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On October 22nd Vox Pop Labs wrapped up the second edition of Vote Compass Toronto.

\nIn this second edition, Torontonians could not only situate themselves compared to mayoral candidates but also compared to more than 120 candidates competing for council seats in Toronto's 25 wards. Vox Pop Labs also partnered with the Urban Policy Lab and Matt Elliot's Council Scorecard initiative to link incumbents' positions in Vote Compass to their voting records.\n"}},"featured":false},{"id":"6355f6fd-ad0d-59c2-9396-870633660cf6","path":"/the-signal","title":"Vox Pop Labs introduces The Signal election forecast","author":"Vox Pop Labs","publishedOn":"2022-04-26","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/signal_product_thumb_2_1_7eaf6b56d2.png"},"seo":{"metaTitle":"Vox Pop Labs introduces The Signal election forecast","metaDescription":"Vox Pop Labs launches The Signal, an election forecast for the 2022 Ontario provincial election","metaImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/signal_product_thumb_2_1_7eaf6b56d2.png"},"twitterHandle":"@VoxPopLabs"},"shortContent":"Vox Pop Labs launches The Signal, an election forecast for the 2022 Ontario provincial election","content":{"data":{"content":"## In partnership with the Toronto Star, Vox Pop Labs launches The Signal, an election forecast for the 2022 Ontario provincial election.\n\nThe Signal, now available at [https://www.thestar.com/politics/ontario-election/2022/election-forecast.html](https://www.thestar.com/politics/ontario-election/2022/election-forecast.html), is based on the mechanics of a Bayesian dynamic linear model. This type of model forms the basis of forecasting models currently in use for U.S. elections for which many will be familiar, such as those by the New York Times and FiveThirtyEight.\n\nOur variant of the model accounts for two biases in the polling industry. First, we account for the fact that pollsters differ systematically between each other with respect to whether they over- or under-represent certain voters. For example, compared to the polling industry average, some pollsters might over-represent Progressive Conservative party voters; others, NDP voters. The model accounts for these differences dynamically, such that each poll that is released is filtered for our current estimate of that bias. Polls over multiple years are used to calculate these “house biases” so that they themselves are recalculated each time a new poll is released. Second, we account for bias in the polling industry as a whole by using data from previous elections. In the Ontario context, these biases are relatively small, although not insignificant: even small differences in national vote share can have relatively large effects on seat share.\n\nBecause there are many days on which polls are not released and because polls contain sampling error, the model uses information about where vote intention stood on one day to inform where it stands the next day. If a new poll is released, vote share estimates for that day effectively become a weighted average of information from the newly released poll and from information about where vote intention stood on the previous day. This means that outlier (and all other) polls are effectively pulled in toward the previous day’s forecast. Visually, this means that vote intention across time will appear relatively smooth, as we would expect it to in reality.\n\nThis differs from other forecasting models in Ontario where one might see forecasts jump around relatively drastically from poll release to poll release. Unfortunately, this leads many commentators in Ontario to speculate that large changes are occurring in the electorate for various reasons related to the campaign even if no substantial changes are occurring in reality. An added benefit is that a new forecast can be released for each day of the campaign, even if no new poll is released, and we are able to estimate vote intention for every day of the campaign.\n\nTo estimate regional-level vote share, we run a separate model with the same basic structure as the national model. We then adjust the regional vote share results proportionally such they they match estimates from the national-level forecast. For the riding level, furthermore, we use the vote share achieved by each party during the 2018 Ontario provincial election in each riding, adjusting these proportions proportionally to match the estimated regional (and national) vote share forecast. It is worth noting that the degree of uncertainty with respect to these projections is highest at the individual riding level. As riding-level predictions are derived from provincial vote share estimates and vote share in the 2018 provincial election rather than local polling data (which do not exist in sufficient numbers), these should be interpreted with due caution.\n\nVisit The Signal at [https://www.thestar.com/politics/ontario-election/2022/election-forecast.html](https://www.thestar.com/politics/ontario-election/2022/election-forecast.html)."}},"featured":false},{"id":"72031594-3a7a-580d-b64d-d38622a305d5","path":"/vote-compass-nova-scotia-is-here","title":"Vote Compass Nova Scotia is here","author":"Vox Pop Labs","publishedOn":"2021-07-21","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/tobias_negele_w_bqx_Bz_Yv_Ds_unsplash_4780af4534.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":"Nova Scotians are heading to the polls on August 17 and in 2021 they will have Vote Compass Nova Scotia to help them find out how their views compare to the political parties.","content":{"data":{"content":"Nova Scotians are heading to the polls on August 17 and in 2021 they will have Vote Compass Nova Scotia to help them find out how their views compare to the political parties.\n\nVox Pop Labs has partnered with the CBC/Radio-Canada to bring you Vote Compass Nova Scotia for the upcoming provincial election.\n\nIt is the first time we have done Vote Compass for an election in Nova Scotia.\n\nThe topics covered in the 2021 election include:\n\n* How much should the provincial government spend to support local industries that have been hard hit by the pandemic?\n* Nova Scotia should rely more on renewable energy, even if it means consumers pay more for electricity\n* The provincial government should partner with private companies to pay for the construction of new hospitals\n* Vote Compass is an award-winning civic engagement application that has been used by millions of people during elections around the world.\n\nIt takes 10 minutes to complete and works on your smartphone.\n\nTo take part in Vote Compass, visit: [https://votecompass.cbc.ca/ns](https://votecompass.cbc.ca/ns)"}},"featured":null},{"id":"03c0741f-a71c-5ad2-94a6-498255178a2e","path":"/vox-pop-labs-launches-kiwimeter-with-television-new-zealands-one-news-network","title":"Vox Pop Labs launches Kiwimeter with Television New Zealand's ONE News Network","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2016-03-03","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/Screen_Shot_2022_08_05_at_4_00_27_PM_ba7fd000a8.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

What kind of Kiwi are you?

\nIn partnership with Television New Zealand's ONE News Network, Vox Pop Labs today released Kiwimeter, a civic engagement application intended to catalyse a discussion about national identity in New Zealand.\nTry Kiwimeter for yourself at onenewsnow.co.nz/kiwimeter.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/nN5xMlV5oX8"}},"featured":false},{"id":"393b6109-e19f-5a96-aa06-3c1ad74f4ee5","path":"/canadians-more-supportive-of-military-campaign-against-isis-less-inclined-to-admit-syrian-refugees-following-paris-attacks","title":"Canadians more supportive of military campaign against ISIS, less inclined to admit Syrian refugees following Paris attacks","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2015-11-18","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/tim_mossholder_H6eaxc_GN_Qb_U_unsplash_c34f36d868.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, a panel study conducted by Vox Pop Labs shows higher levels of support among Canadians for military intervention against ISIS as well as waning support for admitting Syrian refugees to Canada as compared to during the recent federal election campaign.\n\nTo gauge public opinion in the aftermath of the Paris attacks on two central planks of the new Liberal government’s foreign policy agenda, Vox Pop Labs drew a random sample of respondents to its Vote Compass initiative, which ran from August 30 to October 19, 2015. Between November 14 and 16, 1,681 respondents from that sample were surveyed and asked to again respond to questions they had answered during the federal election campaign.\n\nThese data offer us a glimpse into the Canadian psyche at a time when reaction to the Paris attacks are raw and people are still processing the implications. We will continue to track public opinion in the days and weeks to come to see whether the Paris attacks have a temporary or lasting effect on Canadian attitudes.\n\n\n

On the fight against ISIS

\nOn the matter of how involved the Canadian military should be in the fight against ISIS, support among Canadians for an increased role in the combat mission rose from 36 per cent at the end of the campaign to 48 per cent immediately following the attacks in Paris.\n\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"959\"]\"\" [/caption]\n\nCanada’s military involvement in the combat mission against ISIS seems to be the issue where we see the most change in Canadian public opinion following the Paris attacks as compared to during the recent federal election campaign. In the immediate aftermath of an attack like this, it’s common to observe a rally around the flag effect, which extends to a nation’s allies. It also raises questions about the reach of ISIS and thus prompts increased security concerns throughout the West.\n\n\n

On Religious accommodation

\nOn the question of how much should be done to accommodate religious minorities in Canada, public opinion has remained stable. During the election campaign 48 per cent of Canadians favoured fewer religious accommodations in Canada, as compared to 43 per cent directly following the Paris attacks.\n\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"959\"]\"\" [/caption]\n\nThe Paris attacks do not appear to have resulted in a noticeable backlash against religious minorities in Canada. If anything, we see slightly more support for religious minorities after the Paris attacks than we did around the time of the election, although this may have been due to the politicization of the niqab during the campaign.\n\n\n

On Government surveillance

\nAs compared to during the federal election campaign, where Bill C-51 was a salient issue, Canadians are more amenable to online monitoring by law enforcement following the Paris attacks. During the campaign, 44 per cent of Canadians opposed greater government surveillance powers, but that figure has since dropped to 33 per cent.\n\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"959\"]\"\" [/caption]\n\nMore Canadians now say they agree with increased government surveillance than disagree, which is a dramatic shift since the campaign. Interestingly, uncertainty about the necessity of increased surveillance has also increased, even though we are looking at the same set of people surveyed at two different points in time.\n\n\n

On Attitudes towards admitting Syrian refugees

\nVox Pop Labs fielded a study in the days prior to the Paris attacks that included survey items on Canadians’ attitudes towards Syrian refugees. The timing of the study allows a unique comparison of Canadian attitudes directly prior and subsequent to the attacks.\n\nCanadian attitudes toward Syrian refugees are measured according to two indexes: one which measures the degree of sympathy Canadians feel toward Syrian refugees and another the degree of anxiety they feel about those refugees being admitted to Canada.\n\nThe level of sympathy Canadians expressed for Syrian refugees remained relatively consistent before and after the Paris attacks, but anxiety about admitting said refugees into Canada rose considerably. Overall, support for permitting Syrian refugees dropped from 74 per cent in the days prior to the Paris attacks to 69 per cent in the days that followed.\n\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"959\"]\"\" [/caption]\n\nThe overall difference of about 5 per cent is not overly surprising and may be a temporary effect. But when you observe the gradation of opinion you see that the number of those who strongly agree with taking in Syrian refugees in the days prior to the Paris attacks drops by 10 per cent in the days after the attacks. Conversely, the number of people who strongly disagree with taking in Syrian refugees rises by 10 per cent as a result of the attacks.\n\n\n

Methodology

\nCanadian attitudes with respect to the combat mission against ISIS, religious accommodation in Canada, and government surveillance were obtained by resampling a random subset of 1,681 respondents to the 2015 Canadian federal election edition of Vote Compass.\n\nThe findings regarding attitudes towards Syrian refugees were derived from a survey fielded by Vox Pop Labs to 2,497 Canadians from November 12 to November 16, 2015. The survey asked “If it were up to you, would you agree or disagree that these refugees should be permitted to settle in Canada?” Response options included Strongly disagree, Somewhat disagree, Slightly disagree, Slightly agree, Somewhat agree, and Strongly agree. A comparison of means before and after the Paris attacks was used to identify the effect of the attacks on opinions towards admitting Syrian refugees.\n\nData were weighted by gender, age, education, region, and mother tongue to ensure that the sample’s composition reflects that of the actual population of Canada according to the census.\n\n"}},"featured":false},{"id":"461d1d8b-8aa8-57fa-aee4-5713e013b04a","path":"/promise-tracking-reimagined-with-the-polimeter-platform","title":"Promise-tracking reimagined with the Polimeter platform","author":"","publishedOn":"2021-07-08","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/polimeter_product_thumb_a8daafcf59.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":"Polimeter is rigorously curated, delivering objective, transparent and reliable political information to citizens, media, and researchers about what the government is doing. Polimeter also generates data for scientific research.","content":{"data":{"content":"Vox Pop Labs has reimagined the Polimeter promise-tracking platform in collaboration with the CAPP – Centre d’Analyse des Politiques Publiques and CLESSN and relaunched it as polimeter.org.\n\nPolimeter monitors promises made by politicians – and whether those promises are being kept.\n\nThe platform has been completely redesigned and has shifted from a crowdsourced platform to a methodologically robust initiative that builds on the approach championed by the late François Pétry of Université Laval.\n\nPolimeter is rigorously curated, delivering objective, transparent and reliable political information to citizens, media, and researchers about what the government is doing. Polimeter also generates data for scientific research.\n\nAlongside Vote Compass, Polimeter supports our company mission to promote electoral literacy through engaging and informing citizens around the world.\n\nCheck it out yourself at [https://www.polimeter.org/en](polimeter.org).\n\n[/contact](Get in touch) if you are interested in setting one up or keen to know more – Polimeter is available to partners internationally."}},"featured":null},{"id":"fe63b4c1-94c1-5da8-bb31-2e062f59a405","path":"/vox-pop-labs-partners-with-abc-news-to-launch-fourth-federal-edition-of-vote-compass-australia/","title":"Vox Pop Labs partners with ABC News to launch fourth federal edition of Vote Compass Australia","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2022-04-27","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/Img_06_27ed7b26ca.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":"In partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Vox Pop Labs has launched the fourth Australian federal election edition of Vote Compass.","content":{"data":{"content":"

In partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Vox Pop Labs has launched the fourth Australian federal election edition of Vote Compass. Within one week more than a half million Australians have already used the application to explore how their views situate them within the Australian political landscape.

