I was today days old when I learned that a major use of restrictive covenants in Calgary (and elsewhere) was maintaining “community character” by prohibiting specific races from buying in a neighborhood and I feel naive but also why is this not part of the news stories?

"The evidence shows that singling out health care for gender diverse youth and making it subject to government control will cause irreparable harm to gender diverse youth by reinforcing the discrimination and prejudice that they are already subjected to.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 👏

This is an amazing moment. We will see how much the government wants to make trans kids suffer if they continue to fight this decision in any form or fashion. We will also have a metric for their cruelty. #ableg #abpoli #transrightsarehumanrights

The authoritarian assault on higher education claims its second victim after Columbia - a coercive attack on academic freedom that deepens the threat to democracy and the rule of law www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

Alberta as we know it today simply would not exist without the millions of immigrants and refugees who built it, who loved it, and who were proud to call it home - including my grandparents and my mum. This bitter xenophobia is as unAlbertan as it’s possible to be. I’m ashamed. I’m disgusted.

"An enterprising opposition party (ahem!) might ... launch a parallel ... exercise, focused on what we here in Alberta might do to improve our economy, our standard of living, our health, our public services, our environment, and our sense of community." #abpoli open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...

Okay Alberta. This is your moment. Each time something egregiously racist happens in this province y'all say, "oh, this isn't who we are...". Now is the time to prove it. Show up at every town hall. Answer every horrible survey question. Get up, stand up. Protest. Do not normalize this ugliness. ✊🏾

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 The June 2025 issue of P&G is out now! The issue features new research on pandemic leadership, the "anti-woke academy" and feminist institutionalism among others, as well as a Critical Perspectives collection on the 2024 🇺🇸 election. buff.ly/AlU5N7h

🧵 This is a big story and I’m not seeing it get around so take a sec with me here. Clearview AI is a big deal if cops can use it. Basically lets them figure out who anyone anywhere is based on social media and internet facial recognition scraping. Protests, you name it. 1/

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Alberta isn’t culturally distinct, but we sure are cruelly distinct.

Alberta is violating its own freedom of information laws by using illegitimate reasons to withhold records, watchdog finds www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @tomcardoso.bsky.social and @robyndoolittle.bsky.social

I keep coming to the same conclusion, and I'm sorry for it. I don't get why someone would strive to get ahold of leadership, only to then destroy the thing they ostensibly lead. But I suspect the Premier and I have very different values.

🚨 New in Nature Human Behavior! 🚨 Binary climate data visuals amplify perceived impact of climate change. Both graphs in this image reflect equivalent climate change trends over time, yet people consistently perceive climate change as having a greater impact in the right plot than the left. 👇1/n

Advance vote in Calgary, Edmonton and the rest of Alberta. Colour scheme is consistent across all three maps: • Purple = more votes than Alberta average • Rust = fewer votes than Alberta average

New NYT/Siena Poll: —Trump's approval rating is 42% vs. 54% disapprove —59% of voters think Trump's 2nd term in office is "scary" —54% say Trump is "exceeding the powers available to him" —Trump has negative approval in all policy areas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

I am now very specifically pissed I can’t travel to the US because it means I will never see what very well may be the best version of my favourite play, ever ever ever. Dude, bogus

#OpenAccess from the latest issue of @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social Voice Through Text, Tradition and Community - cup.org/3XFKoFG "Employing autoethnography to examine two sets of texts, I present an understanding of voice politics" @genevievefuji.bsky.social #FirstView

New report from ACWS finds nearly 32,000 people were turned away from Alberta shelter's due to a lack of space last year, with 40% of them being children. That's a new provincial record. #yeg #yyc #ableg acws.ca/strength-in-...

I spent months (and thousands of The Narwhal's dollars) digging into who actually owns the many small companies which the Alberta Energy Regulator says aren't paying their orphan well levies or minimum cleanup quotas. Some of the names might surprise you. #ableg thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oilp...

Statement from Athana Mentzelopoulos, former AHS CEO.

