Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦

The supposed explosion of the federal public service looks less explosive if you put it in per capita numbers and draw a line graph back to the mid-80s.

Big adverse effects discrimination case under s15 of the Charter by the SCC today. Looking forward to writing about it.

8 years ago:

Lots of Canadians triumphantly dunking on this, but to be fair to the US, roughly half of Americans *are* morally bad people.

Western Standard online: SLOBODIAN: From COVID enforcer to Leftist commentator — Jason Kenney is trying to get back into the political arena

The chucklekfucks at the Western Standard are calling Jason Kenney a "leftist," and I am going to lose my gods damned mind.

Well, I get most of my news through following journalists and outlets on this platform, so I'm not surprised if I miss stories here and there.

Iris Gorfinkel: We’re blaming our overstuffed ERs, excruciating surgery waits and family doctor deserts on exactly the wrong people As wait times soar and millions struggle without a family doctor, the old “blame the immigrants” narrative has made a comeback in Canadian politics and media. This kind of rhetoric

📣 www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I would have had I known.... obvs.

Mike Pence: History will record Trump ‘made the right call’ | CNN Politics Former Vice President Mike Pence tells Kaitlan Collins he believes President Trump “made the right call” in his decision to go to war with Iran.

Counterpoint: No, no it won't.

CNN - Mike Pence: History will record that Trump 'made the right call' www.cnn.com/2026/03/04/p...

When the BC Conservatives voted for a bill to repeal the human rights code, the NDP caucus promptly put out a press release slamming the Cons who "couldn’t muster the courage to stand against it."

Today, 0 NDP MLAs mustered the courage to vote against a bill to close all BC's safe consumption sites

(Yeah, yeah, 1st reading. But why would you even entertain this garbage bill?)

WAIT, WHAT? The BC NDP are voting to eliminate safe consumption sites???

Tara Armstrong sounds like an evil piece of shit.

Was great to welcome the Deputy Minister of Indigenous Affairs Ontario to speak to my Master of Public Service class this morning! A great talk and Q&A, and the students found it a very rewarding experience.

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

How Canada would survive without a U.S. trade deal If the trade agreement is cancelled, Canada will survive, but it will be costly. And even then, the U.S. will very likely remain our largest trading partner.

This oped is asking the right question, and provides a solid analysis. I’d add that the picture it paints of the consequences of continued uncertainty in Canada-US trade relations will hold even if the USMCA is renegotiated. Because the source of that uncertainty is structural.

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

Mark Carney’s Iran reaction raises doubts about what he stands for In this dangerous world, Canada needs to see clearly what we are dealing with. But we also need to remember who we are.

Mark Carney's reaction to the US attack on Iran, and his subsequent defences of that attack, made you wonder: for all his talk of pragmatism and principles, what does he stand for? And what does he think Canada wants him to stand for? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Anyway, I am off to bed. Hopefully I will sleep for 5 years and a modicum of sanity will have been restored.

Trump starts an illegal war. Iran starts firing drones and missiles in response. And people think Canada is obliged to act militarily, under NATO or otherwise? This would be dumber than what kicked off WW1.

I await learning who our allies are

If Article V worked the way people think it does, NATO would have been dragged into every conflict that Greece and Türkiye ever had (even though they're both NATO members).

Not at all. They are led by a war criminal and we should have nothing to do with them either.

Seriously, you want us to get dragged into an illegal war by Donald Trump. That's the stupidest, most immoral bag of shit logic I have ever heard

Art 5 can't be invoked against a NATO member.

We literally CAN'T be "unwillingly dragged in." We dont have to sign off on an Article 5 invocation that was precipitated by Trump's illegal war, and if we did, then Carney is more unqualified than I think. Maybe learn to think before calling strangers sanctimonious on the Internet.

I'm increasingly thinking this guy is just a fucking clown.

Recap on Carney and Anand on #Iran:

1️⃣ They support the US and Israel's attacks.

2️⃣ For three days, 🦗🦗🦗 on international law.

3️⃣ Carney: actually, we support attacks "with regret" & it's prima facie illegal

4️⃣ We can't rule out Canada joining in.

Seriously: What will they say tomorrow?

Half-witted pundits like Yakabuski write this as though the JCPOA never happened. Iran did agree to limits on its nuclear program! They’ve successfully engaged in diplomacy!