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Try it for yourself at https://votecompass.abc.net.au.

\n"}},"featured":false},{"id":"acbf1274-1a87-507d-bfe7-c2d9d9650a12","path":"/vox-pop-labs-revives-australia-talks-national-survey-with-australian-broadcasting-corporation","title":"Vox Pop Labs revives Australia Talks national survey with Australian Broadcasting Corporation","author":null,"publishedOn":"2021-05-23","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/austalks_product_thumb_883e6af339.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":"First launched in 2019 in partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australia Talks project surveyed more than 50,000 Australians on a range of issues ranging from climate change to public safety to economic outlook.","content":{"data":{"content":"

First launched in 2019 in partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Australia Talks project surveyed more than 50,000 Australians on a range of issues ranging from climate change to public safety to economic outlook. Australians were then invited to participate in an interactive application which compared their views with those of their fellow citizens. The initiative was a resounding success, with hundreds of thousands of users, dozens of news stories, and a live broadcast that presented the survey findings in further depth.

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In light of all that's changed since 2019 and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation decided to once again the Australia Talks project in 2021. In addition to capturing new insights about public opinion in Australia, it would also provide an opportunity to reflect as to how views have shifted since 2019.

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Try the 2021 edition of Australia Talks out for yourself at https://australiatalks.abc.net.au. 

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"}},"featured":null},{"id":"d26233c0-a274-5166-82e1-83b943d706d4","path":"/its-election-season-in-western-canada-vote-compass-returns-to-b-c-and-saskatchewan/‎","title":"It's election season in Western Canada: Vote Compass returns to B.C. and Saskatchewan","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2020-10-06","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/darby_p_a5_A4_Shid_R_Pg_unsplash_1be786f7ca.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

During the last two weeks, Vox Pop Labs and CBC/Radio-Canada launched two new editions of Vote Compass for the upcoming provincial elections in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

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Vote Compass is an online resource that voters in each of these provinces can use in order to cast informed ballots later this month. Answer a series of questions about your views on B.C. or Saskatchewan politics, and the application calculates your alignment with each of the parties running for election.

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Vote Compass has launched in every provincial election in B.C. since 2013, and in every provincial election in Saskatchewan since 2016.

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To give Vote Compass B.C. 2020 a try, please visit: https://votecompass.cbc.ca/bc
Vote Compass Saskatchewan 2020 can be accessed at: https://votecompass.cbc.ca/saskatchewan

\n"}},"featured":false},{"id":"2c418771-9166-5875-9d4a-43faee16bf0d","path":"/quebecers-and-religious-symbols","title":"Quebecers and Religious Symbols","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2018-12-04","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/livia_widjaja_G3_D_Zf_D_Nci_VQ_unsplash_23c4dec5d4.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Vox Pop Labs develops innovative questions to measure Quebec public opinion on the religious symbol ban.

\nUsing data from a post-electoral online survey of 4635 individuals, conducted from October 10-25, 2018, the Vox Pop Labs team has produced one of the most in-depth and innovative studies of attitudes toward religious symbols in the province.\n

Why develop new measures?

\nWe developed new measures because we were dissatisfied with the types of questions that were being used to gauge public sentiment on this issue. These questions would typically conflate many different religious symbols in a single question, such as \"Do you support or oppose a ban on religious symbols for public school teachers?\" Questions asked in such a way miss a key piece of information: what people actually think of when they encounter the term \"religious symbols.\" Are they thinking about a full veil that covers the face, like a burqa? Or are they thinking about hijabs--veils that cover only the hair? How people interpret a blanket term like \"religious symbols\" will affect the results. We believed that there was also a strong possibility that many people were interpreting it as meaning more ostentatious religious symbols, such as a niqab or a burka, thus increasing support for the ban.\n\nThe second reason is that we wanted to stay away from actually naming religious symbols. Not everyone knows what a kirpan or a niqab is, or how a niqab may differ from a burqa. In fact, we wanted to avoid naming symbols altogether so as not to accidentally prime respondents one way or the other.\n

Our design

\nInstead of naming each symbol, we showed respondents images, each of which represented a different religious symbol. Respondents then had to decide under what circumstances the symbol in question ought to be banned. They could either select as many of the scenarios in our pregenerated list of choices or simply indicate \"In none of these cases.\"\n\nThe proposed scenarios were:\n\n- For government officials in positions of authority (e.g. judges, police)\n- For participants in the Canadian citizenship ceremony\n- For public school teachers\n- For public school students\n- For those in all public spaces (e.g. on sidewalks, in public parks)\n- In none of those cases\n\nThe images depicted do not represent an exhaustive list of every possible religious symbol. Where their value comes from is in the fact that they span many different religions and vary in their \"ostentatious\" or conspicuous character.\n

Results by symbols

\nAs the following results make clear, public opinion varies greatly depending on the religious symbol and the scenario in which this symbol is worn. Three \"groups\" of symbols emerge from the data: (1) those symbols for which support for a ban is unequivoqual, (2) those on which the population is much more divided, and finally (3) those for which support for a ban is limited to government officials in positions of authority.\n\n\"1-burkaen\"\n\n\"2-niqaben\"\n\n\"3-kirpanen\"\n\n\"4-bcrossen\"\n\n\"5-hijaben\"\n\n\"6-turban\"\n\n\"7-kippaen\"\n\n\"8-daviden\"\n\n\"9-crescenten\"\n\n\"10-scrossen\"\n

Policy scenarios

\nWe can combine all the decisions made by the participants to evaluate the level of support for the different policy scenarios that have been debated in Quebec.\n\nFirst, it is worth mentioning that 3% of Quebecers would not ban any symbol in either of the scenarios. A similar proportion of respondents (4%) fall on the other end of the spectrum, choosing instead to ban all symbols in all scenarios.\n\nOverall, 55% of respondents believe that, at a minimum, officials in positions of authority should be prohibited from wearing \"ostentatious\" or conspicuous symbols at work--a proposition commonly viewed as the \"Bouchard-Taylor consensus.\" In this case, we consider all of the symbols depicted in our study to be \"ostentatious,\" with the exception of the three smaller necklaces.\n\nSupport drops to 41% when the ban is extended to public school teachers, a scenario similar to the one currently proposed by the Legault government.\n\nWe also observe striking differences across age groups. Whereas only 43% of 18-34 year olds approve of a ban on \"ostentatious\" symbols for government officials, this proportion increases to 60% among 35-54 year olds and 63% among those 55 and older. The differences are even greater when we consider the CAQ’s proposition to extend the ban to public school teachers. This scenario does not get a majority of support in any age group (49% among 55+ and 43% among 35-54) but drops to a measly 26% among 18-34 year olds.\n

Methodology

\nThe data presented come from Vox Pop Labs' post-electoral study, which surveyed a web panel of 4635 individuals, between the 10th and 25th of October 2018. For comparison, a probabilistic sample of 4635 respondents would have a margin of error of 1.4 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.\n\nThe data have been weighted by gender, age, education, language and region to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the actual Quebec population found in census data and other population estimates."}},"featured":false},{"id":"c09e5fc3-7bbb-5b58-a023-cc54506a9d83","path":"/vox-pop-labs-releases-ontario-post-election-analysis","title":"Vox Pop Labs releases Ontario post-election analysis","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2018-06-29","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/sergey_pesterev_u01b8_Dzv67_I_unsplash_e27124ffed.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Those Ontarians dissatisfied with the election result still would not change their vote in hindsight.

\nIt has been three weeks since Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives won 76 seats and a majority government. Now that the dust has settled on the 2018 Ontario provincial election, it is time to dig a bit deeper and try to answer a few lingering questions about the results: How satisfied are people with the outcome? Would they vote differently now that they have the benefit of hindsight? When did people make up their mind? What issue influenced their vote the most?\n\nOver the last three weeks, Vox Pop Labs and the team behind Vote Compass asked close to 20,000 Ontarians about the 2018 Ontario election. Here is what they had to say.\n

(Dis)satisfaction

\nPerhaps unsurprisingly given the shares of the popular vote --- approximately 60% of the votes did not go to the Conservatives --- voters from all parties except the Conservatives express a great dissatisfaction with the results. This dissatisfaction is the greatest among NDP voters (96%), even more than among Liberals who now find themselves with only seven seats.\n\n\n\nMore surprising, however, is the small proportions of voters who would change their vote if they could. Given the dynamic of the campaign and the fact that many votes from the center-left seem to have coalesced around the NDP, this result would indicate that what was left for the Liberals and the Greens was a small group of faithful supporters. Of those who voted for the Liberals, 87% say they would definitely not or probably not change their vote. That proportion is even higher for Greens at 92%. Taken together this means that for many Ontarians, the prospect of voting for their preferred party is more important than blocking a party that they do not like.\n\n\n

When and why did people make a decision?

\nLiking a party's policy is, in fact, one of the main reasons that people gave to explain their vote. This is true for all parties, except for the NDP. 37% of NDP voters said they wanted to prevent another party from winning while 35% said they chose the NDP because of its policies. Again, this is not uniformly distributed between parties. Overall, about 20% of Ontarians voted to prevent another party from winning. One other result sticks out. The proportion of voters who told us they voted for a party because they liked the local candidate was slightly under 15%. It is also much more uniformly distributed between NDP, Green and Conservative voters (between 7 and 13%). However 27% of Liberal voters told us they voted the way they did because they liked the local candidate. One could argue that without this attachment of Liberal voters to their local candidate, the Liberal party could have ended up in an even more difficult situation.\n\n\n\nWhen did people make up their mind? The answer varies a great deal depending on the party. Conservatives knew right from the start that Doug Ford would be getting their vote. A majority had decided before the campaign even started compared to only a quarter of Liberals and NDP voters. At the other end of the spectrum, only a small fraction of the electorate had not made up its mind on Election day. 20% of Liberal voters waited until the last minute to make a decision, perhaps being tempted to vote strategically before deciding against it.\n\n\n

Priority: The economy

\nWhen it comes to issues, the economy was at the forefront throughout the campaign. It was the number one issue at the beginning of the campaign [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/vote-compass-results-economy-education-health-care-1.4660629] and remains at the top now. Given its importance, it is interesting to look at who voters thought is best at managing it.\n\n\n\n\n\nSome results are not surprising. For instance, over 90% of Progressive Conservatives believe that their party is the best at managing Ontario’s economy. One interesting result, however, is the proportion of New Democrats voters who did not think the NDP was the best party to manage the economy. While 43% did, 27% thought the Liberals would have been better. The results are similar when we asked about leaders. While 49% of NDP voters thought that Andrea Horwath was the best at managing the economy, 24% chose Kathleen Wynne. Of course, those voters still decided to vote NDP, indicating that the economy is not all that matters for NDP voters. Still, this signals that the NDP has work to do to convince Ontarians, and even its own partisans, that it is the best at managing what many perceive to be the main issue in Ontario politics.\n\nDoug Ford also has some convincing to do. While 40% of Ontarians think that the Progressive Conservatives are the best at managing the economy, that proportion drops to 30% when the question is about Ford specifically. This difference is even bigger when we only look at PC voters, while 92% see the party as the best to manage the economy, the proportion is 78% for Ford himself.\n

Promises and Cynicism

\nOne potential source of cynicism in the electorate is the number of promises made during electoral campaigns that are pushed aside once a party is confronted with the reality of being in power. For example, Doug Ford mentioned throughout the campaign that he would find billions in efficiencies without a single government worker losing their job. We wanted to gauge Ontarians perceptions of those promises and asked them to rate how capable each leader was of delivering on them. The results are based on a 0 to 10 scale where 0 means not capable at all and 10 means very capable.\n\nOntarians are highly pessimistic (or cynical) in their evaluations. On average, they rated Ford's capability of delivering on his promises at 3.3, Schreiner's at 4.2, and Wynne's at 4.9. Andrea Horwath was the only leader with a rating higher than 5 at 5.6. Again, voters tend to see their favorite party and leader as the ones most likely to fulfill their promises.\n\n\n\nWe also wanted to measure cynicism among Ontarians more directly. To do so, we ask for Ontarians' opinions on a series of statements related to cynicism. Statements such as \"Politicians don't care about what people like me think\" and \"Elected official keep most of their promises\".\n\n\n\n\n\nWe then aggregated these questions into a cynicism index and looked at how cynicism differs by party. Interestingly, although Green and Conservative voters are more cynical on average, the distribution of cynicism is somewhat similar across party lines. Liberal voters were the least cynical of all. After so many years in power, they were of course more likely to see the political system as working, politicians as keeping their promises and government officials as being honest. Based on these results however, one can probably bet on an increase in cynicism among Liberal voters over the next four years under a Ford government."}},"featured":false},{"id":"9b1c9795-0e4f-53ea-902c-9c629abea1e7","path":"/ontarians-predict-a-pc-majority-in-ontario","title":"Ontarians predict a PC majority in Ontario","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2018-06-06","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/sergey_pesterev_u01b8_Dzv67_I_unsplash_e27124ffed.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Despite the polls being neck-in-neck, most Ontarians expect that Doug Ford will be the next Premier of Ontario

\nAccording to responses to the 2018 Ontario election edition of Vote Compass, most Ontario voters believe that the PC Party will form a majority government tomorrow.\n\nVote Compass asked users to rate the likelihood that each party has of winning in their riding using a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 indicated little to no likelihood and 10 indicated a high likelihood.\n
\"People's expectations of the outcome of the vote aren't always accurate,\" said Clifton van der Linden, executive director of Vox Pop Labs, the makers of Vote Compass. \"We saw in Alberta in 2015, for example, that despite the polls indicating a win for the NDP, people still thought the PCs would continue to govern. But it's still a valuable insight into how people see the election shaping up in their backyards.\"
\nAs of today, Ontarians predict that the PC Party will win 76 seats, the NDP 42 seats, the Liberals 5 seats, and the Green Party one seat. However, in certain ridings the aggregates between parties are very close.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"\" These results are based on 168,898 respondents who participated in Vote Compass from May 8 to June 6, 2018. The data have been weighted to ensure the sample reflects the population of Ontario.[/caption]\n

Ontarians' predictions by riding

\nRespondents to Vote Compass were asked to rate the likelihood that each of the parties had of winning in their riding on a 10-point scale. The results reported below are the averages of these ratings. These estimates are based on 17,803 respondents to Vote Compass between June 3 and June 6.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Vox Pop Labs has partnered with Sky News to launch Eurometer ahead of the referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union on June 23.

