Matt Farrell
@Prof_Farrell
Educator | Poli-Sci, Public Opinion & Survey Methods | Elections analyst | Opinions are mine; temperament is my father's.
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"Anything critical – however diluted, incidental and innocuously decontextualised – will still be found offensive by the uncompromising reactionaries."
You are absolutely allowed to leave Canada. You just can’t take a chunk of it with you. As for the constitution, it’s true: it’s very hard to change. Too hard. That needs to change — for everybody’s sake. The country needs a better amending formula — one that is based on the
Clear admission from an Eastern federalist: Albertans should not even bother to reform Canada. The constitution is set in stone in the East’s favour. It will never change. And you are never allowed to leave.
Ontario Premier and NY Governor focused on the issues that matter most.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul is suspending the enforcement of alcohol service hours on Sunday for the United States vs. Canada men's ice hockey gold medal game. Bars in the state will now be allowed to open for the 8:10 a.m. ET puck drop.
Its funny to see so many Republicans cheering an unconstitutional workaround to secure a tax hike.
I am very struck by the new focus on immigration as a new reason to hold a referendum in Alberta. That is deeply Brexit-coded.
There are very few social benefits from Trump's tariffs, but a big one is the fact that it will be easier than ever to teach undergraduates about comparative advantage.
TRUMP: This gentleman has a great company. We was in big trouble and then I put on the tariffs. It's amazing anyone could complain about them BIZ OWNER: It's been a game changer. We were competing with China. They were producing racks at $90 a piece. Our costs alone are $150.
Social Identities Shape Belief in True and False Information In our latest paper (N = 1,459), people who were randomly assigned to a minimal groups were more likely to trust and believe ingroup members. This was only true among people who highly valued their ingroup or had a
Holding elected officials accountable for their transgressions? A novel idea...
We're now at 169 Liberal seats. That includes 3 vacancies, including 2 safe Ontario LPC seats. Should they win those two, the Liberals would be up to 171. That means the race in Terrebonne, which was decided by 1 vote, could decide if the Liberals have a majority or not #cdnpoli
I am honoured to welcome Matt Jeneroux to our caucus as the newest member of Canada’s new government. Building a stronger, more resilient, and more independent country will require ambition, collaboration, and occasionally, sacrifice. I am grateful to Matt and his family that
I personally would be furious if I worked super hard on something, say, a song or a book or a movie, and someone came along and just took that proprietary work and used it in their commercial product without asking!
Google has revealed that "commercially motivated" actors attempted to clone @GeminiApp by bombarding it with over 100,000 prompts. This "model extraction" attack aimed to steal the AI’s proprietary logic and reasoning capabilities, particularly in non-English languages, to train
I could go on about how no female CEO, dressed as if they just got out of bed and acting like they are on speed while talking to investors of a public company, could get away with this but the truth is nobody should.
Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp couldn’t stay seated in his chair as he proudly stated, “We kill people sometimes,” while speaking to shareholders. Maniac.
People form beliefs not only as individual agents, but as members of social groups. A new paper finds that children (4-6 years old) who belonged to a group were more convinced by evidence that supported their ingroup’s belief (and were less convinced by evidence that opposed
Canada is an excellent case to test this theory because we have civil law in Québec and common law everywhere else. And there’s a bad housing crisis in both. Sooooooo…
Underrated factor in why English-speaking countries have especially bad housing crises is their common law systems (adversarial and litigious) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. Makes Anglo planning/permitting systems especially vulnerable to NIMBYs and other objections.
AI just saved me ~4 hours of driving on my vacation i was planning a trip to the Grand Canyon and noticed the driving route was incredibly inefficient i spun up a few claude code agents and used agentic ai to find this faster route it will take me just a few minutes to drive,
BOMBSHELL @FT scoop: Trump admin mulls cutting steel/aluminum tariffs bc these taxes 1) raise US prices; 2) are insanely complicated; 3) had other unintented consequences (incl lobbying). They're admitting, in other words, that gravity exists. Good.
Big step forward for men in breaking through the glass ceiling
Tarique Rahman will be the first MALE prime minister, in Bangladesh in 35 years. Not many countries can say that!
Many people really have a hard time with the simple idea of "dont be a dick to other people" as a sufficient standard for making good places to work at. I mean, sometimes, simple things really do work.
Fabulous new paper from Chris Ragan on fiscal policy in Canada. Read it here! 👇 #cdnecon
Why does fiscal policy matter for Canada? Growth is slowing, productivity is weak, and inequality is rising. In a new paper, Christopher Ragan outlines how smarter choices on taxes, spending, and debt can strengthen long-term prosperity Read here: policyschool.ca/wp-content/upl…
In addition to melting your brain, partisanship also torches your emotional stability.
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