Peter Mallory

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

If Trump is serious (and who really knows), I think there are a few things to keep an eye out for:
1. Creating economic instability in the country to "soften us up" for annexation: tariffs, attacks on debt issuance, limiting correspondent banking relationships (think FATF action) and access to US$

“The idea that sweeping away provincial, territorial and federal regulations will improve the welfare of Canadians is also mistaken. Many government policies make sense because they address important economic, social or cultural priorities of Canadians.”

Thank you! It's terrifying, and I hope more Americans will take him seriously. Canadians now believe he means what he says

I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.

Why Corporate DEI Is Such a Perfect Target for Trump It’s an attack on labor. But he can frame it as something else.

"The fact is, the battle over “DEI” has always been a fight about labor, work, and who has access to the jobs and political institutions that build and protect wealth. If we ever forgot that, we’re learning it again now."

me for @slate.bsky.social

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Ten Trump-proof nation-building projects for a strong, independent Canada - CCPA Thanks to decades of concerted action by Canadian businesses and governments—often working in opposition to workers and the broader public interest—the Canadian economy is now deeply integrated with o...

Some great idea for what Canadians might do with our new sense of collective solidarity. So much better than removing internal trade barriers www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Dal prof, Dr. Karen Foster: "One gets the sense that it is not “the public” that these institutions are meant to be accountable to, but the government. And this is where the door is being opened to a disturbing level of government influence over university teaching and research."

There's more than a little of this "you are not resisting in exactly the right way, which is the way I say it should be," going around. In fact, the strength of any anti-authoritarian movement is its diversity — diversity in thought, diversity in tactics, and yes, diversity in what gets attention.

Trudeau says Trump is serious about wanting to annex Canada Prime minister says US president covets northern neighbour’s vast resources as Canadians rally against threat

I can’t believe that this is where we are now

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Dead Reckoning Vaughan unveils the complicated and high-pressure world of air traffic controllers as they navigate technology and political and public climates, and shows how they keep the skies so safe. When two ai...

I've been wanting to read Dianne Vaughn's work on air traffic controllers for a while now. Her books on breakups and the Challenger launch decision are so fantastic. Can't think of a better expert for journalists to talk to about crashes and accidents. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...