Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦
@cmitchellsask.bsky.social
PhD, scholar of Hebrew Bible and ancient eastern Mediterranean, feminist, settler-Canadian. http://christine-mitchell.ca
Personal site.
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"Ottawa U.S. Embassy spokesperson Ariel Pollock" has now been required to issue a comment on our foolishness.
'Made-up quote' in Canadian satire site The Beaverton fools Time Magazine | CBC News
In a recent article about the United States' strained relationships with other countries, Time Magazine included a made-up quote from Canadian satire site The Beaverton — seemingly as fact.
www.cbc.ca
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"Ottawa U.S. Embassy spokesperson Ariel Pollock" has now been required to issue a comment on our foolishness.
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Explaining Black Friday to kids:
"So the Americans. They don't have Boxing Day. In fact they don't take Christmas week off like we do. Their big holiday is Thanksgiving, which they hold a month late, at a weird time for a harvest festival. The next day is their Boxing Day, which we have to honour."
"So the Americans. They don't have Boxing Day. In fact they don't take Christmas week off like we do. Their big holiday is Thanksgiving, which they hold a month late, at a weird time for a harvest festival. The next day is their Boxing Day, which we have to honour."
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Explaining Black Friday to kids:
"So the Americans. They don't have Boxing Day. In fact they don't take Christmas week off like we do. Their big holiday is Thanksgiving, which they hold a month late, at a weird time for a harvest festival. The next day is their Boxing Day, which we have to honour."
"So the Americans. They don't have Boxing Day. In fact they don't take Christmas week off like we do. Their big holiday is Thanksgiving, which they hold a month late, at a weird time for a harvest festival. The next day is their Boxing Day, which we have to honour."
Just finished my final review for JBL as a member of the editorial board. Fifty reviews (including a handful of re-reviews) over the last nine years.
A true privilege to serve.
A true privilege to serve.
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just finished my final review for JBL as a member of the editorial board. Fifty reviews (including a handful of re-reviews) over the last nine years.
A true privilege to serve.
A true privilege to serve.
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I believe the technical term for this is extortion
Future of trade talks depends on Canada’s purchase of American fighter jets, U.S. ambassador says
Future of trade talks depends on Canada’s purchase of American fighter jets, U.S. ambassador says
Pete Hoekstra said it will not be easy to restart the now-stalled trade talks, and urged Canada to "harmonize" as much as possible with the U.S. on a range of
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I believe the technical term for this is extortion
Link to my slides from my presentation to grad students on conferences: drive.google.com/file/d/1MEID...
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Link to my slides from my presentation to grad students on conferences: drive.google.com/file/d/1MEID...
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And challenge they did. At the Montreal Winter Carnival Hockey Tournament on February 7, 1884 the capital’s first representative hockey team took to the ice wearing red and black striped jerseys and caps and dark knickerbockers. They called themselves the Ottawas: wintieorwrangle.ca/team-beginni...
Team Beginnings and the Montreal Winter Carnival of 1884 – Win, Tie, or Wrangle
wintieorwrangle.ca
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
And challenge they did. At the Montreal Winter Carnival Hockey Tournament on February 7, 1884 the capital’s first representative hockey team took to the ice wearing red and black striped jerseys and caps and dark knickerbockers. They called themselves the Ottawas: wintieorwrangle.ca/team-beginni...
Zotero has changed its look and I am so disoriented.
October 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Zotero has changed its look and I am so disoriented.
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Registration is nearing capacity - register soon if interested in attending in-person. Online attendance is also possible via livestream and recordings. More info and registration: bit.ly/48WYhph
Announcing! TST Conference: Spaces of Encounter: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Theological Research - Nov 14, hosted at Knox College. FREE to attend and includes lunch; attend in-person or remotely. Limited in-person space, register by Nov 7. More info and registration: bit.ly/48WYhph #theology
October 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Registration is nearing capacity - register soon if interested in attending in-person. Online attendance is also possible via livestream and recordings. More info and registration: bit.ly/48WYhph
It's Weber's analysis in Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism on full display: their homelessness demonstrates that they are predestined for damnation, so assisting them would be interfering with God's plan. eh.net/encyclopedia...
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It's Weber's analysis in Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism on full display: their homelessness demonstrates that they are predestined for damnation, so assisting them would be interfering with God's plan. eh.net/encyclopedia...
Come see some excellent research presentations and conversations! It will be livestreamed! Great graduate student and faculty presentations.
For those of us going elbows-up and boycotting US-based conferences, this is an excellent chance to share.
For those of us going elbows-up and boycotting US-based conferences, this is an excellent chance to share.
TST Conference | Spaces of Encounter: Interdisciplinary Conversations in Theological Research | Toronto School of Theology
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www.tst.edu
October 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Come see some excellent research presentations and conversations! It will be livestreamed! Great graduate student and faculty presentations.
For those of us going elbows-up and boycotting US-based conferences, this is an excellent chance to share.
For those of us going elbows-up and boycotting US-based conferences, this is an excellent chance to share.
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I’m increasingly coming to the conclusion that the state of Israel is behaving in a horrific manner that is absolutely worthy of intense protest, and also that there is no way to have an anti-Israel political movement that will not in some way increase antisemitism against the diaspora.