\n \n\nEurometer is an interactive civic engagement platform that surveys users about their views on the upcoming European Union membership referendum and, on the basis of their responses, analyses their fit among seven predetermined archetypes of affinity or antipathy toward the EU derived from a large-scale, UK-wide survey on the subject (see Methodology for details). The Eurometer is not designed as a voting aid or fact check, but rather as a means of helping users situate themselves within the discourse currently taking place within the UK.\n\n \n\nEntirely non-partisan and independent of the Stay and Leave campaigns, Eurometer is an academic exercise that seeks to foster a constructive and meaningful dialogue about the present and future relationship between the UK and the EU.\n\n \n\nEurometer is available online via Sky News.\n\n \n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"\" Eurometer is accessible via Sky News at https://eurometer.news.sky.com/.[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"376b5a4e-ba93-5a0b-b012-b15fb830e9c0","path":"/analysis-reveals-telling-trends-in-public-perceptions-of-party-leaders","title":"Analysis reveals telling trends in public perceptions of party leaders","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2015-11-12","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/competence_1024x520_5ba4b7609b.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"The news cycle has been awash these past few weeks with efforts to make sense of the resounding Liberal victory in Canada’s 42nd federal election. However, few of these ruminations are informed by detailed data beyond publicly available polls and vote tallies. Public opinion data collected by Vote Compass throughout the campaign thus represent a veritable treasure trove of insights into one of the most decisive electoral upsets in recent Canadian history.\n\nDrawing upon the millions of responses collected over the course of the 72-day federal election campaign, Vox Pop Labs has generated a time series graph of Canadians’ ratings of each leader’s overall competence and trustworthiness. While they cannot be taken as proxies for vote intention, popular perceptions of leaders’ trustworthiness and competence are often telling indicators of campaign dynamics, and help to shed light on the electoral fortunes of the respective prime ministerial candidates. This becomes especially apparent when these perceptions are plotted over time, revealing notable trends in public sentiment toward the respective party leaders.\n\nThe big story this election was the stunning turnabout in Mr. Trudeau’s fortunes, his party having entered the campaign in a distant third place only to overtake both the NDP and the Conservatives in the days leading up to the election. Public perception of Mr. Trudeau’s trustworthiness and competence enjoyed a similar lift. Though he trailed Mr. Mulcair substantially on perceptions of competence and—to a lesser extent—trustworthiness at the beginning of September, the graph shows that he began to rally on both metrics mid-campaign in conjunction with Mr. Harper’s decline. In a campaign in which Mr. Trudeau’s experience was a major focal point, these trends indicate that the Liberal leader was able to successfully challenge this characterization among voters.\n\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"959\"]\"\" [/caption]\n\nThe outgoing Prime Minister’s ratings also mirror broader trends. On the one hand, the trustworthiness trend for Mr. Harper holds no particular surprises: incumbents tend to see an erosion of public trust over the course of their tenure as Prime Minister (though this is not universally the case). Mr. Harper’s competence ratings, on the other hand, are noteworthy in that incumbents typically get a boost in perceptions of competence given that they have governed. Reading the trend line in both cases, it seems that Mr. Harper starts the campaign off in a weak position, gains some momentum towards the end of the month and then again drops off as the campaign draws to close.\n\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"959\"]\"\" [/caption]\n\nIt is worth keeping in mind that the averaging effect benefits Mr. Mulcair, Mr. Trudeau, M. Duceppe, and Ms. May, as their supporters are more generous in their evaluations of one another than they are of Mr. Harper. Yet this generosity is itself noteworthy, evincing the kind of inter-party affinity that, given the right circumstances, allows for strategic voting.\n\n***\n\nThe first graph measures Canadians’ perceptions of each leaders’ trustworthiness on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 means not trustworthy at all and 10 means very trustworthy. The second uses the same scale to measure Canadians’ perceptions of each leaders’ competence. These data are weighted by geography, gender, age, educational attainment, language, occupation, religion, religiosity, and civic engagement to ensure the sample’s composition reflects that of the actual population of Canada according to census data and other population estimates."}},"featured":false},{"id":"338841bf-2200-5df5-ae03-b54884a0ea86","path":"/vote-compass-returns-to-cbc-news-radio-canada-for-the-2019-canadian-federal-election","title":"Vote Compass returns to CBC Radio-Canada for the 2019 Canadian federal election","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2019-09-12","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/ali_tawfiq_0ahq_RV_1s_JJ_4_unsplash_8b82665be5.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"\n

Vote Compass Canada is back for the third federal election in a row

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The 2019 Canadian federal election officially kicked off yesterday, signalling Vote Compass Canada's long-awaited return to CBC News and Radio-Canada.

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This is the 17th edition of Vote Compass to be launched on home turf since 2011, and the third time the application was developed for a Canadian federal election. To date, Vote Compass has been used over 20 million times, across seven different countries.

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Canadians can visit https://votecompass.cbc.ca/canada/ to see how their views align with those of the parties running in this year's federal election.

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PromoterAustralian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (ABN 52 429 278 345) of 700 Harris Street, Ultimo 2007, New South Wales, Australia
Website (Clause 1)http://voxpoplabs.com/ (operating as partner for ABC on the Australia Talks project)
Entry Restrictions (Clause 4)Entry to the Competition is open to: members of the Vox Pop Labs research panel (Australian participants only). Entrants must be 18 years or over.
Competition Period (Clause 5)Commences: 1300 AEST on Saturday, 20 July 2019\n\nEnds: 2359 AEST, on Saturday, 27 July 2019
Entry Method (Clause 6)To enter, entrants must: Complete the Vox Pop Labs Australia Talks mainline study and complete a simple maths equation – see Clause 8 below
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Judging Details (Clause 8)Must correctly complete the mathematics equation 2 + 1 =\n\nThe draw will be held at 0900 AEST on Wednesday, 31 July 2019 at ABC Ultimo (the Promoters address) where an ABC representative will draw (one) 1 response from the pool of entries.
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Based on data collected from our Echoes initiative, we mapped support for the Toronto Maple Leafs across Ontario

\nUse the map below to explore Ontarians' NHL loyalties. Underneath the map we have ranked each riding in the province in terms of their support for the Blue and White.\n
\"Ontario is a pretty die-hard Leafs province. The only places where support for the Habs or the Senators outpaces that of the Leafs is in the very east of the province,\" says Justin Savoie, data scientist at Vox Pop Labs.
\nSelect any riding in the map below to see how support is distributed among the Canadian NHL teams.\n\n\n

Support for the Leafs by riding

\n1. Burlington—65%\n2. Haliburton--Kawartha Lakes--Brock—65%\n3. London--Fanshawe—65%\n4. Markham--Thornhill—65%\n5. Mississauga East--Cooksville—65%\n6. Oxford—65%\n7. Scarborough--Rouge Park—65%\n8. St. Catharines—65%\n9. Wellington--Halton Hills—65%\n10. Whitby—65%\n11. York--Simcoe—65%\n12. Barrie--Springwater--Oro-Medonte—64%\n13. Don Valley North—64%\n14. Markham--Stouffville—64%\n15. Oshawa—64%\n16. Aurora--Oak Ridges--Richmond Hill—63%\n17. Barrie--Innisfil—63%\n18. Beaches--East York—63%\n19. Brampton East—63%\n20. Brantford--Brant—63%\n21. Dufferin--Caledon—63%\n22. Elgin--Middlesex--London—63%\n23. Newmarket--Aurora—63%\n24. Niagara Centre—63%\n25. Scarborough--Agincourt—63%\n26. Vaughan--Woodbridge—63%\n27. Willowdale—63%\n28. Brampton North—62%\n29. Bruce--Grey--Owen Sound—62%\n30. Eglinton--Lawrence—62%\n31. Essex—62%\n32. Etobicoke North—62%\n33. Flamborough--Glanbrook—62%\n34. Haldimand--Norfolk—62%\n35. Huron--Bruce—62%\n36. King--Vaughan—62%\n37. Parry Sound--Muskoka—62%\n38. Richmond Hill—62%\n39. Scarborough North—62%\n40. Thornhill—62%\n41. York South--Weston—62%\n42. Brampton South—61%\n43. Cambridge—61%\n44. Chatham-Kent--Leamington—61%\n45. Don Valley West—61%\n46. Durham—61%\n47. Lambton--Kent--Middlesex—61%\n48. Markham--Unionville—61%\n49. Mississauga--Lakeshore—61%\n50. Oakville North--Burlington—61%\n51. Pickering--Uxbridge—61%\n52. Scarborough Centre—61%\n53. Simcoe--Grey—61%\n54. Brampton Centre—60%\n55. Davenport—60%\n56. Etobicoke--Lakeshore—60%\n57. Hamilton Centre—60%\n58. Milton—60%\n59. Mississauga Centre—60%\n60. Niagara Falls—60%\n61. Niagara West—60%\n62. Scarborough Southwest—60%\n63. Toronto--Danforth—60%\n64. Don Valley East—59%\n65. Mississauga--Malton—59%\n66. Scarborough--Guildwood—59%\n67. Brampton West—58%\n68. Hamilton Mountain—58%\n69. Nickel Belt—58%\n70. Perth--Wellington—58%\n71. Sudbury—58%\n72. Toronto Centre—58%\n73. Waterloo—58%\n74. York Centre—58%\n75. Ajax—57%\n76. Etobicoke Centre—57%\n77. Mississauga--Erin Mills—57%\n78. Sarnia--Lambton—57%\n79. University--Rosedale—57%\n80. Hamilton West--Ancaster--Dundas—56%\n81. London North Centre—56%\n82. Northumberland--Peterborough South—56%\n83. Oakville—56%\n84. Kitchener--Conestoga—55%\n85. Parkdale--High Park—55%\n86. London West—54%\n87. Hamilton East--Stoney Creek—53%\n88. Humber River--Black Creek—53%\n89. Kitchener Centre—53%\n90. Toronto--St. Paul's—53%\n91. Guelph—52%\n92. Kitchener South--Hespeler—52%\n93. Simcoe North—52%\n94. Spadina--Fort York—52%\n95. Windsor--Tecumseh—50%\n96. Mississauga--Streetsville—48%\n97. Thunder Bay--Rainy River—42%\n98. Timmins--James Bay—42%\n99. Sault Ste. Marie—41%\n100. Kenora—37%\n101. Thunder Bay--Superior North—37%\n102. Algoma--Manitoulin--Kapuskasing—36%\n103. Leeds--Grenville--Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes—35%\n104. Bay of Quinte—31%\n105. Peterborough--Kawartha—31%\n106. Kingston and the Islands—28%\n107. Windsor West—28%\n108. Hastings--Lennox and Addington—24%\n109. Lanark--Frontenac--Kingston—24%\n110. Stormont--Dundas--South Glengarry—24%\n111. Nipissing--Timiskaming—20%\n112. Ottawa Centre—17%\n113. Carleton—16%\n114. Ottawa South—16%\n115. Ottawa--Vanier—16%\n116. Renfrew--Nipissing--Pembroke—15%\n117. Kanata--Carleton—13%\n118. Nepean—13%\n119. Glengarry--Prescott--Russell—12%\n120. Orléans—12%\n121. Ottawa West--Nepean—12%"}},"featured":false},{"id":"337aced3-b21d-5d04-b43c-52a3fd332462","path":"/the-quebec-election-campaigns-most-influential-tweeters","title":"The Quebec election campaign's most influential Tweeters","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2014-04-06","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/livia_widjaja_G3_D_Zf_D_Nci_VQ_unsplash_23c4dec5d4.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Vox Pop Labs analyses the Twitterverse throughout the 2014 Quebec election race to identify the campaign's key influencers

