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Hoop Dreams: Can the Raptors capture a nation’s interest?
By Dave Korzinski, Research Associate May 12, 2016 – The Toronto Raptors are in the midst of their most successful season since the franchise’s inception in 1995. Fans in the ‘Six’ celebrated their first ever best-of-seven playoff series victory by defeating the
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Hold the phone, providers and regulators – Canadians care about wireless competition
By Shachi Kurl, Executive Director May 4, 2016 – The $3.1-billion deal for the purchase of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. by Bell Canada Enterprises Inc. prompts the question of whether Manitobans should be bracing for a particularly staticky kind of cellphone sadness this
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NHL playoff viewership decline: Can Sidney Crosby save the day?
By Dave Korzinski, Research Associate May 1, 2016 – To the likely dismay of playoff rights holders at Rogers Media, what many Canadians told us here at the Angus Reid Institute was going to happen, has actually happened: there has been a precipitous decline
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Legalize it? Canadians say yes, but that doesn’t mean they find smoking weed ‘acceptable’
By Ian Holliday, Research Associate April 28, 2016 – By this time next year – assuming the federal government makes good on its promise to introduce legislation in spring 2017 – marijuana legalization will be imminent, and most Canadians will be
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Dr. Reid’s Keynote Address at BC Leadership Prayer Breakfast
Address April 22 2016 Today marks the 50th anniversary of this BC leadership prayer breakfast. This is a great time to look back at what has changed in the past half century, take stock of where we are today and
Read MoreANALYSIS: Five things about Budget 2016 and Public Opinion
By Shachi Kurl and Ian Holliday March 22, 2016 1. Canadians like deficits in the abstract, but not so much when they’re concrete The Liberal Party ran on promise of “modest deficits,” totalling less than $10 billion annually, and a return
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