Peter Mallory

Canadians Love a Conspiracy Theory - Macleans.ca The country’s conservatives have embraced American right-wing rhetoric. Our democracy is in danger.

🇨🇦 take note:

“America’s collapse into authoritarianism was accelerated by those who overlooked the early warning signs—from the increased prevalence of conspiracy theories to the end of civil discourse—because they assumed that American democracy was indestructible.”

By Lucan Way via Maclean’s

looks like Canada is keeping the sign in the window for this one

Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News Read the full text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech about a shakeup of the global order and role of middle powers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

I have my own views on Carney and the Liberals. But still, I can't imagine any of the other Canadian prime ministers in my lifetime speaking this way in public. Remarkable in so many ways.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

The Common Friendship Behavior That Has Become Strangely Fraught A theme keeps popping up in relationship advice: Don’t vent so much.

when did people become so weird about friends venting to each other?

www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

After Venezuela operation, Trump says the whole hemisphere is in play With brash threats aimed all around the region, the president and his team made it clear Venezuela might be just the beginning, sparking fear across the Western hemisphere.

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

happy new year socialists, we are so back

to keep functioning society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Image text says: Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory and Morgan Herbet focus on how modern therapy culture presents people with conflicting cultural imperatives for practising friendship in their CUS Sage Prize nominated paper. Read now below: https://doi.org/10.1177/17499755231157440

Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory and Morgan Herbet focus on how modern therapy culture presents people with conflicting cultural imperatives for practising friendship, in their CUS Sage Prize nominated paper.

Read now below:
doi.org/10.1177/1749...

‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?

“AI is not your friend”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The NDP’s untapped radical potential

What an interesting discussion of the history of the NDP. Should be useful for anyone in the party thinking about how to rebuild it
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We had a great conversation about power and informality- so many interesting things to talk about in your paper! Great you can use this research in you new work helping people facing these dynamics.

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library Using the example of Andean archaeology, this article focuses on subtle forms of inequality that arise when academic communities are conceptualized as friendship-based and egalitarian, rejecting expl...

I get to discuss this article with students today, and it's so good. One of the best discussions of friendship and informality at work I've come across. Thanks @maryleighton.bsky.social!

Myths of Meritocracy, Friendship, and Fun Work anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

A fantastic article. Getting to read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is one of the main reasons I still have a NYTimes subscription

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

What a great surprise to see our paper on this list!

A graphic promoting a book launch event. Royal Histories The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864–2022 Joel Z. Garrod - includes his photo. Sept. 19, 2025 - 5 p.m. Sobey's Reading Room, 4th Floor Nasso Family Science Centre. Lower banner: Sociology Department Logo: StFX | Brian Mulroney Institute of Government

A graphic featuring an image of the cover of a book: Royal Histories The Transformation of the Royal Bank of Canada, 1864–2022 Text on a blue background: n Royal Histories, Joel Z. Garrod presents a historical analysis of the Royal Bank of Canada, illustrating how Canadian capitalism and the Canadian banking industry have transformed as they have consolidated nationally and expanded abroad. Emphasizing how national institutions and rules are increasingly becoming capabilities for transnational forms of capital accumulation, the book draws on extensive primary and secondary sources to document the transformation of the assemblage of territory, authority, and rights that have supported the bank’s activities over time.

📘Upcoming Book Launch!
Royal Histories by Dr. Joel Z. Garrod

The Sociology Department and the Mulroney Institute @stfx-university.bsky.social are pleased to co-host this in-person event.

🗓️ Sept. 19 | 5 pm - 6:30 pm
Sobey’s Reading Room, 4th Floor, Nasso Family Science Centre

Flight attendants ordered back to work say labour law violates right to strike | CBC News The federal government has once again used a contentious section of Canadian law to stop a strike in Canada — a move unions and legal experts say sets a dangerous precedent for labour relations in thi...

The federal government seeks to undermine 80 years of collective bargaining practice. This is both counterproductive and callous. #canlab #CUPE www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The Farmers Market in Nova Scotia speaks up about the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli government in Gaza. The world is watching the war criminals and these crimes will not be forgotten.

We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.

This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.

We are doing this and history will never forgive us.

Gaza:

Five things to remember about war:

The Civil Sphere in Canada, edited by Jeffrey Alexander and Mervyn Horgan

Received this fantastic book in the mail today! Looking forward to reading more

Girl survives after mother, 5 siblings killed in Israeli strike on Gaza City school shelter | CBC News Harrowing video of a young Palestinian girl trying to escape a school shelter that had been set on fire after a deadly overnight Israeli airstrike widely circulated social media Monday.

Non-stop horror.

Rescuers used their bare hands to search through the wreckage, "with little to no equipment available to them in Gaza...Emergency crews witnessed dozens of bodies, overwhelmingly of children, which were burned and lay at the site of the strike."

By Sara Jabakhanji via CBC News

When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any? A new study aims to understand how adults without friends experience and move through life.

Sharing this article that Laura Eramian and I wrote for @ca.theconversation.com about our research with people without friends. Thanks so much to our editor Eleni Vlahiotis!

When friendship is treated as essential, what happens to young adults who don’t have any? theconversation.com/when-friends...

Had a journalist edit some of our writing recently, and it's amazing what a professional can do. Affirms my belief that no one should ever learn to write from a university professor

“Health workers should never be a target. And yet, we’re here today, digging up a mass grave of first responders and paramedics,” Jonathan Whittall, the head of UNOCHA in the occupied Palestinian territories, said from the site.

Via @cnn.com

It is! It’s also a problem that it’s only available to those who don’t have the option to purchase private insurance, which many have but can’t afford.

The US may not have much of an opposition party, but at least it has these two

Chilling report from @caut.bsky.social on the U.S. administration’s targeting of Canadian researchers www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Looking forward to reading this! I've been learning a lot from your other work on choice

people skating at the Halifax Oval while the sun sets

Bye to the Halifax Oval, one of the best things about the city in winter