John Geddes

The death of Tony Judt last Friday, at just 62, of complications from Lou Gehrig’s disease, is sad news for legions of readers...

For the government relying on academic research is bad politics

On everything from the census to climate change, taxation and crime

There’s nothing in the data to shore up Day’s version of reality

And why Ottawa doesn’t want to talk about them

I’m arriving very late to the party over at Samara , where they took on the fun task of drawing up a list of Canada’s best...

Clement has been raising alarm about a question that wasn’t on the census yet

Tony Clement and the resignation of Munir Sheikh, the chief statistician of Canada

’It helps a great deal, I can assure you, in recruiting’

A more robust Canadian supervisory ethos may be gaining ground