issue is just funding and resources. That's it.

Really the same as in education.

You have to pay for it, and then it works wonderfully.

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 9h

There are many problems in Ontario health care, but today I got a same-day urgent care slot for the kid, in our town (which has been recruiting doctors). We were in and out in 10 mins, prescription in hand, no thought about money or insurance for the visit of course. Things can work. (The kid is ok)

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10h

Spot on.

Leonid Sirota @doubleaspect.blog · 11h

New post (en français): Quebec's Bill 1 and its proposed provincial constitution is epically incoherent and incompatible with the Canadian constitutional framework into which it purports to fit.

Ceci n’est pas une constitution

Le projet de constitution québécoise n’est pas sérieux

doubleaspect.blog

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 12h

Ewww, HeinOnline, a scholarly database, has added "AI summaries" to the front matter of articles.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

Quebec's new 'Constitution Bill' doubles down on the absurd idea that a province can directly amend the national constitution. It purports to directly change the text of provisions of the Constitution Act, 1867, and repeal others.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17h

Uhh, what is this unconstitutional horseshit?
"The constitution bill would also have the Quebec premier recommend who should be appointed the province's lieutenant-governor. ...
The new legislation would also rename the lieutenant-governor the "officer of Quebec.""
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quebec tables draft constitution to affirm its 'distinct national character,' premier says | CBC News

The constitution, filed at the National Assembly on Thursday and lambasted by opposition parties as a piece of political theatre filed without proper consultation, includes language asserting Quebec’s...

www.cbc.ca

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Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦 @tammyschirle.bsky.social · 17h

This 👇🎉 🇨🇦!!

Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 18h

For a certain audience of Canadian policy experts, I imagine there are no more exciting words than "automatic federal benefits" for low-income Canadians.

Though I also imagine the details matter a lot.

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musicmaker5.bsky.social @musicmaker5.bsky.social · 13h

Guzman is a former Goldman Sachs exec, so as a former Goldman exec himself, the Prime Minister believes he's worth this obscene salary. As Markham Hislop of Energi Media said, "I voted for 'Value(s)' Carney but got Goldman Sachs Carney instead." Value(s) Carney has gone AWOL.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 13h

Why do I say 'more qualified'? Because maybe we should have fewer wealthy people involved in politics. Maybe people who aren't willing to do public service for less than $300,000/year should fuck off, and hard-working, public service-oriented people can do the job better!

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

I'm not sure I love the idea that journalists might not cover something (or politicians don't address matters of principle) because the potential reaction might have political consequences. In fact, it might be one of this country's problems.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

And as Carney slashes program and service spending to boot. Pathetic.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

I will forever find the idea that you can't find equally qualified (maybe even more qualified) people for half the price in pretty much any of these positions, such as CEOs for state agencies, university presidents, etc. etc. etc., to be total bullshit. Overpaid and unjustifiably so.

National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 14h

Carney defends paying 2 CEO appointees upwards of $577,000 a year nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/10/c...

Carney defends paying 2 CEO appointees upwards of $577,000 a year

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

nationalnewswatch.com

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

It's certainly a lot of symbolic tripe. But it's also yet another attack on the national constitution. I'd like to see someone stand up for the constitution, and constitutional propriety, for a change. But we're a nation governed by cowards.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

Meanwhile NONE OF THIS GETS COVERED BY THE MEDIA.

Where are you journalists??? A province is essentially vandalizing the constitution, and the feds and other provinces are permitting it!

THIS IS A PRETTY BIG FUCKING STORY!

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

I have written about this in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol60/i...
A few scholars have tried to defend Quebec's approach, some even citing my work but none even attempting to properly engage with or rebut my basic claims and premises.

Provincial Constitutions, the Amending Formula, and Unilateral Amendments to the Constitution of Canada: An Analysis of Quebec’s Bill 96

This article critically analyzes provincial authority to unilaterally amend the Constitution of Canada. Via an assessment of the purported amendments in Quebec’s Bill 96, which would recognize Quebece...

digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

The result is that we live with the blinkered idea that patently ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL ideas a permissible so that we don't 'offend Quebec'.

As it directly damages the legitimacy of the constitution, it should be seen as a constitutional crisis.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

This farce has been enabled by the federal government refusing to take Bills 96 and 4 to court and have them struck, and by the federal Department of Justice participating in constitutional vandalism by recognizing those change in its own consolidation of the constitution.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

Quebec's new 'Constitution Bill' doubles down on the absurd idea that a province can directly amend the national constitution. It purports to directly change the text of provisions of the Constitution Act, 1867, and repeal others.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17h

Uhh, what is this unconstitutional horseshit?
"The constitution bill would also have the Quebec premier recommend who should be appointed the province's lieutenant-governor. ...
The new legislation would also rename the lieutenant-governor the "officer of Quebec.""
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quebec tables draft constitution to affirm its 'distinct national character,' premier says | CBC News

The constitution, filed at the National Assembly on Thursday and lambasted by opposition parties as a piece of political theatre filed without proper consultation, includes language asserting Quebec’s...

www.cbc.ca

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Dan Gallant 🇨🇦 @thedanalytic.bsky.social · 14h

I’m sure there’d be a perfectly sound and normal response if Michelle Obama had said:

“I have had an open channel of communication with a foreign dictator”

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

Although it'd be nice to see the US doing more to stop the next batch of Ukrainian children from being abducted in Russia's illegal war.

Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 14h

That's great, this is how it should be, terrific

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14h

Creators of AI-generated actress unsure if coolest part is the creepiness or the stealing

PALO ALTO, CA - The inventors of Tilly Norwood, a computer generated character built using artificial intelligence, enthusiastically insist their creation is both unsettlingly lifeless and built on ou...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h

Danielle Smith wants tighter integration with the fascist Trump regime, and she's applauding Carney's approach on that basis.

The Prime Minister is failing Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Danielle Smith says Prime Minister Carney speaking Trump's 'love language' | CBC News

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is lauding Prime Minister Mark Carney's ability to speak the language of U.S. President Donald Trump. Smith said Trump prefers to hear about what Canada can offer to hel...

www.cbc.ca

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17h

Ooooh, can't wait to read this.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17h

For the record, the NAME of the office is undoubtedly part of the "office of" the LG for the purposes of the constitutional amending formula, which requires the approval of the House of Commons, the Senate, and all ten provinces. Quebec can't unilaterally rename it.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 17h

Uhh, what is this unconstitutional horseshit?
"The constitution bill would also have the Quebec premier recommend who should be appointed the province's lieutenant-governor. ...
The new legislation would also rename the lieutenant-governor the "officer of Quebec.""
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quebec tables draft constitution to affirm its 'distinct national character,' premier says | CBC News

The constitution, filed at the National Assembly on Thursday and lambasted by opposition parties as a piece of political theatre filed without proper consultation, includes language asserting Quebec’s...

www.cbc.ca

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