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Are Violent Threats Common in Canada's Online World?
Here’s a follow up to my previous post on mining Canadian Reddit threads for insights into what Canadians are thinking.
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Decoding CAF’s Fitness Crisis: Insights from Reddit’s Frontlines
What are they saying inside the CAF
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Is Canada Wasting Millions on Redundant Health Studies?
Dr Adam Cifu - over at Sensible Medicine - recently listed ten health-related areas that require exactly zero new research projects.
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New book: a Directory of 150 Federal Government Agencies
This post will probably be an unexpected change of pace for The Audit.
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What’s Shaping Canada’s Teachers? Decoding Education Syllabi Trends
I just discovered a promising data resource: the Open Syllabus project. The project gleefully hoovers up descriptions of post secondary course syllabi…
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Why the ICC Misses Atrocities — and Why Canada Still Pays
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been making news lately - and not necessarily in a good way.
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August 2025

Power, Profit, and Policy: Why Canada’s A.I. Strategy May Not Add Up
Based mostly on their 2024 budget, the federal government has promised $2.4 billion in support of artificial intelligence (A.I.) innovation and…
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Inside the Quiet Power of the Ontario College of Teachers
As we’ve already discovered, professional regulatory associations are critical parts of any functioning society, but they don’t always deliver ideal…
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Is Canada’s $100B+ Climate Plan Based on Shaky Science?
The Climate Working Group at the U.S.
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Is Global Affairs Canada Wasting Your Tax Dollars Abroad?
It seems like forever since I last wrote about program spending at Global Affairs Canada (GAC).
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From Stable Prisons to Skyrocketing Budgets: What's Really Happening at CSC?
Housing and handling Canada’s criminal offenders in federal detention facilities is expensive.
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From Decline to Durability: Is the Traditional Family Bouncing Back?
I’ve written in the past about the economic and social benefits of strong families.
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