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2019 PSE Platforms – Liberal Party

The governing Liberal Party released its entire platform all at once on Sunday (the costing document is here), and there are a bunch of interesting things pertaining to PSE.  Let’s dig in. (For those of you looking for extra thoroughness, you may want to review my assessment of the Liberal record over the past four years first.  Finished?  Ok, onwards.) Without question, the most disappointing thing in the platform is the scientific research plank.  It consists of a $30 million commitment for pediatric cancer research

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October 2, 2019 No Comments

2019 PSE Platforms – Green Party

Today’s blog will be the first in a series looking at the various federal party election platforms on post-secondary education, skills, and science. First up: the Green Party. I opened this year’s Green Party Manifesto with some trepidation because, well, the 2015 platform was such a dumpster fire. And, wouldn’t you know it, the 2019 platform is also a dumpster fire. Quelle coincidence! This is not merely an issue of bad policy; it’s about policy incoherence. Prior to the writ,

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September 30, 2019 No Comments

Manitoba’s Curious Election

Manitoba votes tomorrow.  There’s not really much suspense in the whole thing: the Tories are going to get re-elected with a reduced majority.  And possibly because of the lack of suspense, the parties are treating this election in a very uncharacteristic manner. Ages ago – that is, before 1993 – political parties in Canada could say pretty much whatever they wanted and promise anything.  “We will spend more on education!” one party would say.  “No, more on housing!” another would

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September 9, 2019 No Comments

Polling (Part 1)

It’s election time and so – surprise, surprise – there is a lot of polling out there telling people who is going to vote for whom.  Tomorrow, I will talk about polling specific to post-secondary education and science, but today, I want to talk more generally about how polling frames election issues and how poor some of the framing seems to be going into this election. In the pre-writ period, the most important question in polling is “what is the

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September 5, 2019 No Comments

Hit Pause

All right, everyone.  It’s the solstice today, and that’s pretty much the signal for everyone to press the pause button and wind things down for the summer.  This blog is no exception.  I’ll be back on August 26th, unlikely to be rested (packed schedule for the summer already), but hopefully recharged and for another year of data analysis, global updates and snark in roughly equal proportion (the way you all like it, right?) When I do these end-of-term things, I

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June 21, 2019 2 Comments

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