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We love Atlantic Canada, and we are continuing to raise the bar for public opinion and marketing research in the region.That is why we established our New Brunswick Omnibus survey, which we intend to run regularly to track how New Brunswickers are feeling about their province, their government, and the issues shaping their lives.Today, we

What if one of the most important divides in Canadian politics is not how much people have, but how secure they feel about keeping it? Our new report, The Security Spectrum, explores that question by sorting Canadians into six distinct groups based entirely on how secure they feel across six foundations of life: basic needs,

Beginning in early 2025, several provincial governments removed American wine, beer, spirits, and ready-to-drink products from publicly run liquor stores in response to U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods. The dispute escalated again on July 20, when the White House announced additional 50% tariffs on certain Canadian products and explicitly cited Canada’s treatment of American alcohol,

The latest wave of Abacus Data’s Ontario political tracking for the Toronto Star suggests the controversy surrounding hotel and other accommodation expenses claimed by Progressive Conservative MPPs has had some impact on the Ford government’s political standing, although the immediate effect is marginal rather than transformational. Compared with a survey conducted largely before the story

Three days before this survey began, U.S. President Donald Trump signed proclamations imposing additional 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian products, including wine, hockey sticks and cement. The tariffs would apply even to covered goods that qualify under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and are scheduled to take effect on August 19. On the first

Earlier this year, I wrote about what my colleague David Coletto and I have come to call the precarity mindset. The idea is fairly simple. Uncertainty no longer feels temporary. Canadians are not just moving from one crisis to the next and waiting for things to settle down. Many have started to accept economic instability,

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first Senate appointments have reopened a debate that had largely faded from public view over the past decade: how much political experience is too much political experience for someone appointed to Canada’s upper chamber? On July 7, the Prime Minister announced four new senators: Conservative MP Richard Martel, cancer researcher Dr.