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Premiers’ Performance: Ball and Wynne bounce, Wall and Pallister slide
Saskatchewan’s Wall remains most-approved of provincial leader but drops below majority endorsement June 22, 2017 – Canadians appear increasingly underwhelmed by the performances of their provincial premiers. While some are taking steps back from alarmingly low approval levels, others find themselves
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Focus Saskatchewan: Premier Brad Wall faces budget fallout, but his party leads over opposition
Saskatchewan Party holds seven-point advantage in vote intention June 19, 2017 – Brad Wall has referred to the past few months the most difficult of his career: declining resource revenues have led his government to pursue an unpopular austerity program
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Premiers’ Performance: As year ends, Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne sees job approval drop to 16%
Nova Scotia’s McNeil bears scars from dispute with teachers’ union December 13, 2016 – Beleaguered by the fallout of her government’s sale of Hydro One and under pressure from the Ontario auditor general for not spending the proceeds of that
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Just 1-in-4 Canadians say their provincial government is doing a “good job managing the deficit”
By Dave Korzinski and Ian Holliday, Research Associates November 1, 2016 – One of the prevailing stories in Canada these days is debt. Specifically, that Canadians have a lot of it. In 2015, the household debt burden in this country rose
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Premiers’ Performance: Pallister and Clark climb; Wynne loses ground
Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall drops nine points to new low; but is still Canada’s most approved-of premier September 21, 2016 – In what had been the country’s most overheated housing market, BC Premier Christy Clark’s imposition of a 15% tax on foreign buyers
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Premiers’ Performance: Federal Liberal ‘red tide’ lifts Atlantic Premiers’ approval ratings
Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall the only Canadian premier with majority approval rating December 9, 2015 – The red tide that propelled the Trudeau Liberals to a majority government in October also appears to be lifting the fortunes of some premiers, particularly
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