It is a slippery-slope to restricting free speech — Bill C-10 or “An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act” was first introduced in parliament by the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Steven Guilbeault. The purpose of the bill, according to Camille Gagné-Raynauld the spokesperson for the heritage minister, is to ensure that online giants contribute to the “creation, production and…

A Simple Model on R. The 2020 US Presidential Election is this week and having decided to throw my hat in the prediction game, I have come up with a very simple model that will allow me to raise the confidence I have in my prediction compared to a mere…

Economic Conditions Have Transformed The Nature Of The Free Market — The Lockdown due to the pandemic has caused one of the biggest transfers of wealth around the world. In the United States for example, the unemployment rate is at 8% dropping from a peak of almost 15% in April. This would mean that currently, roughly 12.58 Million people are unemployed…

Short Term Benefit — Long Term Costs — On the 18th of September, Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away at the age of 87. Having served 27 years at the Supreme Court, her legacy — regardless of one’s politics, is sealed in history as a highly respectable, pioneering women who lived a brilliant life. Her passing, leaves the supreme…

Using Only A Couple Line Of Code — Graphing data allows one to analyse patterns, display findings and overall; create a more digestible way to swiftly convey information. Matplotlib, a package on Python makes this incredibly easy. …

Using Brexit Poll Data To Predict The Referendum Result — Each election cycle, the public is treated to a slew of election polling. Conducted by a myriad of organizations, these polls attempt to represent public opinion regarding specific issues. Increasingly however, there has been a politicization of polls which have been placed in the same basket of “fake news”. In…

Make Your Basic (and later complex) Calculations Easy — The R Program allows one to create and use their own function in order to make data processing easy. …

As Western Politicians Find Themselves Dealing With COVID — 19 — Often referred to as “one country, two systems”, Hong Kong was officially returned to China by the United Kingdom in 1997 (after the expiration of a 99 year lease signed in 1898). Since then, Hong Kong has been in a constant state of long term political uncertainty with ebbs and…

The lockdown due to the virus has caused a slump in demand and a shrinking in the national income. The economic damage caused to the economy is staggering. For context, at the height of the 2008 recession, the unemployment rate peaked just above 8%. Now the unemployment rate is at…