Landing in my inbox is the following seat redistribution proposal from MP Derek Lee: Ontario 113 (up from 106 currently and down from 124 in the gov bill)Québec 75B.C. 39 (up from 36 currently, but down from the proposed 43)Manitoba 11 (down from 14)Newfoundland 6 (down from 7)Saskatchewan 10 (down from 14)Alberta 31 (up from […]

I don’t know about you, but I plan on getting, like, 10 or 20 haircuts this month to beat the HST.

Then: Grit insider Rocco Rossi running for T.O. mayor Now: Hat Tip – JT

AM-G7-Wrong-City, Bgt code:2; Budget; Espy AP, Reut; Tax group says Halifax wrong choice for G-7 Canadian Press Newswire Sun Apr 30 1995, 1:21pm ETSection: National General NewsByline: By Steve LambertDateline: HALIFAX HALIFAX (CP) – The federal government was wrong to put next month’s G-7 summit in Halifax because the city needs too many government-funded fixups, […]

Earlier this week I looked at the link between demographics and the Liberal vote share in ridings across Canada. For the long and boring explanation, just click here. For the short and boring explanation, let me just say that I took the Conservative vote in each riding as the response variable and a slew of […]

There’s lots of blogobuzz about coalitions, mergers, and accords this week – Bob Rae celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Peterson-Rae Accord, the Tories fear monger about a coalition for the gazillionth time, Kinsella muses about Liberal-NDP deals (well, a reader does), and Frank Graves talks about mergers: How to unlock the Tory lead? Do […]

David McKie at CBC identifies the most frugal MPs and the big spenders. Oh, and since I haven’t said anything yet on the controversy over MP expenses, I’ll keep it short: Yup, they should be made public.

Last summer, I spent a good deal of time playing around on my election spreadsheet – if you scroll way down on the sidebar, you can see some of the posts under the “Fun With Numbers” heading. But the one thing I never got around to looking at was the link between riding demographics and […]