Luc Turgeon
@lturgeon.bsky.social
Professeur de science politique/Professor of Political Science. Ottawa.
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. (Un Anglo, un Franco)
December 28, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains. (Un Anglo, un Franco)
Santa came early this year and I just received my copy of City Politics in Canada, edited by Martin Horak, @jacklucas.bsky.social and @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social. I wrote the chapter on Ottawa (dedicated to the late Caroline Andrew).
December 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Santa came early this year and I just received my copy of City Politics in Canada, edited by Martin Horak, @jacklucas.bsky.social and @bigcitypolitics.bsky.social. I wrote the chapter on Ottawa (dedicated to the late Caroline Andrew).
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The City of Ottawa is nearing the finish line on its new zoning bylaw. Did you know Ottawa's zoning is only two degrees from Kevin Bacon? 🧵...
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The City of Ottawa is nearing the finish line on its new zoning bylaw. Did you know Ottawa's zoning is only two degrees from Kevin Bacon? 🧵...
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Use of mental health medications in the population of Swedish PhD students is 40% higher than a matched sample by the fifth PhD year.
Be kind to PhD students. Don't take up PhD students you can't invest in. Alert prospective students of the reality of a PhD.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Be kind to PhD students. Don't take up PhD students you can't invest in. Alert prospective students of the reality of a PhD.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Use of mental health medications in the population of Swedish PhD students is 40% higher than a matched sample by the fifth PhD year.
Be kind to PhD students. Don't take up PhD students you can't invest in. Alert prospective students of the reality of a PhD.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Be kind to PhD students. Don't take up PhD students you can't invest in. Alert prospective students of the reality of a PhD.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A miracle!!! A bilingual national anthem at a Leafs game. Merci Natalie Morris!
December 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A miracle!!! A bilingual national anthem at a Leafs game. Merci Natalie Morris!
One would have thought that members of the Watson club would learn from their past mistakes (in the case of Tierney, mistakes include corruption charge). But here they are again doing the bidding of the mayor and blaming downtown councillors. Simply pathetic.
Is your councillor a chronic no-voter on city budgets? | Opinion
Tim Tierney: Ottawa has traded safety and security for policing alternatives – experiments that have repeatedly failed. | Opinion
ottawacitizen.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
One would have thought that members of the Watson club would learn from their past mistakes (in the case of Tierney, mistakes include corruption charge). But here they are again doing the bidding of the mayor and blaming downtown councillors. Simply pathetic.
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A councillor who was at the centre of a corruption trial in 2019 has an op/ed in the Citizen today, suggesting that downtown councillors that are critical of ballooning police budgets are responsible for crime rates attributed to the housing and addiction crises.
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
Coun. Tim Tierney apologizes, brings corrupt practice case to an end
Tim Tierney, the Ottawa city councillor representing Beacon Hill-Cyrville ward, apologized in court Wednesday and agreed to give up two months of salary to resolve …
ottawacitizen.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A councillor who was at the centre of a corruption trial in 2019 has an op/ed in the Citizen today, suggesting that downtown councillors that are critical of ballooning police budgets are responsible for crime rates attributed to the housing and addiction crises.
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
Venez travailler avec nous à l’École d’études de l’Université d’Ottawa/Come work with us at the School of Political studies at University of Ottawa!
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🔴CRC niveau 2 Environnement & sécurité
🔴Tier 2 CRC Environment & Security
⏰ 25 Jan 2026
👉 conta.cc/4rz9JhB
@raulpachecovega.bsky.social
#polisci
@csnrec.bsky.social
#cdnpoli
#PoliSciTwitter
@jonathanmalloy.bsky.social
@emmettmacfarlane.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Venez travailler avec nous à l’École d’études de l’Université d’Ottawa/Come work with us at the School of Political studies at University of Ottawa!
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The Globe and Mail has a very succinct but comprehensive editorial outlining the foolery of Lansdowne 2.0. Well worth the read.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/416c9c5...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/416c9c5...
The City of Ottawa’s Hail Mary plan for redevelopment
The Lansdowne 2.0 plan depends on rosy assumptions, leaving taxpayers potentially on the hook if ambitions fall short
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Globe and Mail has a very succinct but comprehensive editorial outlining the foolery of Lansdowne 2.0. Well worth the read.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/416c9c5...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/416c9c5...
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Sondage @pallasdata.bsky.social : « Si un référendum avait lieu sur la souveraineté du Québec, voteriez-vous pour ou contre la souveraineté du Québec ? »
Ci-dessous : résultats selon les genres de septembre 2023 à novembre 2025.
