Marc D. Froese 🖋🌎
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Director, International Studies BA program @burmanuniv . Political scientist working on trade law, populism & the globalization of religious nationalism.🖖🇨🇦
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@DavidJPba
David, we didn’t ‘lock down’ in this province. We reduced capacity to slow a virus. Our public health actions, along with vaccine development, saved thousands of lives. I teach a course on politics and public health. You should take it. You’d learn so much!
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@DavidJPba
Actually David, public educators have a clear responsibility to protect their students and that comes far before any abstract 'we the people.' They take their jobs very seriously. I teach a lot of education majors. They like my classes and learn a lot. You would too.
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@DavidJPba
David, you are none of these. You are a radicalized man, working through your anger very publicly. You were raised in a home with religious abuse, so you resent authority while craving approval. It’s held you back emotionally. As a prof in a Christian uni I’ve seen this a lot.
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@AaronsonSusan
Canadians and the Americans are in the year same boat - riding out the worst presidential administration (possibly ever). Trump is stress-testing the rule of law and providing a valuable argument for the rules based system.
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@DavidJPba
David, rallying votes in rural Alberta isn’t a big accomplishment. And doing so while making yourself the story was a huge mistake.
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Could be a few hundred but not a thousand. Look at all those grey heads. This is the Fox News brigade looking for a reason to get out of the house on a Tuesday, not a gathering of concerned parents.
Well over 1000 confirmed in attendance for tonight's
@ConceptualJames
event hosted by
@DavidJPba
and
@takebackalberta
in Calgary.
Find our full report at , and keep your eyes peeled for an exclusive interview on an upcoming
@ezralevant
show.
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For my non-Canadian friends: did you feel the shame and regret of missing Schitt’s Creek before it was cool? Did you get into it only after you read about it in the New York Times? Don’t let this happen to you again! Watch Jann!
JANN SEASON THREE PREMIERE IS TONIGHT AT 8pm ON
@CTV
!!! WE ARE SO EXCITED AND WE JUST CAN’T HIDE IT AND I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW I WANT YOU I WANT YOU. (Not used by permission)
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@DavidJPba
@TorontoStar
David, ideology without evidence is just hot air. If you have evidence of extremist messaging in elementary school curricula, present it. Come take a course with me to learn about the difference between ideological posturing and evidence based public policy.
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@DavidJPba
Not at all. I was vaccinated this year and I’ll probably get the flu shot and a new Covid shot in the next month. It’s your choice but I recommend it. I’m teaching about the history of political reaction to epidemics this winter. Join us and replace fear and anger with knowledge.
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@DavidJPba
@maxfawcett
David, your insecurity troubles me. The history of extremism is on of frustrated ‘little men’ covering moral cowardice with bravado and cruelty. You need to stop and think about this road. Nothing good lies at the end.
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@DavidJPba
David, you’re not fighting an evil cabal, you’re opposing social change. But we saw the same rage against women in the 1970s, against gay men in the 1980s, against same sex marriage in the 1990s, against muslims in the 2000s. Framing conservative opposition as a war is dangerous.
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@BrandanJR
@realDonaldTrump
@FoxNews
@CNN
if I were a shareholder I'd be planning a class action lawsuit right about now.
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@DavidJPba
David, if you haven’t earned a university degree, it’s not too late! Two thirds of Canadians your age have a bachelors degree or higher. I sense your anxiety, but you can do it. Build your confidence by taking a course with me. Invest in your family’s future.
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Every tomato grown in a misguided attempt to achieve life balance is a publishing opportunity forgone.
I love how some academics put “kayaking, gardening, cooking” in their Twitter bios. Do you seriously think anyone on here cares about your tomato plants? Stop trying to act like a regular person and show us the scholar you are. If not, just log off and go back to Facebook FFS.
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@DavidJPba
Those moments when the love of Christ shines through David’s speech really touch my heart.
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Academic Twitter where everybody virtue signals more intensely than everyone else in an unending cycle of tendentious outrage gets old fast. When the loudest voices are self-interested, self-righteous, and continuously outraged it’s a terrible experience for everyone.
Seeing
#AcademicTwitter
turn on Tim Gill when the real issue is academic culture—so toxic that you either didn’t recognize Tim’s account as mostly satire/trolling, or you did and still find his content unbearable.
