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Business Activity: Perhaps Things Aren't All Bad
This post is going to be unbearably boring.
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How Much Dollar Value Does Our Military Deliver?
To my great surprise I recently noticed that, despite being deeply engaged in wars against at least four determined enemies, Israel doesn’t spend all…
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Why Are Ontario's Public Schools So Violent?
And the award for lifetime outstanding achievement in understatement goes to...
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What's Really Going On in Canada's Criminal Courts?
Last week’s post on the disturbing mismatch between Toronto Police Services arrest rates and provincial criminal court caseloads seems to have hit a…
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Police vs the Courts
One of these things is not like the other
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What Fire Response Statistics Can Tell Us About Our World
The City of Toronto Open Data project includes a helpful dataset covering all fire incidents attended by the Toronto Fire Service (TFS) between 2011 and…
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Who Regulates the Regulators?
Some of us tend to be deeply suspicious of government regulatory frameworks.
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The Hollow Emptiness of Canadian Electoral Representation
A couple of months back I wrote about how real-world political representation for Canadians can be deeply unequal.
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May 2025

Why Aren't Federal Affordable Housing Initiatives Designed to Build Affordable Housing?
I recently came across a fascinating piece analyzing why publicly-funded affordable housing projects cost so much more in Chicago than in Houston.
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Is Education Good for You?
Why hasn't anyone seriously tested education policy alternatives by analyzing moral outcomes
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Who's Driving Canada Post Into the Ground?
It’s been a year since I wrote Preparing for Canada Post's Imminent Collapse. Granted, by at least some definitions of the word “collapse”, my prophecy…
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Does Democracy Need a Healthy Traditional News Media?
I often hear people saying that a "healthy news media industry enhances democracy”.
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