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Another Update: Twitter and the Federal Election
Well, the federal election Leader's debate on Thursday evening was in the end a rather disappointing affair. It was essentially a series of thrusts, parries and spins on taxation, housing, immigration, energy, etc…but left out in the entire debate was any fundamental recognition of what I think is a major issue facing the future prosperity […]
Lumbering Along in the Finding Data Process
Well, all I was trying to do was introduce a set of lecture slides on the nineteenth century timber trade with a simple overview of the Canadian logging industry's employment in the twentieth century. Well, three hours later it has proven to be a more frustrating exercise than I would have expected but here is […]
Fencing In Canada
Wisconsin Governor and potential presidential candidate Scott Walker apparently thinks it is not an unreasonable idea to consider building a wall between Canada and the United States in order to secure his country’s borders from security threats. Now, to be fair, he did not say that a wall should be built along the 5,525 mile […]
Update: Twitter and the Canadian Federal Election
Well it is just over two weeks since I began tracking the number of Twitter followers that each federal party leader has during the course of the current election capmpaign in order to see what the impact of this type of social media presence might be. All of the party leaders have increased their number […]
Making Change?
Alex Usher at Higher Education Strategy Associates had a great post on his One Thought Blog today dealing with policy-making and change. His comparison to policy-making in Ottawa as a slow stately moving river compared to Washington's high-pressure ice jam was pretty entertaining – he only left out that parts of the policy making river […]
Twitter Followers and Canada’s Federal Election
Well, I thought it was time to resurrect an activity I last did a number of years ago – in 2011 – during an Ontario election campaign. I tracked the number of Twitter followers each party leader had during the course of the election to see if the electoral outcome was correlated with social media […]
The Great Convergence: Federal Transfer Revenue Shares 1980/81 to 2013/14
Well the Council of the Federation began meeting in St. John’s yesterday and given we are on the cusp of a federal election, there will no doubt be a targeting of Ottawa’s role in provincial finances. Naturally, there will be some lamentations about the Prime Minister’s absence – once again – from this annual meeting. […]
Bank of Canada Governors and Economic Performance: A Canada Day Celebration
Another Canada Day, another year of Confederation – we are now 148 years old– and another opportunity for taking a historical look at some economic aspects of Canada. For your Canada Day musings, I decided to take a look at economic indicators according to the tenure of Bank of Canada Governors since 1934 (the legislation […]
The Historical Statistics of Canada Are Back!
If you recall, several posts ago I lamented that the downloadable csv files that used to be part of archived web edition of Historical Statistics of Canada seemed to have disappeared or were not working. I am delighted to say that the files are back.
A New Central Bank Blog
The Bank of England has just launched its own staff blog: Bank Underground. The Managing Editor is John Lewis and the blog is where the staff can air their views as part of the Bank of England becoming more open to the outside world.
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