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Thursday, July 22, 2010 The head of Statistics Canada has resigned from his job, citing the Harper government's interference with the 2011 long-form census. Here is a look at the ideology behind the...
View ArticleThe King who took leave of his census
Characters:King Stephen I: ruler of BytownClementine: the King's FoolScene:A cavernous throne room, dark, shadowy, windows covered with heavy, black curtains, room is empty save for a King upon a...
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The long shadow of the long census cancellation: A politician's nightmare
Tuesday, August 10, 2010Who would have expected Stephen Harper to be so foolhardy as to ignore the outcry? As of Monday, 272 national organizations and prominent individuals are listed as opposing the...
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Harper's lousy, pre-election summer: A review
Thursday, August 12, 2010 It took many poorly constructed policy bricks to build the power tower the Conservative Party lives in as they rule Canada. But many of the bricks are cracked, and the edifice...
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Focus on the census shows Canadians won't take Harper's bait
Friday, August 13, 2010Mario Laguë, Michael Ignatieff's communications director, died Thursday in a motorcycle accident on his way to work. I hadn't heard of him till this week, when a memo he wrote to...
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Not Rex: The long and the short -- census, guns and more
A summer of longing for a return to reason.Not Rex: The long and the short - census, guns and more
View ArticleElectile dysfunction
Evidence suggests that we all like it long.Mayors of Canada like it long. It helps them prioritize the next transit or water main development.Police like it long. It helps them decide how to recruit,...
View ArticleFamily values and budget cuts
Once again, in the middle of summer, the anti-government government has unleashed more anti-policy policy via a compliant Statistics Canada.Who needs data when you've got family values? The Harper team...
View ArticleMinuscule Canadian Taxpayers Federation in running for 'Turfy Award'
When it comes time to hand out the annual Turfy Award -- named for AstroTurf, the green synthetic blades that look like grass and feel like grass but do not absorb carbon dioxide like grass -- I expect...
View ArticleNever mind the details: Fraser Institute's a leader in press release production
TORONTO -- According to a press release issued last week by the Fraser Institute, which is one of Canada's leading producers of press releases, government employees earn more on average than equivalent...
View ArticleCan democracy save students in sanctuary Victoria and Favour?
Yesterday marked the National Day of Action for Victoria Ordu and Ihuoma Amadi, the two University of Regina students that have spent the past 14 months in sanctuary to avoid deportation. Both students...
View ArticleWhen good data goes bad: The 2011 National Household Survey
Two findings stand out in the National Household Survey (NHS) data released Wednesday, both critical in this post-recession era of uncertainty:1. A quarter of Canadian households spent 30 per cent or...
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A number is never just a number: Pseudo census
Tuesday, October 1, 20132010The year the federal government scrapped Canada's mandatory long-form census, replacing it with a voluntary survey. It sparked a Save The Census campaign that drew the...
View ArticleData crimes and misdemeanors: Why child care, too, needs the long-form census
In the first week of February 2015, the House of Commons will vote on Kingston MP Ted Hsu's private member's bill calling for restoration of Canada's long-form census. Although research methods and...
View ArticleHow the Harper government's census strategy keeps us in the dark
What we don't know about Canada might hurt us. That's the title of a great article (with a cool gif!) from American economist and blogger Ben Casselman about what happened when the Harper Conservatives...
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