Environics
Canada is not the regionally divided country it’s made out to be
Put 100 Albertans in a room with 100 Quebecers and you’d be shocked how many can find someone from the other province who agrees with them on big issues
The soft power of Justin Trudeau, Canada’s viral PM
As Justin Trudeau takes his branding tour to the United States, the question emerges: how long will the sheen from this ‘new Canada’ last?
Would Canadians support a carbon tax?
Maybe. But if it were that easy, Stephane Dion would be PM
Taxes, equality and what we’re prepared to do
An Environics survey commissioned by the Broadbent institute finds concern about inequality and interest in increasing taxes.
On the way to Toronto
The NDP convention will apparently open tomorrow with word of a tie.
Wanted in Alberta: one premier
As the PC party soars again in the polls, a gang of potential leaders is scrambling for the top job
In defence of the humble pollster
Last week, Darrell Bricker and John Wright defended their profession against recent criticism. Today, Michael Adams makes his own case.
Easier said than done
The enduring riddle of opinion polling and the relationship between what people say they want and what people actually want is perhaps best captured by this bit from a new Environics poll commissioned by the Council of Canadians.
To our Arctic-bound prime minister: Bon voyage, but …
… before you head off to points north, you might want to read — or at least have your speech-and-talking-points writers read — this report on Canadian public opinion on Arctic sovereignty, which was put together by Environics Research for National Defence earlier this year.
Stephen Harper = John Lennon
Michael Adams discusses his most recent polling on who Canadians admire most. Pierre Trudeau comes first, by a fairly wide margin, with 121 mentions.