From our study of Canadian voters in 2025. Probability of owning a home is noticeably lower than in a similar study in 1984. Not surprising, but always interesting. There will be more to come on this.

It's a little bit tough to eyeball, but it sure seems like the Trudeau government *really* liked non-permanent residents. www.banqueducanada.ca/wp-content/u...

And we added a supplemental test, comparing the change in vote share *within* the Sudbury district by distance from Laurentian, thinking that maybe in polling divisions *closest* to the university, you might see a drop in support, but, no, there's no relationship there. 7. #onpoli

We used a Differences-in-Differences strategy to compare the pre- and post-treatment increase in the two treated cases with all other districts in Northern Ontario (column 1). Oddly, the increase was *larger* in Sudbury and Nickel Belt than in other districts. 5.

First, some top-line results comparing PC vote share in Southern and Northern Ontario in 2018 and 2022. In southern Ontario, PC vote share was flat between the two elections. In Northern Ontario, however, PC vote share increased *a lot*, which is an interesting story in its own right. 3. #onpoli

Cutting Jordan and Saudi Arabia loose. What could go wrong?

Nope. This (teunbrand.github.io/ggh4x/index....) is a lovely package by (I think) @teunbrand.bsky.social that accomplishes that nicely! Thank you!

I was able to do this all in one chain of commands. #rstats

Public administration as mafia organization.

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...