Music: Things that aren’t entirely surprisingThe New Yorker ’s Alex Ross offers a rare look at music inside North Korea . Turns out it’s horrible and sparsely-attended.
Notes on a brouhahaKevin Milligan looks at what Statistics Canada has to say about the accuracy of voluntary surveys. Mike Moffat says drop the...
"Those willing to follow"I’m happy to second Colby Cosh’s "even stronger than usual recommendation " of Andrew Coyne’s column this week , in which he...
Better know a talking pointFrom the official government lines distributed over the weekend. Though the threat of imprisonment is included in the Statistics...
Civil liberties are in the eye of the beholderOn Monday , the Conservatives filibustered an attempt to by opposition parties to start hearings into the biggest mass arrest in...
Pre-election peaks and doldrums, or, a lesson for Alf (UPDATED)Here’s a secret about elections: they don’t happen between elections
The libertarian cavalryThe economists, statisticians, city planners, social groups and religious leaders have had (and continue to have) their say and so...
Let us see whose fingers point bestThe Minister pointed to Statistics Canada, only Statistics Canada wouldn’t , or couldn’t, explain anything. And so now anonymous...
Music: Call it anythingFor no real reason at all, I posted the link to this video in one of the comment boards today, and now I’ll write a bit about...