…adian households. In fact, 49% of Canadians admitted to having a household spat over the temperature, in a recent poll conducted by Direct Energy and Angus Reid. Dave Walton, director of home ideas for Direct Energy, has a few suggestions to sooth the thermo-spats over the winter months ahead. Thermo-guard A programmable thermostat might guard against daily or hourly tampering with the temperature. The simplest advice is to set the ther…