\nOn the eve of election day in Quebec, Vox Pop Labs illustrated how politics played out in the Quebec Twitterverse during the course of the campaign.\n\nAs part of our ongoing series of Twitter influence maps, we traced the relationships among several hundred of the most retweeted Twitter users drawn from the pool of Tweets that used popular Quebec political hashtags between March 5 and April 5, 2014. Contrasted with our analysis at the outset of the campaign, we note an increasingly polarized political landscape.\n
“Perhaps it's an indication of the antagonistic tone that has characterised this campaign,” said Yannick Dufresne, Director of Communications for Vox Pop Labs.
\nThese findings are consistent with those of a recent study from Indiana University, which demonstrated Twitter users in the political Twittersphere were highly segregated.\n
“We use a network visualization technique to show graphically whether Quebec is similarly polarized among partisans on Twitter,” said Gregory Eady, Director of Analytics for Vox Pop Labs.
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Quebec's top 100 political Tweeters

\n1. Parti Québécois (@partiquebecois)\n2. Robert Deragon (@Robert_Deragon)\n3. Paco Lebel (@PacoLebel)\n4. Antagoniste.net (@Antagoniste_net)\n5. Stéphane Gobeil (@gobeillades)\n6. Pierre Duchesne (@duchp)\n7. Bernard Drainville (@BDrainvillePQ)\n8. PLQ (@LiberalQuebec)\n9. L'indépendantiste (@quebecmonpays)\n10. sylvie m (@cherielle100)\n11. Christian Rochon (@CrocMtl)\n12. S. E. Fortin (@S_EFortin)\n13. Don Macpherson (@DMacpGaz)\n14. Sylvain Cloutier (@SylvainCloutie)\n15. Philippe Boucher (@boucherphilippe)\n16. Marie Rose (@MarieRose42)\n17. Michel Laurence (@MichelLaurence)\n18. Québec solidaire (@QuebecSolidaire)\n19. Drouin Danielle (@DrouinDa)\n20. CoalitionAvenirQc (@coalitionavenir)\n21. Jean-François Lisée (@JFLisee)\n22. NathalieTremblay (@NatTremb_)\n23. Dark Jedi (@ThDarkJedi_)\n24. Françoise David (@FrancoiseDavid)\n25. Denis Bilodeau (@DenisBilodeau2)\n26. Angelica Montgomery (@ajmontgomery)\n27. Philippe Couillard (@phcouillard)\n28. Sébastien Bovet (@SebBovetSRC)\n29. Léo Bureau-Blouin (@leobblouin)\n30. HuffPost Québec (@HuffPostQuebec)\n31. Jacques Morissette (@jamaislu)\n32. Pequistes.Info (@pequistesinfo)\n33. Paul Journet (@PaulJournet)\n34. Martine Desjardins (@M_Desjardins)\n35. Daniel Thibault (@danielthibault)\n36. Mathieu Bélanger (@Belangmt)\n37. Pierre Morin (@PierreMorinQc)\n38. Dan Duchesne (@DanielleDuches)\n39. Le Devoir (@LeDevoir)\n40. Etienne Richer (@Etricher)\n41. Mantiss (@mantiss69)\n42. Jocelyne Robert (@JocelyneRobert)\n43. Dave McMahon (@Dave_McMah0n)\n44. Michel Dion (@iiibooo)\n45. Antonine Yaccarini (@Antoyac)\n46. Ginette Léger (@Giboue)\n47. Belle Province (@belle_province)\n48. Yves Ga (@YvesGa12)\n49. Yann Langlais Plante (@YannLPlante)\n50. Andre Pratte (@apratte)\n51. INFO LaCAQ (@INFOLaCAQ)\n52. Militant Péquiste (@PierGravelinePQ)\n53. David Doyon (@davidvdoyon)\n54. Hélène O'Hara (@OHaraHelene)\n55. TVA nouvelles (@tvanouvelles)\n56. Evelyne Abitbol (@EvelyneAbitbol)\n57. BuzzDrop (@raycarr4)\n58. guy crete (@guycrete)\n59. Amir Khadir (@amirkhadir)\n60. Marc-André Pharand (@ma_pharand)\n61. Philippe (@ChefPhileas)\n62. Joanne Marcotte (@Joanne_Marcotte)\n63. Josée Legault (@JoseeLegault)\n64. Pierre Poutine (@PoutinePierre)\n65. Jacques Lalonde (@ParamedQC)\n66. Ethan Cox (@EthanCoxMtl)\n67. Fatima Da Silva (@silvada676)\n68. Kim Leclerc (@kimleclerc)\n69. PierreB Fortin (@pebayf)\n70. Liliane S. (@lilianesse)\n71. Nicole Lamoureux (@lamoureuxnicole)\n72. vincent marissal (@vmarissal)\n73. Dominic Provost (@Dominic_Provost)\n74. Christ Toubab (@_TOUBAB)\n75. Jimmy (@libjim)\n76. ASSÉ (@ASSEsolidarite)\n77. Marie-Andrée Paquet (@mapaquet)\n78. onesttubeniccitte! (@onesttubeniccit)\n79. DenisVive le QC UNI! (@viveMntreaLIBRE)\n80. Stéfanie Tougas (@StefTougas)\n81. Québec inclusif (@QCinclusif)\n82. Dr Philippe Couillon (@DrPhilCouillon)\n83. CaqBus (@CaqBus)\n84. Savoie Jac (@SavoieJac)\n85. Journal de Montréal (@JdeMontreal)\n86. Hugo Lavallée (@hugolavallee)\n87. Manon Massé (@ManonMasse_Qs)\n88. Eve T. Lafrance (@Aevalillith)\n89. Patrice Roy (@PatriceRoyTJ)\n90. Camille_Laurin (@Quebecois_moi)\n91. Mike Finnerty (@finnertymike)\n92. Roger Lemelin (@Rodglem1)\n93. Marc Duperron (@Marc_Duperron)\n94. Radio-Canada Info (@RadioCanadaInfo)\n95. Magazine L'actualité (@Lactualite)\n96. jeanpelletier (@preacherintense)\n97. Julie Hébert (@d_joue)\n98. Charles Lecavalier (@CLecavalierJDQ)\n99. Marie (@TatoueImy)\n100. Élections Québec (@electionsquebec)"}},"featured":false},{"id":"f270abfa-8651-58cf-a7b5-245775a8f47b","path":"/the-psychology-of-ford-nation","title":"The psychology of Ford Nation","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2018-06-12","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/andre_furtado_G5rz_Fysg9_Ro_unsplash_8423779de3.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

It took only a few minutes after the polls closed to determine how Ontarians voted, but the results from Vote Compass help better understand what they voted for.

\nThe convention in a winner-takes-all system like Ontario is for the party that forms government to equate a mandate to govern with a nod from voters to its election platform. But there is ample evidence to indicate that voters do not always elect their representatives on the basis of their campaign promises. Ergo, a newly-elected government ought to be cautious not to interpret a victory at the polls as a deliberate or wholesale endorsement of its policy proposals. Democracies are well-served by governments that are reflective about the mandate they are given by the electorate.\n\nVote Compass, an online initiative run in partnership between CBC News and Vox Pop Labs during election campaigns, solicits the views of individual citizens on salient public policy issues and then calculates their alignment to the positions of each of the parties running for office. The 2018 Ontario election edition of Vote Compass was launched as the campaign officially kicked off and, by election day, had been used by nearly a half-million Ontarians. It now serves as the single largest source of public opinion data ever collected in Ontario during an election campaign. And while Vote Compass participants were not selected at random, the size, composition and attributes of the sample allow the data to modelled in such a way as to make representative inferences about the population of Ontario.\n\nVote Compass asked Ontarians their views on 30 public policy matters relevant to the election campaign. What follows are the findings on each of those issues. Given the unprecedented number of Ontarians represented within these findings, and the much broader range of policy areas than are normally included in conventional polls, the results of Vote Compass offer a unique opportunity for government to be more responsive to the clearly-articulated views of those it represents.\n\nThe findings are broken down by the declared vote intention of respondents at the time of their participation in Vote Compass. The overall distributions of opinion per proposition are also represented. The stark differences in opinion between PC voters and their Liberal, NDP, and Green counterparts are perhaps the most consistently striking finding throughout the results.\n

Taxes and Deficit

\n\nDespite Mr. Ford’s election promise to reduce corporate taxes from 11.5 to 10.5 percent, only a minority of PC voters—28 percent—actually support the measure. There is virtually no support for the measure among voters for any other party. In fact, 63 percent of Ontarians feel that corporate taxes should be higher.\n\n\nThe same pattern holds true for taxes on wealthy Ontarians, where only 19 percent of PC voters support tax breaks for the rich. There is even less support within the general population for reducing taxes on the wealthy than there is for lower corporate taxes. Seventy percent of Ontarians want to see wealthier individuals pay more in taxes.\n\n\nOnly among PC voters is there majority support for deficit reductions even if it results in cuts to public services. Seventy-three percent of PC voters want to see government spending come down, even if that means cuts to public services. Within the general population opinion is split on the issue, with 41 percent of Ontarians in support of cuts and 43 percent opposed.\n\n\nDespite Mr. Ford’s commitment not to lay off a single government worker as part of his plan to find efficiencies in government to pay for his party’s promises, breaking this particular promise is not likely to earn him much scorn among his voters. Seventy-four percent of PC voters think that there are too many people working for government. Forty-seven percent of Ontarians agree.\n

Wealth Gap

\n\nA majority of Ontarians—68 per cent—feel that there is too much disparity between rich and poor Ontarians. While Liberal, NDP, and Green voters all agree that the provincial government should do more to reduce this gap, PC supporters are divided on the issue.\n\n\nOn the matter of raising the minimum wage, a key plank of the Liberal agenda under Kathleen Wynne, nearly half of all Ontarians support keeping the minimum wage at the present rate of $14 per hour. Forty-two percent of PC voters would like to see the minimum wage reduced, contrasted with 44 percent and 46 percent of Liberal and NDP voters, respectively, who would like to see a higher minimum wage.\n\n\nOntarians, it would seem, are divided on the idea of a basic income. The PCs indicated during the campaign that they would continue the basic income pilot currently underway. However, 79 percent of PC voters disagree with the notion of a guaranteed minimum income. Opinion is divided within the broader population. Forty-eight percent of Ontarians disagree with the idea, while 38 percent are in favour.\n

Energy and Environment

\n\nAt 60 percent, a majority of Ontarians are in favour of greater environmental regulation, even if it results in higher prices. However, among PC voters the reverse is true. Only 26 percent of PC voters support stronger environmental regulations, while 55 percent are opposed.\n\n\nElectricity costs, an issue that has been an albatross around Ms. Wynne’s neck in the lead-up to and through the election campaign, is an issue where there is rare agreement among most Ontarians, regardless of whom they support. Ontarians of every political stripe take a majority view that electricity prices in the province are too high.\n\n\nWind farms enjoy relatively high support among Ontarians, with 53 percent of the population in favour of building more of them throughout the province. PC voters, however, are more divided on the issue, with 39 percent advocating for fewer wind farms.\n

Housing

\n\nA majority of Ontarians want to see more government action on affordable housing. Sixty percent of the population thinks the government should do more to control housing prices. PC voters, however, are more divided on the issue. There remains more support than opposition among PC voters for government intervention in the housing market, with 44 percent in favour of and 34 percent against further action by government.\n\n\nThere is also majority support among Ontarians for further government intervention in the rental market within the province. Fifty-seven percent of the population thinks that the government should do more to limit rent increases. Only PC voters lack majority support for further restricting rent increases, with 39 percent in favour.\n

Education

\n\nDespite reforms to the sexual education curriculum being a key plank in the PC platform, 76 percent of Ontarians—including 52 percent of PC voters—support teaching sex ed in elementary schools.\n\n\nBoth the Liberal and NDP election platforms make commitments to various child care models. Just over half of Ontarians support government-funded preschool, but again we see an inverse trend among PC voters, 57 percent of whom oppose the idea that government would cover preschool costs for toddlers.\n\n\nThere is broad and unequivocal support among Ontarians for reductions in the financial costs associated with attending university or college. This support is widespread across partisan lines. Although PC voters express less support for reductions than do voters for any other party, 49 percent still indicate that tuition should be lower.\n\n\nNot since the 2007 provincial election has the topic of funding for faith-based schools loomed large in the campaign discourse. With the exception of the Green Party of Ontario, which has consistently called for the integration of Ontario’s public and Catholic school systems, the topic has been absent from party platforms during recent campaigns. However, there is a broad support across political lines for consolidating the province’s Catholic and public school boards. Fifty-eight percent of Ontarians support such a measure, including 48 percent of PC voters.\n

