polling

Behind the PPC’s ‘legitimate chance’ at winning two seats

How did Maxime Bernier get into the commission debates? Believe it or not, it all starts with Brad Trost.

A plastics ban? Whose bright idea was that?

Reports commissioned by the Privy Council Office offer a glimpse into the role polling plays in government agenda-setting

The Maclean’s-Pollara Ontario election poll: NDP and PCs in dead heat

Paul Wells: Polling mostly conducted before Kathleen Wynne’s surprise Saturday announcement shows the Conservatives and NDP are tied, with Liberals a distant third.

The polls show a deadlocked race. But let’s dig deeper.

Evan Solomon and David Coletto, the CEO of Abacus Data, discuss how regional breakdowns may tell a truer tale of the campaign

Angus Reid: What went wrong with the polls in British Columbia?

The veteran pollster reviews the lessons of the BC election

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The Liberals take the lead for the first time in four years

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The Conservative lead persists

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The latest monthly polling averages from threehundredeight.com.

Mind the ‘credibility’ gap

Colby Cosh finds out what subsets, modelling assumptions and ‘non-probability samples’ have to do with polling these days

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Both the Conservatives and New Democrats slip a little nationally. The Conservatives take a lead in British Columbia and maintain leads in Alberta, the Prairies and Ontario. The NDP leads in Quebec and the Atlantic.