Mac Ross
@punchingprof.bsky.social
No longer a lost Nova Scotian. Teaching Fellow, Saint Mary's University.
Just noticed that a prominent publisher is attributing an article I wrote for them to a different author...This required someone to go in and make the change. The new (and false) author they list happens to be a copy editor at a popular American newspaper. Wonder if my work was on their CV?
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Just noticed that a prominent publisher is attributing an article I wrote for them to a different author...This required someone to go in and make the change. The new (and false) author they list happens to be a copy editor at a popular American newspaper. Wonder if my work was on their CV?
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Who could have predicted this other than everyone?
November 6, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Who could have predicted this other than everyone?
Yikes
This might be the most unhinged thing you read this morning about last night.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Yikes
Donors in Canada take note
The magic word here is “unrestricted” — which is to say, the donor isn’t setting an agenda or making a big fancy monument to themselves, but letting the institution use the funds for the actual, practical needs.
Again Mackenzie Scott ftw www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/11/03/s...
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Donors in Canada take note
Patricia Hill Collins poses an important question for many academics pursuing social transformation. "How does one sustain a project that is explicitly dedicated to social transformation within an institution that has minimal interest in that expressed outcome?"
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Patricia Hill Collins poses an important question for many academics pursuing social transformation. "How does one sustain a project that is explicitly dedicated to social transformation within an institution that has minimal interest in that expressed outcome?"
Heck of a season for the Jays.
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Heck of a season for the Jays.
And Rogers is having technical difficulties with their stream...😓
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
And Rogers is having technical difficulties with their stream...😓
Yukon Catholic Schools may have to cut education, culture, health, and social supports for Indigenous children following the federal government's abrupt changes to Jordan's Principle funding.
drive.google.com/file/d/1w-Y_...
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Media Release - Changes to Jordan's Principle.pdf
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November 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yukon Catholic Schools may have to cut education, culture, health, and social supports for Indigenous children following the federal government's abrupt changes to Jordan's Principle funding.
drive.google.com/file/d/1w-Y_...
drive.google.com/file/d/1w-Y_...
"Then there was the Commisaire de Police who had supplied Malvy with reports on Russian revolutionaries resident in Paris. This was the wonderfully named Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet." - Robert Service, "Trotsky: A Biography"
October 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"Then there was the Commisaire de Police who had supplied Malvy with reports on Russian revolutionaries resident in Paris. This was the wonderfully named Charles Adolphe Faux-Pas Bidet." - Robert Service, "Trotsky: A Biography"
Home opener for the Island View High Devils tonight against Sackville. Might have to head over.
October 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Home opener for the Island View High Devils tonight against Sackville. Might have to head over.
Day two of the strike. Great turn out in support of part-time faculty at Saint Mary's University. Solidarity to those also striking at Mount Saint Vincent University. ✊🏻 @cupe3912.bsky.social #smu
October 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Day two of the strike. Great turn out in support of part-time faculty at Saint Mary's University. Solidarity to those also striking at Mount Saint Vincent University. ✊🏻 @cupe3912.bsky.social #smu
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Oh, hey! I’m still on strike as a CUPE Part-Time professor at SMU. Here’s a fun little graphic: according to Maclean’s Magazine, SMU is ranked #3 in Canada for small universities.
How does the PT pay for faculty compare across the top 10 schools?
Oh. Oh dear.
How does the PT pay for faculty compare across the top 10 schools?
Oh. Oh dear.
October 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Oh, hey! I’m still on strike as a CUPE Part-Time professor at SMU. Here’s a fun little graphic: according to Maclean’s Magazine, SMU is ranked #3 in Canada for small universities.
How does the PT pay for faculty compare across the top 10 schools?
Oh. Oh dear.
How does the PT pay for faculty compare across the top 10 schools?
Oh. Oh dear.
Hope the Future of Sport in Canada Commission is paying attention to the NBA gambling scandal. I hope all the national sports organizations clamoring for a cut of gambling money in Canada are too. Reason 75422357 to not fund the sport system with gambling money... www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
NBA gambling scandal shines harsh light on US sports’ embrace of betting
Two sweeping federal indictments have implicated big names in basketball and raised uncomfortable questions about who benefits from legalized gambling
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Hope the Future of Sport in Canada Commission is paying attention to the NBA gambling scandal. I hope all the national sports organizations clamoring for a cut of gambling money in Canada are too. Reason 75422357 to not fund the sport system with gambling money... www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...
Reese Ketler, a member of the national wheelchair rugby team, is speaking out re: the Canada Disability Benefit. At $200/month, you could spend about $6.67 I n food. That gets you ramen, tuna, a bun, and a macaroni and cheese cup. By day three, Reese had no energy. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Disability advocate attempts to live on a food budget of about $6.67 per day for a month
Reese Ketler, an offensive player for Canada’s wheelchair Rugby team, challenged himself to live on a food budget of about $6.67 per day for a month.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reese Ketler, a member of the national wheelchair rugby team, is speaking out re: the Canada Disability Benefit. At $200/month, you could spend about $6.67 I n food. That gets you ramen, tuna, a bun, and a macaroni and cheese cup. By day three, Reese had no energy. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from." Think about this quite a bit. Cormac McCarthy.
October 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from." Think about this quite a bit. Cormac McCarthy.
What's the best biography you've read? What made it standout?
October 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
What's the best biography you've read? What made it standout?
Few things bring me more joy than smoking and eating a mess of mackerel with my one-eyed cat.
October 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Few things bring me more joy than smoking and eating a mess of mackerel with my one-eyed cat.
Excited this piece with Kim Shore is now published in Sport History Review. We reflected on our roles with Scholars Against Abuse in Canadian Sport and Gymnasts for Change Canada, what collaboration has meant, and the overall evolution of our work together. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...
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October 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Excited this piece with Kim Shore is now published in Sport History Review. We reflected on our roles with Scholars Against Abuse in Canadian Sport and Gymnasts for Change Canada, what collaboration has meant, and the overall evolution of our work together. journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...