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Joint Declaration by Canada and France
Back in 2008 I wrote about Hossein Derakhshan’s arrest in Iran. It’s been about six years since I met him in person. He sat in prison for about two years without charges and a few months ago was sentenced to … Continue reading
Tagged blogfather, canada, foreignpolicy, forfb, iran
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Census Update: It’s the Economy, Stupid | eaves.ca
Census Update: It’s the Economy, Stupid | eaves.ca – this is driving me crazy. One of the most basic things a country needs to do is measure itself. The data is needed for the country to decide anything, as demonstrated … Continue reading
What If Everybody in Canada Flushed At Once? | Pat’s Papers
What If Everybody in Canada Flushed At Once? | Pat’s Papers – pretty neat graph
Canadian Asbestos Exports
So I already knew that despite asbestos being banned in Canada (among many other places), we still export it to countries with poor health and safety regulations, which I find pretty horific. I was watching a CBC news segment on … Continue reading
Tagged asbestos, canada, chrysotile, forfb, petition
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Abandoned by Canada: Torture Surviver Speaks Out
I attended Abandoned by Canada: Torture Surviver Speaks Out tonight, run by WPIRG and AWOL. The depressing part of of it all is that not only did Canada, a supposedly decent country, violate its own basic laws, not just in … Continue reading
Tories and Liberals trade barbs over environment
Tories and Liberals trade barbs over environment – it’s funny how things change. When I was in grade 4 (’93-’94), we had some group work on determining political party issues and campaign platforms, or something like that. I vaguely recall … Continue reading
Tagged canada, climatechange, conservativeparty, environment, liberalparty, politics, stephanedion, stevenharper
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Canadian Election Analysis: Urban vs Rural
Talking about the urban-vs-rural divide in Canada and the US with my roommate yesterday; today I realized I could actually demonstrate it. I scraped data from two websites: CBC and Elections Canada, since the latter doesn’t yet have election results. … Continue reading
Tagged canada, election, rural, statistics, urban, urbanization
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Vote Selector Quiz
I never do quizes. And political party ones are innaccurate, of course. nevertheless Jack Layton Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (100%) Paul Martin Leader of Liberal Party of Canada, Prime Minister of Canada (88%) Gilles Duceppe Leader … Continue reading
canadian political parties converge
NDP talking about tax cuts… Conservatives talking about child care…. so all the parties are going to win over voters from the other parties by being more like them… that’s a good plan, right? since there are three main parties… … Continue reading
Tagged canada, conservativeparty, election, liberalparty, ndp, politics
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