COMMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS BY FRANK GRAVES

[Ottawa – December 17, 2009] – Many have commented on the dismal overall rates of voter participation in Canada (the anaemic rates declined to historical nadir in 2008). This lack of participation was particularly pronounced amongst the under-45 population; “Generation X” had weak voting rates, and the younger “Generation Y” stayed home in droves. This was in sharp contrast to the significant spike up in voting rates amongst young Americans in the last Presidential election (a crucial factor which propelled Obama to victory). In Canada, there was and is no current Obama analogue, and younger… [More...]

Posted on December 18th, 2009 under Commentary by Frank Graves, Uncategorized. Comments: 2

Canadians Suffering Obama Envy…But

Canadians share Americans’ enthusiasm for Barack Obama, and wish they had a little bit of his magic up here, but that does not mean that they will follow him anywhere…on a longer mission in Afghanistan, for example. Canadians also have concerns about Obama’s trade policies and the debt he plans to rack up in fighting the recession.

Posted on January 19th, 2009 under Special Interest. Comments: 2

[OTTAWA – October 10, 2008] There is any idea popularized by the wonderful Mickey Kaus, which he has labelled the “Feiler Faster Thesis”, named after the guy he stole it from. Essentially, Kaus/Feiler argue that the modern news environment has radically shortened the news cycle, but that this is not necessarily a bad thing because we are adjusting to this reality.

Here’s one formulation of the thesis by

Posted on October 10th, 2008 under Commentary by Paul Adams. Comments: None

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Posted on September 29th, 2008 under Commentary by Frank Graves. Comments: 1

BY FRANK GRAVES

[OTTAWA – September 28, 2008] In chaos theory we see how very small initial events can produce huge changes to the dynamics of complex systems. While the mathematics for exploring butterfly effects in political systems is generations away we get the feeling that there might be much bigger things afoot than might be immediately apparent from a casual review of the first half of

Posted on September 29th, 2008 under Commentary by Frank Graves. Comments: 1

Posted on September 17th, 2008 under Commentary by Paul Adams, National Results. Comments: None