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Fun with cluster analysis
This is really a propos nothing in particular, but I stumbled across a nifty bit of analysis looking at the voting records of Toronto City Councillors. Using a cluster classification, the numerically-gifted Buzzdata user “Haz” was able to group City Council members into clusters as follows: For those who weren’t forced to spend your early […]
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A Tale of Two Cities
I had some fun last fall comparing the elections of Naheed Nenshi in Calgary and Rob Ford in Toronto. Fairly or unfairly, it appears the two will be forever linked. We got yet another example of that this week with the news that Nenshi will become the first Mayor to lead Calgary’s pride parade, after […]
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2010 Person of the Year
As 2010 winds down, it’s time to pick a Calgary Grit Person of the Year for the 7th consecutive year. The criteria is simple – a person who made an impact on the Canadian political scene in 2010 (ruling out obvious choices like the PM, or lame picks like “you“). But this was a tough […]
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Where you live
The City of Toronto has released the poll-by-poll election night numbers and the result is no surprise – if you live in pre-amalgamation Toronto or on a subway line, you likely voted for Smitherman. If you’re a surburban type who drives a Ford, you likely voted Ford. The Torontoist has the map: And BlogTO looks […]
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The Rob Ford Phenomenon
I’m not sure a thorough post-mortem is required for yesterday’s election in Toronto. Much has been written about Rob Ford in recent weeks and it’s fairly easy to understand what happened. It was simply a case of Ford being the right person with the right message at the right time. Politics is usually as simple […]
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Ontario Votes Live Blog
11:15 pm: Sorry for the delay in status updates. Us elitists can get sidetracked from important tasks like blogging, when filled with rage (and fine wine). As for the results…well, Ford ran a good campaign. I’ll have more on that tomorrow. For now, I think it’s important for progressive Torontonians to keep things in perspective. […]
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Sarah Thomson’s Martha Moment
In 2006, Martha Hall Findlay was the only woman in an 8 candidate field. She was a political outsider who earned high praise from the media for her performance during the campaign, despite lackluster levels of support. And when she threw her support behind Stephane Dion in Montreal, it gave Dion the momentum he would […]
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Party Like It’s 1999
Of all the things to hold against Rob Ford, this is probably the least of them: Mayoral candidate Rob Ford had a 1999 marijuana possession charge against him dropped, the Toronto Sun reports. The newspaper says he was pulled over on vacation in Florida and was found with a joint in his back pocket on […]