Health care

\n\nGovernment support for dental care was a part of the campaign platforms of all the major parties, although each took a markedly different approach to the matter. Although sixty-two percent of the population supports the idea that government should pay for Ontarians’ dental care, among PC voters 50 percent disagree.\n\n\nAs with dental care, there is widespread support in Ontario for a government-funded pharmacare plan. Fifty-seven percent of Ontarians think the government should bear the cost of prescription medications. The dissenting opinion is again from PC voters, 54 percent of whom as opposed to such a policy.\n\n\nThe outgoing Liberal government has had a contentious relationship at times with the province’s medical practitioners, and questions have been raised both within and beyond the medical community about physician pay. However, about half of Ontarians think that doctors should continue making their current salaries, with about a quarter auguring for somewhat higher pay. On this issue there is a general consensus among voters across the political spectrum.\n\n\nOne of the most polarizing issues among Ontarians is whether girls under the age of 16 should be required to have the consent of their parent or guardian to have an abortion. The divide tracks partisan lines, with a majority of PC voters in support of the requirement for parental consent in contrast to a majority of Liberal, NDP and Green voters opposed.\n

Drugs

\n\nWith the legalization of marijuana on the horizon, the mode of distribution of legal cannabis is a divisive issue in particular for PC voters. Forty-five percent of PC voters disagree with restricting marijuana sales to government-run stores, while 41 percent agree. The overall balance of public opinion in Ontario tilts in favour of running marijuana sales through government sales, but at 48 percent that support falls just short of a majority.\n\n\nMr. Ford’s position on supervised injection sites may not have the support of most Ontarians, but it is well-received among his base. Although fifty-six percent of Ontarians support the government making supervised injection sites available to illicit drug users, a majority of PC voters oppose the measure. Fifty-nine percent of PC voters are against government-funded supervised injection sites.\n

Indigenous

\n\nIndigenous issues did not figure prominently in the campaign discourse, but provincial politicians were recently drawn into a debate over whether public schools in Ontario should continue to bear the names of prominent figures in Canadian history whose legacies include the mistreatment of Indigenous people. The debate stems from a campaign to rename schools dedicated to Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, based on his role in the establishment of residential schools. Ontarians are evenly split on the matter, with roughly 40 percent on each side of the debate. Sixty-four percent of PC voters, however, are opposed to the measure.\n\n\nOn the matter of how much control Indigenous Peoples should have over how Ontario’s natural resources are used, nearly three-quarters of Ontarians support granting Indigenous Peoples the same or greater control. However, 45 percent of PC voters advocate for Indigenous Peoples having less control over Ontario’s natural resources than they presently do.\n\n\nOn the question of how much Ontario should do to improve relations with Indigenous Peoples, 64 percent of Ontarians would like to see the government do more. While this includes majority support among Liberal, NDP and Green voters, only a minority of PC voters—37 percent—share this view. One third of PC voters are content with the status quo, while 27 percent think the government should do less.\n

Diversity

\n\nOn the accommodation of religious minorities, 41 percent of Ontarians think the government should offer the same level of accommodation that it does now, while 20 percent think more should be done and 35 percent think the government should do less. PC voters are the outlier here, with a majority advocating for fewer accommodations.\n\n\nThe notion that public corporations should be mandated by government to have a certain share of women on their boards of directors is a polarizing one in several respects. While more Ontarians support the measure than don’t, neither side of the debate enjoys majority support among the general population. A majority of Liberal, NDP and Green voters favour the measure, while a majority of PC voters oppose it. Of all the issues included in the 2018 Ontario election edition of Vote Compass, this is the most polarizing between men and women. Fifty-nine percent of women support the measure, compared with 31 percent of men. Forty-five percent of men outright oppose the idea, compared with only 18 percent of women.\n\n\nAt 49 percent, a near-majority of Ontarians support the idea that human rights laws in the province should require that transgendered persons be referred to using their preferred pronoun. Only 27 percent of Ontarians disagree with this proposal, but 51 percent of PC voters are opposed.\n

Public Transit

\n\nWhile support for increased spending on public transit is most pronounced in Toronto, where 83 percent of the population are in favour, 61 percent of Ontarians across the province want to see more government spending on public transit. While more PC voters support increased funding for public transit than don’t, they are the only cohort of voters that do not express majority support for more funding.\n

Unions

\n\nOpinion is split in Ontario over whether unions have too much influence in Ontario. Forty-four percent of Ontarians feel that unions exert too much influence, whereas 30 per cent disagree. The most ardent opposition to ostensibly undue union influence comes from PC voters, 70 percent of whom think that unions have too much power. Voters for other parties have mixed opinions. NDP voters are the most likely to disagree with the idea that unions have too much influence, but at 41 percent this is not the majority position even among NDP supporters.\n\nDeveloped by a team of social and statistical scientists from Vox Pop Labs, Vote Compass is a civic engagement application offered in Ontario exclusively by CBC Radio-Canada. The findings are based on 162,146 respondents who participated in Vote Compass from May 8, 2018 to June 7, 2018. Unlike online opinion polls, respondents to Vote Compass are not pre-selected. Similar to opinion polls, however, the data are a non-random sample from the population and have been weighted in order to approximate a representative sample. Vote Compass data have been weighted by gender, age, geography, education, birthplace, and voting record to ensure the sample’s composition reflects that of the actual population of Ontario according to census data and other population estimates."}},"featured":false},{"id":"467a89ce-b1f5-5e37-92f7-2c989a120b33","path":"/vote-compass-launches-in-australia-with-the-abc","title":"Vote Compass launches in Australia with the ABC","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2016-05-13","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/joey_csunyo_2_E_Gu_IR_00_U_Tk_unsplash_50817e8a76.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

After successful campaigns in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, Vote Compass returns to Australia for the 2016 federal election.

\nVox Pop Labs has once again partnered with ABC News and the University of Melbourne for the latest iteration of its popular online civic engagement tool.\n\nThis is the fifth edition of Vote Compass to be launched in Australia since the 2013 Australian federal election, and the second time the application is being used in a federal election.\n\nVote Compass Australia is available online via ABC News.\n\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"\" The Australian edition of Vote Compass is accessible via ABC News at https://votecompass.abc.net.au/home.[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"f96b662a-ebd5-5b36-ac39-970c9216f57d","path":"/vote-compass-returns-to-tvnz-1-news-for-the-2020-new-zealand-election","title":"Vote Compass returns to TVNZ 1 News for the 2020 New Zealand election","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2020-09-09","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/sulthan_auliya_v9_F_Ix0_J_KAA_unsplash_75ca84a0af.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

New Zealand’s national broadcaster teams up with Vox Pop Labs to launch the third edition of Vote Compass in advance of the 2020 general election

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On 30 August 2020, Vote Compass New Zealand 2020 was launched on TVNZ 1 News' website in collaboration with the New Zealand Electoral Commission, as well as Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Auckland. Around 150,000 New Zealanders have already used the application since it went live.

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Vote Compass has launched in every New Zealand election since 2014. It offers detailed insight into how New Zealanders stand on the key issues of the 2020 campaign, such as which party leader would do the best job at managing the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether international students should be permitted to enter the country.

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TVNZ 1 News has been regularly reporting findings from Vote Compass and will continue to do so throughout the course of the campaign. To follow their coverage of Vote Compass findings, please visit: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/vote-compass-2020.

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New Zealanders can also go to https://votecompass.tvnz.co.nz/ to see how they fit in the current political landscape.

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Vox Pop Labs has released an interactive dashboard to allow the public to explore top-level findings from its ongoing public opinion study on the social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

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In mid-March Vox Pop Labs launched its COVID-19 Monitor initiative, which involved fielding weekly public opinion surveys to help better understand the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for Canadian society. Early findings from the study can be found here and here.

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The initiative was soon thereafter also launched in Australia in partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Findings from the COVID-19 Monitor have to date been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as in mainstream media outlets in both Canada and Australia.

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Now the public can explore top-level findings from the initiative themselves using COVID19Monitor.org. An interactive data dashboard developed in partnership with the Vision7 network, the site updated weekly with new data from public opinion studies now being fielded in Canada, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand (with more countries yet to come).

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Visit the COVID-19 Monitor site for yourself at https://covid19monitor.org.

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Canadians want stricter federal measures to combat COVID-19 but oppose cell phone tracking

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On 20 March 2020, Vox Pop Labs launched the initial wave of its COVID-19 Monitor—a rolling public opinion survey on reactions to the coronavirus pandemic and policy responses thereto. Over multiple weeks, random samples of Canadians will be drawn from Vox Pop Labs’ panel. As respondents are assigned randomly to each wave, this rolling cross sectional design allows inferences over time. Initial results were released on 26 March 2020. Since then, we have fielded two additional waves of the study and collected a total of 7,381 responses. This briefing summarizes several new findings across all three waves to date.

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Key findings

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Risks and measures

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Since the first wave of our survey, we have included a series of questions aimed at assessing how open Canadians are to the various emergency measures that the Canadian federal government is deliberating over to fight the pandemic.

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Travel restrictions within Canada

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Currently, the Canadian government mandates those who have recently travelled abroad to self-isolate for a period of 14 days, and encourages everyone else with the exception of essential workers to stay at home as much as possible. Three-quarters of Canadians, however, would like the government to put in place stricter measures to prevent the virus from spreading even further. Similarly, an overwhelming majority of Canadians (80%) believe that the federal government should further restrict travel within Canada.

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Despite this general consensus, an interesting ideological gap emerges, with almost a third of right-leaning respondents (32%) opposing such travel restrictions.

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Mandatory stay-at-home

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Most Canadians (62%) believe that non-essential workers--that is, people who do not perform essential services--should face fines or even imprisonment if they leave their homes.

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It should be noted, however, that centre (71%) and left-leaning (60%) respondents are more open to the notion of a mandatory national stay-at-home order. In contrast, 51% of right-leaning respondents are averse to such a measure. This ideological gap is especially evident among those who chose “Strongly disagree.”

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In the province of Ontario, disobeying the social distancing measures under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act could cost you $100,000 in fines and one year in jail. Since social distancing directives came into effect, the Toronto Police has already issued 2,500 cautions and 88 tickets to non-complying residents. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has warned that a mandatory stay-at-home order could be looming if public health officials recommended it.

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Emergencies Act

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More than half of Canadians (56%) believe that the current crisis warrants invoking the Emergencies Act.

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Female respondents (62%) are much more likely than male respondents (51%) to hold this view. Invoking the Act would grant “extraordinary powers” to the federal government, such as:

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has maintained that the Liberals are looking at ways to enact certain security and governance measures without having to bring the country under a state of emergency. The last time that these federal emergency powers were invoked was during the 1970 FLQ October Crisis. 

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Compared to any other question in our survey, the question on whether or not to invoke the Emergencies Act was where most Canadians answered “Don’t know” (16%). This suggests that some Canadians may not know enough about what the Emergencies Act entails. Significant public education efforts will likely be necessary if the government decides to invoke this legislation.

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Canadian businesses

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We also asked respondents about the broader relationship between government and industry, in light of the federal government’s recent announcement that it would partner with Canadian industries to fight COVID-19. The vast majority of Canadians (86%) believe that the federal government should order Canadian businesses to produce the equipment and supplies that are urgently needed to combat the outbreak.

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Once again, there is an interesting ideological gap here, whereby respondents who identify with the political left (90%), and those who identify with the centre (89%), are more supportive of Canadian companies being mandated by the federal government to manufacture much-needed supplies, like ventilators and personal protective equipment (PPE). In contrast, only 72% of right-leaning respondents hold this view.

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Data tracking

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While Canadians are generally supportive of the federal government adopting stricter measures to combat COVID-19, there is notable resistance to the idea of a partnership between government and private firms to use cell phone location data for the purposes of tracking and containing the virus.

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Younger respondents aged 18-34, in particular, appear to disproportionately oppose the tracking of cell phone data as a pandemic response tool.

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These findings suggest that any potential data partnership, including the security and privacy concerns to which it may give rise, will need to be carefully defined and justified to the public. This wariness should also serve to caution the public-private collaborations that may already be underway, such as the federal government’s procurement of outbreak risk software BlueDot, which uses artificial and human intelligence to track the spread and impact of more than 150 infectious diseases globally.

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Mental health

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For many of us, the COVID-19 outbreak has been stressful and challenging. Most Canadians have experienced increased levels of anxiety, fear and stress in the last 14 days; however, these feelings are felt acutely among those who already self-describe as having poor or only fair mental health.

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For example, 74% of respondents, who had previously identified as having poor or fair mental health, reported an increase in anxiety in the last 14 days. In contrast, only 60% of those with good or excellent mental health gave this same answer.

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The mental health gap is particularly evident in the “despair” and “loneliness” self-evaluations. Canadians with poor or fair mental health were twice more likely to report an increase in feelings of despair, compared to those with good or excellent mental health. Finally, in the loneliness self-evaluation, Canadians with poor or fair mental health (50%) once again outnumbered those with good or excellent mental health (34%).

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Methodology

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Results are derived from a survey fielded to randomly selected respondents from Vox Pop Labs’ online panel between 20 March and 1 April 2020 (n = 7,389). Data were weighted by age, gender, education, household income, region, and partisanship in order to approximate a representative sample of the Canadian population. A second wave of the study is already in the field and Vox Pop Labs will continue fielding new waves every 72 hours in order to track changes in views across time related to COVID-19 and its associated impacts.

