Luc Turgeon
@lturgeon.bsky.social
Professeur de science politique/Professor of Political Science. Ottawa.
1/16 - La teneur des débats québécois sur la laïcité, depuis le dépôt du projet de Charte des valeurs en 2013, me donne fréquemment envie de me cogner la tête sur les murs. #polqc #laïcité #Pl21 #libertédeconscience #droitsfondamentaux #droitsetlibertés #dérogation www.lapresse.ca/actualites/c...
I promised my doctor to try to reduce my blood pressure, but some people make it hard, especially the current mayor and his “kick-the-cost-of-running-the-city-when-I’m-not-the-mayor-anymore” strategy. Has nothing to do with caring for Ottawa families and everything to do with political ambitions.
mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social@mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social · 3d agoOttawa families are managing their costs carefully. They deserve to know there’s someone working hard to keep their property taxes low. I’m the only mayoral candidate committing to a clear limit: 2% to 2.5% for the next two years.
Paul LePage est au sommet de ma liste de politiciens qui me répugne. Un politicien d'origine canadienne-française qui a adopté, vis-à-vis des communautés immigrantes au Maine, le même type de discours xénophobes qui visaient autrefois sa propre communauté.
@richardhetu.bsky.social · last wk.Du français dans une pub américaine richardhetu.com/2026/09/23/d...
J'avais besoin d'un break/I needed a break. Ma liste des meilleures séries TV des années 2000 via le New York Times. (heureux d'avoir eu le choix de séries québécoises!)
Frédéric Lacroix mentionne le “frériste Zohran Mandani” dans une publication Facebook ce matin à propos du maire progressiste de New York. C’est une affirmation complotiste que l’on trouve chez des extrémistes aux Etats-Unis. Ce n’est pas nouveau pour lui.
Need help. I'm trying to come up with a list of third rails of provincial politics. So far, I'm thinking something like this for these three provinces: Quebec: abolishing subsidies to private schools Ontario: abolishing the catholic school system Alberta: Sales tax. Suggestions for other provinces?
L'appel à propositions #CPSA_ACSP27 est lancé ! ⏰ 10 nov 26 Découvrez les collègues derrière le programme — et envoyez-leur vos travaux ! 📍 UC-B-Vancouver-CAN/26-28 mai 27 mycpsa-cpsa-acsp.ca/cfp/cfp_inde... @kariroberts.bsky.social @katepuddister.bsky.social @profsmithsask.bsky.social
Call for Proposals #CPSA_ACSP27 ⏰ Nov 10 2026 📍 UBC-Vancouver-CANADA|May 26–28 2027 mycpsa-cpsa-acsp.ca/cfp/cfp_index @jeanetteashe.bsky.social @tania-g.bsky.social @parlcharlie.bsky.social @kaelkropp.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @ipsa.org @isa-canada.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
People in Ottawa keep electing mayors that make the same promise every election and they keep getting the same results: crumbling infrastructures, declining services, increasing fees that hit low-income residents the most. There is a cost to tax phobia.
Mark Sutcliffe promises 2.5% tax hike ceiling for 2 years, mayoral rivals hold off on firm numbers | CBC News
As Ottawa's incumbent mayor promises to set an upper limit on property tax hikes for 2027 and 2028, challenger Neil Saravanamuttoo says voters shouldn't believe him.
cbc.ca
An article in The Gazette with a few of my thoughts on the low support for the Liberal Party of Quebec amongst Francophones./Article dans The Gazette dans lequel je présente quelques réflexions sur le faible soutien dont bénéficie le Parti libéral du Québec auprès des francophones.
Without that French connection, Liberal election win is 'impossible' for Milliard
'How can the Liberals take power if they only have the support of 10 per cent of the French population?'
montrealgazette.com
Now that we are about to become (associated) Europeans, I’m hoping it might inspire us to get European-style transit and urban planning, TGV, Scandinavian family, care and training policies, and obviously better baguettes (at least outside Quebec).
Je lis le petit livre "Libre en Amérique" de l'ancien député du Bloc et maintenant candidat du PQ Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay. Il affirme dans le livre la chose suivante: "La perspective du Québec comme État américain serait-elle plus réjouissante ? ...
1. In late Sept. 2002 just a year after the Al-Qaeda led Sept. 11th attacks on the US & in the midst of the so called War on Terror that followed #9/11, #MaherArar, a Syrian-born-McGill University-educated engineer, was on his way home to Canada following a family trip to Tunisia.
