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August 13, 2007
One is the loneliest number
There's been quite a bit of crowing over the "fact" that just one Canadian couple obtained a marriage licence from Toronto City Hall in the first half of 2007. This must be proof, said the usual suspects - among them National Post columnist Barbara Kay - that gay people never really wanted to get married at all, and that we've yet again been duped (in Kay's words) by "a few bellwether political activists."
107 licences issued to same-sex couples in all of 2006, and just one in the first half of the next year? Sounds bloody implausible, no? Yes, indeed, the number appears to be bollocks - the result of some squirrelly data management at the City of Toronto. That, along with Kay's use of an hilariously unscientific poll to bolster her argument about young ladies turning into skanks, is the subject of my latest "Fact Check" feature at Macleans.ca.
I'm on vacation for this week and the next, incidentally, so there may be a relative uptick in activity around these long-neglected parts if the urge strikes me.
Posted by Chris Selley at August 13, 2007 08:28 PM
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