Analyse → lactualite.com/politique/le...
Ci-dessous : résultats selon les genres de septembre 2023 à novembre 2025.
Analyse → lactualite.com/politique/le...
December 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Sondage @pallasdata.bsky.social : « Si un référendum avait lieu sur la souveraineté du Québec, voteriez-vous pour ou contre la souveraineté du Québec ? »
Ci-dessous : résultats selon les genres de septembre 2023 à novembre 2025.
Analyse → lactualite.com/politique/le...
Ci-dessous : résultats selon les genres de septembre 2023 à novembre 2025.
Analyse → lactualite.com/politique/le...
1. Two decades ago, a friend was a teaching assistant in a method course at UofT. A student came to see him because there was something wrong. Analysing the CES data, they found that Quebec was not more anti-immigration than other provinces. The student wanted to know where they had made a mistake.
Anglophones have becomes much more anti-immigrant than francophones. Quebec is now the least anti-immigrant province.
December 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
1. Two decades ago, a friend was a teaching assistant in a method course at UofT. A student came to see him because there was something wrong. Analysing the CES data, they found that Quebec was not more anti-immigration than other provinces. The student wanted to know where they had made a mistake.
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Anglophones have becomes much more anti-immigrant than francophones. Quebec is now the least anti-immigrant province.
December 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Anglophones have becomes much more anti-immigrant than francophones. Quebec is now the least anti-immigrant province.
Great to see my old roommate Tom’s work being recognized!
Congratulations to Thomas Meredith for winning the 2025 APSA Committee on the Status of Contingent Faculty in the Profession’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, or Leadership!
Read about Thomas’s accomplishments on PSNow:
Read about Thomas’s accomplishments on PSNow:
Committee on the Status of Contingent Faculty in the Profession’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, or Leadership by Contingent Faculty -
The Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, or Leadership by Contingent Faculty recognizes scholars who have made significant contributions to the field of political science without the…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Great to see my old roommate Tom’s work being recognized!
Me in 2015: I will never go to Costco! It’s everything that is wrong with modern capitalism!
Me in 2025: Proud of my Costco membership! This corporation is at the forefront of the fight against Trump! Want another $1,50 hot dog and pop kids?
Me in 2025: Proud of my Costco membership! This corporation is at the forefront of the fight against Trump! Want another $1,50 hot dog and pop kids?
Costco sues US to preserve tariff refunds if Trump loses appeal reut.rs/48J2koC
Costco sues US to preserve tariff refunds if Trump loses appeal
Costco has sued the U.S. government to ensure it will receive refunds if the Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump's bid for sweeping authority to impose tariffs.
reut.rs
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Me in 2015: I will never go to Costco! It’s everything that is wrong with modern capitalism!
Me in 2025: Proud of my Costco membership! This corporation is at the forefront of the fight against Trump! Want another $1,50 hot dog and pop kids?
Me in 2025: Proud of my Costco membership! This corporation is at the forefront of the fight against Trump! Want another $1,50 hot dog and pop kids?
Ottawa's transit is bad, with no plans on getting better.
Ottawa's homelessness situation is bad, with no plans on getting better.
Ottawa's governance structure impedes the development of the downtown core, with not plans on getting better.
Ottawa keeps elected politicians with no visions.....
Ottawa's homelessness situation is bad, with no plans on getting better.
Ottawa's governance structure impedes the development of the downtown core, with not plans on getting better.
Ottawa keeps elected politicians with no visions.....
Deachman: Ottawa's snow removal standards are bad, with no plans on getting better
The city's public works department has once again decided not to update its Winter Maintenance Quality Standards. | Opinion
ottawacitizen.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Ottawa's transit is bad, with no plans on getting better.
Ottawa's homelessness situation is bad, with no plans on getting better.
Ottawa's governance structure impedes the development of the downtown core, with not plans on getting better.
Ottawa keeps elected politicians with no visions.....
Ottawa's homelessness situation is bad, with no plans on getting better.
Ottawa's governance structure impedes the development of the downtown core, with not plans on getting better.
Ottawa keeps elected politicians with no visions.....
Mike Matheson est un grand Québécois.
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Mike Matheson est un grand Québécois.
👇 Le discours sur "l'incompatibilité civilisationnel", qu'il émane de la bouche de Stephen Miller ou de Mathieu Bock-Côté a une très longue histoire en Occident, et en Amérique du Nord en particulier. Il a été utilisé pour s'opposer à l'immigration catholique et à l'immigration juive.
