Confessions of a homegrown sociologist
I’ve been committing sociology since my early youth. My parents and even my parish priest failed to detect early signs of trouble, even though I read the daily newspaper voraciously (a common warning signal among teenagers in the 1960s).
Polls pollute our democracy? Nonsense.
A few pollsters caused a stir recently when they suggested political polls are polluting Canadian democracy. The ensuing debate, which has bizarrely pitted pro-polling pollsters against anti-polling pollster-pundits, has largely been a tempest in a teapot.
From compulsory to voluntary long-form census: What we stand to lose
In June, the federal government announced the discontinuation of the mandatory long-form census. This article attempts to answer the question, “What will Canada lose if the mandatory long-form census is permanently discontinued?”