IPSOS Public Affairs Datasets

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The Housing Crisis Isn’t New: The Middle-Class is Just Paying Attention Now

Welcome to the second in an installment of blog posts by LISPOP affiliates on different aspects of the Ontario provincial election. Our second post is by Wilfrid Laurier University political scientist Laura Pin. Ontario residents are going to the polls in a few weeks. Amidst the many crises animating the political […]

How front-runner Doug Ford is running away with the Ontario election

Doug Ford and Pierre Poilievre are very different Conservative cats, but they have one thing in common this spring. Both are running classic front-runner campaigns: maintain tight control at all times; minimize risks; avoid unscripted appearances; take advantage of friendly media to keep opponents fighting among themselves, and use social […]

Political Authenticity and the Ontario Provincial Election

Welcome to the first in an installment of blog posts by LISPOP affiliates on different aspects of the Ontario provincial election. Our first post is by University of Waterloo political scientist Anna Esselment. There are numerous aspects about elections that I love, but one that really intrigues me is how […]

On June 2, will Ontario New Democrats hold their noses and vote Liberal?

If the Ontario’s New Democrats and Liberals were to follow the example of their federal brethren and unite in a centre-left front against the Progressive Conservatives, the Doug Ford government would be overwhelmingly defeated in the provincial election on June 2. But that’s not going to happen just yet.  The […]

Trouble may lie ahead for Doug Ford

The campaign for the June 2 provincial election in Ontario will not begin officially until the Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Dowdeswell dissolves the legislature and the election writ is issued. The 2022 budget of Progressive Conservative government will come first on Thursday this week, then the election call next week. Naturally, […]

Are the Conservatives handing the next election the Liberal-NDP alliance?

Tuesday is the deadline for entries in the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race, version 2022, and a realist, casting a beady eye over the field, might well opine that, regardless of which candidate is declared leader when the preferential ballots are counted on Sept. 10, the real winner will […]

The maiden budget of the Liberal-NDP alliance is built on shifting sand

The new centre-left alliance of Liberals and New Democrats faced its first hurdle last Thursday when Deputy Prime Minister/Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland presented her 2022 budget. The as-yet unbaptized governing entity (for some reason, it hasn’t embraced my suggestion to christen itself the New Vermilion Party of Canada) cleared the […]