A terrific new article on the history of the @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social Women's Caucus has just been published. Thanks to @joannaeveritt.bsky.social and Samantha Papuha for this important documenting of CPSA history.

So excited to see this paper on the history of the Cdn Poli Sci Ass’s Women’s Caucus published by CJPS. Many thanks to all of those women in the discipline who spoke to us about it.

My student presented a clever 2025 version of Brian Mulroney and the GST.

Big news for CPSA 2026 - the Canadian Legislatures and Leadership Workshop, organized by @alexmarland.bsky.social and yours truly! uOttawa, June 2-4, 2026 as part of the Canadian Political Science Association meetings. @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social More info: mycpsa-cpsa-acsp.ca/cfp/cfp_callE

Exciting that the call is out for the 2026 annual CPSA conference, hosted by our friends at the University of Ottawa, June 2-4. As a reminder, this is a stand-alone conference after the cancellation of Congress 2026. Congrats to everyone for making this happen. mycpsa-cpsa-acsp.ca/cfp/cfp_index

While I don’t have strong opinions on the House of Plantagenet, it pleases me that the Richard III Society of Canada ran this ad in today’s Globe and Mail, as they have every August 22 since 1966. @richardiiisocca.bsky.social

I just don’t get the Longest Ballot Committee. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...?

As of today I've been a faculty member for 25 years. In the spirit of academic laziness amid the general decline of social media, I'm recycling the posts I made five years ago. x.com/JonathanMall...

It was great to attend my 30th straight Canadian Political Science Association annual conference last week and deliver my presidential address. I was especially happy to be unconventionally introduced by @mcloutier.bsky.social with a quiz for the crowd on "how well do you know Malloy and the CPSA?"

Fun fact: I spent all week at 200 King St for the @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social annual conference, but I didn't know it was originally a cookie factory. It was also later owned by Hallmark cards. www.torontojourney416.com/christie-bro...

In the runup to the Presidential Reception at #CPSAACSP25, a Brief History of @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social Presidential Dinners. Including our occasional episodes of dancing...

Very excited for #CPSA2025 this week. A highlight will be the Presidential Reception - Reception, not Dinner! - at the Toronto Metropolitan University Student Centre on the @torontomet.bsky.social campus. Read on...

As I prepare to pass on the @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social presidential tankard next week, I thought I’d actually try having a drink from it. Not bad, but the lid gets in the way

Excellent summary of Alberta separatism by @jlisayoung.bsky.social Make sure to subscribe to her Substack on Alberta politics, appropriately titled “What Now?!?” open.substack.com/pub/lisayoung

@alexusherhesa.bsky.social points out the most basic reason why faculty have been slow to embrace AI…the impossibility of doing assessment on the mass scale that our teaching model is based on. Guiding and assessing 10 students is maybe possible. Not 100. higheredstrategy.com/the-cost-imp...

Today I concluded my year as @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social president. I’m delighted to be passing the presidential cup to Tamara Small, literally in two weeks at our annual conference.

Two years ago I wrote two op-eds for the 2025 election, one explaining why Pierre Poilievre won and one why he lost. I think I know which one applies tomorrow, but there were some twists along the way. jonathanmalloy.substack.com/p/my-2025-ca...

The narrow Conservative campaign keeps reminding me of a scene in Star Wars. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

The narrow Conservative campaign keeps reminding me of a scene in Star Wars. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

With a week to go before the Canadian election, I keep saying “anything can happen,” but it does feel we know the outcome. insidestory.org.au/mark-carneys...

I wrote a Substack about how mainstream media doesn't seem to have picked up the issue of a House committee proposal to remove charitable tax status from religious organizations, a potential bomb widely circulating within conservative religious circles. jonathanmalloy.substack.com/p/the-sleepe...

I wrote a Substack about how mainstream media doesn't seem to have picked up the issue of a House committee proposal to remove charitable tax status from religious organizations, a potential bomb widely circulating within conservative religious circles. jonathanmalloy.substack.com/p/the-sleepe...