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@DavidJPba
No David, swing and a miss. If you believe we can do better than we have in the past, you might be progressive. Thinking the best is in the past and it’s all downhill is conservative. If you want to make Canada great again by punishing the enemy within, you might be a fascist.
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@DavidJPba
When children ask about the blue faced man roaming rural Central Alberta we will tell them this story.
“. . . And to this day, nobody has ever taken his freedom. Now his sense, that’s another matter. Now go to sleep or the right hand of William Wallace will come for you!”
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@kateweaverUT
I teach them to use active voice and centre the evidence rather than themselves. It's ok to use 'I' in moderation, eg in the introduction where the author is presenting a thesis. But rather than 'I think,' say 'the evidence shows' when drawing conclusions based on research.
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@DavidJPba
David, taxes aren’t theft. I teach a course on international political economy that would help you clarify the politics and economics of taxation. Come take my class. Ideology is a hell of a drug, but knowledge is transformative.
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@DavidJPba
David, AB populism today has 3 features: it is driven by ambitious pols, not grassroots; It foments resentment of Ottawa and adds a mix of issues defined by the 🇺🇸 right; and it is a funded by oil and gas. You are just a cog in a wheel that’s been turning for decades.
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@DavidJPba
David, our premier (who ought not to be referred to as ‘girl’) sounded beleaguered and embattled. No wonder - her argument is asinine Nobody thinks we should run Alberta on batteries. She’s fighting a rearguard action on behalf of a certain industry and it’s clear to everyone.
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@ClaireECusack
@drrachelbrenner
Why must someone’s place in the world be circumscribed by whether somebody else has determined their necessity? Sounds like someone has internalized a lot of capitalist logic.
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@DavidJPba
David, Alberta may eventually develop a more functional multiparty political system. But it will happen because our population and economy is becoming more diverse. I’m a political economist so this is my expertise. You’d really benefit from one of my classes.
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Tim: let me do this bit that makes a lot of people chuckle.
Academia: let’s sit around debating the relative merits of Tim’s joke.
John: who’s up for a little rape?
There’s always that one guy.
Sexual assault and me encouraging folks to work on an academic manuscript on Sunday are simply not comparable, sir.
One is an actual crime, for instance.
I can’t wrap my head around how anyone could draw such an analogy.
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@DavidJPba
Davis, nobody is suggesting a child wakes up one morning, switches their pronouns, and gets bottom surgery all on their own. These decisions take years and teams of professionals. Populists disparage expertise to delegitimize processes they dislike. I could teach an entire course
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@DavidJPba
Dave, we spend our oil royalties instead of a saving because we think low taxes today are preferable to the riches of a sovereign wealth fund tomorrow. It’s not solar panels and teachers wrecking our future. You need a course in the political economy of development.
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My new book, Sovereign Rules and the Politics of International Economic Law is now available with
@routledgebooks
Special thanks to
@RordenWilkinson
and Tom Weiss for including the book in their excellent series. Take a look ->
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@zecabinets
@DavidJPba
No JK is no longer premier because as a populist who rode to power on the promise of uniting a fragmented party he had no defence against attacks from inside the castle.
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@DavidJPba
David, nobody needs to compete with you because we will very likely see another pandemic in the next two decades and Canadians will again choose science over populist chicanery.
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@DavidJPba
@albertaNDP
@TuckerCarlson
Do you feel you’re facing pushback David? Do you think it may be harder to radicalize an entire province than you first imagined? Come take a course on the history of Alberta populism to learn why your movement will flounder in the coming years. Spoiler: it’s not Notley it’s you.
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Reviewer 2 will slap that participation trophy right out of your hand.
The problem I have with many academics is that they've never had a Reviewer
#2
in their life before academia. Just mommies and daddies who praise them and teachers who hand out A's. Now they're in the big leagues. Someone truly analyzes their work and they can't handle criticism.
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@DavidJPba
David, your march backfired badly. You attracted more counterprotests than marchers and showed the hate in your movement. My rural AB town now has pride posters in store fronts. Come take a class to learn why negative identity isn’t a stable base for a big tent party.
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@DavidJPba
David, you seem confused about the definition of sex and gender. Gender is a social construction and sex refers to the biological continuum. Every student in the social and natural sciences knows this distinction. Come take a course. I was lecturing on this topic just yesterday.
