Note: This survey was conducted from September 12 to 17, 2025, and was originally planned for earlier release. The results predate the Conservative Party’s October 2 announcement of their “Scrap Liberal Bail” platform, and while not connected to that release, they provide important context for understanding Canadians’ perceptions of crime and public safety. Crime and […] The post The Politics of Safety: Why Bail Reform Is Striking a Chord with Canadians appeared first on Abacus Data.| Abacus Data
On September 19, I was invited by Ontario’s Minister of Energy to moderate a panel discussion with some of the country’s leading energy executives. As part of that panel, I delivered a short briefing on some new polling I did to prepare for the Energy Summit. This research was independently designed and was paid for […] The post Canadian Public Opinion on Nuclear Energy appeared first on Abacus Data.| Abacus Data
As Ontario politics enters a period of leadership turbulence for the opposition, Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives maintain their dominant grip on the electorate. The latest Abacus Data survey, conducted over the weekend of the Ontario Liberal Party’s leadership review convention, shows the PCs holding steady at 52% of the vote—only one point below […] The post Abacus Data Ontario Poll: PCs Steady at 52% as Crombie Resigns Amid Liberal Convention Fallout appeared first on Abac...| Abacus Data
In mid-September, we surveyed over 2,200 Canadians to understand how people are thinking about the federal government’s upcoming fiscal plan. What do they expect to see? Who do they think will benefit? And how do they assess the broader state of federal finances? We asked these questions not because public opinion sets the budget but […] The post Is the Canadian public primed on what to expect from Budget 2025? appeared first on Abacus Data.| Abacus Data
New research shows Canadians overwhelmingly support equal representation in politics—but give governments and political parties failing grades on progress so far. Canadians have long seen gender equality as a defining value of our democracy. But recent polling conducted by Abacus Data for Informed Perspectives reveals a sharp disconnect between Canadians’ commitment to parity and the […] The post Canadians Want Action on Gender Parity in Politics appeared first on Abacus Data.| Abacus Data
From September 16 to 18, 2025, Abacus Data surveyed 600 adults in Nova Scotia. The results provide a clear picture of the political environment as as provincial politicians return to Province House for the fall session. PCs Continue to Dominate the Political Landscape Premier Tim Houston’s Progressive Conservatives remain well ahead of the opposition parties, with […] The post Abacus Nova Scotia Poll: Houston’s PCs Maintain Commanding Lead as Fall Session Opens appeared first on Abacus...| Abacus Data
As Parliament resumes, Canadians are anxious but pragmatic. Business, union, and association leaders face both risks and opportunities in 2025.| Abacus Data
Aimée Craft is an Anishinaabe-Métis lawyer from Treaty 1 territory in Manitoba. She is the founding director of research at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and the director of research as the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Craft graduated from the University of Victoria ad began her work […]| The Scientific Detective
Nel Wieman is Canada’s first female Indigenous psychiatrist. Wieman was born in 1964 at Little Grand Rapids First Nation in Manitoba. She is a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. She was taken from her family and placed in foster homes until she was adopted by a Dutch family in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Wieman grew up […]| The Scientific Detective
Lillian Dyck is a member of the Cree Gordon First Nation and is the first female Indigenous person to earn a PhD and become a Senator. Dyck was born August 24th, 1945. Her father, Yok Lee Quan came to Canda after paying the Head Tax, a controversial tax in Chinese-Canadian history. Dyck’s mother, Eva Muriel […]| The Scientific Detective
Editor's note: This article was originally published on the Population Institute Canada website (populationinstitutecanada.ca) on August 29th, 2025. It ...| dominionreview.ca
What looks like reform is really just a long-avoided chore| The Walrus
“The Canadians don’t understand what they’ve signed. In 20 years, they will be sucked into the US economy” – US trade representative Clayton Yeutter (1987) “We didn’t enter the agreement over tariffs…The Canadian agreement is a political one – to make sure you don’t go back to those policies like the National Energy Policy…It wasn’t […]| Dominion Review
Mark Carney suggested he is considering substituting or rescinding the Online News Act to ensure local news spreads wider and faster.| nationalpost
There’s no evidence of significant flows of fentanyl from Canada, but that could change quickly if U.S. can better seal its Mexican border.| nationalpost
Second-quarter fundraising reports show Poilievre's Conservatives raked in $9M, while Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals raised $7.6M.| nationalpost
Harper said a year ago he would have urged deeper economic and security ties with the United States, but his recent advice was the opposite.| nationalpost
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently declared that, “Canada is the most European of non-European countries.” With Chile, Argentina and Australia (among many others) likely to object to such a characterization, Peter Shawn Taylor’s counterclaim that Canada is the “most U.S. of all non-U.S. countries” seems a much safer bet, given the centuries of shared history, geography, culture and trade. In this latest installment of C2C Journal’s Restoring Canada Special Series, Taylor examines...| C2C Journal
In a letter encouraging Saskatchewan to adopt a carbon price, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says four out of five Canadians live in a jurisdiction with a carbon price, and those areas lead the country in economic growth.| Global News
In a moment that caused both sides of the House of Commons to erupt into laughter, Prime Minister Mark Carney mistakenly gave his own title to Speaker of the House of Commons.| Global News
Every Canadian regional culture voted for the Liberals, except Far West, in an election mirroring trends in the United States| Nationhood Lab
Every Canadian regional culture voted for the Liberals, except Far West, in an election mirroring trends in the United States| Nationhood Lab
As most readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY will by now know, yesterday Canadian voters elected the incumbent (neoliberal) Liberal Mark Carney to be the next Prime Minister. Canadian v…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Trudeau Liberals opposed pipelines for years until Trump’s trade threats. Now, they claim to support west-east pipelines. Why now?| C2C Journal
Canada’s former prime ministers have come together to call for Canadians to show their national pride Saturday for the country’s “flag day,” which will also mark the 60th anniversary of the maple leaf’s debut.| True North
Canada’s premiers travelled to Washington, D.C. to negotiate with Republican senators, lawmakers and business groups in the hopes of persuading U.S. President Donald Trump to rescind his pledge to impose crippling tariffs on Canadian imports.| True North
U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening as much as a 100-per-cent tariff on Canada’s auto sector, in addition to the threatened 25-per-cent tariffs now on hold.| True North
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government will contribute $50 million for patrol helicopters to beef up the province’s capacity to defend the border amid a tariff dispute with the United States.| True North
A new Leger poll indicates that the gap between the Conservatives and Liberals would disappear if Mark Carney were to square off against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in a general election.| True North
True North senior researcher Cosmin Dzsurdzsa joins the show to discuss his investigative series, ‘Carney’s “Values,”’ which focuses on the ideas presented in Carney's 2021 book “Value(s)” and how they reveal his vision for Canada’s future.| True North
A Canadian international aid group bankrolled by nearly $180 million from Global Affairs Canada since 2015 counts four Liberal party donors in its leadership—including a CEO who once ran for a Liberal nomination under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Tune into The Daily Brief.| True North
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is appointing his deputy national security advisor to become Canada’s first fentanyl czar.| True North
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says Justin Trudeau's days as Canada's prime minister are numbered| torontosun
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They’re busy making accusations of “eco-radicalism” while the world burns. It wasn’t always like that| The Walrus
