More provincial aggregates added
More provincial polling averages have been added to the site today. You can access the one for New Brunswick here.
The averages for Quebec, including regional and linguistic breakdowns, can be found here. The latest poll from the province was out just this past week.
The averages for Alberta are here.
And in case you missed them last week, pages for Nova Scotia and Ontario were also added.
The averages for Quebec, including regional and linguistic breakdowns, can be found here. The latest poll from the province was out just this past week.
The averages for Alberta are here.
And in case you missed them last week, pages for Nova Scotia and Ontario were also added.
For future reference, these averages can be found in the right-hand column of the site further down the page.
The Pollcast: The Stephen Harper years and beyond
Stephen Harper will speak to party members on Thursday evening at the Conservative Party's policy convention in Vancouver. It could be some of the last words he will speak in public as an elected member of Parliament.
Canada's 22nd prime minister is expected to resign his Calgary Heritage seat before the fall, a seat he has held since returning to federal politics in a by-election in 2002.
As leader of the Canadian Alliance, Harper led the party into a merger with the Progressive Conservatives in 2003. He then led the merged party to power in 2006, where it remained until it was defeated by Justin Trudeau's Liberals in October.
Harper's 10 years in office have left an impact on the political landscape of the country and shaped the modern Conservative Party. How will Canadians remember his time as prime minister and what will the Conservative Party look like without the only permanent leader it has ever known?
Joining me to look at Stephen Harper's legacy and the future of the Conservative Party is Postmedia's Ottawa political bureau chief, John Ivison.
You can listen to the latest episode of the Pollcast here.
Canadians shrug off Justin Trudeau's elbow, polls suggest
The altercation in the House of Commons last week between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and members of the opposition captured Canadians' attention, but two polls published this week suggest a majority of those Canadians have shrugged it off like a wayward elbow on a crowded subway.
The latest poll, conducted by Ipsos for Global News, shows that 63 per cent of Canadians feel the tussle was "no big deal," a "momentary lapse of judgment" on the part of the prime minister, and that "we should all just move on."
You can read the rest of this article here.
Leadership race rules could exacerbate Conservative Party divisions
The Conservative policy convention being held this week in Vancouver will help determine the future of the party. But how much of the party's divided past is still a factor, more than 12 years after the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservatives united the right as the Conservative Party of Canada?
Compared to the Liberals and New Democrats, the Conservative support base is split more evenly between its centrist supporters and those on the edges of the political spectrum.
Polling data provided by Abacus Data suggests that 45 per cent of Conservative voters self-identify as being centrist, compared to 45 per cent who say they are either on the centre-right or right.
You can read the rest of this article here.
