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Automated Academic

I am by no means a coder by nature or training. Yet, I enjoy screwing around with computers, particularly to try to automate mundane …
Mar 27, 2024 7 min read

Public Spending Priorities in the 2018 and 2022 Ontario Elections

LISPOP commissioned a survey of voters during the 2022 election and we’ll be disseminating findings from it over the next few weeks. …
Last updated on Jul 20, 2022 2 min read LISPOP

Private and Public School Enrolment in Ontario

Did you know that the share Ontario students attending private schools is creeping steadily up? Here are the numbers and then the story …
Last updated on Nov 15, 2021 4 min read

Private School Enrolment in Ontario

Our five year old is in Grade 1 this year obviously everyoen’s public school experience in Ontario has been severely impacted in the …
Simon J. Kiss
Last updated on Oct 22, 2021 1 min read

Text Expander Footnotes

I’ve discovered a neat way to use TextExpander to make authoring slides in Markdown go much more quickly.
Simon J. Kiss
Sep 14, 2020 4 min read Data

Academic Hiring in Ontario

Introduction Alex Usher has a series of recent blog posts here, here, here and here looking at academic versus non-academic …
Last updated on Feb 20, 2020 9 min read

Research Assistantship Examining Class Voting in Canada

Job Description We are seeking a part-time research assistant for the Fall of 2019 to assist a SSHRC-funded research project examining …
Aug 28, 2019 2 min read

Chiropractic Care For Ontario Social Assistance Recipients?!?!

There was a report in the Waterloo Region Record recently that caught my eye. The province and the Region of Waterloo have partnered to …
Apr 2, 2019 2 min read

Using R To Extract Census Data from Statistics Canada

I’ve noticed that Statistics Canada seems to lag other national statistical agencies in making their data available in user friendly …
Jan 17, 2019 4 min read LISPOP, R

Salience of Immigration and Personal Finances in Ontario

Colleagues and I at the Laurier Institute For The Study Of Public Opinion and Policy (LISPOP) conducted a survey of ONtario voters in …
Jan 11, 2019 4 min read LISPOP