
Assistant Professor @UofT_PolSci • Director @PEARL_UofT • Public Opinion, Political Communication & Political Psychology • #BillsMafia • #LetsGoBuffalo
Toronto, Ontario
Joined May 2010
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Thanks to Jamie Druckman, @rgcjohnston3 , @PeejLoewen, and all those who came out to the launch of “Polarization, Eh?” Now available to purchase. It is also freely available at @utpress thanks to a grant from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Link 👇
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On the theme of Canadian elections, I'm delighted to have been able to give a blurb for Eric Merkley's (@EricMerkley) awesome new book "Polarization, Eh?".
You can't understand polarization on either side of the border without this book.
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Read our full brief on Canada's digital media ecosystem here: tinyurl.com/2v2y868m
Thank you to our research team: @DIYAJIANGG, @eslichan, @BradWoodMacLean, @chrispyross, @EricMerkley, @jeremie_drouin, Saewon Park, @ZPehlivan, @AengusBridgman
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Bills: “We are introducing new uniforms to honor the blue collar worker!”
Also the Bills: “Tickets cost $8,000 please.”
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Resilient. Gritty. Blue Collar.
#BillsMafia | bufbills.co/NickelCity
🔥Everyone needs to read this 👇
Stop palliating Canadian anger via costless symbolic nonsense. Either submit to American demands with dignity, or start extracting penalties and accept the financial sacrifice this will entail.
open.substack.com/pub/thelin…
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What are the consequences of “affective polarization” in Canada, i.e. intense feelings of hostility towards the opposing political side? Author & U of T prof @EricMerkley explains, on the Lean Out pod.
Complete and total humiliation if true. It's amazing Carney is able to skate through these things politically. It's a damning indictment of the opposition
Here are some of the details on what Canada had to give up to open the Gordie Howe Bridge, as per a Canadian government source.
For the first 15 years, Canada gets 50% of toll profits and the other 50% goes into a regional "economic development fund." What that fund does and who runs, is not clear
Under the previous agreement, Canada was to receive 100% of toll profit until they were made whole on the $6.4B they spent to build the bridge, which Michigan/the US contributed $0. The agreement also says it could be 50+ years before Canada was whole, that timeline is now longer.
The Americans will have to agree if Canada wants to increase the bridge tolls by more than 10%, or lower them below compared regional averages.
That clause helps out the owners of the Ambassador Bridge, the Maroun family, who have donated to the Trump administration and previously to US ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra, to try and stop the new bridge from opening #cdnpoli
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🚨Deadline approaching! Send in your applications for the Toronto Political Behavior Workshop by Saturday, July 11.🚨 @dktr_dr @EricMerkley @SBorwein
🚨The Toronto Political Behaviour Workshop is back for its 12th edition! Join us on Nov. 13–14, 2026, at @UofT! We welcome paper/poster proposals on any topic in political behaviour, broadly defined!
📅 Submission Deadline: July 11.
Apply here: utorontops.az1.qualtrics.com…
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I’m so glad our paper with Anthony Fowler, Greg Huber and Lilla Orr is finally out @poqjournal. It was so much fun reading the open-ended responses. We are so grateful to everyone who took the time to answer our expert survey!
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Americans explain their party identification & their animosity toward the other party mostly by invoking policy, values, & ideology, rather than disdain, socialization, specific actors, or performance, & did so more than scholars of partisanship expected academic.oup.com/poq/advance…
Uhhh. What? I can't wrap my mind around Lucic, of all people, working for the Sabres. What on earth are we doing?
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Was really looking forward to tonight. The stars were aligning but it feels like we blew it across the board. The never ending story of Buffalo sports fandom. I hope I’m wrong
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Jack Adams rolling over in his grave for his award being given to a 2nd place coach who had the MVP and Vezina winners on his team because the media felt bad for him.
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A monumental loss. Ran was not only a trailblazing and brilliant scholar; he was also a remarkably generous colleague and, what's more, a dear friend.
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Dominated the game. Kicked goal by Montreal, early whistle denying a goal, and a UPL softie. Classic Buffalo sports loss
Tough playing the Canadiens and the officials #letsgobuffalo


































