
Oksana is Director, Strategy & Insights at Abacus Data.
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Oksana combines her passion for data and her curiosity to create impactful research plans, cultivate new practice areas, and support Abacus’s growing portfolio of clients.
With nearly a decade of experience in the market research industry, Oksana has worked with clients large and small to ask the right questions and provide insights that our clients can leverage today, tomorrow, and beyond. Whether the project calls for focus groups, a survey, or any of the other research tools we use, Oksana always take the time to understand the broader context and how research can strengthen your work.
Originally from Saskatoon, Oksana loves to spend time outside (especially in a canoe or kayak), or learning how to use a new tool for a DIY project.
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Longform Substacks offer MPs like Rempel Garner, O’Toole, a chance to exercise ‘thought leadership’
Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says her growing use of Substack to post longform reflections on public policy issues is another step on “a path” away from Twitter—which has become “a cesspool of bot-driven rage-farming”—and “toward restoring substantive discourse on issues of import to the public.

Emergencies Act Inquiry underway, Inflation Stress and COVID Anxiety surveys & Alex Jones ordered to pay $965m to Sandy Hook families!
What did we learn from day one of testimony in the Emergencies Act inquiry? GUEST: Justin Ling, Freelance Investigative Journalist who has written for the Globe and Mail, The Guardian and Vice Abacus Data Surveys:

Millennials vs. baby boomers: Why the cost of living has skyrocketed for young Canadians
Almost 30 years ago, Alice Sayant and her husband bought their first starter home in the suburbs of Winnipeg. The newly built house was a 1,200-square-foot, three-bedroom bungalow with 1.5 bathrooms and a big backyard. The couple saved up for around five years to put a down payment on the $82,000 house.