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Emmett Macfarlane
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One of the people I thank in the acknowledgements of my new book on the Senate reference (coming this April! https://www.ubcpress.ca/constitutional-pariah) is @acoyne, who in past Twitter chats and with
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I consider myself well published: http://www.emmettmacfarlane.com/publications.php And my work has been cited over 200 times, according to Google Scholar. Sound impressive? Well... let me briefly talk about some of my
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Another day, another column about Bill C-7 that advocates for better systemic treatment and resources for people with disabilities (good!) but with the flawed implication that the only way to
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It's frickin' WILD that someone could write this without once acknowledging that access to MAiD for the non-terminally ill is literally a threshold requirement by the Supreme Court. It's the
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As an aside, "expert gives same advice to multiple institutions" = conflict of interest is... stupid. When the hyper partisans were on me about giving policy advice to the government,
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This raises important points but alllll 'the devil is in the details' re those last few sentences. What does public policy look like in this realm? At the end of
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Since I'm working on this at the moment, a short 'advice thread' for dealing with peer review at the R&R stage. So: what do you do when dealing with a
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Very interesting post, and contra the widely held view that the Master's is 'the new Bachelor's'. I have so many thoughts. In some areas I'm familiar with, the Master's is
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Should be interesting times in New Brunswick ahead, challenging a blatantly unconstitutional regulation the singles out the inherently gendered service for differential treatment.https://twitter.com/travisfortnum/status/1347173323982180354
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I'm endlessly fascinated by the lack of thought that goes into the assumption that because something is legal, it can't be wrong. This comes up every ethics scandal (like SNC
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Residential schools were explicitly assimilationist in design and a hotbed for systemic abuses that most experts see as part of a cultural genocide against Canada's Indigenous peoples. Stating otherwise is
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One factor explaining the weak COVID response in the USA, but also here in Canada. A quick thread: 1/n My very first academic journal article explores the concept of 'rights
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