The 2025 Ontario election is just under a week away. As an exercise, we thought we would try to identify which ridings might be the closest ridings. To do so, we pulled the results from the 2018 and 2022 election […]

Anyone who has ever thought about buying a house in Ontario (especially first-time homebuyers) might have noticed an uptick in housing prices in the last decade (even prior to the COVID-19 price explosion). Between 2005 and 2020, the average cost […]

by Andrew R. Basso & Andrea Perrella Why has Reconciliation in Canada stalled? What barriers exist to the implementation of transitional justice? Sometimes the simplest questions can yield the most important findings. That is certainly the case for our multi-year […]

In LISPOP’s survey of Ontario voters in the 2022 election, we focused on attitudes toward housing. One of the series of questions that we asked respondents was to name a cause of the recent increase in house prices and rents. […]

Just what an election is about is a question at least as important as who is standing. Because most voters don’t have coherent ideologies, but rather many different attitudes, a candidate might be better off making an election about something […]

By Simon J. Kiss, Jason Roy and Matthew R. Arp One of the more important dynamics of modern elections is the phenomenon of the “ballot question”. Parties, journalists and voters wrangle over what an election is “about”. The reason so […]

LISPOP commissioned a survey of voters during the 2022 election and we’ll be disseminating findings from it over the next few weeks. But as an opening, I wanted to take a look at public spending priorities in the 2022 election […]

Welcome to the fourth in an installment of blog posts by LISPOP affiliates on different aspects of the Ontario provincial election. Our last post is by Wilfrid Laurier political scientist Andrea Perrella. A lot of attention on election campaigns focuses on […]