October 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I’m increasingly coming to the conclusion that the state of Israel is behaving in a horrific manner that is absolutely worthy of intense protest, and also that there is no way to have an anti-Israel political movement that will not in some way increase antisemitism against the diaspora.
Anybody got any ideas for where I could submit an article called "Gideon, 'Breaking Bad,' and toxic masculinity"?
October 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Anybody got any ideas for where I could submit an article called "Gideon, 'Breaking Bad,' and toxic masculinity"?
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Seems like a good week to update and resurface this compelling — and terrifying — story from Aisha Ahmad of @utoronto.ca:
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States
Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.
theconversation.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Seems like a good week to update and resurface this compelling — and terrifying — story from Aisha Ahmad of @utoronto.ca:
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
theconversation.com/why-annexing...
Oh for God's sake. Just no.
Trump again floats Canada joining the U.S. as the 51st state | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he again told some unnamed Canadian official that the country should consider joining the U.S. as the 51st state — returning to the annexationist rhetoric he u...
www.cbc.ca
September 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Oh for God's sake. Just no.
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Since it's the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, here's a piece I wrote a few years ago tackling one of the main ways folks tend to minimize or dismiss the horror of the residential schools - the idea that it was done with "good intentions":
theconversation.com/when-good-in...
theconversation.com/when-good-in...
When ‘good intentions’ don’t matter: The Indian Residential School system
Variations on the myth of “good intentions” are invoked as a tool against the truth that the legacy of the IRS tells. Here’s why that needs to stop.
theconversation.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Since it's the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, here's a piece I wrote a few years ago tackling one of the main ways folks tend to minimize or dismiss the horror of the residential schools - the idea that it was done with "good intentions":
theconversation.com/when-good-in...
theconversation.com/when-good-in...
Friends, I was "Reviewer 2" today, and for the first time ever, I did it gladly. (Sometimes I've been Reviewer 2, felt bad about having to do it, but needs must.) I've never reviewed a manuscript with such a dismissive tone before.
September 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Friends, I was "Reviewer 2" today, and for the first time ever, I did it gladly. (Sometimes I've been Reviewer 2, felt bad about having to do it, but needs must.) I've never reviewed a manuscript with such a dismissive tone before.
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Nothing is going to improve in Canadian higher education until the political class accepts that we need to make it better rather than cheaper. How will we know they have accepted it? When they are prepared to put institutions ahead of voters and raise tuition.
Turning the Corner | HESA
Things have been bleak in higher education the last couple of years, and no doubt they will remain bleak for … Continued
higheredstrategy.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Nothing is going to improve in Canadian higher education until the political class accepts that we need to make it better rather than cheaper. How will we know they have accepted it? When they are prepared to put institutions ahead of voters and raise tuition.
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Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...
If you want to study at TST, get in touch! Knox College (one of TST's member schools) has a limited number of full-funding fellowships.
Have you been thinking about a degree in Theology? TST's online application process for Fall 2026 admission opens *September 15*. Applications accepted for Doctoral Programs (PhD & DMin) and Master's Programs (ThM & MA). Learn more about TST's graduate degree programs and how to apply bit.ly/45pHt8i
August 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
If you want to study at TST, get in touch! Knox College (one of TST's member schools) has a limited number of full-funding fellowships.
"[The makers of AI] want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"[The makers of AI] want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."
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The Canadian Freedom Convoy people who argue the Emergencies Act was a dictatorial abuse of power agree that this use of power bears the ‘hallmarks of unreasonableness’ too, right?
For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
August 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The Canadian Freedom Convoy people who argue the Emergencies Act was a dictatorial abuse of power agree that this use of power bears the ‘hallmarks of unreasonableness’ too, right?
Now that's a headline you don't see everyday:
"Evacuation order for parts of Paradise."
"Evacuation order for parts of Paradise."
Evacuation order issued for parts of Paradise, while Southlands, Galway on alert | CBC News
An evacuation order was issued for the Three Island Pond area in Paradise late Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Ochre Pit Cove and Western Bay areas have likely had "significant loss," Premier John Hogan...
www.cbc.ca
August 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Now that's a headline you don't see everyday:
"Evacuation order for parts of Paradise."
"Evacuation order for parts of Paradise."
Hahaha - I took one of the photos in this article while on a short trip in June. It did not disappoint. (gift link)
The biggest and quirkiest roadside attractions to see on your next Canadian road trip, according to readers
From a dinosaur in the Prairies to the ‘world’s largest axe’ in New Brunswick, you told us which monuments are worth more than a pit stop
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Hahaha - I took one of the photos in this article while on a short trip in June. It did not disappoint. (gift link)
I'm not a cyclist. This is, however, very good news for every person who travels in Toronto by any mode other than car.
Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes | CBC News
An Ontario court has deemed the province's plan to remove three major Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional.
www.cbc.ca
July 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I'm not a cyclist. This is, however, very good news for every person who travels in Toronto by any mode other than car.
This is a much better article than the headline alone would suggest. It turns out the "why" and "when" cases are pretty limited.
AI can be responsibly integrated into classrooms by answering the ‘why’ and ‘when’
AI can be responsibly integrated into classrooms by answering the ‘why’ and ‘when’
Insights from philosophers about the nature of knowledge and learning can help educators identify why and when using AI in the classroom is warranted and helpful.
theconversation.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is a much better article than the headline alone would suggest. It turns out the "why" and "when" cases are pretty limited.