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'Balanced Journalism' Amplifies Uninformed Voices

Introduction As Ontario voters consider their choices in municipal elections, a new report by the Laurier Institute for the Study of …
Oct 18, 2018 5 min read LISPOP

Using R To Automatically Create Dates For Your Syllabus

Now that August is upon us, academics around the world are sweating a little bit about getting back to the grind of teaching. I wanted …
Aug 13, 2018 2 min read R

Doug Ford's Win And Sentiment Towards Immigration

It seems like one of the priorities of the new Ford government is to take a harder line dealing with refugees and asylum-seekers in …
Jul 21, 2018 3 min read

What Media Are Ontario Voters Consuming?

A friend was wondering whether or not The Toronto Star or the Toronto Sun newspapers reached more New Democrats. So I decided to take a …
Jul 18, 2018 1 min read

The Ontario General Election Twitter Verse

A lot of people will be watching the results of the Ontario general election tonight, me among them. While most people will be poring …
Jun 7, 2018 2 min read

Welcome To The Dataverse

The dataverse is an initiative associated with Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences. It establishes a …
May 2, 2018 3 min read

Economic Stress, Populism and FordNation

Yesterday, I showed some data that showed that Rob Ford was very popular among visible minorities, which cast some doubt on the …
Mar 13, 2018 4 min read

Populism, Race and Ford Nation

Ontario politics got a lot more interesting on the weekend. It’s timely for myself and another colleague as we are preparing to finally …
Mar 12, 2018 3 min read

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party Leadership Race On Twitter

The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party is putting on quite a show these days. As a side project, a colleague and I decided to …
Mar 2, 2018 5 min read

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