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The Ontario PC Platform and MC Hammer Pants: Some things really shouldn’t make a comeback
Social media has transformed political campaigning in the U.S. and in Canada. So perhaps it’s no surprise to find Ontario politicians glomming on to social…
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Conservative platform’s geometry found faulty
TORONTO—A detailed statistical review of the 13 statistical graphs contained in the Conservative changebook platform document finds that not one of them conforms to the normal requirements of academic…
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Graphs for Dummies
The Troubled Geometry of Tim Hudak’s “changebook” Download 431.22 KB15 pages This detailed statistical review of the 13 statistical graphs contained in the Conservative changebook…
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The real impact of HST’s defeat on provincial finances
On Sept 8, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon released a much anticipated update on provincial finances. The Minster’s presentation focused on highlighting the cost of the…
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The Conservative Party’s Fair-Weather Democrats
With the results of the Canadian Wheat Board’s 2011 producer plebiscite now in, farmers have given the single-desk for wheat a rousing endorsement with 62% of the…
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Election 2011 UNSPUN: A Clock Worth Watching
The Winnipeg Free Press (September 7 editorial: Tick, tick, tick) correctly notes that Manitoba’s debt is a non-issue with voters. Maybe Manitobans get their information…
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So Where is the Science?
The headline in the Globe today was certainly ominous — “Clark’s Hydro policy threatens to collapse B.C.’s climate change progress, scientist says”. The purported policy…
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What the Right’s Rage Reveals
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More carbon credit questions hiding in the trees
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Less on their Plate
Canada’s poorest people facing a frightful food crisis “The Federal Reserve has done, and will continue to do, everything possible within the limits of its…
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Financial Crisis as a Way of Life
Neoliberalism drives chronic worldwide financial instability From Wall Street to Iceland to Greece to Ireland, the world is lurching from one financial crisis to another.…
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Beware Private Water Speculators
Planned Ontario mega-quarry threatens crucial water supply Hedge fund manager and billionaire Seth Klarman reportedly has a cautious approach to risk-assessment when investing for the…
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