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@DavidJPba
I’m glad you’ve been vaccinated David, and I agree with you that those who chose to protect themselves and their communities are indeed in the vast majority. Canadians chose science and prudence over the ugly politics of division we are witnessing in our southern neighbour.
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@DavidJPba
David, you sound concerned. The premier sounded concerned too. I’ve reminded you in the past that this road ends nowhere good. Take some time to reflect.
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@DavidJPba
David, I guarantee we will use vaccine mandates again, and sooner than you think. The next pandemic will be here in a decade or two. Take my class to learn how anti-vaccine populism has been a perennial trope of far right politics in every public health emergency.
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@DavidJPba
@albertaNDP
David, the next election will be fought over this issue. Parties usually lose because voters turn against them, not because they are beaten by the election horse race. Galvanizing the entire country against the UCP was not a smart move. I teach a module on elections. Come learn.
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@DavidJPba
David, we have one of the most well provisioned systems in the world here in AB. Populists love to smear healthcare as an industry of pampered, overpaid nurses. I’ve taught the politics of health care for many years. You need a basic class in Cdn public policy.
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I was in the same boat this year. I decided to write the interesting stuff and beg the indulgence of the discussant. My rationale is that a paper written by an engaged author is always better.
#isa2018
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Also important to be specific in your application statement about how your research is going to transform the field and whose research will be made obsolete. Don’t be afraid to name names.
I applied to nine grad programs and got into all of them. Most importantly, you need to craft a statement of purpose that shows good fit. To do so, email/phone with as many graduate faculty at each institution as possible. Then identify a dissertation committee in your statement.
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@DavidJPba
David judging by the age of the retirees at your function they aren’t on X. Nor have they had school age children in many years. Unfortunately less educated senior citizens are vulnerable to disinformation. You need a course in ethics and we offer one here for you.
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Authoritarian populism is always a messaging strategy designed for maximum emotion. The rage is the point.
My big takeaway from the debate with David Parker today is this: Alberta isn't a victim, it hasn't been "abused" by Canada, and we're not hard done by.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to get you angry so you don't notice them picking your political pocket.
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@DavidJPba
David, don’t confuse policy goals with partisan process. This is a basic category error. Your thinking would improve if you’d take some political science courses.
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@DavidJPba
David, students are free to choose between public schools (Catholic and secular) and private, many of which are Christian. There are also charter schools that are fully funded. AB students and parents have an enormous range of choice. They can even choose home and online options.
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@pankisseskafka
Yeah this guy sounds really passive and like he doesn’t much care. She sounds more like a mother to him than a partner.
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While I'm wasting time on Twitter my 13 year old daughter is planning her PhD at Cambridge in biological anthropology.
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@DavidJPba
Actually David union membership for men has dropped but remains stable for women even as women have rising participation in university ed. Many implications for aimless men who embrace populism. You will learn this and much more in my Cdn politics class.
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@MichelleRempel
which socialism in particular? Medicare? Employment insurance? Govt backed student loans? Public money to protect our water?
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@DavidJPba
@ConceptualJames
@TheBreakdownAB
@RebelNewsOnline
@WSOnlineNews
David, it’s not tyranny if Albertans reject the scapegoating and rage farming of American culture war populism. Many want a province welcoming of everyone, and reject the politics of polarization. Take my class to learn why Canadian political culture differs from our neighbour.
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“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may soon see a groundswell of emotion, anger and concern.”
Narrator: No, he won't.
#karenconvoy
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@DavidJPba
@ConceptualJames
David, you're not being cancelled because of the power of your ideas. You violated Eventbrite's terms of service by using their service to spread hatred. That ought to cause you to pause a beat and think. If you can't stop and reflect, you need to ask yourself, why not?
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@DavidJPba
David, masks are our first line of defence against airborne viruses, and have been for a century. Populists have continuously tried to link public health to communist conspiracy and the attack always fails. You’re destined to lose this fight too. Take my class to learn why.
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@DavidJPba
David, nobody wants to shame you for your beliefs. I teach at a Christian university here in Alberta and I want to teach you how to think. I’ve helped many homeschooled students transform their lives through education. Move beyond the resentment of populism. I can help.
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@PPwonk
@vaillancourt_dr
The easiest road to tens of thousands of followers is to be a bullying narcissist on Twitter.
