NEW POST: You don’t have to caricature Alberta separatism as vacuous or racist, the separatists do it themselves https://emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/you-dont-have-to-caricature-alberta
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Emmett Macfarlane
@EmmettMacfarlane@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Professor. Author. Dad.
Canadian politics, constitutional law, rights, governance, free expression.
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Governing from the Bench: https://www.ubcpress.ca/governing-from-the-bench
Constitutional Pariah: https://www.ubcpress.ca/constitutional-pariah
Legislating under the Charter: https://utorontopress.com/9781487554538/legislating-under-the-charter/
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For the evening crowd...
NEW POST: Dissecting the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision on Bike Lanes and Section 7 of the Charter. https://emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/dissecting-the-ontario-court-of-appeals
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From yesterday...
NEW POST: Mark Carney returns to grubby patronage and damages the renewed Senate https://emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/mark-carney-returns-to-grubby-patronage
NEW POST: Bill C-34's Social Media Ban for under 16s is Unconstitutional https://emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/bill-c-34s-social-media-ban-for-under
Nice to see my latest journal article IN PRINT(!) - part of a special double issue of the National Journal of Constitutional Law in honour of the late Peter Hogg. My thanks to Jamie Cameron and her co-editors for the invitation to contribute.
With arguments today in Alberta litigation on the issue, I am reposting my piece on the 1998 Secession Reference and how the 'honour the Crown' principle changes what the Court said. TLDR: the secession of a province is essentially impossible.
https://emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/is-the-supreme-courts-secession-reference
NEW POST: On debates about the Supreme Court, 'consistent' constitutional interpretation, and the notwithstanding clause https://emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/on-debates-about-the-supreme-court
NEW POST: The Supreme Court preserves parliamentary privilege, and constitutional coherence https://emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-preserves-parliamentary
Thrilled to share my latest article, co-authored with @minhdo.bsky.social, published in Publius: "Treaty Federalism, Legislative Reconciliation, and Informal Constitutional Change in Canada" https://academic.oup.com/publius/advance-article/doi/10.1093/publius/pjag026/8707817
NEW POST: My new book is out! Here's what it's about. https://emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/a-new-book-on-the-study-of-law-and
The special issue of Constitutional Forum has been published on online harms in Canada. My paper examines hate speech & lessons the UK Online Safety Act might have for Canada. Check it out! Thanks to Dax D'Orazio and Michael Asres for putting it together. https://www.constitutionalstudies.ca/2026/03/forum-34-4-regulating-online-harms-in-canada/
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