Tag:public opinion

A National Purposes is Needed on the Question of International Aid

Aid for international development is a hard sell to domestic audiences but the need for it is unlikely to go away. A significant new...

Polling as Weathervane

Public opinion polling is in many ways like a weather report for the nation. There is science, it is mostly reliable, and its occasional...

Jury Reform — Juries Should Reflect the Whole Community [Angus Reid Institute]

Inevitably race was going to be raised as a factor in the justice system when Gerald Stanley was found innocent of the death of...

Too Soft! Confidence in Courts Wanes Slightly from 2016

It is a stark number - 62% of Canadians think that the justice system is too soft in dealing with people who have broken...

Perceptions of the Olympics in Pyeongchang

Olympic Fanatics | Canada Not Particularly Fanatical Just three in ten Canadians strongly or somewhat agree that when the Olympics take place they follow it...

Sexual harassment in the workplace | important new poll by Angus Reid Institute

It has been on our minds for sometime. Politicians, members of the media, and the entertainment industry have all been implicated with sometimes decisive...

[CORA Archive] Waning support for capital punishment

Capital punishment has not been a feature of the Canadian justice system for some time. A a moratorium was instituted in 1967 and the...

Are Consumers Critical Enough of Their Financial Advisors?

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...

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The 2021 Federal Election: A Tale of the Election Polls

Although we do not have data going back before the 2019 federal election from the Public Polls Project, it...
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2021 in the Polls

The public polls in 2020 were overwhelming driven by the pandemic. It seemed that virtually everything was about the...

Support Strong for Federal Pandemic Spending

Even after being reminded that the government has already spent $350 billion on the pandemic, support remains high for...

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The Robots are Coming, the Robots are Coming

We are well down the path towards machine’s replacing...

Culture Change: Public Reactions to 20 Years of Change

A lot of culture change has occurred in the...