Money! What is a deficit?
I’ve been following budgets across provinces for many years. One of the more interesting things is that the most recent Redford budget in Alberta was, supposedly, a balanced budget. However,…
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It would not surprise me
It would not have surprised me if the BC Liberals won the last election, and they did. Nor would it have surprised me if the Alberta PC Party won their…
Condorcet and the MB NDP leadership.
One of my favourite voting systems is known as Condorcet. In short, the ‘winner’ is not the person with the most votes, but rather, the person everyone is okay with.…
Quick update on Israel and Manitoba
Tomorrow, Manitoba’s NDP picks it’s new leader, and the new Premier of the Province. In short, it is, roughly, a 3-way race. Selinger has between 373 and 821 delegates, depending…
Prentice and the Mirror
I’m sure you’ve heard of this controversy by now. I wanted to address it. Before I do, I wanted to make clear this is my personal opinion. It is not…
Liberals Rule; in the Atlantic.
Corporate Research Associates put out a new set of provincial polls. NLL 56 P 31N 13 PEL 58P 26N 12G 4 NSL 58P 20N 18G 3 NBL 54P 27G 10N…
PEI Update
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/rob-lantz-celebrates-progressive-conservative-leadership-victory-1.2977350 Rob Lantz, who I indicated would be the only other possible winner (beyond Aylward) has managed to win. I am still honestly surprised, but, listening to some of the…
Updates (Israel, PEI, Manitoba, Australia)
Within the next 5 weeks there are a number of ‘elections’ taking place. We start in the past; this weekend, when the PEI Liberals picked a new leader. Given the…
Federal possibilities in 2015
I’ve updated a few of the more interesting maps with more recent predictions based on poll averages. First, Alberta: As I’ve been saying for years now, we are due to…
Queensland results, and Spoiled Canadians.
We are spoiled. We expect our election results to be final, save any legal recounts, by 6am the morning following an election. While this also holds true for the USA…
Queensland Live
For those awake this early Saturday, you will likely know my calculations in the previous post about time zones mixed up AM and PM. However, the good news is that…
A proposal for Newfoundland
The province still seems set on reducing the number of MHAs. I therefore present to the province my own proposal to help them achieve this without resulting in nearly as…
Upcoming Queensland Election
Queensland, the North-East state of Australia, is holding it’s state-level election. The two main parties are the Labor party, and the Liberal National Party, a coalition of the two parties…
Greek election results
Earlier I had predicted the following would be the result of the election: 146 SYRIZA83 ND18 POTAMI16 XA14 PASOK14 KKE9 ANEL The final results are in, and I was fairly…
Israeli Election update; and update on Greece and Newfoundland.
Starting from the smallest updates to the biggest. GREECE All signs point to a victory by the left-wing and anti-austerity SYRIZA party. My current prediction is as follows: 146 SYRIZA83…
Greek Election preview
I’ve broken this post down into sub-sections to help organize it. Why now? As mentioned in an earlier post, this was triggered by instability. Greece attempted to elect a President,…
Greek election, and the end of the world
As mentioned in a prior post, Greece goes to the polls in 10 days. This is perhaps the most important election in the history of that country. Why? It has…
Personal gripe
Twitter fans likely are aware of the whole donate-button-gate-scandal-thingy already, but for those who are not, here is a news story from the CBC on the issue http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/donate-button-deleted-on-harper-and-trudeau-anti-terrorism-message-1.2895753 Anyway, during…
Teddy’s prediction for 2015
Given current polls, and my expectations for the BQ and F&D, these are my current predictions for 2015.
A look at Israel
With the coming election in Israel, I thought it might be wise to introduce those unfamiliar with the country to Israel; in particular it’s people, it’s politics, and some of…