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Nomi Claire Lazar

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Professeure Titulaire, Legal / Political Theory uOttawa GSPIA
Books:on Time & Politics (YaleUP);
on States of Emergency (CambridgeUP)
Co-Lead, British Academy Global Convening
Crisis, Constitutions, Elections, Apocalypse, Extremism
www.nomiclairelazar.com

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Emergencies in federal systems like 🇨🇦's unfold in complex jurisdictional contexts. Prof Jocelyn Stacey & I joined former Dept Attorney General François Daigle for a Canada School of Public Service webinar on this fascinating topic. In English et en Français.
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Mark your wonky calendars, folks! Cause tomorrow is leap day (omg! omg! so excited! can't even!) and this Time Nerd's gonna post a sweet thread about intercalation politics... The ultra-nerdiest of time nerdisms.

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"The Romans did not advance in mathematics," I mused as I watched my kid solving systems this afternoon, "because their numerals were very silly." Ahaha. Just imagine.

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Happy to send a pdf of the chapter over if you don't have access. Agamben's thinking on this subject is dangerously divorced from reality, and I don't use the word 'dangerously' lightly here...

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If you want to up this, I recommend holding up the spatula before scooping the pancakes, and in the most ridiculous conceivable Dracula voice, intoning "VELCOME to my CASTLE! I am...Count Spatula!" (Or, audience dependent, in a nod to that bad movie from whenever that was: "I am...SPATUL!")

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#polisky, please welcome Charlie Feldman: a man who, despite being from Maryland (or Delaware? or one of those places anyway), somehow knows literally everything about Canada's Parliament while also somehow being absolutely the funnest guy in town.

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Foreign interference is as old as elections & toxic as heck.

Commissioner Hogue has appointed me to her Research Council as the inquiry into Canada's situation begins this week. An honour & a pleasure to serve democracy & Canadians in my small way.
foreigninterferencecommission.ca/about/the-co...

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aaaaand, canal's closed. Stupid climate change. Good for the three days it lasted.

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Meetings with MPs this week on emergency law for the climate age... aiming for the perfect balance between looking polished enough to be credible, but also disheveled enough to be, you know, scholar-credible.

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There sure are! Beaver tail pastries (deep fried flat pastries with lemon and sugar), coffee etc. Not everything is open yet because no one was super sure if the canal was going to make it this year (didn't last year) since the temperatures are erratic. Has to stay well below 0 for long stretches.

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It is...sooooo fun. Like: the best.

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💙Get your skates, Ottawa! Canal's open! Let's goooo! 💙

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🚨 JOBS! 🚨 Are you a huge climate/energy/innovation nerd who wants to bring your talents to Team Canada? We're launching a big policy job competition today at NRCan's Office of Energy R&D. A number of advisor and senior advisor roles are open, including on my team!

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Exactly like Ontario higher ed cuts. Plus, gov lowered then froze tuition (which would be good... if unis had other income!), & also froze salaries for 5 yrs, just as inflation took off. But govt just lost a labour suit, so Uni's are on hook for backpay. Who doesn't want backpay? But with what $$?

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Oh dear oh dear. This will be all of us in Ontario before long if we aren't very judicious. I sit on the governing board of our uni, & the budget situation - over which we have almost no control on the inputs side (province has cut & cut, tuition was cut, then frozen) - keeps me up at night...

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Curious why? That looks like desperation: Are they close to bankrupt? Funding cuts?

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Another top UK legal theory group with an all, or nearly-all, male slate of speakers. What's going on folks? So retro.

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Ed Broadbent died today. A great & extraordinarily gracious man. (How gracious? If you're ever w/ me and a bottle of wine, I'll tell you. The story in question involves flagstones, Wittgenstein, inadvertent nudity, and the actual, physical toppling of the even more gracious Mrs. Broadbent.)

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We need at least -10*C* for 10 consecutive days. If it's -10*F*, all the better! The beauty of the canal (an 8km long groomed skateway, complete with on-ice cafes) is that it makes us WANT the weather to be cold as possible, for as long as possible. In winter, it's how I get to work.⛸️

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All I want for my birthday is 10 consecutive days of -10C so the Rideau Canal will freeze thick & solid, & I can enjoy the best thing in the world which is skating on the canal. Is that too much to ask?!?! Stupid climate change. Stupid "warm" limbo weather. Spoiling winter. Spoiling everything. 😑

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In all seriousness: what is this "rose bowl" of which you all speak? I mean, it sounds lovely.

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Definitely my kind of new years! Wishing all good things in 2024 for you and your family.

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Your Eastern Standard Time annual reminder, that at 10:30pm, it's already midnight in Newfoundland: you can raise a glass with our Great Eastern friends, and still go to bed on time... Thanks, Newfoundland!

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Does AI replicate common reasoning fallacies, the way it replicates structural biases?

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All you older folks, telling on yourselves... 😜

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I have a new climate emergency piece, if you'd like to take a look! Would love to see what you're working on as it develops.

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The Romans (at least pre-Julian reform) inserted intercalary months "as needed", which in practice meant as politically expedient for whoever happened to be Pontifex Maximus.

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I should send you my politics of clocks and calendars book...

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Job! 🔔We invite highly qualified *global* candidates to apply for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Climate Policy & Clean Growth.
An exceptional opportunity for an exceptional scholar. Open as to field. Details: tinyurl.com/mtvxyztt
@rolandparis.bsky.social
polisky econsky climatesky

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Emergency powers scholarship needs the Frischgeprägteswort: 'Schmittblindheit'.

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Was thinking about integrity of the process / Elections Canada type stuff, but your book looks great! Ironically, I had your UBC page open right next to my Bluesky tab while I was poking around for relevant stuff. I may be in touch shortly...

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Polisky, can anyone recommend scholarship on the conduct of elections in Canada (historical / contemporary)? Who works on this? I never know who the cool kids are.

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Overheard: My kid explaining graduated taxation to her friend on the phone. (Sigh) Teenagers these days.

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Right? What *is* that? Where did it crawl out from?

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How is there so much to do no matter how much gets done?! Where does it all even come from?!? How is it almost 2pm already?! (bangs head on keyboard)

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I'm hiding under a table and I'm *never* coming out.

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Doesn't it? Guess I'll just climb under a table and stay there for a while.

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TFW a Parliamentary Committee solicits a brief on a serious matter, you proudly & dutifully prepare & submit it, then realise some months later they posted it on their website, but in a font that makes you seem 5 yo & /or makes the reader fear they need glasses: ourcommons.ca/Content/Comm...
polisky

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