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@timgill924
I was on a plane and a man went into cardiac arrest. An attendant shouted, “is there a doctor aboard?”
I said, “yes I am. But I can’t help this man.”
People appreciated that. Not that guy of course. He died.
But even a PhD won’t save you from a lifetime of fast food.
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@pankisseskafka
@JohannaMellis
I’ve thought a lot about this. Universities create people who maintain their self-worth through external validation. But the job of professor requires a strong sense of self independent of constant validation. In short the job makes the people who are qualified for it unhappy.
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@DavidJPba
David, you know that ‘but my mom!’ is no excuse for the toxic politics you sell. Think this through. Nobody is fooled about the implications of your extremism. Come to class.
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When you’ve known a child since she was 12 but wait until she’s 16 to have ‘passionate’ sex with her that includes slapping and other forms of degradation. . .I don’t even know what to say. This guy’s a piece of work.
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@irgarner
A vast majority of Twitter activity is an atavistic howl against forces beyond the individual’s control. It is known.
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It’s not what I’d ban but what I’d require: periodic classes in how to think, read, and write. Everyone would get two paid weeks a year to take a course completely unrelated to what they do. Drive a truck? Take a philosophy course. Engineer? Take a class in musicology.
If you were a Dictator of a country, what would you ban?
I would prohibit chewing with the mouth open. Not jail-able, but fines would be used to combat global poverty.
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@DavidJPba
David you need a mentor. Nobody runs your life but you. But you could avoid a lot of disaster with a little guidance.
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@DavidJPba
@calgaryherald
@DonBraid
David, the demand for ideological purity destabilizes every extreme movement. As your movement attempts to pull the gov’t further from the mainstream, either you will succeed and the party will lose the next election, or you will fail and split the party. That’s the future.
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@DavidJPba
David, your social activism isn’t new. I’m surprised you don’t know the history of North American conservative movements. I worry you’re living in a form of poverty, without the intellectual resources to recognize what you’re doing. You need some directed study.
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@timgill924
A doctorate is not a participation trophy. If you’re still smiling after defending someone wasn’t doing their job.
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Retweeted Lauren Boothby (
@LMBoothby
):
"
@inky_mark
: Old stock
http://t.co/wJhLod9xdr"
wowowow
http://t.co/DTtIhH9hsA
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@Catherineoscopy
In Canada we do these constantly. They’re everywhere, including in email signatures. I’ve seen every type, the most memorable are usually pretty cringey. I have no idea how indigenous people feel about them. They’re probably more annoyed by all the fake-indigenous professors
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Karmic irony: when you shout a racial epithet at a black guy and it turns out he's filming an ad for your city
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Are you really overwhelmed if you’re going to the farmers’ market on Saturday and kayaking on Sunday?
Academics will say “Oh I’m overwhelmed. Sorry I missed our agreed upon deadline. I’ll send you that thing in a month.” And yet, they’re on here posting pics of their dog walks, their hikes, their slow-roasted tempeh cooking. It’s like… come on you’re fooling no one but yourself.
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@SevaUT
All the recent AC games have this feature. Kidlet can explore ancient Egypt and medieval England too.
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Everyone knows about the Japanese internment camps of WW2 but few know that during the First World War Canada ran internment camps for Ukrainians. One of the most important was at Castle Mountain near Banff. I visit the site whenever I can.
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@rachelngaines
My office was down the hall from my supervisor and when my office mate and I would chat he'd shout 'get back to work!’ But if we were really burnt out we’d go chat with him and he’d give us change to buy cookies.
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@MichelleRempel
the UN facilitates:
1 trade
2 investment
3 dvlpmt
4 law
5 human rights
6 security
7 goodwill
3 do you really not know this?
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@timgill924
Imagine wasting high quality American gas to drive to nowhere so you can sit in a plastic boat, wearing a nylon backpack,and drinking from a plastic water bottle - to what, celebrate nature? They’re wasting non-renewable resources, abusing the earth and gaslighting us.
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In my darkest days of self doubt this is what plays on my mind. By choosing political science have I not consigned my research to a lower trajectory? But then I remind myself that someone needs to buy the grocery store brand and there is no shame in playing a supporting role.
