Patrick McCurdy
@patrickmccurdy.bsky.social
Full Professor, uOttawa. Research: Canadian energy culture, tar sands, greenwashing, protest camps. Swiftie. Typos.
Pierre Poilievre trying to convince Canadians he’s not like Trump while dropping words like 'patriots' straight out of the MAGA playbook #cdnpoli #maplemaga
March 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Pierre Poilievre trying to convince Canadians he’s not like Trump while dropping words like 'patriots' straight out of the MAGA playbook #cdnpoli #maplemaga
Two books abt PP came out in quick succession, and they couldn't be more different. Lawton’s reads like as a vanity project aimed at securing his Con nomination. Bourrie, a trained historian, portays PP as a lifelong ideologue w/ a talent for slogans & willingness to deploy Trump-like politics.
March 24, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Two books abt PP came out in quick succession, and they couldn't be more different. Lawton’s reads like as a vanity project aimed at securing his Con nomination. Bourrie, a trained historian, portays PP as a lifelong ideologue w/ a talent for slogans & willingness to deploy Trump-like politics.
🚨If you get an unsolicited text from "ERG National Research" re the federal election, DO NOT reply to the text. Report as SPAM & Block. This is a PHISHING text, ERG is NOT a recognized polling company.
Here is the text I received today: #cdnpoli
Here is the text I received today: #cdnpoli
March 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🚨If you get an unsolicited text from "ERG National Research" re the federal election, DO NOT reply to the text. Report as SPAM & Block. This is a PHISHING text, ERG is NOT a recognized polling company.
Here is the text I received today: #cdnpoli
Here is the text I received today: #cdnpoli
As I said before, Russian bots don't buy tickets
February 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
As I said before, Russian bots don't buy tickets
The view from north of the 49th parallel
February 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The view from north of the 49th parallel
Canexation is closer than many think...
February 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Canexation is closer than many think...
When they cancel Jordan Peterson’s Ottawa talk at the Canadian Tire Centre—citing “health” or a “venue” issue—just remember that fewer than 5% of tickets appear to have been sold. TL;DR: Russian bots don’t buy tickets.
January 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
When they cancel Jordan Peterson’s Ottawa talk at the Canadian Tire Centre—citing “health” or a “venue” issue—just remember that fewer than 5% of tickets appear to have been sold. TL;DR: Russian bots don’t buy tickets.
Poilievre's March 2023 definition in Parliament: "Woke has one purpose... control. It is designed to divide people by race, gender, ethnicity, religion, vaccine status and any other way." A complete inversion of the term's social justice origins. openparliament.ca/debates/2023...
January 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Poilievre's March 2023 definition in Parliament: "Woke has one purpose... control. It is designed to divide people by race, gender, ethnicity, religion, vaccine status and any other way." A complete inversion of the term's social justice origins. openparliament.ca/debates/2023...
The numbers tell the story: 122 uses of "woke" analyzed in Hansard Transcripts (2019-2023):
🔵 35 by Pierre Poilievre
🔵 59 by other CPC MPs
28 by all other parties (🔴Lib, 🟠NDP, 🔲Bloc). From social justice term to far-right rhetorical weapon in just 4 years.
🔵 35 by Pierre Poilievre
🔵 59 by other CPC MPs
28 by all other parties (🔴Lib, 🟠NDP, 🔲Bloc). From social justice term to far-right rhetorical weapon in just 4 years.
January 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The numbers tell the story: 122 uses of "woke" analyzed in Hansard Transcripts (2019-2023):
🔵 35 by Pierre Poilievre
🔵 59 by other CPC MPs
28 by all other parties (🔴Lib, 🟠NDP, 🔲Bloc). From social justice term to far-right rhetorical weapon in just 4 years.
🔵 35 by Pierre Poilievre
🔵 59 by other CPC MPs
28 by all other parties (🔴Lib, 🟠NDP, 🔲Bloc). From social justice term to far-right rhetorical weapon in just 4 years.
First Parliamentary Use (Feb 1 2019): @gregfergus.bsky.social used "woke " to celebrate Black History Month; this would be the first and only time that woke was used positively in parliament openparliament.ca/search/?q=MP...
January 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
First Parliamentary Use (Feb 1 2019): @gregfergus.bsky.social used "woke " to celebrate Black History Month; this would be the first and only time that woke was used positively in parliament openparliament.ca/search/?q=MP...
🧵How has woke been used in 🇨🇦 parliament? My new coauthored article "From Social Awareness to Authoritarian Other: The conservative weaponization of Woke in Canadian Parliamentary Discourse," explores this + traces Pierre Poilievre's engineering of a woke moral panic. Here's a thread #cdnpoli
January 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🧵How has woke been used in 🇨🇦 parliament? My new coauthored article "From Social Awareness to Authoritarian Other: The conservative weaponization of Woke in Canadian Parliamentary Discourse," explores this + traces Pierre Poilievre's engineering of a woke moral panic. Here's a thread #cdnpoli