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My observation and experience: It's not a coincidence that this non-involvement was at the same time that women started to achieve parity in mid- to senior-ranks. Service work (e.g. involvement in governance) became the job of women, with the effect that fewer men took part.

Did you attend, or want to attend, the TST Conference on November 14? The conference recordings are now available! --> YouTube Playlist (watch the sessions in order or jump to specific sessions): bit.ly/49UxGdb --> Dropbox Folder (download or stream individual session videos): bit.ly/4oD1G0U

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"Ottawa U.S. Embassy spokesperson Ariel Pollock" has now been required to issue a comment on our foolishness.

Explaining Black Friday to kids: "So the Americans. They don't have Boxing Day. In fact they don't take Christmas week off like we do. Their big holiday is Thanksgiving, which they hold a month late, at a weird time for a harvest festival. The next day is their Boxing Day, which we have to honour."

Just finished my final review for JBL as a member of the editorial board. Fifty reviews (including a handful of re-reviews) over the last nine years. A true privilege to serve.

I believe the technical term for this is extortion

Link to my slides from my presentation to grad students on conferences: drive.google.com/file/d/1MEID...

And challenge they did. At the Montreal Winter Carnival Hockey Tournament on February 7, 1884 the capital’s first representative hockey team took to the ice wearing red and black striped jerseys and caps and dark knickerbockers. They called themselves the Ottawas: wintieorwrangle.ca/team-beginni...

Zotero has changed its look and I am so disoriented.

Registration is nearing capacity - register soon if interested in attending in-person. Online attendance is also possible via livestream and recordings. More info and registration: bit.ly/48WYhph

It's Weber's analysis in Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism on full display: their homelessness demonstrates that they are predestined for damnation, so assisting them would be interfering with God's plan. eh.net/encyclopedia...

Come see some excellent research presentations and conversations! It will be livestreamed! Great graduate student and faculty presentations. For those of us going elbows-up and boycotting US-based conferences, this is an excellent chance to share.

I’m increasingly coming to the conclusion that the state of Israel is behaving in a horrific manner that is absolutely worthy of intense protest, and also that there is no way to have an anti-Israel political movement that will not in some way increase antisemitism against the diaspora.

Anybody got any ideas for where I could submit an article called "Gideon, 'Breaking Bad,' and toxic masculinity"?

Seems like a good week to update and resurface this compelling — and terrifying — story from Aisha Ahmad of @utoronto.ca: theconversation.com/why-annexing...

Oh for God's sake. Just no.

Since it's the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, here's a piece I wrote a few years ago tackling one of the main ways folks tend to minimize or dismiss the horror of the residential schools - the idea that it was done with "good intentions": theconversation.com/when-good-in...

Friends, I was "Reviewer 2" today, and for the first time ever, I did it gladly. (Sometimes I've been Reviewer 2, felt bad about having to do it, but needs must.) I've never reviewed a manuscript with such a dismissive tone before.

Nothing is going to improve in Canadian higher education until the political class accepts that we need to make it better rather than cheaper. How will we know they have accepted it? When they are prepared to put institutions ahead of voters and raise tuition.

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...

If you want to study at TST, get in touch! Knox College (one of TST's member schools) has a limited number of full-funding fellowships.

"[The makers of AI] want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."

The Canadian Freedom Convoy people who argue the Emergencies Act was a dictatorial abuse of power agree that this use of power bears the ‘hallmarks of unreasonableness’ too, right?

Now that's a headline you don't see everyday: "Evacuation order for parts of Paradise."

Hahaha - I took one of the photos in this article while on a short trip in June. It did not disappoint. (gift link)

I'm not a cyclist. This is, however, very good news for every person who travels in Toronto by any mode other than car.

This is a much better article than the headline alone would suggest. It turns out the "why" and "when" cases are pretty limited.

"#2" being "Fear of arbitrary ICE arrest." I'm a grad-program director (among my many other roles). This is what keeps me up at night thinking about my grad students.

Let me put this another way: Top reasons why Cdn-US tourism is down as seen by Canadians: 1. Forced annexation threats 2. Fear of arbitrary ICE arrest 3. General dismay @ new US 4. Tariffs, levied despite USCMA deal Top reasons as seen by US media/govt: 1. Tariffs generally 2. 51 State 'jokes'

Did this a while ago, and yes, it does work, and yes, you will feel better.

Vacationing in the Rideau Lakes. Astounded by the number of solar panels, not only on roofs but also in fields. Left Saskatchewan in 2022 and can't imagine panels in fields. 1/

To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship. New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...

I'm listening to Pulp's Different Class, and boy oh boy is that ever a timeless album.

It's July 4th. Americans have nothing to celebrate and everything to mourn, as their country has now fully transitioned from a weak democracy to a full authoritarian - indeed, fascist - regime. And too few even recognize it.

Today I ate an ice cream while looking at the world's largest axe. Younger me would have been horrified.

This is going to end up like all the other silly things to come out of Queen's Park: everybody posts their "criteria" and then we never hear about it again. No enforcement mechanism, just a lot of useless make work.

CSBS President, Professor Erin Runions (Pomona College), delivers the 2025 Presidential Address entitled "The Carceral Afterlives of Isaiah 66:24 and the Question of the Human."

At the CSBS annual meeting and chaired a session of papers by four brilliant new scholars this morning. Came out exhausted but energized. Also realized I'm old.

Bill 33 is probably the most direct attack on university autonomy in Canadian history. The right to select who can attend a university has ALWAYS been in the hands of institutions. Now the government of Ontario wants to change that. A Candian first. And not a very pretty one.

So, with Bill 33, the Ontario government is now giving itself the power to decide what "merit" is and which students should and should not be admitted to each college and university. (it's and anti-EDI measure, if that's not abundantly clear. Fully Trumpian)

All I had to do was write a thesis statement. So I spent the afternoon re-reading Foucault's "Society Must Be Defended."

As the person at my institution responsible for dealing with academic misconduct, I really like this. Also because my institution does postgraduate and professional education - both the academic and ethical cases are important. (not to mention employability)

@csbssceb.bsky.social - will this be on the AGM agenda?

... And there it is: trying to keep the convoy-party from splintering off, leading to loss of power.

Electoral interference doesn't just apply to China, Russia, or India. The USA is the greatest enemy to democracy in the world right now.

If you haven't already, go #vote!

Viceroy to the King of Canada, who happens to live in the UK. Yes folks, Canada is a monarchy with our own King.

You have to wonder what Mark Carney's other two wishes were after rubbing that bottle