No matter your politics, shed a tear for NDP, the party that has owned anti-American economic nationalism for a half century, and yet its reward may be a record low of seats. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

The second coming of Louis St Laurent was not on my bingo card for 2025. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

My thoughts on the opportunity Mr Poilievre has to finally articulate his forward vision for Canada. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

In this world of toxic news, I’m grateful for Australia’s @insidestory.bsky.social publication. And that they keep taking my pieces. insidestory.org.au/im-most-usef...

Late afternoon on the Ottawa River.

I'm delighted to see a new book on the Rae government, by @stevenhigh.bsky.social and @btlbooks.com As High observes, the Ontario NDP engages in "selective amnesia" by erasing this period from its history.

Every university program is convinced it's carrying the rest of the university, either as a cash cow or a prestigious loss leader.

Obligatory pundit post on the very non-obligatory Ontario election. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Canadian universities look pretty similar across the country, but this illustration by @caut.bsky.social illustrates the profound variation in where they get their money. www.caut.ca/bulletin/202...

This month marks the 90th anniversary of the Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science (CJEPS). The title reveals how the Canadian Political Science Association, despite its name, was a partnership from the start between the disciplines of political science and economics.

The current Ontario election is not like 1990. But this is still a great book. jonathanmalloy.substack.com/p/not-1990

CPSA thanks chairs for attending #25CPSA_CHAIRS @carletonu.bsky.social We hope you found the sessions useful & left feeling inspired! Yr active participation added immense value to the event! @jonathanrose.bsky.social @jonathanmalloy.bsky.social @loraleamichaelis.bsky.social

I think we all owe Maude Barlow an apology.

The @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social department chairs meeting is this weekend. A few of us started yesterday with a tour of the "new" House of Commons.

Carleton U neighbourhood.

My last name is Irish, but much of my heritage is Mennonite. Today is the 500th anniversary of the first Anabaptist adult baptisms (mwc-cmm.org/en/stories/h...). And it reminds me of my own.. 🧵

A @hilltimes.com story by Ian Campbell quoting me: having now gone through a second painful struggle this century to remove its leader with no means to do so, I have a feeling the Liberal Party will learn absolutely nothing from the experience. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

The annual call for nominations for the CPSA board is open. We are looking for a vice-president, two regular board members, a Practitioner Representative, and a Student Representative. Click below, and contact me or any of the nominating committee members below for more information!

When I was CSPG president, my approach to board renewal was looking over the audience at our events and figuring who I might sucker into attending the monthly meetings and heading a committee. This seems much more orderly.

The prorogation of Parliament to accommodate our new national governing document, the Liberal Party constitution, demonstrates that party democracy and parliamentary democracy are not necessarily compatible. jonathanmalloy.substack.com/p/parliament...

Mulroney: "I was even less popular when I quit but everyone stopped for a day and said nice things about me." Diefenbaker: "Quitter."

My frantic real-time analysis of recent developments in Canadian politics for international readers, in the wonderful Australian journal @insidestorymag. Summary: Trump threats; Freeland bails; Trudeau waffles; the country waits. inside.org.au/first-casualty

Reposting for weekend reading. Who would have thought the Liberal Party would have their own Diefenbaker problem?

Interesting timing today.

I wasn't around in 1963, but today's events remind me of it. jonathanmalloy.substack.com/p/all-hail-t...

The prime minister has managed to combine these two.

Donald Smiley's 1988 festchrift remarks: "Among those of you have been students of mine I get this kind of consensus: 'Smiley interested me in matters which came to be at...the centre of my professional concerns. Let it be said, however, that I believe his methodology, if it can be called that..

The recent memoirs of Marc Garneau and Lloyd Axworthy tell us a lot about the very different sides of the Liberal Party of Canada, as it moves toward one of its occasional dates with oblivion. I review both in my latest substack essay. jonathanmalloy.substack.com/p/liberal-ca...