WIDENED GAP ON UNIVERSITY EDUCATION MAY REFLECT CENSUS CONTROVERSY

[Ottawa – July 22, 2010] – The latest poll shows little change from our last poll. We suspect that BBQs are receiving more attention than the long form in voters’ minds these days. There are, however, some signs that the long form controversy is altering the demographic bases of voter support (merely suggestive at this time).

Overall, the political world seems to be fading from public minds as we head into the summer. The undecided have risen significantly to an unusually high level which likely reflects picnic and beach preoccupation rather than real… [More...]

Posted on July 22nd, 2010 under National Results. Comments: 2

This statement was written as a response to “Give Me Back My Compulsory Long Form Census Questionnaire“ by Dr. Alex Himelfarb, Director of the Glendon School of Public and International Affairs, at York University.

[Ottawa – July 16, 2010] - As a professional researcher, I am dismayed by this development. But I believe that this latest episode is just a symptom of a broader malaise which is increasingly infecting our society. Ironically, some 50 years after the coining of the term Post Industrial Society, where knowledge and intellectual capital occupy… [More...]

Posted on July 16th, 2010 under Commentary by Frank Graves. Comments: 6