Politics This Morning Election 2015: It’s a two-way race with 13 days to go
It’s day 65 of the election campaign and the polls are showing a close two-way race between the Conservatives and Liberals, with the NDP support declining in most polls over the last week. According to the most recent Nanos Research poll, the Liberals lead with 35.6 per cent support while the Conservatives are 31 per […]
Politics This Morning Election 2015: Two weeks left in campaign
Good Monday morning! It’s week nine of the election campaign. With exactly two weeks until Canadians head to the polls, the political parties are pulling out all the stops. On the weekend, the Liberals released five new political ads, taking aim at Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s record. The NDP are targeting seats in southwestern Ontario […]
Advance polls even more important in tight three-way election race, say politicos
If the pattern holds, more than two million Canadians will head to their local polling station to cast ballots over Thanksgiving weekend, early votes that could have a significant impact on the final outcome of this close election race. In the 2011 election, 2.1 million electors voted during the three days of advanced polls, or […]
Public opinion polling at ‘crisis point,’ more transparency needed, says head of new organization
Public opinion polling in Canada has reached a “crisis point,” with public confidence eroded, and standards around transparency and reporting requirements need to be set and followed, says Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Global Public Affairs and founding head of the recently launched Canadian Association of Public Opinion Research (CAPOR). The new initiative aims to […]
Minimum $25-million political ad blitz coming, more intense than ever
Canadians haven’t seen anything like the political advertising blitz coming in the campaign’s final two weeks, experts say, as all the federal parties spend millions to try to shore up last-minute support by convincing undecided voters and attacking their opponents. “No one has ever seen this sort of wait. Nobody has ever had the flexibility […]
Foreign Affairs calls in RCMP to probe leak of ‘secret’ briefing doc on Canada’s waning clout
The Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development has called in the RCMP to conduct an investigation into a leak last week to The Globe and Mail newspaper of an internal Foreign Affairs briefing document warning senior federal government insiders that Canada’s clout in the international community is diminishing. “Any unauthorized disclosure of information is […]
Toronto’s condo land poses unique problems for campaigns, pollsters in Spadina-Fort York battle
SPADINA-FORT YORK, ONT. In Toronto’s condo land, it’s not obvious there’s an election taking place. And for the candidates competing for votes and the pollsters trying to track opinion, it’s not obvious who the voters are. Despite a byelection only 15 months ago in the former Trinity-Spadina riding, candidates and pollsters are struggling to gather […]
Political insiders say leaders’ debates need a post-mortem, pronto
Political parties, journalists, major TV networks and academics should undertake a detailed, forward-looking post-mortem of this election cycle’s “sub-optimal” party leaders’ debates after the Oct. 19 election to examine the whole process and how to improve them for future federal election campaigns, say former senior Hill staffers and pundits who played key roles in past […]
Heard on the Hustings: Cats enter election race, candidates do kooky stuff, and Coyne ponders the meaning of politics
Great fur though: vote Coal for PM Haven’t found the puuurfect candidate to throw your support behind yet in this election? Hair’s not just right? Worry not, in this campaign there’s a handful of felines you could throw your [unofficial] support behind. There’s Halifax’s Earl Grey who’s running for Prime Minister under his “Tuxedo Party,” […]
Party leaders’ tours zero in on key ridings in long campaign’s final stretch
The federal party leaders were busy campaigning last week in the North, the GTA, and the West, strategic visits that boost local morale and put the party on constituents’ minds, and those visits will become increasingly targeted in the campaign’s final weeks, strategists say. The marathon 78-day campaign has given Canadians even more opportunities than […]