Un appel au boycottage des conférences universitaires américaines de mon collègue Daniel Stockemer.
It’s time to boycott U.S. conferences - University Affairs
As trade hostilities continue, we shouldn’t use taxpayers’ dollars to travel stateside.
universityaffairs.ca
In my family, we boycotted Cadbury chocolate and Welsh juices for decades after they moved from Quebec to Ontario in the late 1970s. Just saying.
The Japan Times@japantimes.co.jp · 3w agoSapporo Breweries is shifting some production to the U.S. from Canada due to 50% tariffs imposed by Washington on beer imports from the country as it seeks to reinvigorate its North American operations.
The Gen X game: how many of these 25 have you heard of before. My score is 3.
Cas Mudde@casmudde.bsky.social · 4w agoI am happy to say I only have heard of one, but even of that one (#3) I have never seen content.
Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you’ve seen live. Broken Social Scene X > 10 Flaming Lips X 2 Waxahatchee X 2 The XX Kendrick Lamar Beck X 2 Run the Jewels Jean-Pierre Ferland X 2 U2 X 2 Björk
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last mo.Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you’ve seen live. U2 X 2 The National X 3 Phoebe Bridgers X 2 boygenius Japanese Breakfast Billy Joel Paul Simon Mitski David Gray X 2 Black Pumas
MBC qui préfère croire Trump: “Mais l’interprétation donnée par Carney à la rupture des négociations a été démentie depuis par Trump lui-même, qui assure ne pas avoir voulu s’en prendre à la langue française et à la culture québécoise! »
👇Most Americans don’t get how mad Canadians have been about the country’s treatment under Trump. But @joshtpm.bsky.social gets it. Worth a read.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last mo.Trump’s Wars of Whim, And How He Loses Them talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Maybe now that the old way of doing things — negotiate a trade agreement with the US — has been decisively shown not to work, we can get serious about planning for Canada’s future? policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/03/roya...
Open letter to the next prime minister: We need a royal commission on Canada’s future
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Who governs matter (and for the case of Quebec, see this article).
The Right and the (Provincial) Welfare State: The Case of the Coalition Avenir Québec Government | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique | Cambridge Core
The Right and the (Provincial) Welfare State: The Case of the Coalition Avenir Québec Government - Volume 56 Issue 3
cambridge.org
Alex Usher@alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 2mo agoI;ve been doing this chart every year for God knows how long, and I don't think I have ever seen such divergence across provinces. 5- and 10-year change in provincial transfers to post-secondary institutions, 2024-25.
New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% fall in assaults, 57% drop in self harm and halving of staff absence rates - fascinating results from trial into a more rehabilitative approach to prisons observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
‘Scandi wings’ offering pianos, pool and tea parties coul...
A unit in London’s Wandsworth prison has been transformed using methods from Sweden and Norway that prioritise rehabilitation over retribution
observer.co.uk
Le @nytimes.com a publié un texte sur mon parcours et sur mes premiers mois comme scientifique en chef du Québec. Je me réjouis de l'intérêt international pour notre modèle québécois unique qui rapproche recherche et décision publique. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/hv5a5ev6
Très bon texte de David Sanschagrin. "Lorsque les acteurs politiques présentent ces questions comme une lutte entre une majorité menacée et des adversaires existentiels, les mesures symboliques tendent à remplacer les politiques fondées sur des objectifs mesurables."
Politique identitaire : quels effets sur les politiques publiques?
Immigration, français, laïcité : comment la politique identitaire influence-t-elle les politiques publiques et la cohésion sociale au Québec?
policyoptions.irpp.org
In Gothenburg in Sweden, there is a municipal summer job program for teenagers called Kultursommarjobb. Bands are paid to play throughout the city (can also be theatre or other form of entertainment). So cool.
Sutcliffe named the planning chair. Same playbook as Watson, except Watson adopted that type of rhetoric in his third mandate.
mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social@mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Ottawa has been leading the way in solving one of the biggest challenges facing cities: namely getting homes built.” When the planning and housing chair had no solutions, I stepped in and created the Housing Innovation Task Force.
1. In a recent email, the Ottawa Mayor, Mark Sutcliffe, warned his supporters of electing a far left mayor like Jeff Leiper. I get it. I’m in Copenhagen right now, which is governed by the Socialist People’s Party (Green Left) after decades of social democratic governance. The place is hell!
L’enfer, c’est les autres quand l’embarquement dans l’avion est par zone.
