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Andrew Potter on Canadian Pride and a Bigger Flag | The Line

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:54:29 +0000

July 1, 2026 | Andrew Potter marks Canada Day in The Line by reading the latest polling on Canadian pride. Abacus Data shows pride back up to 77%, matching 1985 levels after cratering to 34% when Justin Trudeau left office, even as the country's core arguments over identity and symbols remain unresolved. Potter reads this as a hopeful sign that "Canadians are a people despite themselves," closing with the wry suggestion that the answer to a perpetually contested Canada Day is simply to "bring a bigger flag."

Andrew Potter on America's Heel Turn at 250 | The Globe and Mail

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:48:08 +0000

July 3, 2026 | Andrew Potter marks America's 250th birthday in a Globe and Mail op-ed reading Trump's foreign policy through the lens of professional wrestling. Potter argues the Oval Office ambush of Volodymyr Zelensky was America's "Bash at the Beach moment," when the world's most reliable babyface visibly turned heel. He traces Trump's decades-long ties to WWE storytelling to explain the character now shaping American foreign policy: "the nativist heel whose contempt for the audience is disguised as an appeal to their self-interest."

Pearl Eliadis on the CQPI's New Report to Prevent Homelessness in Quebec

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:22:47 +0000

July 2, 2026 | Pearl Eliadis led the Quebec Homelessness Prevention Collaborative's (CQPI) new report, which sets out 17 recommendations to prevent homelessness in Quebec, chief among them enshrining the right to housing in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Drawing on research contributions from across 91��, the report responds to what Eliadis calls "increasingly alarming, even catastrophic" levels of homelessness, with the number of people affected rising 44% between 2018 and 2022.

Pearl Eliadis on Quebec's Domestic Violence Disclosure Law | Weekends with Rob Fai

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:52:09 +0000

June 20, 2026 | Pearl Eliadis joined Weekends with Rob Fai to unpack Quebec's newly passed Bill 4, the Gabby Renaud Law, which comes into force in December and will allow people at risk of intimate partner violence to request information about a partner's police or corrections history. Modelled in part on the UK's Clare's Law, the Quebec version stands out from similar disclosure regimes already in place in Alberta and Saskatchewan by pairing "the right to ask and the right to know" with a support component for people once they receive that information.

Gisèle Yasmeen on Carney's Food Strategy | Radio-Canada

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:41:42 +0000

June 16, 2026 | Gisèle Yasmeen joined Radio-Canada to discuss the Carney government's recently announced food strategy, arguing that it functions more as a food supply chain strategy than a true food security strategy. Yasmeen also points to the rise of food cooperatives as a community-led response to food deserts, particularly in partnership with Indigenous communities across northern Canada.

Pearl Eliadis on the values behind “Canada Strong” | Literary Review of Canada

pinaki.siwach@mcgill.ca — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:56:48 +0000

May 29, 2026 | Pearl Eliadis associate professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy, contributed an essay to the Literary Review of Canada warning that Canada must reinforce its "values infrastructure" as it pursues a "Canada Strong" agenda focused on defence and economic resilience.

Taylor Owen on Enforcing the Safe Social Media Act | CBC News

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:28:16 +0000

Taylor Owen joined CBC News to break down Canada's newly tabled Safe Social Media Act, calling it "one of the first trials in the world" of using access restrictions as a lever to force compliance from large platforms. Owen pushes back on the idea that the bill is unenforceable on US-based tech giants, pointing to penalties of up to 3% of global revenue and to similar rules already in effect in the UK and EU as evidence that "the idea that this can't be done is a far more difficult argument" today than it once was.

Taylor Owen on the Safe Social Media Act and AI Chatbots | CBC Radio

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:57:56 +0000

June 11, 2026 | Taylor Owen joined CBC's Front Burner to walk through Bill C-34, the newly tabled Safe Social Media Act.

Taylor Owen on Canada's Conditional Approach to Online Safety | The Globe and Mail

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:45:22 +0000

June 11, 2026 | Taylor Owen examines Canada's newly tabled Bill C-34, arguing that the legislation goes beyond Australia's blanket under-16 social media ban by offering platforms a pathway to earn young users back if they can prove their products are safe for children.

Pearl Eliadis on Rising Visible Homelessness in Quebec | CHIP-FM

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:16:10 +0000

May 29, 2026 | Pearl Eliadis spoke to CHIP-FM about the rise in visible homelessness across Quebec and the Quebec Homelessness Prevention Collaborative's call for upstream legal reform. Eliadis notes that visible homelessness rose 40% between 2018 and 2022 and another 20% between 2022 and 2025, arguing that current government measures "are still not enough" and that Quebec has yet to honour its 1976 commitment to enshrine the right to housing under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Pearl Eliadis on Enshrining a Right to Housing in Quebec | CBC Listen

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:51:33 +0000

May 27, 2026 | Pearl Eliadis, chair of the Quebec Homelessness Prevention Collaborative's legislative reform project, joined CBC's Daybreak Montreal to discuss the coalition's new push for legal reform on homelessness in Quebec. Eliadis argues that adding the right to housing to the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms would give it "quasi-constitutional status," underpinning every Quebec law that touches housing.

Pearl Eliadis on the CQPI's Proposed Legal Reform to Prevent Homelessness in Quebec | CQPI

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:10:14 +0000

May 27, 2026 | Pearl Eliadis, an active member of the Quebec Homelessness Prevention Collaborative (CQPI), helped launch the coalition's proposed legal reform to make prevention a national priority in Quebec. Eliadis argues that "homelessness is not inevitable" but reflects political choices, and that prevention represents the most cost-effective response to a crisis estimated to cost the province nearly $1 billion per year.

Woyesa Worana on Ethiopia's Looming Election | Policy Magazine

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:40:11 +0000

May 27, 2026 | MPP'26 Woyesa Worana examines the conditions surrounding Ethiopia's June 1st national election in a new piece for Policy Magazine. Worana argues that while electoral institutions remain formally intact, ongoing conflict and narrowing civic space have weakened the substantive conditions that give an election democratic meaning, leaving "the question of process… decoupled from the question of democratic credibility."

Jennifer Welsh Co-Authors Article on the Risks of Supporting Civilian Self-Protection

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:51:03 +0000

June 9, 2025 | Jennifer Welsh has co-authored a new article, "Risky Business: Organizational Challenges in International Support for Civilian Self-Protection", in Perspectives on Politics, with E. Paddon Rhoads and J. Masullo. The article argues that international support for "bottom-up" civilian self-protection, while often seen as less costly and more legitimate than direct intervention, carries its own significant risks for the communities it aims to protect.

Jennifer Welsh New Chapter on Responsible Sovereignty and the 1990s

keith.baybayon@mcgill.ca — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:49:04 +0000

September 22, 2025 | Jennifer Welsh has contributed a chapter, "Responsible Sovereignty and Individual Accountability: Liberal Internationalist Aspirations from the 1990s", to the new volume Rethinking the 1990s: Liberal World Order Building in the Aftermath of the Cold War. The chapter revisits how post-Cold War liberal internationalism advanced new aspirations around state sovereignty and individual accountability, offering historical perspective on today's debates over the future of the liberal international order.