Team Projects
Redistricting
Boundary Responsiveness Across Five Federal Elections
This paper extends the Markov Riding Position Sampler (MaRiPoSa) algorithm to analyze fairness across multiple Canadian federal elections (2011–2025)…
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Deep Learning
Deep Learning, and Canadian Environmental Governance
Large-scale development projects in Canada have transformed landscapes in ways that often escape public view—with many sites deliberately…
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Hansard
Disability Discourse in the Canadian House of Commons
How do elected representatives talk about people with disabilities? We extract a context window around our disability-term mentions and analyze…
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AI/LLMs
What Happens When AI Simulates the Electorate?
Falling response rates in survey research have prompted a recent proposal that AI language models can stand in for human respondents, a practice now referred to as…
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Redistricting
The MaRiPoSa Redistribution Modernization Platform (MRMP)
We present the MaRiPoSa Redistribution Modernization Platform (MRMP), an open-source, full-stack web application designed to support the upcoming redistribution…
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Bayesian
Canadian Federal Government Procurement and Election Timing
Introduces a dataset that can be used to monitor Canadian procurement in relation to election timings…
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Donations
Does Political Geography Create Donation Dead Zones in Canada?
Do donations decrease as the concentration of a racial group within a geographic area increases? Does reduced proximity to active donor networks weaken…
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Programming
The Qualitative Turn in Quantitative Social Science
The practical constraints that long sustained the qualitative-quantitative divide in social science—scarce data, inaccessible tools, and narrow technical expertise—are dissolving…
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Legal NER
Americanization of the Supreme Court of Canada? Legal-NER
Named-entity recognition (NER) available for Canadian legal corpora is limited. Developing these tools is a non-trivial task…
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Law
Discursive Evolution in Quebec’s Section 33 Invocations
We examine whether contemporary debates represent continuity with Quebec’s secular nationalist tradition or a departure toward explicitly Islam-focused discourse…
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Other Projects
The Digitization of Canada’s Founding Debates (1867–1871)
Jackman Humanities Institute: Scholars-in-Residence
May 2026
Following the Money: Mapping Networks of Influence in Government Contracting
Jackman Humanities Institute: Scholars-in-Residence
May 2026
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