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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 7h

New publication, from @loleenberdahl.bsky.social, Bianca Jamal and me - trying to make sense of recent events in Canadian federalism:
Defiance: Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Shifting Dynamics of Canadian Federalism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Defiance: Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Shifting Dynamics of Canadian Federalism

This research notes focuses on the Alberta and Saskatchewan governments’ addition of defiance to their repertoire of conflictual inter-governmental behaviors. Between 2019 and 2024, the two provinc...

www.tandfonline.com

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 2d

I love that you know this!

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 2d

The war on Christmas continues!

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 2d

New ceremonial robes vs old ceremonial robes. #SCC

2026 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, where the new robes are black with red piping.

2025 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, with the red velvet and ermine robes.

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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 2d

The teachers' strike signs all have such lovely handwriting.

cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 2d

Some additional AB teachers rally pics

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 6d

If you go back to the 1950s, there were earnest debates around the world re: whether growing public funding of universities was a Good Thing because government might one day try to dictate what univesities could teach.

By the 90s this was considered laughable.

No one is laughing now.

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Yale of Gilead North (Alberta) @ydbelanger.bsky.social · 7d

We're looking for a new colleague in the Political Science Department at the University of Lethbridge.
Please forward to anyone you think may be interested.
uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8640

Faculty of Arts & Science - Assistant Professor (Political Science)

The Department of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge invites applications for a tenure-track position in Canadian Politics, with a concentration on Constitutional Law, and with addition...

uleth.peopleadmin.ca

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 9d

And @carrietait.bsky.social has unearthed more evidence of procurement irregularities at AHS

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 11d

I’m sceptical

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 15d

We have always been at war with Tylenol

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 19d

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli

Stripping Away Rights Using the Notwithstanding Clause. - Alberta Views

After a week of rancorous debate, Klein announced he would not invoke the notwithstanding clause on the landmark gay rights decision...

albertaviews.ca

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 20d

Absolutely!

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 20d

With the abrupt cancellation of Congress 2026, it has been an all-hands-on-deck effort to make this happen!

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 20d

So pleased to see the announcement that the Canadian Political Science Association will be holding its annual meeting in June at University of Ottawa
mycpsa-cpsa-acsp.ca/cfp/cfp_index

CPSA | ACSP

mycpsa-cpsa-acsp.ca

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 24d

Because they’re paying attention??

NYT headline : why does everybody swear all the time now?

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Boo!levard of Broken Memes @olizardo.bsky.social · 26d

This time APSA is not on fire but the world is

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 26d

That’s me, alright!

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 26d

“ there will be dire policy consequences from Kirk’s assassination, regardless of the actual ideology of his killer, because his death fits a pre-existing narrative about left-wing campus radicalism that is already the driver of federal policy” www.chronicle.com/article/char...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Catastrophe for Higher Ed

Things were already bad. They’re about to get worse.

www.chronicle.com

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Jeffrey Coffman @jeffreycoffman.bsky.social · 26d

Straw vote on amending the Constitution:

‘Yep. Let’s amend it. Get ‘er done.’

Some days, I wonder how much happier my life would be without a degree in political science.

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Jeffrey Coffman @jeffreycoffman.bsky.social · 26d

At the Alberta Next panel in #yql and I had this random thought:

If you ever get the chance, take a class on propaganda. It may come in handy in your civic participation.

Ok. Back to this fascinating event.

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cm 🇨🇦 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 29d

Statement of Resignation

Please see the following statement on behalf of ULFA Member Craig Coburn (Geography and Environment) regarding his resignation as representative on the UofL Board of Governors

www.ulethbridge.ca/directory/pe...

via www.facebook.com/ULFacultyAss...

#Alberta #abpoli

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · Sep 4

My parents moved into a place with a dishwasher. My mother used it to store plastic bags. Never turned it on once.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · Sep 3

I can't decide which is worse: either our government doesn't understand that these guys are Nazis, or they think it's a good idea to invite Nazis to their cabinet retreat.

Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · Sep 3

If the idea is to hear directly from perspectives that otherwise perplex us, whom else might they invite? Sergey Lavrov? Nigel Farage? Marine Le Pen? Tamara Lich?

Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting | CBC News

A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — will speak to Prim...

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · Sep 2

Good.

Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · Sep 2

NEW:

Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides says in an email to school boards that the government is pausing its order for the removal of books with explicit sexual content from libraries.

www.rmoutlook.com/alberta-news...

CP NewsAlert: Alberta pauses ban on school library books with sexual content

EDMONTON — Alberta Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides says in an email to school boards that the government is pausing its order for the removal of books with explicit sexual content from librari...

www.rmoutlook.com

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · Sep 2

That is both lovely and revolting!

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · Sep 2

I am teaching in a room labelled SH. It is physically in another building!

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