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Fifth Annual Politicians in Cowboy Hats
For a brief history of Stampede fashion, you can read the 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 round-ups. You never quite now what you’ll get at the Stampede. The boy from Calgary became a national laughing stock when he mistook the Stampede for a Village People convention in 2005. And the geeky Liberal pushing the carbon […]
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Clement to Farmers: Prepare to be Coerced
Farmers still face mandatory agricultural census Canadian farmers will still be required to fill out a questionnaire about their farming methods, even though the federal government is scrapping the mandatory long-form personal census because it says it is too intrusive. In conjunction with the regular census, Statistics Canada also surveys farmers across the country, asking […]
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The Fraser Institute: Truthiness Over Fact Based Research
Warren Kinsella defends Tony Clement, and a National Post editorial rips into the Tories: This is profoundly undignified governance. If, as it seems, the government cannot defend changing the census on any logical, resonant or particularly urgent grounds, it should abandon the undertaking until it’s prepared to do so. My world is upside down! Luckily, […]
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Just think of all the G8 summits we could host for the same price!
This government is fiscally conservative…except when it comes to spending money: Ottawa to spend $16-billion on fighter jets he Harper government is confirming it will spend $16-billion for the latest generation of fighter jets from Lockheed Martin. But the government is fending off complaints that making one of the biggest military purchases in Canadian history […]
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This Week in Alberta: Dance Off!
The Wildrose Alliance releases their response to “Ted Morton is the Man“. I had my mocking muscles all ready to go on this one, but it’s actually not bad. No word yet on whether or not we’ll be treated to a Swann song…
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Seat Projections
For those who recall, I experimented with a seat projection model last election. By and large, it worked as well as any of the other models out there. But the rub is, my model, like every other pundit, seat projection and octopus out there, underestimated the Conservative seat total and overestimated the Liberal one. The […]
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Seat Projection Methodology
Before I jump in, let me be clear on two points: 1. This model has evolved over the past 3 years (though Stockwell Day will deny it has) and each step in it involved a lot of thought, testing, and consideration. 2. I’m completely 100% open to criticism and suggested improvements. I’m sure it can […]
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As the call for state sanctioned coercion grows…
Via Aaron Wherry, a non-random sampling of opposition to the government’s plan to defile the Census: To those who oppose the government’s changes to the census you can now add the Statistical Society of Canada, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the Canadian Marketing Association, the Canadian Federation of Francophone and Acadian […]
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This Week in Alberta – We Need To Talk
On Wednesday, the Alberta Liberals ran full page newspaper ads in the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal urging other parties to co-operate with them to offer a progressive alternative to the Progressive Conservatives. Even though it’s hard to keep track of all the new parties that keep springing up in Alberta, at first glance it […]
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Ladies and Gentlemen, your Next Governor General
University of Waterloo President David Johnston