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Chris MacDonald

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I teach ethics at the Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto. Philosopher by training. Chair, Law and Business Department. Director of the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre. Current research topic: the ethics of vigilantism. Neach-ionnsaghaidh na Gàidhlig.

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Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

26.07.2025 08:48 — 👍 80    🔁 36    💬 1    📌 6
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Hey folks. Check out the free, ungated, online "Concise Encyclopedia of Business Ethics" (written by Alexei Marcoux & me) HTML and eBook formats available! Ethics"nhttps://conciseencyclopedia.org/

24.06.2025 13:59 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Business Ethics Journal Review Edited by Alexei Marcoux & Chris MacDonald -- ISSN 2326-7526

Hey everybody. Check out this journal that I co-founded and co-edit. The Business Ethics Journal Review. We publish short, peer-reviewed REVIEWS of other peer-reviewed work. Fast, 100% free for all involved. Non-profit published. businessethicsjournalreview.ca

19.06.2025 18:14 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I'm not the first to say it, but: police & military are the hearts and minds we need to persuade.

10.06.2025 13:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whether it's Twitter or Trump 2.0, Elon's real talent is to trash things he overpaid for

05.06.2025 22:02 — 👍 61    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 1

Even more excited now to see @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social live this Saturday. Can't wait to see his observations on Trump v Musk

05.06.2025 23:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've got tickets for Saturday. I can't wait.

05.06.2025 23:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes, this!! If the richest man on earth can't count on Trump's allegiance...

05.06.2025 23:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Rule of Law (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

If anyone is looking for a primer on how philosophers think about the Rule of Law... plato.stanford.edu/entries/rule...

05.05.2025 15:40 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This, over and over again: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

05.05.2025 13:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I use this feature all the time. (Of course, that doesn't make it profitable for Apple).

05.05.2025 13:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't understand any parent who would say otherwise. But it's nice to see someone with a big name say it. :-)

01.05.2025 19:34 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@tps.ca Question: on Dupont around Christie this morning there is road construction going on -- fenced off by pylons declaring "Police Emergency". Real emergency?

01.05.2025 19:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“The grass is greener…”. I get your point but in fact no reason to think that conservatives have any solutions to this (nor to think that there is anything like a true epidemic of crime)

01.05.2025 01:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Every Trump supporter needs to hear these words: Americans and Canadians fought side by side in WWII *against* leaders like Trump. And we won.

30.04.2025 14:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

26.04.2025 23:25 — 👍 44793    🔁 11925    💬 556    📌 451

I’m generally quite fond of @viarailcanada.bsky.social But it’s 2025. How is wifi on the train still so bad? Is it some sort of insurmountable technological problem?

27.04.2025 22:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cartoon by @billbramhall.bsky.social.

27.04.2025 16:09 — 👍 9573    🔁 3004    💬 152    📌 91
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Welcome to the Poilievre Conspiracy Theory Vortex | The Walrus Adopting absurd narratives has become a staple of right-wing politicking

Now, more than ever, we need political leaders who are willing to champion the truth.

We can't let lies and spin win.

My take: thewalrus.ca/poilievre-co... via @thewalrus.ca

26.04.2025 14:54 — 👍 139    🔁 55    💬 7    📌 4

I honestly think a big part of the problem is that not enough Americans are paying attention.

26.04.2025 03:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When you’re spotted walking down the street with your eight year-old, and you start a sentence with the phrase “Going forward…” you might well have spent too long working in a corporate context

25.04.2025 19:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds like one of the verb tenses I didn’t learn in high school

25.04.2025 01:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also hilarious that Trump pretends to be able to tell which lawyers are "not that good".

24.04.2025 14:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I cannot believe (but yeah, I know, I do) that that many people still approve. WTF.

23.04.2025 18:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just finished teaching “The Ethical-Legal Nexus” with emphasis on the Rule of Law. It was hard not to make it just about Trump.

23.04.2025 03:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you have any identifiable connection to Pete Hegseth - same college, same dentist, same bartender- then you should now assume that several nations' intelligence services are spending huge resources to plant spyware on your phone, personally. You should assume they will succeed.

22.04.2025 21:46 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Congrats. Downloading now!! (my own work is conceptual/normative rather than empirical, but this looks interesting!)

22.04.2025 19:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Image of Pedro Pascal. Text reads: “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist. — Pedro Pascal.”

Image of Pedro Pascal. Text reads: “I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist. — Pedro Pascal.”

"The Last of Us" star Pedro Pascal is exactly right: You can't claim to stand for freedom while tearing it away from others 🤷

21.04.2025 21:00 — 👍 1864    🔁 362    💬 13    📌 10

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