10+ hour, 45+ min ago   (518+ words) It’s Sunday which means there’s a new Abacus Data national political poll out this morning. I think the most important finding in our latest federal poll is not what is happening nationally. It’s what is happening in Quebec. Across Canada,…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (965+ words) I’ve been thinking a lot about insecurity lately. Partly because I’ve been trying to figure out what our work on the precarity mindset is really telling us. And the more time I spend with the data, the more I think…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1165+ words) A year after Ottawa intervened to end the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike, the federal government may soon face another difficult decision involving air travel, organized labour, and the limits of collective bargaining. This time, the potential dispute is at…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (503+ words) Every two weeks, my team and I ask at least 1,500 adults in Canada more than 20 questions about how they’re feeling, what they’re worried about, who they trust, and where the country is headed. It’s part of our national omnibus survey…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1210+ words) There is a comforting story I have heard people say for the past decade about our politics in Canada. And it goes something like this. Canadians are different. We are practical and moderate. We do not get carried away by…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (444+ words) Sporting preferences do not usually move quickly. People grow up with teams, leagues, and sports. Those attachments often last for decades. That is why the findings from a new national survey we conducted for Canada Soccer are so striking. In…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (277+ words) Two polls we released today may seem unrelated. One is about pipelines. The other is about the future of CUSMA. Taken together, they point to something much bigger happening in Canadian public opinion. For years, my read of Canadian public…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (233+ words) As Andy Burnham prepares to become Britain’s next prime minister, one question matters more than any other: can changing the leader rescue a government that has lost the public? Canada lived through that experiment about 15 months ago. From where I…...

1+ mon, 8+ hour ago   (775+ words) There are some things Canadians simply assume about their country. We assume we can patrol our own Arctic. We assume we can defend our borders. And, as it turns out, most of us assume that a country with its own…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (326+ words) We just finished something new. From June 9 to 11, Eddie Sheppard and I surveyed 1,500 Canadians and 1,500 Americans with the same instrument we’ve been using to measure the Precarity Mindset here at home. It’s the first time we’ve taken the framework into…...