For those worried the Ontario election lacked a meaty ballot questions, comes the most exciting statistical controversy since the scrapping of the mandatory long form Census:There are 13 statistical graphs…
Sensing that the SFSS has little inclination to respect collective bargaining rights CUPE, representing the locked out SFSS staff, has started fighting the PR war. According to the CUPEsfu twitter…
There’s an interesting new research report from Statistics Canada, by Ping Ching Winnie Chan, Rene Morissette, and Marc Frenette, profiling the workers who were displaced in the recent recession, and…
A healthy mind can work wonders on a sick body, and a healthy body can work wonders on a sick mind.J. J. GoldwagSo after being overwhelmed, laid low, sucked dry,…
Only Charlie Taylor of the Green Party of Ontario offered a consistently progressive perspective at last night's safe and cozy Chamber affair. (I have yet to see a serious disagreement…
DeepMiningTheDatabasesHeadLampShiningBrightVilleIn case you haven't noticed, NVG over at the Blog Borg Collective is doing some really great work combing through publicly available documents online and is pulling out some really…
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If you thought playing games was just for fun, well Foldit is a game that has people solve problems for science. That itself is pretty neat, but what pushes this…
While the Harper government is no stranger to fear-mongering, its tactics look both brilliant and subtle compared to the the following two American political ads:Please sign this petition urging Prime…
As protesters gather on Parliament Hill to mobilize against the TransCanada XL Pipeline, three campaigners address the question of using civil disobedience against the tar sands and other causes: indigenous…
The genesis: US college gridiron prayerFootball players aren't the brightest people in the world. Unlike with other sports, football coaches are like little gods who warp sculpt their wards, guiding…
From a PC government that closed dozens of hospitals (with Tim Hudak personally playing a role as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health) and didn't even bother tracking wait…
After desperate pleas to halt the execution - including from Jimmy Carter, the Pope, and even from supporters of capital punishment - Troy Davis was executed.It is a sad story.…
I don't know quite what to make of this.From Brian Topp's Globe and Mail Op-ed, "On Palestine, Harper and Nov.4":Mr. Rabin's successors have failed to carry out his vision, perhaps…
Over at the Globe and Mail Economy Lab our friend Stephen Gordon argues that there are only limited revenues to be gained by taxing the rich. He plays around with…
All that matters is his almost mystical need to stop climate change, even if that’s an impossible task. And this perhaps is why Suzuki is endorsing McGuinty. It actually has…
In a startling bit of news, surely representing the disparity between rich and poor, overweight people now outnumber the hungry globally.Asia-Pacific director Jagan Chapagain called it a "double-edged scandal" at…
Overheard on ride home, “Oooh Mr. MacKay. Coffee, tea or … me?” Vacations are nice for a Conservative. They’re especially nice when you can commandeer a search-and-rescue copter to take…
One of the responses that we can all take to the looming peak oil/climate change crisis is to work to make our communities more resilient (for more on this, check…
