David Clinton

@davidbclinton

Data analytics, system and cloud administration, IT security

Toronto, Ontario theaudit.ca Joined January 2015

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David Clinton @davidbclinton Nov 4

There's some impressive accountability for bias coming from inside the CBC here.

Maxime Bertrand @CBCOmbud Dec 23, 2024

#cbcombudsman #journalism
I have just published three new reviews of CBC coverage, and I invite you to read them on my website:
cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman

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David Clinton @davidbclinton Aug 23

Who knew faking success was so easy?
Analysis of Government of Canada program reporting shows that "meaningless" internal targets are nearly three times more likely to be reported as successful as targets reflecting real-world impacts.
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www.theaudit.ca How Much of Federal Program Results-Tracking is Garbage? The insight around which this post is built might expose some serious internal government dysfunction.

David Clinton @davidbclinton Aug 2

Why do so many Western governments repeatedly ignore their constituents' best interests?
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www.theaudit.ca When Governments Come Unstuck From Their People It’s certainly true that governments in Canada are elected to govern.

David Clinton @davidbclinton Jul 26

What if a government imposed heavy "sin taxes" in ways that clearly failed to reduce consumption of the targetted sins? Welcome to Canada, the tax-grab capital of the world.
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www.theaudit.ca Should Government Be Propped Up by Sin Taxes? Having a personal stake in something creates bias.

David Clinton @davidbclinton Jul 15

Pro tip: if you ever need to formulate a meaningless policy commitment, use details that are just vague enough to sound cool but are, in fact, utterly unintelligible. And that'll pretty much describe the Carney government's 2025 election promises.
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www.theaudit.ca The Carney Government: a Progress Report I recently wrote about how Mark Carney’s Liberal government has so far largely failed to honour its commitment to reduce the size of the federal civil service workforce.