I’m co-organizing the Opening Parliament event - looking forward to learning about new ideas and hearing some excellent discussion. Register for CSPG events now! 🤩

Our 2025-26 program is here!

Explore Parliamentary Committees (Nov 14), Opening Parliament (Feb 20), and AI/Misinformation (Apr 10).

For more info and to register, click here 👇

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Just found the results of my first-ever political science interview: my great-aunt Hazel, who was generous with her time on a Sunday night for my school project when I was 10 years old.

I’m just confused as to why no newspapers published this as her obituary???

Understood: Who Broke the Internet? www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

CBC has been airing a podcast this week about the “enshittification” of the internet. The other day they were talking about how Google intentionally made their search function worse so that you would have to search more to see good results, and thus view more ads and generate more revenue for them 🫠

Voice votes are common in the Senate and a key reason why it’s difficult to analyze senators’ behaviour based on just the voting record - majorly important bills are passed and we don’t know how they voted. Speeches (and amendments, if any) give us a clue as to their priorities.

New paper in IPSR with @traceyraney.bsky.social! Drawing on the reforms in the Canadian Senate, we argue that institutions in flux can be regendered by the people within them: amidst all the changes, Canadian senators successfully cemented new feminist rules.

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🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨

Opportunities and influence: women’s representation and advocacy in the Canadian Parliament

@emgmccallion.bsky.social & Erica Rayment use lobbying records to show women's groups advocacy efforts are greater in Canadian Senate than in the Commons 📊

📖 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

New article with Erica Rayment in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social! We observe that women’s groups disproportionately shifted their lobbying attn to the Cdn Senate following reforms, suggesting that they understand institutional context and act accordingly.

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Doing a happy dance because two @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social books are shortlisted for @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social's 2025 Smiley Prize! 💃

What Women Represent: a "superb book", say the endorsers.

The Great White North: "this kind of work is very rare" and "required reading", they attest.

Big day for me - I finally have an answer to my students’ perennial question “what happens if the party does well but the leader loses their seat?”

I was at the movies tonight and a flustered woman sat down near me and loudly said to the person beside her “sorry for the nightmare you’re about to live through.” I laughed for a good 2 minutes - I think it’s my new email opener now.

Me, a poli sci prof, watching the leaders debate: “A fourth Liberal term?! Governments in Canada don’t have terms! We count by tenure in office over the course of parliaments!”

I think I might be stuck in exam grading mode.

My new op-ed with Rebecca Wallace about the lack of gender parity in Carney’s new cabinet. We hope gender-equal cabinets will be expected by Canadians, not just a one-off under Trudeau. #InformedOpinions is calling for us to #BalanceThePower

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

Toward a Qualitative Study of the American Voter

By Anna Berg & @stephanieternullo.bsky.social

https://buff.ly/4gN6cFR

This looks excellent! 🤩
Can’t wait to read (and cite) it!

I just read it! I thought “isn’t it so nice that she has two hours of happiness scheduled into her day.” And then I realized it was work on a paper about happiness 😂😭 Regardless, it sounds like you get a lot of happiness sprinkled throughout the day!

Fascinating how the article doesn’t mention that Harper leaving 22 Senate seats open for Trudeau to fill was widely regarded as a bad move 😂

At my wedding, my uncle brought out his amazing disco moves and was having the time of his life. The dance floor cleared, people were videoing him. Until he lost his footing and fell quite dramatically into some DJ equipment. He’s fine (just an ego bruise), so I can now say that it was CINEMATIC 😂🤩

My new piece in @pspolisci.bsky.social: % of gender & LGBTQIA+ articles in 6 polisci journals. Takeaway: gender articles abt ~6%; LGBTQIA+ articles, <1%. Nearly all use quant methods & men are greater % authors than their % membership in respective APSA sections. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢New issue of #PAG20 is out!📢

@emgmccallion.bsky.social investigates the conditions under which legislators talk about gender in the 🇨🇦 Senate in "Partisanship, Independence, and the Constitutive Representation of Women in the Canadian Senate"

polisky gendersky

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...