Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
@emmettmacfarlane.com
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
Constitutional law, rights, governing institutions, and Canadian politics.
Books: Legislating under the Charter; Constitutional Pariah; Governing from the Bench
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Rights and Parliamentary Systems in Canada and Beyond - University of Toronto Press
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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....
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This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!
Joe Rogan and Shane Gillis on Nick Fuentes running for president one day.
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
Rogan: “He could probably win in a few years. Listen, he couldn’t have existed before, right? Ten, twenty years ago, couldn’t have existed. Now, super popular. What’s twenty years from now look like?”
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!
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NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
December 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
NYT provides no evidence here, probably because the claim is flatly untrue. See eg recent Pew data, or many posts on the subject from @gelliottmorris.com this year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...
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No one in the future will believe this was real. There will be elaborate theories of hoaxes and delusions. One day it will be part of an Unholy Oratorio.
Donald Trump, basically acknowledging that so far at least he’s losing the fight over Epstein.
December 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
No one in the future will believe this was real. There will be elaborate theories of hoaxes and delusions. One day it will be part of an Unholy Oratorio.
I hope he's right, but i doubt it.
Dear Britain: things are bad, but America will recover from Donald Trump. Just give us three years | Jimmy Kimmel
Dear Britain: things are bad, but America will recover from Donald Trump. Just give us three years | Jimmy Kimmel
When the president targeted me and my TV show, millions said no. So don’t give up on us – and always remember, we’re not all like him, says US talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I hope he's right, but i doubt it.
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Only reinforcing the general meaningless of awards and recognitions. My books stopped being listed on a notable 'Top 100 Books of 202x' after I pissed off an editor years back by mildly criticizing their outlet.
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Only reinforcing the general meaningless of awards and recognitions. My books stopped being listed on a notable 'Top 100 Books of 202x' after I pissed off an editor years back by mildly criticizing their outlet.
If the NYT is a serious threat to US security, it has been by being so goddamned soft on Trump and fascism.
December 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
If the NYT is a serious threat to US security, it has been by being so goddamned soft on Trump and fascism.
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The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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“And Weiss is apparently doing this all for – sources in and close to the Trump administration tell Zeteo – people who don’t even like her, or who think she’s merely a “useful idiot” embedded in the legacy media that the president loves to trash.”
Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison.
new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com
zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...
Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison
Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.
zeteo.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“And Weiss is apparently doing this all for – sources in and close to the Trump administration tell Zeteo – people who don’t even like her, or who think she’s merely a “useful idiot” embedded in the legacy media that the president loves to trash.”
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With respect to my McMaster colleague, this isn’t a result of shifting public expectations re search and AI. It’s a consequence of indifferent corporations foisting an inherently dangerous, immature product on individuals, plus governments’ refusal to regulate in an area of clear public interest.
December 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
With respect to my McMaster colleague, this isn’t a result of shifting public expectations re search and AI. It’s a consequence of indifferent corporations foisting an inherently dangerous, immature product on individuals, plus governments’ refusal to regulate in an area of clear public interest.
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MacIsaac should sue Google.
Remind me again how good generative AI is at summarizing information. This tech should be banned under existing consumer protection laws.
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Remind me again how good generative AI is at summarizing information. This tech should be banned under existing consumer protection laws.
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
MacIsaac should sue Google.
Remind me again how good generative AI is at summarizing information. This tech should be banned under existing consumer protection laws.
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Remind me again how good generative AI is at summarizing information. This tech should be banned under existing consumer protection laws.
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
December 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
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Internet Archive has it
archive.org/details/3mam...
archive.org/details/3mam...
Inside Cecot : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonparis.bsky.social/post/3mam565pyes24
archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Internet Archive has it
archive.org/details/3mam...
archive.org/details/3mam...
Aaaand it's already been pulled, presumably by YouTube.
Remember, pretty much all of the Tech Industry is evil, folks.
Remember, pretty much all of the Tech Industry is evil, folks.
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Aaaand it's already been pulled, presumably by YouTube.
Remember, pretty much all of the Tech Industry is evil, folks.
Remember, pretty much all of the Tech Industry is evil, folks.
