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Where do Canadians stand on #TakeAKnee?
By Dave Korzinski, Research Associate and Shachi Kurl, Executive Director Colin Kaepernick may not have known it when he knelt for the anthem in a preseason game in 2016, but he was setting a movement in motion. Fast-forward a year
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New federal concussion guidelines are a step forward but what will impact be without enforcement?
By Dave Korzinski, Research Associate On July 28, the federal government, in partnership with Parachute Canada, a non-profit organization founded to educate Canadians about minimizing preventable injuries, released its first “Canadian Guideline on Concussion in Sport”. The document – a
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Ahead of NAFTA renegotiation, Canadians’ opinions mixed on supply management
By Shachi Kurl, Executive Director “We do not have to worry about Canada, we do not even think of them.” So said Donald J. Trump to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto during a phone call on January 27 of this year,
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United Right: Who will be the UCP’s Stephen Harper?
By Ian Holliday, Research Associate With Alberta’s Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties formally joining forces to become the United Conservative Party, the conventional wisdom is that the days of Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP government are numbered. But a lot could
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Bye bye, Brad Wall: Saskatchewan’s departing premier defied political gravity for years
By Shachi Kurl, Executive Director Bye bye, Brad. The people of Saskatchewan will miss you, but maybe not as much as they might have before. With Thursday’s announcement that he’s retiring from politics, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall ends a remarkable
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Millennial Connection: Young Canadians continue to sustain PM’s approval
By Dave Korzinski, Research Associate Pundits and politicians have been saying it for well over a year now – “Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Honeymoon is over”. And while it may have appeared to have been the case at
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