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Mathematics of Elections
There’s no better time to be a stats junkie than election time!
A great site for families looking into “voting mathematics” is www.votepair.ca. The actual purpose of this site is to arrange strategic “vote swapping,” but the arguments presented in favour of this controversial practice (and the comments left by visitors to the site) really do [...]
Tennier and Ward • More school isn’t always better
Sometimes it kind of sneaks up on you when out in the “real world” decisions are made or policies are implemented that you’ve already “concluded” are bad news. I got one of these jolts a few days ago when I saw Premier McGuinty on the news announcing a target date of 2010 for the [...]
Full-day Kindergarten overshadowed by proposal to fund religious schools in Ontario
We should all be glad that Kate Tennier is keeping this issue in the spotlight. Four years ago, Dalton McGuinty ran on the misguided educational proposal to increase the compulsory school age from 16 to 18. This time around, a Liberal victory would subject us to a similarly bad idea, full-day kindergarten. This [...]