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American Review of Canadian Studies Volume 55, Number 2 (Summer 2025) Table of Contents Articles Andrew McDougall and David Thomas “A Tale of Two Crises: Developments in Abeyance Theory in Canada and the United States” Tartil Shaheen and John B. Sutcliffe “Is There a “Hollowing Consensus” in Ontario Education Governance? School Board Erosion and the Bill 98 Debate” Michael P.A. Murphy “The Framing of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canadian Parliamentary Debates” Research Note Loleen Berdahl, Lisa Young, and Bianca Jamal “Defiance: Alberta, Saskatchewan, And The Shifting Dynamics Of Canadian Federalism” Book Reviews Eric Wilkinson; Jeremy J. Schmidt; Susan Dickson-Smith; James M. Hundley; Brittany Goetting; Fr. Thomas J. Murphy, SJ; Sara McCleary; Jacques P. Talbot; Charlie Buck; and Thomas Stroyan To order hard copies, contact: American Review of Canadian Studies Editors: Andrew C. Holman and Brian Payne Tel.: 508-531-2688 | Email: arcs@bridgew.edu www.acsus.org/american-review-canadian-studies

The editors of the American Review of Canadian Studies are pleased to announce the publication of the Summer 2025 issue, featuring timely articles on a variety of subjects. We hope you find it interesting but, most importantly, useful. Access is free to all members of ACSUS
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AMERICAN REVIEW OF CANADIAN STUDIES Volume 55, Number 1 (Spring 2025) Special Issue: Canada's Changing Atlantic Guest Editor: Claire Campbell ARTICLES JACK BOUCHARD Fishwork and Coastal Ecologies in the Sixteenth-Century Northwest Atlantic IAN BRODIE Dumpin' the Slag: The Sydney Steel Plant in a Mid-Twentieth Century Song EDWARD MACDONALD The Macdonalds of Panmure Island and the Challenge of Change on Prince Edward Island, 1805-1919 PETER THOMPSON "Practicing Self-Care on a Highway in the Middle of Nowhere": Ashley McKenzie's Cape Breton RESEARCH NOTE ADAM FRENCH, XANDER WANG, DON JARDINE, ROSS DWYER, ANDREW MACDONALD, LUKE MELOCHE, AND CATHERINE KENNEDY Keeping Watch Over Prince Edward Island's Coastline BOOK REVIEW CLAIRE CAMPBELL Time Flies: A History of Prince Edward Island From the Air, by Joshua MacFadyen

The editors of the American Review of Canadian Studies are pleased to announce the publication of the Spring 2025 special issue, focusing on Canada's Changing Atlantic. We hope you find it interesting but, most importantly, useful. Access is free to all members of ACSUS
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Register today for the 2025 ACSUS Biennial Conference, being held in November. Early bird rates end August 1.

Webinar: Trust, Tension, and Action at the Border

This webinar will discuss how increased tensions are impacting the strong relationship between BC and Washington State, and efforts to overcome them

June 11, 4-5pm PT | Free via Zoom

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Call for Papers for a scholarly authors' workshop and book project, to be held in Quebec City May 27-29, 2026. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2025.

Call for Papers for a scholarly authors' workshop and book project, to be held in Quebec City May 27-29, 2026. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2025.

Call for Papers for a scholarly authors' workshop and book project, to be held in Quebec City May 27-29, 2026. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2025.

Call for Papers: Scholarly Authors' Workshop and Book Project, May 27-29, 2026, Quebec City, Quebec

For full details, see the below files or acsus.org/blog/call-pa...

Table of Contents for the American Review of Canadian Studies, Volume 54, Number 4 (Winter 2024) ARTICLES The JFK Paradox and the Challenge of Rating “Canada’s Presidents” David G. Haglund Rouge: The Poetics of Adrian De Leon’s Sub/Urban Toronto Irene Gammel and Christiane Tarantino Moving Towards a Government Trust Ecosystem in Canada Brendan Boyd and Jared Wesley “So come on, folks, join the naturists and learn to love other”: Nudist Fantasies, Misconceptions, and Discourse on Nudism Jonathan Allan Canadian Growth Models since the 1990s: From Export-led to Debt-Driven Growth Prosper Bernard, Jr. RESEARCH NOTE Dog Power: Mechanizing Home Butter Production North of the New York–Quebec Border, 1870-1910 J. I. Little BOOK REVIEWS by Geoffrey Hale, Paul Litt, Patrick Lacroix, Gale Franklin, James C. Hall, and Eric Wilkinson To order hard copies, contact: American Review of Canadian Studies Editors: Andrew C. Holman and Brian Payne Email: arcs@bridgew.edu

The editors of the American Review of Canadian Studies are pleased to announce the publication of the Winter 24 issue, featuring timely articles on a variety of subjects. We hope you find it interesting but, most importantly, useful. Access is free to all members of ACSUS
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Francophonie nord-américaine : entre diversité et fierté linguistique Le Centre de la francophonie des Amériques, organisme du gouvernement du Québec, solidifie les liens entre les communautés francophones du Canada et du continent pour bâtir une francophonie plus solid...

