OttawaCivil 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...
OttawaThe libertarian cavalryThe economists, statisticians, city planners, social groups and religious leaders have had (and continue to have) their say and so...
OttawaLet 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...
OttawaNo commentLate yesterday afternoon, as mentioned , the following was filed with StatsCan’s media office. Twenty-four hours later, the...
OttawaThe monstrous thingIn case you dare gaze upon it yourself, here is a copy of the 2006 long-form census. And here is the guide StatsCan provides for...
UncategorizedThat census debate, late Victorian editionThus spake the scientist and administrator G.B. Longstaff ( 1849-1921 ) in an address to the Royal Statistical Society on June...
GeneralCensus, here and thereIt’s no small irony that just at a moment in history when we’ve collectively decided to put every last fricking detail of our...
OttawaTony Clement needs you (IV)Postmedia’s Shannon Proudfoot finds a taker : a senior economist with the Fraser Institute willing to support the government’s...
OttawaTony Clement needs you (III)Still no responses to my call for economists, statisticians, city planners and the like to step forward with a defence of the...
OttawaWhen a Conservative loses the Post, what’s left?Not even the National Post editorial board can find the courage to defend Tony Clement.