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Canadians are largely heeding advice from government and public health officials to flatten the curve, but tensions are running high as the number of confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 rises

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Last Friday, Vox Pop Labs launched the initial wave of its rolling study on public reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. New waves will be fielded every 72 hours in an effort to continuously monitor public reactions to new information in the hopes of informing and evaluating measures being put into place in response to the virus. This on-going research is a collaboration between Vox Pop Labs, MASS LBP, and public health researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. New data will be posted on voxpoplabs.com as it is made available.

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Key findings

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Public concern

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Early findings indicate\nthat concern about the risks posed by COVID-19 have risen dramatically within\nthe last month. A majority of Canadians (56 percent) reported not being\nconcerned at all about contracting COVID one month ago, but at present only 14\npercent remain unconcerned. Despite perceptions that young people are less\nlikely to take the threat of COVID-19 seriously, Canadians aged 18 to 34 are\nmost likely to indicate that they are ‘extremely concerned’ about personally\ncontracting the virus or about a friend, family member or someone in their\nlocal community being infected. While concern about personally contracting COVID-19\ndoes not differ meaningfully between men and women, women are significantly more\nconcerned about a friend or family member contracting the virus than are men.

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Concerns about economic security have also risen drastically over the past month. Three-quarters of Canadians express heightened concern about the economy and nearly half of all Canadians more concerned about being able to pay their bills than they were a month ago. Concerns about contracting COVID-19 have also increased dramatically, with 70 percent of Canadians being more concerned about a friend or family member contracting COVID-19 than they were one month ago.

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The proportion of Canadians who feel ‘extremely concerned’ about the global economy has increased fivefold as compared to a month ago—from 5 percent to 25 percent. Forty percent of Canadians reported being not at all concerned about the Canadian economy one month ago; now all but four percent express at least some concern. Sixty-three percent of Canadians were entirely confident about their ability to pay their bills last month whereas presently that figure stands at 36 percent. And while 74 percent of Canadians had no concerns about their job security a month ago, only 46 percent feel the same way now.

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Elevated concern is particularly notable when it comes to the availability of food and supplies. Just one month ago, three out of every four Canadians had no concerns at all about access to food and supplies—now only one in four remain entirely unconcerned. A similar trend is evident in terms of public confidence in the ability of the health care system to provide adequate care to Canadians. The proportion of Canadians who say that they are somewhat, very or extremely concerned about the capacity of the country’s health care system has risen from 29 percent to 75 percent within the past month.

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Preventative measures

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Canadians are, in large part, abiding by the advice from government and public health officials in relation to controlling the spread of COVID-19. Roughly 9 out of every 10 Canadians reports washing their hands more frequently with soap and water, staying away from crowded places, and avoiding handshakes. Eighty-four percent of Canadians are practicing social distancing by avoiding all non-essential in-person contact outside their home and keeping a distance of at least two arms lengths from others wherever possible. Roughly 8 of 10 Canadians indicated that they were avoid travel outside Canada, although this study was fielded just prior to the border closures. Almost half of Canadians reported not going into work or working from home more than usual although, again, this study was conducted just prior to orders in several provinces for non-essential businesses to close. In terms of additional sanitary measures, 71 percent of Canadians are consciously trying to avoid touching their faces with unwashed hands and 62 percent are cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces and objects more often. Few Canadians are wearing disposable gloves or masks, which is all but discouraged by the Public Health Agency of Canada at this time.

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While a majority of\nboth men and women are practising the recommended measures for containing\nCOVID-19, women generally take more precautions than men. Women are significantly\nmore likely, for example, to avoid non-essential contact outside the household,\nto avoid travel outside Canada, and to avoid contact with people more likely to\nhave come in contract with COVID-19, such as those who have travelled recently.\nWomen are also more likely to take sanitary measures to prevent the spread of\ninfection, such as avoiding facial touching, coughing or sneezing into a tissue\nor the bend of their arms, and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces more\noften.

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Information

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Canadians by and large\nfeel well-informed about COVID-19, particularly its symptoms. Only twenty-eight\npercentage of Canadians feel insufficiently informed about how to access testing\nand treatment for the virus.

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A majority of Canadians\nare relying on the news media to obtain news and information on the COVID-19\npandemic, with broadcast and online news being the most frequently consulted\nsources. Eighty-five percent of Canadians indicated that they are getting their\nnews about COVID-19 primarily from Canadian news sources.

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However, Canadians are less trustful of media a source of information about COVID-19 than they are of government. Public health officials are the source of information about the virus that Canadians trust most.

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Federal government intervention

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Despite widespread\nconcern about the immediate and longer term economic implications, Canadians\nare broadly supportive of the measures that have been taken by federal and provincial\ngovernments to address the spread of COVID-19. Forty-five percent of Canadians\nbelieve that the actions taken by the federal government are appropriate given\nthe circumstances, while 47 percent believe that the federal response has been\na slight or significant underreaction.

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Sixty-three percent of\nCanadians agree that the federal government is doing enough to protect Canadians\nfrom the health risk posed by COVID-19, with Quebecers being significantly less\nlikely than those in the rest of Canada to strongly agree, and significantly more\nlikely to somewhat disagree.

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Public trust in the\ninformation provided by the federal government remains high, with 46 percent of\nCanadians indicating that they have moderate trust in the federal government as\na source of factual and objective information about COVID-19 and 32 percent\nindicating that they have a great deal of trust. There are, however,\nsignificant differences within the population on this measure in terms of\nself-reported ideological placement. Those who are ideologically more right-wing\nare significantly less likely to have a great deal of trust in the federal\ngovernment, while those who are more left-wing are significantly more likely.

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Provincial government intervention

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Provincial governments\nin Atlantic Canada and especially in Quebec have fared much better than their\ncounterparts in central and western Canada in terms of public perception of their\nefforts to combat the rise of COVID-19.

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Eighty-eight percent of\nQuebecers think that the government of Premier François Legault has acted\nappropriately given the circumstances and 94 percent agree that the Quebec government\nis doing enough to protect them from the health risks associated with COVID-19.

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Ontario, British Columbia as well as the prairie provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan have significantly lower approval ratings than Quebec in terms of their respective responses to the crisis. However, in each case a majority of the population agrees—at least somewhat—that their provincial governments are doing enough to address the health crisis presented by COVID-19.

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Trust in the information provided by provincial governments also differs significantly between provinces. Quebec again stands apart from the rest of Canada, with 79 percent of Quebecers indicating a great deal of trust in their provincial government when it comes to factual and objective information about COVID-19. The Atlantic provinces are also significantly more likely to exhibit high trust in their provincial governments, while British Columbia, Ontario and the Prairies lag behind.

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Mental health

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The COVID-19 public\nhealth emergency has also had an impact on Canadians’ mental health. Nearly\nthirty percent of Canadians noted a recent decline in their mental health. In particular,\nsixty-five percent of Canadians reported an increase in feelings of anxiety, 57\npercent said they were more fearful, and 68 percent indicated higher levels of\nstress. Forty-six percent of Canadians feel less optimistic as of late, and 39\npercent reported a decline in happiness.

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Methodology

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Results are derived from a survey fielded to randomly selected respondents from Vox Pop Labs' online panel between 20 March and 23 March 2020 (n = 2,439). Data were weighted by age, gender, education, household income, region, and partisanship in order to approximate a representative sample of the Canadian population. A second wave of the study is already in the field and Vox Pop Labs will continue fielding new waves every 72 hours in order to track changes in views across time related to COVID-19 and its associated impacts.

\n"}},"featured":false},{"id":"28c70981-cad0-56e2-b5a8-3aca41a5264d","path":"/vox-pop-labs-launches-national-survey-on-reactions-to-covid-19-crisis","title":"Vox Pop Labs launches national survey on reactions to COVID-19 crisis","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2020-03-20","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/Screen_Shot_2022_08_05_at_3_17_20_PM_6dd89f1752.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"\n

New study to monitor public opinion in an effort to inform and evaluate measures being put into place in response to COVID-19.

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Vox Pop Labs today launched the first wave of its rolling study on public reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. As steward of the largest online respondent panel in Canada, Vox Pop Labs is uniquely positioned to reflect the opinions of Canadians throughout the course of the crisis.

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The findings generated from the study will assist in the identification of reactions to the COVID-19 crisis at more granular levels of analysis than conventional polls normally permit. Moreover, a new wave of the study will be fielded every 72 hours in an effort to identify trends across time.

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\"This study is an effort to make a contribution to collective well-being during these precarious times,\" said Dr. Clifton van der Linden, Vox Pop Labs founder and CEO. \"Decisions about how to respond to COVID-19 should be made with as much current information at hand as possible.\"

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Vox Pop Labs will be releasing results of the study on its website at regular intervals.

\n"}},"featured":false},{"id":"6388a67e-449f-563f-b2b0-0f16ecc537ab","path":"/vote-compass-launches-in-germany-with-rtl","title":"Vote Compass launches in Germany with RTL","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2017-03-25","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/christian_wiediger_c_UF_4_S_Sx_Y_KA_unsplash_df1f55beb9.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Vote Compass has made its debut in Germany for the 2017 Federal Election.

\n Wahl Navi, the German iteration of Vote Compass, was launched by Vox Pop Labs in partnership with RTL Aktuell, NTV, and RTL News on 24 August 2017 and registered more than 1.8 million users.\n\nGermans were invited to visit wahlnavi.de to get a sense as to how their political views align with the public policy platforms of the various parties running in the 2017 German federal election campaign.\n\nRTL has been regularly reporting findings from the initiative and will continue to do so throughout the course of the campaign.\n\n\"\""}},"featured":false},{"id":"6a0efe97-960f-5df7-b1e1-9173c0946cbe","path":"/vox-pop-labs-releases-results-from-its-toronto-political-sentimeter","title":"Vox Pop Labs releases results from its Toronto Political Sentimeter","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2015-01-30","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/andre_furtado_G5rz_Fysg9_Ro_unsplash_8423779de3.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Results from the Toronto Political Sentimeter trace the ideological fault lines of the city

\nAs part of a collaboration with The Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper, Vox Pop Labs developed the Toronto Political Sentimeter, an interactive application that situates the user — on the basis of one's responses to 27 ideological propositions — within a framework of eight archetypes that comprise the contemporary ideological make-up of the city. The archetypes were derived from an analysis of the results of a survey of 3,405 Torontonians designed and fielded by Vox Pop Labs.\n\nMore than 50,000 Torontonians used the Sentimeter during its five-week run with the Star, generating intense discussion and insightful data on ideological difference across the city. Below are the results for each of the propositions included in the Sentimeter, aggregated by ward.\n\n\n\nTry the Toronto Political Sentimeter for yourself at http://sentimeter.thestar.com.\n\nMore results from Sentimeter are available at thestar.com, including:\n

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/11/29/what_kind_of_torontonian_are_you.html

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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/11/29/torontos_eight_political_ideology_types.html

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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/12/20/whos_more_leftwing_david_peterson_or_kardinall_offishall.html

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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/political_sentimeter/2014/12/05/sir_john_a_jack_layton_doug_ford_which_one_are_you_most_like.html

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"}},"featured":false},{"id":"40fbdcff-b4f9-540d-99a0-66c5075f9156","path":"/vote-compass-new-zealand/","title":"Vote Compass launches in New Zealand with TVNZ ONE News","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2014-09-02","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/omer_faruk_bekdemir_5_Buxu_WIJF_1_Q_unsplash_d03afd79a3.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

New Zealand's national broadcaster has partnered with Vox Pop Labs to launch a Kiwi edition of Vote Compass in advance in the upcoming general election.

\nVote Compass New Zealand was launched on TVNZ's website in a collaboration with the New Zealand Electoral Commission as well as the University of Auckland and Victoria University of Wellington. \n\nKiwis can go to http://tvnz.co.nz/votecompass to get a sense as how their political views align with the policy platforms of the various parties running in the 2014 New Zealand general election campaign.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"640\"]\"\" Vox Pop Labs founder and executive director, Clifton van der Linden, answers questions about Vote Compass in an interview with Susan Wood, host of the political affairs program Q+A on ONE News.[/caption]\n\nLaunched on 16 August 2014, Vote Compass has already registered more than 200,000 users in a country with a population of less than 4.5 million.\n\nTVNZ has been regularly reporting findings from Vote Compass and will continue to do so throughout the course of the campaign.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"959\"]\"\" The New Zealand edition of Vote Compass is available via TVNZ ONE News at http://tvnz.co.nz/votecompass.[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"af61c996-a66d-59cb-9f82-2748711386a0","path":"/vote-compass-returns-to-abc-news-for-the-2019-australian-federal-election","title":"Vote Compass returns to ABC News for the 2019 Australian federal election","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2019-04-25","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/joey_csunyo_2_E_Gu_IR_00_U_Tk_unsplash_50817e8a76.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Vote Compass returns to ABC News for the 2019 Australian federal election

\nVox Pop Labs has once again partnered with ABC News and the University of Melbourne for the latest iteration of its popular online civic engagement tool.\n\nThis is the sixth edition of Vote Compass to be launched in Australia since 2013, and the third time the application is being used in a federal election.\n\nWhether it's immigration, changes in party leadership or environmental and economic policies, Vote Compass provides illuminating insight into where Australians stand on the major issues of the campaign.\n\nMore than 700,000 people have used Vote Compass Australia since it launched three weeks ago. To see how you fit in the political landscape, visit: votecompass.abc.net.au.\n\n\"VC\n\nThe 2019 Australian federal edition of Vote Compass is available at https://votecompass.abc.net.au/."}},"featured":false},{"id":"8812d249-a54b-5d92-b498-a72235cea574","path":"/vox-pop-labs-maps-vote-compass-toronto-results-by-ward","title":"Vox Pop Labs maps Vote Compass Toronto results by ward","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2014-10-28","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/arturo_castaneyra_t_PE_60i_K97qw_unsplash_0e30e68db3.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

What do Torontonians think about the issues?

