Canada and the U.S. are both among the top 10 most-accepting countries in the world for migrants, but Canadians are somewhat more open to migrants than their American neighbors. Canada scores an 8.14 (out of a possible 9.0) on Gallup’s Migrant Acceptance Index (MAI), ranking it fourth out of 140 […] Read more »
In Brexit, Economic Reality Competes With Nostalgia for Bygone Days
There aren’t a lot of fishermen left in this town in North East England, once home to one of the largest fleet of trawlers in Britain. But nostalgia for the fishing industry permeates the place. So the result seemed inevitable when 70 percent of residents voted to leave the European […] Read more »
‘Irish Times’ poll: Clear shift in attitude to abortion since 2013
Today’s Irish Times/Ipsos MRBI poll provides an early indication of public opinion and voting intentions in the forthcoming referendum on the Eighth Amendment. Albeit early in the campaign, a significant majority of those declaring their intentions are in favour of repeal – 63 per cent Yes, compared with 37 per […] Read more »
Time for better oversight of polling and online political communications
The Select Committee on Political Polling and Digital Media calls for a tighter oversight of opinion polling in the wake of polling failures in the 2015 general election, the EU referendum in 2016 and the 2017 general election. The Committee’s report also considers the impact of digital media on politics, […] Read more »
Canada’s World Survey 2018
… Amidst the drama and chaos that has characterized the first year of the Trump Presidency, one that delivered a major jolt to that country’s political and cultural fabric, Canadians’ views of their neighbour to the south have taken a negative turn. Less than half of the Canadian population now […] Read more »
Cambridge Analytica boasts of dirty tricks to swing elections
The company at the centre of the Facebook data breach boasted of using honey traps, fake news campaigns and operations with ex-spies to swing election campaigns around the world, a new investigation reveals. Executives from Cambridge Analytica spoke to undercover reporters from Channel 4 News about the dark arts used […] Read more »