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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988981
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Scholarly writing can come and go with great frequency in the third decade of the twenty-first century. Traditional book and journal formats have been joined by entirely online publications. There are now around 47,000 scholarly journals published around the world, and they represent subjects and disciplines across academia. Some journals establish a legacy, while others now come and go in a few years. It is hard for any journal to endure in today’s scholarly publishing environment, but the Journal of Canadian Studies has done so since 1966.The 1960s were a period when the meaning of Canadian identity was actively debated among academics and nationalism shaped this journal’s founding. The Journal was initially
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/330/image/coversmallEditorial2026-04-24text/htmlen-USEditorial2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®106402026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Making Sense of White Audience Reactions to Blackface Performances on Halifax Stages (1830s–1860s): Diverging and Shifting Notions of Whiteness and Entrenching Anti-Black Racism
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988982
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By the 1860s, those in Halifax who attended stage performances would have been exposed to, or at least familiar with, blackface entertainment. In fact, by then it had become one of the most popular forms of entertainment—a popularity it would retain into the early twentieth century.1 However, notices and reviews in the city’s newspapers between the mid-1830s and early 1860s—covering the time when American blackface entertainers first arrived in the city up to the point when such performances became ubiquitous, eventually adopted by Canadian performers and a wide array of local amateurs—reveal that this form of entertainment elicited mixed reactions and underwent noticeable changes over time.2 Indeed, these
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/330/image/coversmallMaking Sense of White Audience Reactions to Blackface Performances on Halifax Stages (1830s–1860s): Diverging and Shifting Notions of Whiteness and Entrenching Anti-Black Racism2026-04-24text/htmlen-USMaking Sense of White Audience Reactions to Blackface Performances on Halifax Stages (1830s–1860s): Diverging and Shifting Notions of Whiteness and Entrenching Anti-Black Racism2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1627772026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Taking Up the Work: Settler Colonial Governance, Discretion, and Public Sector Workers
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988983
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It’s a common understanding that whatever the public service decides, is for the public good. … And that a public servant is here to provide our best in a way that’s palatable for whiteness as an institution.I am the system in this moment, right? … whatever I am doing here, it’s not the powers that be and the system. I am the system to this person at this time. So, I have that in my mind. And I try and sort of walk softly.In the opening epigraphs, the words of these two provincial public sector workers (PPSWs) signal the complex space in which they are learning how to do their work within White settler colonial institutions. As workers who are mandated to propel the machinery of government forward, PPSWs are
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/330/image/coversmallTaking Up the Work: Settler Colonial Governance, Discretion, and Public Sector Workers2026-04-24text/htmlen-USTaking Up the Work: Settler Colonial Governance, Discretion, and Public Sector Workers2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1258322026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Mark Your Player, Exploit the Space: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Canadian Multiculturalism through a Historicization of Soccer and the Men’s National Team (1970s–2000s)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988984
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We are a nation built on ambition. But our strength is not in our numbers. It’s in our unity. A place where everyone belongs. Here, you’re not an outsider for being proud of your heritage—you’re at home. And as much as we’ve achieved as a sport and a nation, our ambition only rises.So proclaims the narrator in a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC 2022) ad, part of the Ambition Rises campaign that ran leading up to and during the 2022 FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) men’s World Cup.1 This excerpt played over clips of the men’s and women’s Canadian national soccer teams in action, ending on a shot of both teams posing for a starting XI snap. The message was ostensibly simple: diversity
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/330/image/coversmallMark Your Player, Exploit the Space: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Canadian Multiculturalism through a Historicization of Soccer and the Men’s National Team (1970s–2000s)2026-04-24text/htmlen-USMark Your Player, Exploit the Space: Constructing, Deconstructing, and Reconstructing Canadian Multiculturalism through a Historicization of Soccer and the Men’s National Team (1970s–2000s)2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®2081202026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Visages de la lutte pour l’unilinguisme anglophone : l’Alberta et la Loi sur les langues officielles
