One hates to discourage any American foray in Canadian political analysis, but Fivethirtyeight.com [bad link fixed], the normally reliable US political blog that draws on the statistical tools of Sabermetrics, badly bollixed one such attempt yesterday. The website, which is predicting a near Conservative majority in today's British election, carries an article by research assistant Thomas Dollar, urging Tory Leader David Cameron to follow Stephen Harper's example and "Go Big or Go Home." Moneyquote: Harper's 2008 budget would have cut Federal funding of parliamentary elections--to the benefit of the Conservatives. All opposition parties formed an ABC coalition--Anyone but Conservative--to defeat...

06 May, 2010

A US polling website tries to explain the difference between the Canadian medical care system and the British health care system. And does a surprisingly good job. .. .. .. .. .. .. UPDATE: Spoilsport contrarian reader JP points out: Fivethirtyeight.com isn't quite right, is he? Or he's at least misleading: Everything BUT doctor services in Canada are owned and run by the state. Point taken, but after all, this is an American writing about Canadian health care. How much accuracy can one expect?...

11 August, 2009