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.

Jointly sponsored by the Bell Chair in Canadian Parliamentary Democracy at Carleton University and the Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership at Acadia University.

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

When I was associate dean for research, I was keenly aware that pretty much everything I did took away rather than contributed to the operating budget. New money was only for new things. But it wasn’t clear if people understood this.

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

Doubleplusungood.

Thanks Ian!

Carleton University Ad Campaign Is, as They Say, History Carleton University in Ottawa said on Tuesday that it was pulling a radio commercial that had offended the head of the institution’s history department. The 15-second radio spot, part of a broader adv...

Worst university slogan since 1999 when Carleton deeply offended multiple disciplines with the line “Carleton University: For an education that’s about tomorrow, not yesterday.” www.chronicle.com/article/carl...

Electoral Reform's Greatest Foe Sometimes it's electoral reform advocates

I just don’t get the Longest Ballot Committee.

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...?

For that matter why do American schools end in early June and drag kids back in hot mid-August?

It falls under Teaching and Learning Services, though that's a wide umbrella.

Jonathan Malloy on X: "I started as an assistant professor at @Carleton_U twenty years ago on July 1, 2000. We had email, but ‘teaching with technology’ mostly meant using an overhead projector. Here are a few thoughts on what I’ve learned as a faculty member over twenty years: 1/21" / X I started as an assistant professor at @Carleton_U twenty years ago on July 1, 2000. We had email, but ‘teaching with technology’ mostly meant using an overhead projector. Here are a few thoughts on what I’ve learned as a faculty member over twenty years: 1/21

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...

Makes John Tibbetts look like a late-starting newcomer.

A man holding a certificate beside a woman.

On a final note, I was also very pleased to welcome our new president, Dr Tamara Small of the University of Guelph. The @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social is in excellent hands under Dr Small's leadership.

As with my predecessors' talks, the address will be published in the December issue of the Canadian Journal of Political Science. I'm happy to share the text with anyone now though; just ask.

At a time when democratic institutions are under pressure around the world, the study of Canadian political institutions remains more important than ever, but in new and expanded ways, beyond the traditional "legion of improvers."

The field has been invigorated by approaches such as feminist institutionalism that unpack the institutions themselves and their assumptions and cultures. Particularly important are the cues that may seem obvious to people like me but are less visible to racialized and other equity-seeking groups.

While there was much good work, we also had many blind spots, particularly the extent to which most of us were white men studying the institutions of other white men, and how power could be redistributed, often to other white men. This led us into circular discussions with diminishing returns.

A man at a lecture desk.

My address, "Canadian Institutionalism: Political Science and the Study of Political Institutions in Canada," focused on the "legion of improvers," including myself, that long took a normative view of Canadian political institutions, often embedding ourselves within the state to study the state.

A woman speaking in a classroom with a man on the side watching her.

A group of people in a classroom looking at their phones.

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?"

Christie, Brown & Company - Once Canada's Largest Biscuit Maker Christie, Brown & Company Factory was built in the 1870's. It's located on Adelaide St E in Toronto and the Beaux Arts style Stables were...

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...

*minus the five CPSA confs held outside Congress

Puts my 30 year streak* since 1995 to shame.

There will definitely be an in-person CPSA conference next year. Despite the short notice of the Congress cancellation, we are now working hard on a location.

#CPSA_ACSP25

#CPSA_ACSP25

Over 750 people.