LET'S 'STREISAND EFFECT' THIS MOTHERFUCKER, EVERYONE!!!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisa...
December 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
LET'S 'STREISAND EFFECT' THIS MOTHERFUCKER, EVERYONE!!!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisa...
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WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Thrilled to get Minh Do's brand new book in my hands, from @ubcpress.bsky.social. Very proud of my brilliant friend (and former student).
December 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Thrilled to get Minh Do's brand new book in my hands, from @ubcpress.bsky.social. Very proud of my brilliant friend (and former student).
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Incompetence, along with a whole organization who hates Weiss and is happy to undermine her.
December 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Incompetence, along with a whole organization who hates Weiss and is happy to undermine her.
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👇🎯 Sadly, we have seen in the last year that this is true not only of legacy media, but also business, academia, & all the other societal institutions.
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
👇🎯 Sadly, we have seen in the last year that this is true not only of legacy media, but also business, academia, & all the other societal institutions.
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Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
No, not even on the op-ed page.
No, not even on the op-ed page.
Opinion: American trade policy is geared towards re-industrialisation, and it's working, writes US trade representative Jamieson Greer. ft.trib.al/ggI3PZW
December 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.
No, not even on the op-ed page.
No, not even on the op-ed page.
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Sick and tired?
Influenza test positivity is very high in Ontario and remains the highest in children (5-11 yrs) at 73.3% and adolescents (12-19 yrs) at 67.3%. COVID-19 and RSV are also circulating.
These viruses are airborne: we get sick by breathing them in!
But it doesn't have to be this way!
Influenza test positivity is very high in Ontario and remains the highest in children (5-11 yrs) at 73.3% and adolescents (12-19 yrs) at 67.3%. COVID-19 and RSV are also circulating.
These viruses are airborne: we get sick by breathing them in!
But it doesn't have to be this way!
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Sick and tired?
Influenza test positivity is very high in Ontario and remains the highest in children (5-11 yrs) at 73.3% and adolescents (12-19 yrs) at 67.3%. COVID-19 and RSV are also circulating.
These viruses are airborne: we get sick by breathing them in!
But it doesn't have to be this way!
Influenza test positivity is very high in Ontario and remains the highest in children (5-11 yrs) at 73.3% and adolescents (12-19 yrs) at 67.3%. COVID-19 and RSV are also circulating.
These viruses are airborne: we get sick by breathing them in!
But it doesn't have to be this way!
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Future plans: in the spring, the first couple of papers on my ongoing project on hate speech regulation in Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and Australia will be presented.
And in the summer, I start writing book No. 12, on parliamentary privilege and the legacy of the New Brunswick Broadcasting case.
And in the summer, I start writing book No. 12, on parliamentary privilege and the legacy of the New Brunswick Broadcasting case.
December 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Future plans: in the spring, the first couple of papers on my ongoing project on hate speech regulation in Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and Australia will be presented.
And in the summer, I start writing book No. 12, on parliamentary privilege and the legacy of the New Brunswick Broadcasting case.
And in the summer, I start writing book No. 12, on parliamentary privilege and the legacy of the New Brunswick Broadcasting case.
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Finishing the Intro chapter for my 10th book, an edited volume titled "History & Constitutionalism". Getting ready to submit for peer review at end of January.
And book number 11, on Canada's Unwritten Constitution, a co-authored book with @plagasse.bsky.social, is hot on its heels!
And book number 11, on Canada's Unwritten Constitution, a co-authored book with @plagasse.bsky.social, is hot on its heels!
December 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Finishing the Intro chapter for my 10th book, an edited volume titled "History & Constitutionalism". Getting ready to submit for peer review at end of January.
And book number 11, on Canada's Unwritten Constitution, a co-authored book with @plagasse.bsky.social, is hot on its heels!
And book number 11, on Canada's Unwritten Constitution, a co-authored book with @plagasse.bsky.social, is hot on its heels!
Transparent lie from a censoring fascist who shouldn't have a job cleaning floors at a high school student newsletter let alone running (ruining) a major media organization.
NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."
December 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Transparent lie from a censoring fascist who shouldn't have a job cleaning floors at a high school student newsletter let alone running (ruining) a major media organization.