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Capital punishment has not been a feature of the Canadian justice system for some time. A a moratorium was instituted in 1967 and the practice was abolished in 1976. With the discovery of a serial killer in Toronto last week, it is worth looking back into the archive to see how Canadian views on the…
Financial advisors and their clients. It is an awkward relationship because it is on-going, there is, presumably a difference in knowledge, and because we want to trust and feel like we have made the right choice. While recent Canadian changes in fee disclosure rules are part of a set of changes designed to help consumers…
![News Media Gets Positive Grade [Pew Research Center]](https://pollingguru.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/News-media-standards-768x429.jpg)
News media organizations are under fire. Economic realities, social media impacts, and the politicization of news and facts, particularly in the U.S. has placed traditional journalism at a crossroads of sorts. Recently released information from the Pew Research Center indicates that most Canadians think news organizations do a good job — but it is not…
It will come as no surprise that the Trump administration is not perceived as positively as the Obama one. The Gallup poll released recently highlights the depth of the effect and provides a useful backdrop to understanding other polling on Trump in Canada. These negative numbers undermine the U.S. position in the world but may…
The Government of Canada is not out of touch with Canadians when it comes to legalizing marijuana. In fact, a majority of Canadians have been in favour of legalization for 10 years or more and this is not a passing fancy. Gone are the “war on drugs” days of the 1980s and early 1990s. But…
A new poll conducted for MNP LTD by Ipsos shows that many Canadians have little financial flexibility from month to month and that rising interest rates already have many Canadians worried about their financial future. Money Remaining After Bills and Debt Payments After paying bills and debt payments, the average Canadian has $630 left over…
A recent Angus Reid Institute survey finds that 19% of Canadians have been prescribed opioids by a doctor in the past five years. Given the potential for many Canadians to have also accessed these from illegal sources, it is no wonder that many also viewed the problem as a crisis and one in which governments…
The modern economy and civilization itself is predicated on trust. There is not enough policing and monitoring to insure against bad behaviour so we rely on brands to view good behaviour as an essential business practice. They must honour the trust consumers invest in them. And, polling certainly suggests that Canadians think trust is important….
The latest and perhaps the most important study on the impact of survey mode was recently published by Breton, Cutler, Lachance, and Mierke-Zatwarnicki in the Canadian Journal of Political Science using data from the 2015 Canadian Election Study (CES). The 2015 CES was a multi-mode study that uniquely included both a random telephone survey and an…
![Canadians don’t feel any less safe in public spaces compared with 2016 [Ipsos, Global News]](https://pollingguru.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/publicplace-768x768.jpg)
It would take too long to list the extensive number of attacks on innocent people at public places in 2017 — Manchester, Barcelona, Las Vegas — are just some of the notable ones that would have been viewed here in Canada. Despite the number of attacks, or perhaps because we are becoming accustomed to them,…
