Canadian Politics, Electoral Systems & Public Commentary

My journalistic writing and policy commentary bring political science analysis to broader public debates on Canadian federalism, electoral reform, and political party messaging.

Textbooks & Academic Analysis

• Politics, Power and the Common Good: An Introduction to Political Science (7th ed.)

Co-authored introductory political science textbook examining institutions, power, and political ideas (Pearson Education Canada, 2025). 

• Narrativizing Confidence and Supply: NDP Political Communications during the Supply-and-Confidence Agreement

 An examination of political communications and party messaging during federal parliamentary agreements in Perspectives: A Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy (2026).

Feature Essays & Media Commentary

• The Walrus

• • Canada's Mistake Was Believing the Border No Longer Mattered (July 2026)

• • How Canada Keeps the Conservatives Shut Out of Power (July 2026)

• • The War on Alberta Separatists Is a War on Democracy (August 2026)

• Maclean’s Magazine

• • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Notwithstanding Clause

• • The Architect of Canada's Anti-Americanism

• Canadian Dimension

• • Opposition to AI is a key path to renewal for the NDP (July 2025)

• • The left should defend democracy, not Ottawa's bid to curb the notwithstanding clause (September 2025)

• The Dial & Montreal Gazette

• • Trade Wars and History: Canada–US Tariff Relations (The Dial)

• • Author Profile & Selected Columns (Montreal Gazette)

☘️ Irish Studies & Political Thought

My secondary research area focuses on Irish political history, eighteenth-century political thought, and anti-imperialist rhetoric. This work investigates how Irish literature, satire, and history intersect with broader questions of empire, identity, and the critique of progress.

• Imagined Solidarities: The Boer War & Anti-Imperialist Nationalism in Joyce's Ulysses

An examination of anti-imperialist nationalism, international solidarity, and Irish historical discourse (The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies).

• Swift’s Critique of the Narrative of Progress

In The Artistic Foundations of Nations and Citizens: Art, Literature, and the Political Community, edited by Ann Ward (Routledge, 2021).

• Travel as Education: Gulliver the Traveller and the Potential Corruptions of Seeking Betterment Abroad

Lumen: Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol. 39 (2020), pp. 239–260.