Women have always been prominent scholars within far-right studies. From pioneers like Kathy Blee & Nonna Mayer to groundbreakers like Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Sarah de Lange, Daphne Halikiopoulou & Caterina Froio, to new stars like Léonie de Jonge, Gefjon Off & Lisa Zanotti. #nomanels

OK this ad is actually very good lmaoooo www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFJ4...

Sometime very soon after Sunday, PM Trudeau will step down and return to private life. Here's a thing on trying to measure the PM's legacy. !!!Warning - charts and data!!! #cdnpoli #cdnecon medium.com/@jennifer.ro...

I wanted to share some background on the recent correction to Hall & Thompson's 2018 paper. This correction has significant implications. The conventional wisdom that moderate candidates perform better in general elections is not supported by the data when properly analyzed.🧵

A reporter asks Trudeau about Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s characterization of the current U.S. situation which she called a "psychodrama." "How would you characterize it?" Trudeau, speaking for a weary nation, “Thursday."

Listen this IS in fact how it’s done. Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor responds to Acting U.S. Atty Ed Martin’s threat to refuse to hire Georgetown graduates who have taken “DEI” courses in their curriculum. Treanor is a brilliant lawyer & constitutional scholar. Embarrassing for Martin.

Graffiti beneath Calgary’ Centre Street bridge. #yyc

It's TUCFA election time! I'm supporting Francine Smith for President. I'm running for the board of directors and hope to earn your support, too. In my experience, university management only pays lip service to academic staff. Often, our voices are not considered at all. That needs to change.

I think if we're going to re-litigate the Canadian response to the 2008 financial crisis, let's not forget how that response started. macleans.ca/news/canada/...

Toronto Star, 1908

It's not just York. At Calgary, program pauses were jammed through over repeated and clear concerns and objections. We can't even discuss the substance because the process is so irredeemably flawed.

Scoop: Two private surgical facilities with contracts under scrutiny are part-owned by Sam Mraiche, whose company imported children’s pain meds for the province and who hosted politicians at NHL playoff games, show documents. w/ @carrietait.bsky.social #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Manages to chide Canadians for taking seriously threats to their country by the US president without actually making clear those threats are, in fact, an abrogation of friendship, alliance, and international law. Trump is not the only American who fails to respect Canadian sovereignty.

US Political Scientists -- please sign if you're able.

New NIH ‘Indirect Costs’ Funding Cuts Threaten Universities, Science Here’s my coverage in @forbes.com 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

"It's Impossible for scholars to defend democracy if democratic principles aren't used inside universities." Or, at least that's my junky translation of a salient point, made in French, at the @caut.bsky.social Academic Freedom conference

This long read by Dr. Debra Thompson says everything that needs to be said about diversity, equity, and inclusion and those who have tried to make DEI dirty in Canada. The back lash is all about fear. 1/ www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I'm currently at a conference on academic freedom and there are consistent attacks designed to stop the meeting with porn, etc. The point is to stop the work from happening. We all have to set the boundaries here. We have no choice.

I am creating a dataset of "soccer politicians", i.e. soccer players who entered politics (successfully or unsuccessfully). We all know George Weah 🇱🇷 or, now, Mikheil Kavelashvili 🇬🇪, but there are many more at national and sub-national level. Do you know any? Names and links to info appreciated! 🙏

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! (Try 2!) Off-Balance: How #US #Courts Privilege #Conservative #Policy Outcomes By @bhighsmith.bsky.social , @mayasen.bsky.social & Kathleen Thelen https://buff.ly/4aM0KBR

Top-notch trolling from Canada’s federal environmental agency (almost certainly a coincidence, but if not then chefs kiss) www.canada.ca/en/environme...

Hey Gender & Politics people! Did you publish a book in 2024? Nominate yourself for the APSA Victoria Schuck Award! More info here: apsanet.org/programs/aps... #gendersky

There's sentence after sentence of wow in the latest @carrietait.bsky.social scoop on Danielle Smith and AHS. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Come work with us! We're looking for a colleague specializing in Gender and Diversity in Politics. Subfield open, but IR and Conparativists are especially encouraged to apply. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1555649...

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This article gives a much bigger story than just medical journals. Essential reading for public health and biomedical research everywhere