Anthropology, I would say, is Lesser Sociology. Sort of like an off-brand, if you will.
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Late capitalism is when the party starts.
Will Late Capitalism eventually give rise to Early Morning Capitalism, or what?
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Proud to announce that hard on the heels of my two year PhD in epidemiology and my recent graduate studies in Canadian emergency management, I’m now finishing a dissertation on post-Soviet Eastern European history. I know what Putin’s thinking and I’ll enlighten you here.
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@DavidJPba
David, I used to be a member of CUPE. There are indeed communists in the union. There are also conservatives, socialists, liberals. you may not know this but communists, as a rule, don’t like identity politics because, well, they’re communists. They don’t fly the rainbow flag.
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@DavidJPba
David, most Canadians don’t see party and ideology as core to their identity. They will not crushed by a liberal loss in 2025 as they weren’t by the Conservative loss in 2015. Sharing power among moderate and inclusive parties is key to a healthy democracy. Come get an education.
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@mercuriobryan
@cristyclark
@RealDJCthulhu
Oh for sure. Following the trucker convoy the husband of one of the organizers tried to assert his first amendment rights in court. The judge reminded him that in Canada the first amendment has to do with the provincial status of Manitoba.
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Many grad students sacrifice more than Catholic priests or Buddhist monks. And nobody questions their calling. Of course the purity of your calling doesn’t mean you won’t be roasted by the gods. Embrace it as the human condition.
Grad Students: Let’s get something straight. Academia is indeed a calling. You’ll see Professors on here acting flippantly, saying it’s not. They seem to forget you’ve been in college for 10+ years. Why else would you do that? That voice you hear is real. This is your calling.
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@FromPhDtoLife
Take the MA acceptance at McGill instead of York. Go to a top tier American or British PhD program - instead of York. Post doc in the US. Publish with a top US uni press. Then apply to Canadian jobs.
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@DavidJPba
David, nobody worships vaccines. You need a course in public health and we can start with a lecture on the scientific method if you like. Class starts in January. Reserve a seat now!
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@maxfawcett
@MLInstitute
Wait I thought conservatives were all about sneering about how ‘we don’t need no education.’ Now they’re comparing pedigree?
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@maxfawcett
He would be a good finance minister but a terrible pick for PM. Libs always fall for the siren song of celebrity expert. But successful lib PMs are always a certain kind of scrapper. Weirdly JT fits that mold precisely because he had less education and success early in life.
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@profmusgrave
Public broadcasting is one of the most important bonds that tie Canadians together, sort of like the BBC in the UK.
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Or perhaps
@timgill924
is a political scientist doing a huge participant observation project on the politics of online polarization. Of course it’s probably turtles all the way down and Tim Fill is all and nothing. Tim Gill is us.
My hypothesis is that
@timgill924
is actually an anthropologists doing an ethnographic study of what it is like to be a sociologist in contemporary academia.
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Looks like a fantastic secondary text for my intro to cdn politics class.
Coming next spring from
@utpress
: "The Paradox of Parliament." In this comprehensive overview of the Canadian Parliament - the first in many years - I explain why Canadians are perpetually dissatisfied with the institution.
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@DavidJPba
David, you need to take your education seriously. I care about that and you should too.
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@DavidJPba
I have never heard anyone say this. But I have heard a great many people on the further right mutter about leaving Canada. David you need a class in Canadian constitutional history. Come learn how and why Canada was formed, and how our constitution holds the federation together.
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Out for a walk in small town Alberta. Ran into a neighbour who helpfully told me all about the World Economic Forum. I told him to take my international relations class. I love chatting up the conspiracy guys because most never got an education. I can help with that.
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@MAAWLAW
But Mark you know how this works. Good things are Canadian forever. Bad things are definitely not Canadian. Really bad things like slavery are American. Mixed and complicated things like the empire and Winston Churchill are British. Dumb things are French.
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Vegan nationalism is how academics roll.
Just how I like my veggie burger: All-American. No Canadian. No Albanian. American.
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As a full professor I’ve already spent several hours watching and reading material for my next project. Breakthroughs have been made.
Grad Students: It’s Sunday. It’s Summer. But this is when the gains are made. If you aren’t getting some work in today, please note that others are. I’m not saying this for any other reason than to tell you the truth. Others may not but I will. Some may not like it. Deal with it.
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