Stockwell Day, amateur statisticianThe President of the Treasury Board seems to indicate the census could just as easily be outsourced to 12-year-olds with Internet...
A late note on Samara’s list of best Canadian political booksI’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...
What we’re talking about when we talk about affirmative actionThe government seems to have ordered a review of affirmative action—"employment equity" in Canadian terms—policies in the...
’Greater social goods are at stake’Archdeacons Michael Pollesel and John M. Robertson wrote to Industry Minister Tony Clement earlier this week on behalf of the...
What time do you leave for work? Ottawa’s never actually askedClement has been raising alarm about a question that wasn’t on the census yet
The Aboriginal perspectiveThe relationship between the census and Canada’s Aboriginal population, especially those living on reserves, is another matter...
Hey look: In which a list is made, with funny remarks interspersedFor my column in the print edition this week, comedy hijinx galore on the general theme of "what do you do after you eliminate the...
The American experimentAs has been reported , the U.S. Census bureau tested a voluntary survey several years ago and found the results were both less...
Tony Clement will tell you how many bedrooms he hasIt’s not that the Industry Minister himself considers the long-form census to be intrusive, it’s that other people do.
Music: The orchestra takes a breatherFaithful readers, if any, have perhaps been wondering since last autumn what on earth the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony sounded like...