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Researchers and Scholars! Beware of your Cognitive Biases!
I am in the midst of reading Joseph Heath’s Enlightenment 2.0, which was shortlisted for this year’s Donner Prize. It covers a lot of similar ground in other recent books about how humans think, such...
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Fixing our broken Senate
Published June 29, 2015, in the Waterloo Region Record. Three weeks ago, I wrote a column about everyone’s favourite subject: the Senate of Canada. Well, perhaps not quite everyone’s. Stephen Harper’s...
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Learning from the Kelowna Accord
Published on July 6, 2015, in Policy Options. If you open a newspaper or listen to the radio, it is easy to get discouraged about the relationship between indigenous communities and the government of...
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Methodological and Theoretical Pluralism: Good or Bad?
Last week I was in Milan, Italy attending the International Conference on Public Policy. Unlike many of my colleagues, I had yet to attend an international conference so this was a very exciting...
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Harper not the only one eager to criticize Wynne and Ontario’s pension plan...
Published on Aug. 11, 2015 in the National Post. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was so eager to lambaste Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s pension plan announcement Tuesday, he asked himself the...
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Risk Perception, Psychological Heuristics and the Water Fluoridation Controversy
Authors: Andrea M.L Perrella, Simon Kiss Published in the 2015 May/June edition of the Canadian Journal of Public Health. Abstract: Objectives: Increasingly, support for water fluoridation has come...
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The Conservative tide turns and the election gets interesting
Appeared on Aug. 20, 2015, in the Waterloo Region Record. Summer is no time for an election campaign. People are busy doing more important things, like picnicking in the park. But while most of us are...
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What Should Sessionals Be Paid?
According to Gail Lethbridge, it should be equivalent to what tenure-stream professors are paid: This is because their pay [sessionals] is significantly lower that that of their full-time peers. An...
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Source Cues Significantly Reduce People’s Perception of Benefits from...
Dr. Andrea Perrella and I have a new paper in the Canadian Journal of Public Health that reveals some interesting insights into how people process information and weigh the risks and benefits of water...
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Liberals continue to surge, widen lead in seat projections
Published Oct. 15, 2015, on Global News. The gap between Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Stephen Harper’s Conservatives is widening by the day, with the latest seat projections showing an excellent...
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True tests are yet to come for new government
Published on Nov. 9, 2015, in the Waterloo Region Record. The task of the journalist, as the late American columnist Walter Lippmann defined it, is to provide “a picture of reality on which the citizen...
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