04
Mar
Healthcare: A National Spending Problem?
by mgmb
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While working on another article, I discovered a pattern in how healthcare costs have changed in Canada over the last 25 years. From this data...
27
Jan
Climate Change: Some Early Thoughts on Vegan Foods
by mgmb
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I’ve been slowly trying to reduce the amount of meat and dairy in my diet. You’ll see a lot of messages online about how simple...
24
Jan
The NL Economy (or: What They’re Not Saying Before the Election)
by mgmb
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In which I suggest raising tuition at MUN
05
Sep
Poem: Old Back-Turn
by mgmb
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Your blind-eye blessings were enoughWe’re undoneYou won, old back-turnOld apathyOld not-this-time-friend We withered under that blessingWe’re lessenedYou flattened us,Young ham-fist,Young market-first, Young what-the-people-want But my spirit...
21
Aug
Tinkerer: Core and Auxilliary Cards
by mgmb
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I’ve been playing a Tinkerer in Gloomhaven for most a year now, and I got pretty ambitious with the little guy after a while. Most...
02
Jan
You Don’t “Win” a Civil War
by mgmb
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So I saw this on Facebook, and it reignited my old worry about a global civil war. On its face, there’s a lovely story here...
02
Nov
Proportionality is the Point: What Democracy is Good For
by mgmb
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Democracy is not the best system to get everyone pulling in the same direction. Indeed, in our present political era we have seen it perverted...
22
Oct
Proportional Representation 2019: A Variety of Scenarios
by mgmb
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I wondered, given the well-covered distance between the proportion of votes and proportion of seats last night, whether there was anyone doing a breakdown of...
26
Sep
This one’s for the WoW Classicists (Poem)
by mgmb
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Tall are the tales that the Alliance tell, when PvP is done, Of toons they've ganked, chains they've yanked, and crazy zergs they've run.
03
Sep
Hobbyism and a new game
by perfectMinute
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I’ve backed off from taking PMG too seriously these days, as I don’t have time for all the things I want to do, and taking...