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988985
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The situation presently developing in Canada with respect to so-called biculturalism is, in my opinion, fraught with serious dangers to the future unity of this country. Lettre d’Ernest Manning à un citoyen, 10 septembre 1963Au début des années 1960, les thématiques de bilinguisme et de biculturalisme sont propulsées à l’avant-scène par la Commission Laurendeau-Dunton sur le bilinguisme et le biculturalisme (Commission B&B), créée en 1963 par Lester B. Pearson. Mais tous ne se réjouissent pas de l’attention portée à ces questions. L’extrait en exergue en témoigne. Le premier ministre albertain, le créditiste Ernest Manning, s’adresse à un citoyen pour souligner le potentiel destructeur de ces questions pour l’unité
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/330/image/coversmallVisages de la lutte pour l’unilinguisme anglophone : l’Alberta et la Loi sur les langues officielles2026-04-24text/htmlen-USVisages de la lutte pour l’unilinguisme anglophone : l’Alberta et la Loi sur les langues officielles2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1553402026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24The “People’s Chamber”? Populism and Social Movement Politics in Alberta’s Sovereignty Debate
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988986
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Over the last ten years, there has been an explosion of public and scholarly interest in populism. In 2016, Donald Trump was first elected US president and UK voters elected to leave the European Union (“Brexit”). Since then, the number of scholarly publications and Google searches including the words “populism(s)” or “populist(s)” has skyrocketed (Dufour and Peker 2023, 10–12). Meanwhile, populist movements have gained traction worldwide, including via the electoral victories of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil in 2019, Narendra Modi’s consolidation of power in India since he was first elected prime minister in 2014, Giorgia Meloni’s rise in Italy and election as prime minister in 2022, and the enduring power of populist
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/330/image/coversmallThe “People’s Chamber”? Populism and Social Movement Politics in Alberta’s Sovereignty Debate2026-04-24text/htmlen-USThe “People’s Chamber”? Populism and Social Movement Politics in Alberta’s Sovereignty Debate2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1904412026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Everyday Narratives from Women in the Canadian Armed Forces: Challenges and Opportunities
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988987
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In early 2025, US president Donald Trump signed an executive order terminating all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across the federal government (The White House 2025). As a result, the US Army and Navy removed web pages that highlighted the contributions and histories of minority service members, including women (Barrett 2025). Defence secretary Pete Hegseth declared that “DEI is dead,” arguing that efforts to put one group ahead of another erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution (Copp and Baldor 2025). Others, however, contend that DEI enables institutions to harness additional, untapped talent, and Robinson (2025) argues that Trump’s “DEI witch hunt, if not quickly halted, will
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/330/image/coversmallEveryday Narratives from Women in the Canadian Armed Forces: Challenges and Opportunities2026-04-24text/htmlen-USEveryday Narratives from Women in the Canadian Armed Forces: Challenges and Opportunities2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®2237972026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24Can Canadians Retire Abroad? The History of Pension Portability in Canada
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/988988
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Eligibility requirements for the Canadian pension have changed drastically since the pension’s inception almost 100 years ago, in 1927. The requirements for receiving the Canadian state’s protection from impoverishment in one’s senior years built on and helped construct the social boundaries of national belonging. Over the course of the twentieth century, these eligibility requirements were debated, modified, and replaced with other measures that adjusted the terms by which the national community and “the people” of Canada were delineated. In particular, residency requirements became more prominent, replacing citizenship for eligibility, and were subsequently reduced piecemeal through arguments that older White
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-14T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/330/image/coversmallCan Canadians Retire Abroad? The History of Pension Portability in Canada2026-04-24text/htmlen-USCan Canadians Retire Abroad? The History of Pension Portability in Canada2026-04-242026TWOProject MUSE®1176982026-05-14T00:00:00-05:002026-04-24