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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

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · Sep 1

You can now order my latest edited book, "Rights and Parliamentary Systems in Canada and Beyond." Check out the amazing table of contents here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Rights and Parliamentary Systems in Canada and Beyond - University of Toronto Press

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 4h

Speaking of which, how do you get neo-Nazi groups to go defunct? That seems like something we should be trying.

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 4h

Ontario man, member of now-defunct neo-Nazi group, pleads guilty to terrorism charges

Matthew Althorpe admitted to producing white-supremacist propaganda that prosecutors say may have inspired several attacks around the world

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 4h

Is this new Game of Thrones spin-off supposed to be a comedy or what? The tone in the trailer is fundamentally weird. And is it just me, or is it visually really shitty looking?

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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 11h

An actual opposition party would run this on a loop in every conceivable space.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 12h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 14h

In Jack’s mind everything oil and corporate is too big to fail…but the individual, nah, work harder

financialpost.com/opinion/welf...

Jack Mintz: Is the welfare state still affordable? It never was — Financial Post

Governments are beginning to understand they can't afford everything they've promised. Will they be able to get their electorates to agree?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 17h

Who will be the first CPC member to use the term "anchor baby"?

Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 18h

Oh. You don't say. I was told this sort of thing wouldn't happen in Canada.

Conservatives call for new limit on birthright citizenship

SARAH RITCHIEOTTAWA — The Conservatives are calling for a new limit

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 18h

I wouldn't judge people in your situation. I would, however, judge people going to the US for vacation/shopping as if things are normal.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 18h

Fuuuuuuuuck this.

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 18h

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 19h

What's wrong with the other 20%?

National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 20h

80% of Canadians think boycotting U.S. goods or travel is helpful: Nanos survey www.ctvnews.ca/politics/nan...

Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

80% of Canadians think boycotting U.S. goods or travel is helpful: Nanos survey

Four in five Canadians believe boycotting U.S.-made goods or avoiding travel to the United States could help strengthen Canada’s bargaining position with its southern neighbour.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

Bring on the ALCS! #Jays

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

Good play Vladdy.

1 OUT LEFT.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

Hoffman does not make me confident.

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Jeremy Martin 🇨🇦 @jermartin.bsky.social · 1d

The only person arguing with you is a contract. 🤷‍♂️

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

You have to start Lukes instead of Santander from now on, right?

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Ryan Brideau @rdbrideau.bsky.social · 1d

A man can only stress puke so many times.

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Leslie Saffrey 🇨🇦 @lsaffs.bsky.social · 1d

Blood pressure spiking

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Andy "Free Łink" Beaton @aiabx.bsky.social · 1d

I do. I’m pulling my hair out instead.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

Yankees fans streaming out of the ballpark. Great to see.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

Who has any nails left?

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

FFS.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

Ok, just put Yesavage in.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

You can't be walking people. Jesus.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

That was a pretty strikeout.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

[Breathe] #Jays

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Alli Marshall @allimarshall.bsky.social · 1d

And why - after witnessing the Project 2025 takedown of U.S. post-secondary institutions - are Canadian educational institutions capitulating *in* advance? @emmettmacfarlane.com covered this in early September with the U of T prof placed on unpaid leave emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/u-of-t-pro...

U of T prof's tweet, assumed by some to refer to Charlie Kirk killing, was bad, but so is the University's reaction

[Note: a commenter has pointed to this PressProgress report suggesting that the media’s coverage of this story, including the CBC story linked below, may be in fundamental error, as the tweet in quest...

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