Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦

I wondered about this. And protecting not only the grad student instructor but everyone else who works in the same building or department.

With the further effect that governance became less valued, and more easily replaced by an executive class.

My observation and experience: It's not a coincidence that this non-involvement was at the same time that women started to achieve parity in mid- to senior-ranks. Service work (e.g. involvement in governance) became the job of women, with the effect that fewer men took part.

Did you attend, or want to attend, the TST Conference on November 14? The conference recordings are now available!

--> YouTube Playlist (watch the sessions in order or jump to specific sessions): bit.ly/49UxGdb
--> Dropbox Folder (download or stream individual session videos): bit.ly/4oD1G0U

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'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine | CBC News In a recent article about the United States' strained relationships with other countries, Time Magazine included a made-up quote from Canadian satire site The Beaverton — seemingly as fact.

"Ottawa U.S. Embassy spokesperson Ariel Pollock" has now been required to issue a comment on our foolishness.

Explaining Black Friday to kids:

"So the Americans. They don't have Boxing Day. In fact they don't take Christmas week off like we do. Their big holiday is Thanksgiving, which they hold a month late, at a weird time for a harvest festival. The next day is their Boxing Day, which we have to honour."

Just finished my final review for JBL as a member of the editorial board. Fifty reviews (including a handful of re-reviews) over the last nine years.

A true privilege to serve.

Prestigious Chicago brewing school relocating to Montreal amid U.S. regulatory changes | CBC News The Siebel Institute of Technology, North America’s oldest brewing school, is moving from Chicago to Montreal in January 2026. The relocation is aimed at improving accessibility for international stud...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I believe the technical term for this is extortion

Link to my slides from my presentation to grad students on conferences: drive.google.com/file/d/1MEID...

Reminds you of your time in Saskatoon, does it?

The ATS report forms have a standard definition of fte - doesn't vary from school to school and hasn't changed across time.

And challenge they did. At the Montreal Winter Carnival Hockey Tournament on February 7, 1884 the capital’s first representative hockey team took to the ice wearing red and black striped jerseys and caps and dark knickerbockers. They called themselves the Ottawas: wintieorwrangle.ca/team-beginni...

I wish! There seems to have been an update.

Zotero has changed its look and I am so disoriented.

Registration is nearing capacity - register soon if interested in attending in-person. Online attendance is also possible via livestream and recordings. More info and registration: bit.ly/48WYhph

It's Weber's analysis in Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism on full display: their homelessness demonstrates that they are predestined for damnation, so assisting them would be interfering with God's plan. eh.net/encyclopedia...

TST Conference | Spaces of Encounter: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Theological Research | Toronto School of Theology Image

Come see some excellent research presentations and conversations! It will be livestreamed! Great graduate student and faculty presentations.

For those of us going elbows-up and boycotting US-based conferences, this is an excellent chance to share.

I’m increasingly coming to the conclusion that the state of Israel is behaving in a horrific manner that is absolutely worthy of intense protest, and also that there is no way to have an anti-Israel political movement that will not in some way increase antisemitism against the diaspora.

Pink Lady????

Anybody got any ideas for where I could submit an article called "Gideon, 'Breaking Bad,' and toxic masculinity"?

Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.

Seems like a good week to update and resurface this compelling — and terrifying — story from Aisha Ahmad of @utoronto.ca:

theconversation.com/why-annexing...

Trump again floats Canada joining the U.S. as the 51st state | CBC News U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he again told some unnamed Canadian official that the country should consider joining the U.S. as the 51st state — returning to the annexationist rhetoric he u...

Oh for God's sake. Just no.

When ‘good intentions’ don’t matter: The Indian Residential School system Variations on the myth of “good intentions” are invoked as a tool against the truth that the legacy of the IRS tells. Here’s why that needs to stop.

Since it's the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, here's a piece I wrote a few years ago tackling one of the main ways folks tend to minimize or dismiss the horror of the residential schools - the idea that it was done with "good intentions":

theconversation.com/when-good-in...

Friends, I was "Reviewer 2" today, and for the first time ever, I did it gladly. (Sometimes I've been Reviewer 2, felt bad about having to do it, but needs must.) I've never reviewed a manuscript with such a dismissive tone before.

Or former staffers who beat their partner with a high chair.

Turning the Corner | HESA Things have been bleak in higher education the last couple of years, and no doubt they will remain bleak for … Continued

Nothing is going to improve in Canadian higher education until the political class accepts that we need to make it better rather than cheaper. How will we know they have accepted it? When they are prepared to put institutions ahead of voters and raise tuition.

McGill-Queen’s UP? The Advancing Studies in Religion series, maybe, or their cultural studies list?

As some of us in the backwoods move to the larger seminaries... this is what we bring with us!