The American Council for Quebec Studies, with @cfameriques.bsky.social, is hosting a free webinar on language and linguistic diversity on Apr 17, 4pm to 6pm EDT. This event includes a screening of the documentary "Parler mal," followed by a discussion
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Volume 37.1 is a testament to the role of art and academia in the face of crisis - ecological, personal, or political - with essays on the political impacts arising from current populisms: bit.ly/BJCS37-1 @acsus.bsky.social @mhayday.bsky.social @csnrec.bsky.social @libraryaac.bsky.social

In friendship,
The Executive Council of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
*signed individually, not on behalf of ExCo members’ employers.
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Alternatively, we invite you to continue to use ACSUS and its events as a scholarly site for expressing concerns, proposing new plans, and making things better. As scholars, we are much more effective on the ice than on the bench. 11/

If you feel you must step away from ACSUS in these trying times, we get it. 10/

You, alone, can decide what your relationship with ACSUS should and will be. Our hope is that in doing so, you will see ACSUS for what it is and what it represents: a cross-border, collegial, non-partisan space that embodies no political project. 9/

We know the indignation and pain that these political circumstances are causing, and we share that indignation and pain. Some members of the ACSUS leadership are Canadian, and many ACSUS members are Canadians who live and work in the United States. 8/

ACSUS is indeed based in the United States, but you, our Canada-based members, are a valued and critical part of our mission, not just for the cross-border exchange of ideas but for the viability of the Association. 7/

More than ever, we are committed to the pursuit of our mission: to promoting teaching and learning about Canada; to facilitating and supporting the study of Canada through a robust grants program, and by hosting forums for scholarly discussion, debate, and publication. 6/

We stand by our mission when it is challenged and when it is characterized as a political act, and in response, we need to declare: we wholeheartedly support a strong Canada and a healthy academic relationship between Canada and the United States. 5/

Its biennial conferences and its quarterly scholarly journal, American Review of Canadian Studies, have always been politically ecumenical. ACSUS is a big tent with room for all legitimate, fact-based scholarly opinions. 4/

ACSUS is, and always has been, a non-partisan forum for the promotion of the study of Canada and Canada-US relations. It does not follow, and has never followed, any political agenda or direction. 3/

Heated public rhetoric about the tariff barriers and threats to Canada’s economy and boundaries have created fissures that affect us all in profound ways. 2/

AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR CANADIAN MEMBERS
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Never in its 54-year history has The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States addressed its members about ongoing political matters. We need to tell you where we stand. 1/

We want to emphasize the mission of ACSUS: The integrated nature of the Canada-US partnership demands future leaders possess the tools to successfully navigate an increasingly complex world. The academic community represented and supported by ACSUS is key to this future success
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The Table of Contents for the Fall 2024 issue of the American Review of Canadian Studies. In Memoriam Dr. Richard Beach (1941-2024) by Christopher Kirkey Articles Political Dynamics and Infrastructure Allocation in the Canadian Context: A Case Study of Quebec's COVID-19 Recovery Plan (Bill 66) - Marcelin Joanis and Thomas Stringer Hegel in Canada - Mohammed Amine Brahimi Estimating the Causal Impact of British Columbia Carbon Tax: A Synthetic Control Approach - Derick T. Adu and Elisha K. Denkyirah Toxicants and Trans-Corporeal Bodies in The Handmaid’s Tale - Xiaoshuang Dong Note de recherche De « Maîtres Chez Nous » à « Libres Chez Nous » : Quelques réflexions sur la fortune d’un slogan électoral au Québec - Alexandre Turgeon Research Note From “Maîtres Chez Nous” to “Libres Chez Nous”: Thoughts on the Legacy of an Electoral Slogan in Quebec - Alexandre Turgeon Book Reviews by Jack Bouchard, Joan Whitman Hoff, Kathy L. Burke, Sara Beth Keough, and Eric Zeemering

The editors of the American Review of Canadian Studies are pleased to announce the publication of the Fall 24 issue, featuring timely articles on a variety of subjects. We hope you find it interesting but, most importantly, useful. Access is free to all members of ACSUS
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🚨ACSUS is extending the deadline for proposals the 2025 ACSUS Biennial Conference until March 15. We encourage submissions from students, professors, and scholars from diverse fields related to Canadian studies.
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We’re in Seattle this weekend, finalizing plans for our conference in November. Hope to see you there!

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ACSUS encourages proposals from undergrad and grad students for our Emerging Scholars Colloquium, held during our conference this November. Those accepted to the colloquium receive guaranteed funding up to a max of $1,000 USD to help alleviate registration and travel costs
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As the New Year begins, we want to remind you of the Feb 1 deadline for submissions for the 27th Biennial ACSUS Conference, held Nov 13-16, 2025 in Seattle. Undergrad and Graduate students are also encouraged to apply to be part of the Emerging Scholars Colloquium. For more: acsus.org/conference

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