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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 10h

You put more respect on the Mike Komisarek draft.

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Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 10h

Doug Armstrong watching Bolduc, who has one fewer goal than his entire roster.

a woman is holding her head with her hands and making a surprised face .

ALT: a woman is holding her head with her hands and making a surprised face .

media.tenor.com

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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 11h

I might be in love...

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 18h

I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet....

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy

Today’s uber-rich have converted their obscene wealth into outsize power, wielded in the name of bizarre millenarian ideologies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 18h

Especially after the speech given by the CnC.

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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 21h

I have more thougths than I can fit here about how to try and dig out of our over extension of urban boundaries. But densifying everywhere including suburbs is a big one. I know in Ottawa, Barrhaven is actually moving in that direction. But without good transit, it'll suck hard.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 21h

I personally see housing and transportation as very much linked.

Building more housing in desirable central neighbourhoods close to jobs, transit, and biking infrastructure allows more people to live car-free or car-light.

Pushing housing out to the suburbs does the opposite!

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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 21h

Uneducated guess? We are right next to the States, and their quick adoption and expansion of cars influenced things here too.

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Well my idea also requires the City to not be an absolute pushover.

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 1d

I'm conceptually fine with sending to every complaint address a note that makes clear to homeowners "If your variance is illegal and we roll up to do work, you're paying for the removal". And then obviously work on enforcing post-2007.

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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Like...it's a food program...what meals are you providing? Kids cant eat posters.

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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 1d

It's actually fascinating because I've read that policy like...three times? And it has a lot of flowery language and no clear statement about *what the fuck it does*.

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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Not true. He's mortal :)

Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 1d

Hes such a child.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I'd really like to see from NDP leadership candidates is a commitment to reign in big tech rather than wasting public resources falling for the hype of AI companies. @avilewis.ca @heathermcpherson.bsky.social @rob-for-ndp-leader.bsky.social

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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 1d

2 years after the Greenbelt scandal, Doug Ford Conservatives pull another one out of the hat by rigging the Skills Development Fund to benefit insiders and party donors.

Conservative scandals & broken promises are driving a jobs disaster and driving costs up for working people.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Jim M @hockeyinottawa.bsky.social · 1d

They must feel there's an opportunity to grab more power with performative b/s.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 1d

Yesterday, I spoke to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs. Here is a re-worked and extended version of my remarks.

In short: It's time to wrap up the longest ballot protest. It's not working, and it won't work.

www.davidmoscrop.com/p/its-time-t...

It's Time To Wrap Up The Longest Ballot Protest

The ballots really are long. And annoying. And counter-productive.

www.davidmoscrop.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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