What’s keeping Canadian millennials up at night?
By Ihor Korbabicz Canadian Millennials have been coming of age in a rapidly evolving job market characterized by digitization, flexibility, and decentralization. More dynamic, but also less stable. Gone are the days of long term, lifelong careers at big corporations with robust defined benefit pension plans. Enter the emergence of elastic, nimble, digitized companies with roles
Analysis: Carbon pricing can stand a little more help from its friends
By Bruce Anderson The political debate about climate change has become highly charged by the advocacy of those least concerned about climate change and those most convinced of the urgency of the problem. But while the charges and counter-charges among these small subsets of the population rage, Canadians, for the most part, won’t align either
The Rising Political Power of Millennials
By David Coletto Happy Millennial Month! For the month of April Abacus is going to be sharing our insights on the Millennial generation. Every day there will be new content for you to view, to help you understand Canada’s most influential generation. This all comes on the heels of our syndicated Canadian Millennials Report, theYouthquake? Public attitudes to youth civic engagement in Canada
Canadians believe youth are unprepared to be active civic leaders in their community, but most think they should have more influence on government decisions. By David Coletto As American youth mobilize and engage to change policy around gun control in the United States, Canadians have doubts about how prepared Canadian youth are to do the
Is BC really polarized over Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain?
By Bruce Anderson & David Coletto The Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project is one of the most hotly debated issues in Canadian politics in years. It would be easy to surmise that public opinion is deeply divided, and firmly entrenched. But our most recent poll of BC adults on this topic tells a somewhat different
Liberal support sags as PM’s image softens. His India trip hurt.
By Bruce Anderson & David Coletto The results of our latest survey (February 23rd to March 4th, sample of 4,023 across Canada) reveals that the Liberal Party has seen its support drop to 36%, the lowest we have measured since the election in 2015. The Conservatives are close behind with 33% followed by the NDP
The Path to 2019: Women and the Liberal Vote
By David Coletto Tomorrow, Finance Minister Bill Morneau will deliver the Liberal government’s third budget. It is reportedly going to focus on improving the economic success of women and promoting gender equality. There are important policy reasons for this focus. But political ones as well. Consider these three stats: Women made up 52.4% of the
By a 7 to 1 margin, residents of Greater Vancouver want ride sharing services available this year.
Support is consistent across the region and among NDP, Liberal, and Green voters. By Bruce Anderson & David Coletto Residents living in the Greater Vancouver region are ready for ride sharing services in British Columbia, based on a survey of 546 residents, conducted for Ridesharing for BC over the past week. Overall, 64% of residents
The next 10%: Reflections and data on how the Conservatives can grow.
By David Coletto On Friday, I participated in a panel discussion at the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa. The title of the panel was Spotlight on The Next 10% and we discussed how the federal Conservative Party might grow towards winning the next election in 2019. In preparing for that panel, I had a quick
NL residents recognize dire circumstances in province; Want political leadership.
Half of NL residents think the province is likely to go bankrupt in the new few years. Most are looking for political leadership to solve the crisis. By David Coletto & Tim Powers There’s a clear sense that something must change or else the outcome will be catastrophic for Newfoundland and Labrador. That’s the message
