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Mario Canseco: Fewer Canadians see homelessness as a crisis, according to poll

Last year, homelessness, housing and poverty emerged as top national concerns for Canadians. Now, as U.S. relations overshadow public sentiment, our...

01.08.2025 7

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Mario Canseco: Polling shows push for proportional representation stalling in B.C.

In the past 12 months, British Columbia experienced two extremely close democratic processes. In the provincial ballot of 2024, the two main...

25.07.2025 4

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Mario Canseco: Support for political correctness rising in Canada—and the U.S.

More than three decades have passed since “political correctness” entered the North American lexicon. While some laud adjusting speech to minimize...

18.07.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Most young British Columbians not prepared for retirement, polling shows

One way to understand the changing nature of retirement in Canada is to look at the commercials featured on news networks. On the first years of this...

11.07.2025 4

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Mario Canseco: Carney widens the gap as Poilievre slips on key issues, polling shows

Ten weeks have passed since Canadians voted in the federal election, and three topics continue to dominate the public’s mind. For more than one in...

09.07.2025 20

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Mario Canseco: B.C. becomes Canada’s capital of power tool and horn-honking frustration, says survey

Some days, an urban area can quickly turn into an insufferable cacophony. Construction crews are at work. One of your neighbours is finally tackling a...

01.07.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Canadians still proud of the flag but less sure about the economy, says survey

For close to two decades, I’ve tracked Canadians’ pride in various institutions and national features. These surveys capture the country’s mood...

27.06.2025 3

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Mario Canseco: Alberta separatist vote inches forward but most Canadians say no, according to poll

In the 20th century, when countries waged internal battles over their future, the intellectual stature of proponents and opponents was rarely in...

13.06.2025 8

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Buying Canadian

One of the unique traits of the current Donald Trump administration is its ability to sculpt a narrative on social media. Whether the enemy is the...

10.06.2025 3

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Mario Canseco: Third of Canadians avoiding U.S. purchases as Trump anger dips

One of the unique traits of the current Donald Trump administration is its ability to sculpt a narrative on social media. Whether the enemy is the...

06.06.2025 4

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Mario Canseco: Support for private health care growing fastest among young Canadians

Just last month, two televised debates gave Canadians a chance to see four federal party leaders discuss a series of topics. Affordability. Climate....

30.05.2025 3

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Mario Canseco: How much is enough? Poll shows Canadians rebelling against tip creep

Reminders to tip your server or service provider are everywhere: On credit card terminals at coffee shops and restaurants, on many of the apps we use,...

23.05.2025 8

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Mario Canseco: What’s keeping Canadians up at night? Increasingly, it’s politics

Health Canada guidelines recommend seven to nine hours of sleep each night for adult Canadians. Our latest survey shows that only 35 per cent of...

16.05.2025 4

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Mario Canseco: Door still open to Canadian electoral reform, polling shows

Almost a decade has passed since Justin Trudeau vowed to change Canada’s electoral system. Since, Canada has had two elections where the party with...

09.05.2025 4

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Mario Canseco: Canadians sour on the U.S. as Trump looms large, polling reveals

At the start of 2024, 54 per cent of Canadians had a positive opinion of the United States, a significant increase from the all-time low of 32 per...

02.05.2025 6

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Mario Canseco: Federal leaders on notice as B.C. voters prioritize housing

In August 2024, housing, homelessness and poverty climbed to the top of the list of concerns for Canadians. What began in the Lower Mainland a decade...

25.04.2025 20

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Mario Canseco: Canada inching closer to U.S.-style political polarization, polling reveals

Research Co. asked Canadians and Americans in August 2022 about the perceived polarization of politics. The two countries were emerging from the...

18.04.2025 3

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Mario Canseco: Carney overtakes Poilievre as most trusted on the economy, says poll

Imagine a federal election in Canada at a time when fewer than a third of Canadians rated the country’s economic conditions as “very good” or...

16.04.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Canadians still divided on pandemic protests, polling shows

The first two months of 2022 saw a series of protests and blockades against restrictions and mandates related to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa and...

11.04.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Carneymania hits B.C. with poll numbers Trudeau Sr. would have envied

As the federal election campaign continues, the latest Research Co. poll shows the governing Liberal Party with an eight-point lead over the...

09.04.2025 8

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Mario Canseco: Five years later, B.C. remains among most supportive of COVID-19 measures

Five years ago, Canadians grappled with the realization that their daily lives would be altered. What began in the form of quick media stories on a...

04.04.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Polling shows Carney gaining trust, Poilievre stalling on trade war

As this column is being written, a set of tariffs implemented by the United States is supposed to come into force on April 2. In an American...

02.04.2025 7

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Mario Canseco: British Columbians rethink grocery bills as Trump tariffs loom

It is fair to say that Canadians have assembled a united front after U.S. President Donald Trump first uttered his threats related to tariffs and his...

28.03.2025 7

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Tories lose lead in poll

In the first week of January, the Conservative Party was slated for a massive victory in the Canadian federal election, with the support of more than...

28.03.2025 4

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Mario Canseco: Carney’s Liberals surge as Poilievre’s lead evaporates in polling

On the first week of January, the Conservative Party was slated for a massive victory in the Canadian federal election, with the support of more than...