\nExplore below how opinion on the issues differs across the 44 wards in Toronto according to Vote Compass respondents. The data are based on 22,634 respondents to the Vote Compass application between September 28 and October 27, 2014.\n\n"}},"featured":false},{"id":"0a951b7f-765e-5071-b879-5b190bece8b1","path":"/vox-pop-labs-launches-vote-compass-with-cbc-news","title":"Vox Pop Labs launches Vote Compass for the 2015 Canadian federal election","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2015-09-05","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/vc_Canada2015_Results_7d932b78d2.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

In partnership with CBC News and Société Radio-Canada, Vote Compass makes a return to Canadian federal politics

\nIt's a homecoming of sorts for Vote Compass.\n\nThe inaugural launch of Vox Pop Labs' civic engagement application was at the outset of the 2011 Canadian federal election campaign. During the five weeks from the election call to the day the polls closed, nearly 2 million Canadians used Vote Compass to explore how their personal views squared with the platforms of the political parties.\n\nIn the years since, Vox Pop Labs has gone on to run Vote Compass in more than a dozen elections across the world. But for the team at Vox Pop Labs, the return of Vote Compass to Canadian federal politics is particularly gratifying.\n
\"Canadian federal politics is where we cut our teeth,\" said Clifton van der Linden, founder and director of Vox Pop Labs. \"Vote Compass has evolved a great deal in the last four years. After an international tour we're proud to bring it back home to Canada.\"
\nVox Pop Labs has once again partnered with CBC News and Société Radio-Canada to bring Vote Compass to Canadians. Within a week of launch it had attracted more than half a million Canadians. You can try it for yourself at http://cbc.ca/votecompass.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\" Sample results from the 2015 Canadian federal election edition of Vote Compass. Try it at http://cbc.ca/votecompass.[/caption]\n

Findings

\nThe researchers at Vox Pop Labs analyse respondent data from Vote Compass through the campaign and provide their findings to CBC News and Société Radio-Canada. Reports on Vote Compass findings are posted to the Vox Pop Labs Facebook Page."}},"featured":false},{"id":"f29a035a-2a76-5a68-8eb7-b5001a7b1cd5","path":"/vox-pop-labs-names-the-most-influential-toronto-politics-tweeters-of-2014","title":"The most influential Toronto politics Tweeters of 2014","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2014-10-26","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/ali_tawfiq_0ahq_RV_1s_JJ_4_unsplash_8b82665be5.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

As Torontonians prepare to head to the polls to elect a new mayor and city council, analysis from Vox Pop Labs reveals the patterns of influence among those who Tweet about Toronto politics.

\nElections are thought to be fought on two fronts, conventionally dubbed the air war — the campaign that takes place via television and radio — and the ground war — the campaign that takes place via party workers going door-to-door in local constituencies. Social media is an emergent third front, a hybrid of broad- and narrowcasting that is at once global and local.\n\nThe implications of this new front are the subject of much speculation, but social scientists are only beginning to approach the degree of empirical rigour necessary to develop robust theories about the role and influence of social media in election campaigns.\n\nVox Pop Labs is a leader in the analysis of Big Data on public opinion and continues to release innovative research on the influence of social media. The organisation conducted a year-long analysis of Twitter activity based on the use of #TOpoli, the most widely used hashtag in Toronto politics.\n
\"We visualised these data to reveal the structure of the Toronto political Twitterverse. The visualisation is based on a network algorithm that places users closer to those whom they retweet,\" said Gregory Eady, senior data scientist for Vox Pop Labs.
\nThe result is a fascinating glimpse into how Toronto politics has played out on Twitter over the course of 2014.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"Toronto Click on the image to view in high resolution (File size: 21.4 MB). The 2014 Toronto Political Twittersphere by Vox Pop Labs is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.[/caption]\n

The municipal effect

\nThe Toronto Twitter visualisation differs notably from similar analyses conducted by Vox Pop Labs during the 2014 Ontario and 2013 Quebec provincial election campaigns, where divisions among different groups was more pronounced.\n
\"Notwithstanding certain suggestions to the contrary, there are still distinct ideological divisions at the level of municipal politics,\" said Clifton van der Linden, founder and director of Vox Pop Labs. \"But these distinctions do not map onto the discourse as neatly as they do at provincial or federal levels of government. It would seem there is more dialogue between people with divergent views on politics at the municipal level than at other levels.\"\n\n\"Also, the fact that one of the most re-Tweeted users in #TOpoli is a satirical account suggests that tracing influence via Twitter in municipal politics is not as indicative of substantive influence as at other levels of government. Certainly we see some very influential people in Toronto politics underrepresented by their Twitter presence on this map.\"
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Top 101 Toronto politics Tweeters

\nThe following list identified the top 101 Toronto politics Tweeters on the basis of the number of re-Tweets they received in the last year using the hashtag #TOpoli.\n\n1. Don Peat (@reporterdonpeat)\n2. Mayor Crime Lord (@TOMayorFrod)\n3. TorontoStar (@TorontoStar)\n4. ARLENE NIELSEN (@ArleneCNielsen)\n5. Andrew Tumilty (@AndrewTumilty)\n6. SharkDancing (@SharkDancing)\n7. Olivia Chow (@oliviachow)\n8. Daniel (@DanFmTo)\n9. NoJetsTO (@NoJetsTO)\n10. The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail)\n11. CitySlikr (@cityslikr)\n12. Jude MacDonald (@judemacdonald)\n13. Ian MacIntyre (@MrIanMacIntyre)\n14. Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun)\n15. Elizabeth Church (@lizchurchto)\n16. Ari Goldkind (@AriGoldkind)\n17. CityNews Toronto (@CityNews)\n18. 80s Doug Ford (@80sDougFord)\n19. John Furr (@JohnFurrToronto)\n20. Marc Coward (@YYZMarc)\n21. Norm Wilner (@normwilner)\n22. Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)\n23. John Lorinc (@JohnLorinc)\n24. Shelley Carroll (@shelleycarroll)\n25. BC (@bconnolly00)\n26. Alektoberfest (@alekt)\n27. Stephen Lautens (@stephenlautens)\n28. Ann Hui (@annhui)\n29. Elliott Ross (@ElliottRoss6)\n30. Cynthia Mulligan (@CityCynthia)\n31. Music&Politics Radio (@scmusicpolitics)\n32. Adam C-F (@AdamCF)\n33. Katie Simpson (@KatieSimpson24)\n34. Norm Wilner (@wilnervision)\n35. jennifer keesmaat (@jen_keesmaat)\n36. 680News Toronto (@680News)\n37. Paul Stewart (@PaulStewartII)\n38. TheGrumpierHobbit (@AGrumpyHobbit)\n39. Brian Perry (@BTP1960)\n40. John Tory (@johntoryTO)\n41. Kristyn Wong-Tam 黃慧文 (@kristynwongtam)\n42. Mayor Rob Ford (@TOMayorFord)\n43. Christina (@throwitinmyhat)\n44. Andray Domise (@AndrayDomiseTO)\n45. Michael Bouck (@VainHostile)\n46. CBC Toronto (@CBCToronto)\n47. CTV Toronto (@CTVToronto)\n48. David Nickle (@DavidNickle)\n49. Siobhan Morris (@siomo)\n50. Desmond Cole (@DesmondCole)\n51. John Tory Campaign (@JohnTO2014)\n52. john lancaster (@jlancasterCBC)\n53. Kaleigh Rogers (@KaleighRogers)\n54. Norm Kelly (@DMayorKelly)\n55. Alex Naylor (@_alexnaylor)\n56. Charles Johnston (@TO_Chuck)\n57. Robert Benzie (@robertbenzie)\n58. Soknacki Campaign (@Soknacki2014)\n59. Jim Coyle (@coyleWERDZ)\n60. PatRiotchick (@PatOndabak)\n61. Ev Delen (@evdelen)\n62. David Soknacki (@DavidSoknacki)\n63. Pete Quily (@pqpolitics)\n64. Gord Macey (@GordMacey)\n65. Steve Paikin (@spaikin)\n66.  evil   á´°ark (@neville_park)\n67. Michael Shapcott (@michaelshapcott)\n68. Occupy Toronto (@OccupyToronto)\n69. Sun News Network (@SunNewsNetwork)\n70. T.O. Resident (@TO_Resident)\n71. DBECanada (@DBECanada)\n72. Stephanie Smyth (@stephaniesmyth)\n73. Cameron MacLeod (@c_9)\n74. Joe Kool (@Kool_Camel)\n75. ThisHourHas22Minutes (@22_Minutes)\n76. Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie)\n77. Toronto Star GTA (@StarGTANews)\n78. Irene Gentle (@IreneGentle)\n79. catfish8888 (@catfish8888)\n80. Karen Geier (@karengeier)\n81. Joe (@jjfantauzzi)\n82. Fern Hill (@fernhilldammit)\n83. Antonia Zerbisias (@AntoniaZ)\n84. heather (@LadySnarksalot)\n85. Nadia S (@madhatressTO)\n86. Torontoist (@torontoist)\n87. Theo Moudakis (@TheoMoudakis)\n88. Doug Frod Campaign (@2014MayorFrod)\n89. Kevin Wilson (@kvonbling)\n90. Christian Fletcher (@Darth_Pingu)\n91. Paul Ainslie (@cllrainslie)\n92. HïMY SYeD (@HiMYSYeD)\n93. GREAT SCOTT! (@ScottScottyp8)\n94. Frza (@TheRealFRZA)\n95. Bob Rae (@BobRae48)\n96. RobFordFacts.ca (@RobFordFactsCA)\n97. Sol Chrom (@sol_chrom)\n98. Joshua Hind (@joshuahind)\n99. Johnny B (@MayorJeebus)\n100. Jennifer Hollett (@jenniferhollett)\n101. Sarah Thomson (@ThomsonTO)"}},"featured":false},{"id":"6acbd1e7-6098-5dc3-8513-9139d5518442","path":"/quebec-2014-twitter-infographic/","title":"Twitter infographic maps key influencers in #QcPoli","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2014-03-04","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/livia_widjaja_G3_D_Zf_D_Nci_VQ_unsplash_23c4dec5d4.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Are you among the most influential Tweeters in Quebec politics?

\nVox Pop Labs has issued a new release in its ongoing series of Twitter influence maps. The 2014 Quebec election edition traces the relationships among several hundred of the most retweeted Twitter users drawn from the pool of Tweets that used popular Quebec political hashtags between October 2013 and March 2014.\n
“We often view Twitter from our own vantage point. It’s almost impossible to see the big picture from one’s own feed,” said Gregory Eady, Director of Analytics for Vox Pop Labs. “Social network analysis and data visualization help us see the forest for the trees.”
\nThe release is part of the launch of the Quebec edition of Vote Compass in partnership with CBC News and Radio-Canada.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"Quebec Click on the image to view in high resolution (File size: 17MB).[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"b3135238-e88e-5edf-91b4-c69e4ac819e6","path":"/toronto-mayoral-edition-of-vote-compass-launched-with-cbc-news","title":"Toronto mayoral edition of Vote Compass launched with CBC News","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2014-10-16","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/sulthan_auliya_v9_F_Ix0_J_KAA_unsplash_75ca84a0af.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

In partnership with CBC News, Vox Pop Labs launched a new edition of Vote Compass for the upcoming Toronto mayoral election. The Toronto edition of Vote Compass marks its foray into municipal politics.

\nVote Compass Toronto was launched on CBC News one month before Torontonians go to the polls to elect their new mayor. \n\nTorontonians can go to http://cbc.ca/votecompass to get a sense as how their political views align with the policy platforms of the various candidates running for mayor in the 2014 Toronto mayoral election campaign.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"959\"]\"\" The Toronto mayoral election edition of Vote Compass is available via CBC News at http://cbc.ca/votecompass.[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"b2c80d56-6cc7-5fbb-a1a5-f27636537200","path":"/how-ontario-politics-are-playing-out-on-twitter","title":"How Ontario politics are playing out on Twitter","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2014-05-07","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/anna_zakharova_3k_Cl_S8_F_Jl_U_unsplash_ac6ed5333f.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Twitter has become the go-to source for real-time information about the evolution of election campaigns. But the perspective that individual users glean from Twitter depends on whom they follow.