Stephen Miller’s ancestors were Jewish refugees from the pogroms in czarist Russia. They came to the U.S. in the early twentieth century, even as racists said this same stuff about them.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
👇 Le discours sur "l'incompatibilité civilisationnel", qu'il émane de la bouche de Stephen Miller ou de Mathieu Bock-Côté a une très longue histoire en Occident, et en Amérique du Nord en particulier. Il a été utilisé pour s'opposer à l'immigration catholique et à l'immigration juive.
Broken Social Scene
The National
New Pornographers/Destroyer
Flaming Lips
Jean-Pierre Ferland
The National
New Pornographers/Destroyer
Flaming Lips
Jean-Pierre Ferland
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Broken Social Scene
The National
New Pornographers/Destroyer
Flaming Lips
Jean-Pierre Ferland
The National
New Pornographers/Destroyer
Flaming Lips
Jean-Pierre Ferland
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This entire theatre has nothing to do with "cooperative federalism". Either Ottawa doesn't understand how Canadian federalism works, or they are playing a purely tactical game by exploiting the institutional ambiguity entailed in the division of powers.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Some B.C. Liberal MPs concerned about prospect of a new oil pipeline: sources | CBC News
With Prime Minister Mark Carney poised to sign a "grand bargain" with Alberta later this week, some B.C. Liberal MPs are raising concerns about Ottawa possibly giving the greenlight to a new oil pipel...
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This entire theatre has nothing to do with "cooperative federalism". Either Ottawa doesn't understand how Canadian federalism works, or they are playing a purely tactical game by exploiting the institutional ambiguity entailed in the division of powers.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
1. Le texte de Nadia El-Mabrouk en appui au projet de constitution québécoise publié dans Le Devoir ce matin, appuyé par une cinquantaine de signataire, indique "qu'aucune autre province du Canada [que le Québec] n’[a] procédé à une telle déconfessionnalisation de ses commissions scolaires."
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
1. Le texte de Nadia El-Mabrouk en appui au projet de constitution québécoise publié dans Le Devoir ce matin, appuyé par une cinquantaine de signataire, indique "qu'aucune autre province du Canada [que le Québec] n’[a] procédé à une telle déconfessionnalisation de ses commissions scolaires."
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1. Dans Le Devoir ce matin, Christian Rioux affirme « que les démographes prévoient que, d’ici 2063, la majorité de la population du Royaume-Uni sera issue de l’immigration ». Il y a un léger problème : il n’y a pas de démographes qui font une telle projection.
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
1. Dans Le Devoir ce matin, Christian Rioux affirme « que les démographes prévoient que, d’ici 2063, la majorité de la population du Royaume-Uni sera issue de l’immigration ». Il y a un léger problème : il n’y a pas de démographes qui font une telle projection.
C’est Mario qui le dit!
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
C’est Mario qui le dit!
1. Dans Le Devoir ce matin, Christian Rioux affirme « que les démographes prévoient que, d’ici 2063, la majorité de la population du Royaume-Uni sera issue de l’immigration ». Il y a un léger problème : il n’y a pas de démographes qui font une telle projection.
November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
1. Dans Le Devoir ce matin, Christian Rioux affirme « que les démographes prévoient que, d’ici 2063, la majorité de la population du Royaume-Uni sera issue de l’immigration ». Il y a un léger problème : il n’y a pas de démographes qui font une telle projection.
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The PWHL was very clear that they would not play in a smaller arena. Some of us tried to get council to take them seriously when we voted on Lansdowne 2.0. If this bad deal costs us our women’s hockey team, it will be unforgivable.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
‘We will not play at Lansdowne 2.0’: PWHL says all other options on table for Ottawa Charge
The Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) says all options are on the table to keep the Ottawa Charge in the capital, but the team won’t be playing at the smaller hockey arena at Lansdowne once it...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The PWHL was very clear that they would not play in a smaller arena. Some of us tried to get council to take them seriously when we voted on Lansdowne 2.0. If this bad deal costs us our women’s hockey team, it will be unforgivable.
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
Texte que j'ai cosigné avec une vingtaine de collègues sur le projet constitutionnel (fort problématique dans sa forme actuelle) du gouvernement de la CAQ.
Trois raisons de refuser le projet constitutionnel de la CAQ
Le gouvernement Legault a choisi un processus qui impose par le haut une vision figée de la nation.
www.ledevoir.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Texte que j'ai cosigné avec une vingtaine de collègues sur le projet constitutionnel (fort problématique dans sa forme actuelle) du gouvernement de la CAQ.