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Luc Turgeon

@lturgeon.bsky.social

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Professeur de science politique/Professor of Political Science. Ottawa.

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Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 1d

Full professor, associate professor, assistant professor

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 2d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 4d

Watson 2.0.

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 4d

Tax phobia is the defining characteristics of Ottawa municipal politics. Meanwhile, transit fares are amongst the most expensive in Canada and infrastructures are crumbling.

mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone is feeling the impact of rising costs. That’s why affordability has been at the heart of our city budget.
https://tinyurl.com/52kva456

Tout le monde ressent la hausse du coût de la vie. C’est pourquoi l’abordabilité est au cœur de notre budget municipal.
https://tinyurl.com/5xkvpkbj

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Learry Gagné @learryg.bsky.social · 6d

Y. Abdelfadel est en fuego... A lire au complet.

André Querry @andrequerry.bsky.social · 6d

www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/10/02/q...

Quand on fabrique des ennemis

Il y a quelque chose de profondément inquiétant dans le discours actuel du gouvernement du Québec.

www.journaldemontreal.com

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 6d

Trop d’immigrants? C’est de la faute d’Ottawa! On doit réduire massivement l’immigration!

Pas assez d’immigrants? C’est de la faute d’Ottawa! Il fallait réduire l’immigration, mais pas dans les régions qui ont voté pour la CAQ et qui on des pénuries de main d’œuvre.

Blame avoidance en action.

« On n’a jamais dit à Ottawa d’être aussi sévère », se défend Roberge

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Audrey Gagnon @audreygagnon.bsky.social · 6d

Just received my copy of Generations and Nationalism edited by @alainggagnon.bsky.social and @lturgeon.bsky.social 🤩 It includes a chapter by Antoine Bilodeau and myself on the impact of the welcoming context on immigrants’ relationship with the host nation (in the context of Québec) 🤓

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 6d

Chanceuse! J'ai pas encore reçu ma copie. Merci Audrey, à toi et à Antoine, pour cette importante contribution!

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 7d

Fair enough. It's an interesting question.

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 7d

True. But I would suggest it's the same outside Quebec. The average required to get into UofT engineering is above 90% if I remember well (here's a document I could quickly find online)
: www.engineering.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...)

www.engineering.utoronto.ca

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 7d

4. ... to go to Cégep when I was an undegrad at McGill, changed my view about this institution when I became a prof. But again, I'd love to see studies about the impact of Cégep on the likelihood of going to university.

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 7d

3. My comment was a fairly innocuous one: having and still teaching students from both provinces in Ottawa, I usually find students having gone to Cégep to be better prepared to hit the ground running when they start university (hence why me, who was jealous of my Ontario friends who didn't have...

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 7d

2. It has long been known that Quebec has less students going to university, in part for complex historical reasons, but I'm open to the suggestion that Cégep is partly responsible for that (but would be curious to read studies and understand why that would be the case).

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 7d

1. I wasn't defending Quebec's school system. I am no fan of the province's K-12 system where the "écrémage" really starts (I am a fan of the Ontario K-12 model in fact). And I wouldn't make causal claims about the impact of Cégep on the number of folks going to university.

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 7d

Agree with your point that creating a cégep stream could be expensive. Still want to say that Cégep is amazing (as someone from Quebec who teaches in Ontario). Students are so much more ready for University after going through it.

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 12d

I'm a bit late to this as it has been a hit for a few months in the French-speaking world, but for Anglophones who subscribe to Crave, go watch Empathie (there are subtitles), the best show of 2025. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

A dose of Empathie: Florence Longpré created the most fearlessly original TV show of 2025

The series, which centres on a tragedy-haunted criminologist-turned-psychiatrist, delivers a tearjerking season finale on Crave

www.theglobeandmail.com

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 15d

2. MBC n’a cependant pas changé. Il est le même qu’il était dans ses écrits il y a 10-15 ans.

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 15d

1.En tout respect, je note que les critiques à l’endroit de MBC dans ce texte (la démagogie, la malhonnêteté intellectuelle,etc) sont des critiques que plusieurs ont fait à l’égard de certains de ses livres que vous avez encensés par le passé. On peut changer d’idée, bien entendu face au personnage.

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 16d

Chronique | Chère Kim Thúy, parlez-nous d’amour, oui, mais s’il vous plaît, n’hésitez jamais à le conjuguer à l’imparfait.

Granby à l’imparfait

www.ledevoir.com

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Louis-Philippe Lampron @lplampron.bsky.social · 20d

1/8- N’en déplaise au Ministre Roberge, c’est essentiellement le choix du gouvernement de la CAQ de recourir de manière préventive et mur à mur aux mécanismes de dérogation aux droits et libertés qui est au cœur de la contestation judiciaire de la Loi sur la laïcité

#polqc #polcan #laïcité #chartes

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 28d

Le bout c’est quand même suggéré que pour honorer la relation avec les peuples autochtones autochtones il aurait été préférable de nommer la station « Station Bernard Landry » (il y a déjà une station du REM à son nom).

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 28d

Tellement prévisible.

Article de Mathieu Bock-Côté intitulé « Métro: les dernières pitreries de Valérie Plante ».

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 29d

La thèse était excellente! Heureux de voir le tout publié comme livre.

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · Sep 5

A colleague just sent me this. Crazy.

Web site of the US Office of Personal Management. Previous reports are missing and the website indicates that
"The U.S. Office of Personnel Management is in the process of rescinding or revising reports, tools, files and other materials posted on this website in accordance with Executive Order 14151 Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing, and Executive Order 14168 Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. Any previously issued diversity, equity, inclusion or gender-ideology materials on this website should be considered rescinded."

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Vincent Tiberj @vtiberj.bsky.social · Sep 5

Ce que le discours anti-immigré de Starmer produit chez les électeurs anglais
1) baisse des intentions de vote Labour chez leurs propres électeurs
2) aucun gain chez les électeurs de Farage

Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · Sep 2

Perhaps more accurate would be that Ontarians don’t care much about provincial politics (that’s my experience after 25 years in this province). Friends and family in Alberta also seem to care much more about provincial politics.