The Ontario election continues to confound observers. Long-serving governments should typically find it harder each time they go to the polls to get re-elected. Scandal-plagued Liberal governments led for the…
Premier Kathleen Wynne visited Walkerton, Ontario today, scene of a horrific water pollution scandal in 2000 that implicated the Mike Harris government of which Mr. Hudak was a part. She…
A recent Ipsos poll reported that 72% of Ontarians think it is time for a change? The results of this online survey were duly reflected in blogs and the Twittersphere.…
Since I published my previous post, 308 has written about the Forum poll and made the same critique better than I did. Here is part of what he said: When…
I devised a means of taking public opinion surveys and calculating what they would mean if the accurately reflected election outcomes in 1993. I have therefore had the opportunity to…
I have noted that many commentators have somehow managed to construe the federal government’s loss on Senate reform in the Supreme Court as simply a crafty way for our clever…
TC does not ordinarily take note of just one poll unless there is something unusual or special about it. Well there is a highly unusual result in the latest Angus…
Rob Ford kicked off his 2014 re-election campaign last night at the Toronto Congress Centre, which is located not far from Toronto’s western boundary. In the middle of Ford’s speech…
… to know which way the wind blows”, goes the old Bob Dylan song. It applies well to this Quebec election, which has had plenty of twists, turns and surprises…
Recently NDP Leader Tom Mulcair discussed his willingness to join a coalition with the Liberals after the next election: “We’ve always said we’re ready to work with other parties. We’re…
As we head once more into a Quebec electoral campaign I am reminded of when I went door to door with a federal Liberal candidate in the 1988 election in…
Toronto Star journalist Susan Delacourt has a generally good record at reading the intentions and thinking of the federal Liberal Party. So one ought to take note of this report…
I have seen a good deal of analysis/speculation arising out last week’s by-elections about the current state of Ontario politics. There were, however, only two among 107 seats up. Better…
This would be the long-term outcome of Justin Trudeau’s recent proposal should it succeed in gaining wide acceptance and be fully implemented. The heat from the Senate scandal, which has…
When I saw the headlines and TV news stories about the veteran’s groups angered by the closing of offices that delivered services to them I was reminded of an incident…
Tim Hudak is leader of the Ontario PC party while Scott Walker is Governor of Wisconsin and a beacon to those on the North American right who see his small…
The February 13, 2014 Ontario by-elections in Thornhill and Niagara Falls may give us a bit of a preview of a potential spring election in Ontario. However, there are only…
There was a time when, in the absence of polling data, one had to look for indicators and bits of information in the news that might suggest the direction of…
I had no idea he knew so much about Senate reform:
Forum research conducted polls in two recent sets of by-elections, the August 1, 2013 Ontario by-elections in five constituencies (I posted analysis of the results on August 5) and again…
