On this day, December 15 – In memory of the Tani Family

Updated Dec 7 2019 Ancestry stumbled on a new and interesting record just yesterday… so I have added it to the story below… I would like to tell you a story about a man named James Tani. Mr Tani came to Canada at the age of nineteen. He was a fisherman and came like many others …

Followup Blog: Graphs from the Referendum

I wrote a blog a few weeks ago poking at the media for making such a big kerfuffle about the “low turnout” in the Referendum after just a few days of data coming back from Elections BC.  I noted the differences in numbers indicated a likely connection to patterns in how ballots were mailed out, …

Don’t Panic, just Vote! (and return your ballot)

Updated graphs to Nov 16 and Added individual coloured ridings graphs at bottom. Update 2: Elections BC announces actual packages returned so far. I see this Global News report that Elections BC is changing the way it is announcing numbers of ballots received. Turns out they have already received almost 20% but the number on …