26.03.2025 4

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Monarchty still popular

For the past few years, the perceptions of Canadians on the monarchy have steadily tilted towards republicanism. This month, 31 per cent of Canadians...

22.03.2025 3

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Mario Canseco: Under Trump, the monarchy’s popularity has rebounded

For the past few years, the perceptions of Canadians on the monarchy have steadily tilted towards republicanism. This month, 31 per cent of Canadians...

21.03.2025 5

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Mario Canseco: One-third of British Columbians see Rustad as ‘premier-in-waiting’

The first election I covered as a pollster took place in Quebec almost 18 years ago. The upstart Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) pushed the...

14.03.2025 9

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Mario Canseco: Eby maintains lead while Rustad battles internal struggles, poll shows

Almost five months have passed since British Columbians participated in the provincial election. When Research Co. asked the province’s residents...

12.03.2025 5

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Mario Canseco: Polling says bad driving on the rise in B.C.

If you feel drivers in your municipality are not as great as they used to be, you are not alone. For the first time since 2018, a sizeable majority of...

07.03.2025 8

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Mario Canseco: Support for death penalty endures in Canada, polling reveals

Discussions about the death penalty across Canada re-emerged in an unexpected setting: the Ontario provincial election campaign. Earlier this month,...

28.02.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Trudeau’s exit giving some Conservative voters pause, says poll

Canadians are almost evenly divided in two main groups: Those who are certainly voting for the Conservative Party in the next federal election (30 per...

19.02.2025 7

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Mario Canseco: Inflation, job fears and economic pessimism cloud the year ahead, says survey

The last seven months probably felt like a roller coaster for Canadians. Elections in B.C. and Saskatchewan returned incumbent governments with...

12.02.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Canada pricklier about distracted driving than U.S., survey reveals

Over the course of an average week, we are bound to run into individuals who ignore existing laws and bylaws. When this happens, we tend to think,...

05.02.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Trump tariffs spark Canadian backlash—and a shift in political winds

Two days ago, U.S. President Donald Trump announced the implementation of a 25-per-cent tariff on imports from Canada, and 10 per cent on Canadian...

04.02.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Cashless Canada? Older consumers catching up, survey reveals

The march towards a “cashless society” was supposed to advance in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadians of all ages were...

29.01.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Canada or Cascadia? British Columbians divided on identity

British Columbians start the year with uncertainty. More than half (55 per cent) think housing and the economy are the most important issues facing...

22.01.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Canadians are bracing for a second Trump term being ‘bad’ for Canada

Days from the second presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, Canadians are not in a good mood. If 2020 brought a unique opportunity to look down...

15.01.2025 10

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Mario Canseco: Trudeau’s departure sets the stage for Conservative dominance

What was supposed to be a weekend look at the state of federal politics has become our last survey related to the tenure of Justin Trudeau as...

08.01.2025 6

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Mario Canseco: Survey reveals Canadians embracing career over church

  As the year draws to a close, the perceptions of Canadians and Americans on the importance of religion once again differ. Our two-country survey...

31.12.2024 6

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Mario Canseco: Canadians expect more holiday stress in 2024 than during COVID

As the year draws to a close, our collective perspective on the holiday season is not particularly rosy. More than half of Canadians (53 per cent,...

18.12.2024 8

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Mario Canseco: Three-quarters of British Columbians support speed-on-green cameras

Recently, the government of Alberta announced its intention to phase-out the use of “photo radar” across the province. The goal is to reduce the...

11.12.2024 8

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Mario Canseco: B.C.'s digital divide persists post-pandemic

The pandemic was supposed to usher in a new era of connectivity in British Columbia, and some things have not changed since we went back to the...

26.11.2024 10

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Mario Canseco: Canadians and Americans drifting further apart on climate change

As world delegates assemble in Baku, Azerbaijan, for the 2024 United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, the perceptions of Canadians and...

19.11.2024 8

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Mario Canseco: As Grey Cup approaches, just a third of Canadians are CFL fans

The Grey Cup was presented to a winning team for 101 consecutive years. Not even the Second World War stopped Canada from having a national...

12.11.2024 7

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Mario Canseco: Many Canadians support criminalizing residential school denials

Four years ago, 45 per cent of Canadians who attended elementary school and/or high school in Canada said they did not learn anything about...

05.11.2024 10

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Mario Canseco: High stakes for the White House as women, youth hold key votes

We are used to political candidates describing any election that features them as “the most important in our lifetime.” This has definitely been...

04.11.2024 30

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Mario Canseco: Tale of two big cities reshapes B.C. politics

As the province awaits the formation of the next provincial government, there are lessons from the campaign that affect all political parties. The...

02.11.2024 8

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Mario Canseco: Halloween costumes, candy prove to be divisive for Canadians

This year, Halloween falls on a Thursday. Maybe you have things to do in the afternoon or night, meetings to attend (either virtually or in person)...

26.10.2024 20

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Opinion: Legalization hasn’t killed the black market for cannabis in Canada

Six years ago, the consumption of marijuana became legal all over Canada. This was one of the promises made by Justin Trudeau in the 2015 federal...

22.10.2024 10

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