\nTo get a better sense of how influence is distributed across the Twitterverse the team at Vox Pop Labs captured Tweets over the past six months from #ONpoli, the most widely used hashtag in Ontario politics. The result is a collection of tens of thousands of tweets and retweets made by thousands of Ontarians.\n
\"We visualised these data to reveal the structure of the Ontario political Twitterverse. The visualisation is based on a network algorithm that places users closer to those whom they retweet,\" said Gregory Eady, Senior Data Scientist for Vox Pop Labs. \"It provides a bird's eye view of how Ontario politics is playing out on Twitter.\"
\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"Ontario Click on the image to view in high resolution (File size: 14MB).[/caption]\n

Retweets are not endorsements?

\nThe patterns that emerge in the network diagram are immediately apparent as they are broadly consistent with those of the Ontario political landscape. Twitter users appear to divide along ideological and party lines. The Progressive Conservatives and their leader, Tim Hudak, reside in the politically conservative cluster on the left (depicted in purple); their NDP and Liberal counterparts are noticeably close to one another in the centre (depicted in light blue).\n\nDespite the notable proximity of the NDP and Liberals, polarization is common to Twitter's political networks. Network researchers at Indiana University who used Twitter data from the 2010 US congressional elections similarly found that retweet networks had a clearly partisan flavour. Mention networks – the network of Tweets directed toward specific users – on the other hand, were much less partisan. In essence, retweets are primarily endorsements but Twitter conversations cross ideological and party lines.\n

Twitter Political Advocacy Campaigns

\nWhat makes the Ontario politics visualisation of Twitter unique is the small but vocal group of users linked to a political advocacy group in the bottom right corner of the graphic. The interest group – Conceivable Dreams – advocates for the Ontario government to support in-vitro fertilization treatments for couples with difficulty conceiving children. The issue is a contentious one among the province's political parties. Supporters' distance from the main group indicates that they were not retweeted heavily by #onpoli proper, but shows their resonance among a small cluster of users.\n

Twitter Throughout the Election Campaign

\nHow will the Ontario Twitter landscape change throughout the election? As Vox Pop Lab’s Twitter visualizations at the beginning and end of the recent Quebec election show, retweet patterns rapidly shift to emphasise political parties and politicians over unaffiliated Twitter users. Despite their election loss to the Liberal Party in Quebec, the Parti Québécois was by far the most retweeted user throughout the campaign. What this means for Ontario’s political parties is not yet clear.\n

Ontario's top 100 political Tweeters

\n1. Paul Stewart (@PaulStewartII)\n2. Robert Benzie (@robertbenzie)\n3. Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie)\n4. Conceivable Dreams (@OHIP4IVF)\n5. Price-Anderson Act (@ThatArcher)\n6. Ursus Maritimus (@CAGWSkeptic)\n7. The Anti Harper (@the_anti_harper)\n8. Steve Paikin (@spaikin)\n9. paula schuck (@inkscrblr)\n10. Sun News Network (@SunNewsNetwork)\n11. Angela M. Murphy (@angelainTO)\n12. SharkDancing (@SharkDancing)\n13. Adrian Morrow (@AdrianMorrow)\n14. Ontario PC (@OntarioPCParty)\n15. Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren)\n16. Cheri DiNovo (@CheriDiNovo)\n17. Amy MacPherson (@MsAmyMacPherson)\n18. Joe Watson (@JoeWatson7199)\n19. Rob Ferguson (@robferguson1)\n20. Carolyn Hudson (@cmusician)\n21. Ashley Csanady (@AshleyCsanady)\n22. Katie Franzios (@KatieFranzios)\n23. Little Miss Kate (@LilMissKateCo)\n24. Andrew Langille (@YouthAndWork)\n25. Genevieve Tomney (@genevievetomney)\n26. Kristen (@My3LilKittens)\n27. Randy Cross (@haselcheck)\n28. Rick Barnes (@queerthoughts)\n29. TorontoStar (@TorontoStar)\n30. Mayor Crime Lord (@TOMayorFrod)\n31. LinkedMoms (@LinkedMoms)\n32. Keith Leslie (@CPnewsboy)\n33. Michael Marsh (@etenebrislux)\n34. Ken Gray (@KenGray)\n35. Kathleen Wynne (@Kathleen_Wynne)\n36. RegimeChangeVictoria (@SteveFilipovic)\n37. SurlyOldCoot (@surlyoldcoot)\n38. John Lorinc (@JohnLorinc)\n39. Joanne BlueLikeYou (@JoanneBLY)\n40. Andrew Reeves (@reevesreport)\n41. ejb (@ejb__)\n42. Toronto Sun (@TheTorontoSun)\n43. J.R. from Canada (@knoxster69)\n44. Josh Matlow (@JoshMatlow)\n45. J4PSWs (@J4PSWs)\n46. Paul Murphy (@fat411)\n47. Clark Savolaine (@ClarkSavolaine)\n48. Todd Banks (@Banks_Todd)\n49. OPSEU (@OPSEU)\n50. Ontario NDP (@OntarioNDP)\n51. Paul Beckwith (@PaulHBeckwith)\n52. Andrea Horwath (@andreahorwath)\n53. Paul Bliss (@blissblogs)\n54. Alan Carter (@ACarterglobal)\n55. Ryan Simper (@RDSimper)\n56. Tim Hudak (@timhudak)\n57. BC (@bconnolly00)\n58. Danno (@___Danno)\n59. Sid Ryan (@SidRyan_OFL)\n60. Graham Chivers (@deepgreendesign)\n61. Bill Oates (@wjoates)\n62. Karen Howlett (@kahowlett)\n63. RandallDenley (@Randall_Denley)\n64. Margarita Ibbott (@DownshiftingPRO)\n65. Andrew Kimber (@AndrewKimber)\n66. rjbrennan (@rjbrennan)\n67. Cheryl Fullerton (@CherylFull)\n68. Pete Quily (@pqpolitics)\n69. Joseph Uranowski (@Uranowski)\n70. Senator Harper (@goingprorogue)\n71. Sandra David (@sandour)\n72. Twobit Guy (@Twobit_Guy)\n73. OntarioLiberal Party (@OntLiberal)\n74. trapdinawrpool (@trapdinawrpool)\n75. CTV Toronto (@CTVToronto)\n76. Ross (@Haggisman57)\n77. Maria Babbage (@mariababbage)\n78. Press Office (@LibPressSec)\n79. Ev Delen (@evdelen)\n80. Dave Scrivener (@davescrivener)\n81. Marc Coward (@YYZMarc)\n82. Chris Cowley (@oectagovernor)\n83. Antonella Artuso (@suntooz)\n84. Trish Hennessy (@trishhennessy)\n85. Joe Fantauzzi (@jjfantauzzi)\n86. Loonie Politics (@LooniePolitics)\n87. K McCallum (@thenthereskeith)\n88. DBECanada (@DBECanada)\n89. Darth Shwa (@Blaiserboy)\n90. Elliott Ross (@ElliottRoss6)\n91. Danielle Xavier (@TheXaviers)\n92. Jeffrey Lowes (@jeffreylowes)\n93. Paul Smith (@PaulSmithTO)\n94. Darrel Jorstad (@darreljorstad)\n95. PAUL DINNAGE (@PAULDINNAGE)\n96. Jay (@CharleyCanucky)\n97. Zita Astravas (@ZitaAstravas)\n98. Michael Shapcott (@michaelshapcott)\n99. JohnnyCanuck (@Johny_Canuck)\n100. G (@VancouverBlues)"}},"featured":false},{"id":"5f948cab-5e5b-5b7e-85d9-722a8cd2ffef","path":"/vote-compass-ontario-2014/","title":"Ontario edition of Vote Compass launches with CBC News and Radio-Canada","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2014-05-07","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/ali_tawfiq_0ahq_RV_1s_JJ_4_unsplash_8b82665be5.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

The 41st Ontario election campaign officially kicked off today and was marked by the launch of a new edition of Vote Compass.

\nCBC News and Radio-Canada are once again hosting the application as part of their multi-platform coverage of the Ontario election campaign.\n\nThis is the seventh edition of Vote Compass to be launched in Canada since the 2011 Canadian federal election, and the second time the application is being used in an Ontario provincial election.\n\nVote Compass is available online via CBC News. Its French counterpart, the Boussole électorale, is available via Radio-Canada.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"\" The Ontario edition of Vote Compass is accessible via CBC News at http://www.cbc.ca/elections/ontariovotes2014/votecompass/.[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"5930038d-424c-575c-9dea-159b3b5b4fa5","path":"/vox-pop-labs-launches-vote-compass-for-the-ontario-election","title":"Vox Pop Labs launches Vote Compass for the Ontario election","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2018-05-10","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/sergey_pesterev_u01b8_Dzv67_I_unsplash_e27124ffed.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Vote Compass returns to CBC News for the 2018 Ontario provincial election

\nAs the writ dropped and the election campaign in Ontario officially kicked off, Vox Pop Labs, in partnership with CBC News and Radio-Canada, has launched a new edition of Vote Compass.\n\nOntarians can visit votecompass.cbc.ca/ontario to get a sense as to how their political views align with the public policy platforms of the various parties running in the 2018 Ontario provincial election.\n\nWithin 24 hours of launch, nearly 50,000 people have already used the application.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"\" The 2018 Ontario election edition of Vote Compass is available at https://votecompass.cbc.ca/ontario.[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"54d21b90-5c8e-5ca5-b13f-9ea25f622b81","path":"/vox-pop-labs-launches-australia-talks-with-the-abc","title":"Vox Pop Labs launches \"Australia Talks\" with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2019-10-23","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/generic_share_image_f1f44057aa.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"\n

Vox Pop Labs launches a new interactive application that personalizes and contextualizes the results of its 55,000-person national survey

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Vox Pop Labs conceptualized and developed the nationwide survey and accompanying interactive application at the heart of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's national \"Australia Talks\" initiative.

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Launched earlier this month, the application has already been used by hundreds of thousands of Australians, and the survey results have generated hundreds of stories across all ABC platforms. Backgrounders on the initiative are available here and here.

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To try it for yourself, visit https://www.abc.net.au/australiatalks.

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As the election in Quebec was being announced, CBC News and Radio-Canada jointly launched Vote Compass, the wildly popular democratic engagement application from Vox Pop Labs.

\nThis is the sixth edition of Vote Compass to be launched in Canada since the 2011 Canadian federal election, and the second time the application is being used in a Quebec provincial election. The 2012 Quebec edition of Vote Compass drew more than 550,000 Quebecers.\n\nVote Compass is available online via CBC News. Its French counterpart, the Boussole électorale, is available via Radio-Canada.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]The Quebec edition of Vote Compass is accessible via CBC News at http://www.cbc.ca/elections/quebecvotes2014/votecompass/.[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"7f67a5b0-9810-5347-9981-020bbcc51365","path":"/vox-pop-labs-launches-vote-compass-for-the-alberta-election","title":"Vox Pop Labs launches Vote Compass for the Alberta election","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2019-03-26","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/chris_henry_Za_T1_Rghkxs_E_unsplash_6996114620.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Vote Compass returns to CBC News for the 2019 Alberta provincial election

\nAs the writ dropped and the election campaign in Alberta officially kicked off, Vox Pop Labs, in partnership with CBC News and Radio-Canada, has launched a new edition of Vote Compass.\n\nAlbertans can visit votecompass.cbc.ca/alberta to get a sense as to how their political views align with the public policy platforms of the various parties running in the 2019 Alberta provincial election.\n\nWithin a week of launch, nearly 125,000 people have already used the application.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"\" The 2019 Alberta election edition of Vote Compass is available at https://votecompass.cbc.ca/alberta.[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"6367876c-f3de-5c82-b62b-de931943ed90","path":"/ontarios-ridings-from-left-to-right","title":"Ontario's ridings—from left to right","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2018-06-05","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/andre_furtado_G5rz_Fysg9_Ro_unsplash_8423779de3.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Vox Pop Labs measures how progressive or conservative each of the province's ridings are relative to one another

\nDrawing on the unprecedented response to the 2018 Ontario election edition of Vote Compass, Vox Pop Labs has produced a riding-level analysis of ideology in Ontario.\n
\"By aggregating responses to Vote Compass, we can estimate the average ideological placement of each riding in Ontario on a left-right continuum,\" explained Charles Breton, research director for Vox Pop Labs. \"The resulting analysis allows us to understand how left-leaning or right-leaning ridings in Ontario are relative to one another.\"
\nThe findings are visualized below by ranking of all the ridings from most left-leaning to most right-leaning, as determined by responses to Vote Compass. The results are relative to other ridings --- with Davenport being the most left-leaning riding in Ontario and Carleton being the most right-leaning --- and do not represent left or right in absolute terms nor are they intended to be an indication of the outcome of the election. The visualization also indicates the party that held the riding upon the dissolution of government. For ridings that have changed boundaries since the 2014 election, and where the newly created riding overlaps with previous ridings won by different parties, no incumbent is specified.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"\" These results are based on 121,010 respondents who participated in Vote Compass from May 8 to June 4, 2018. The data have been weighted to ensure the sample reflects the population of Ontario.[/caption]\n\nSome findings of note:\n"}},"featured":false},{"id":"bbdfc138-39a9-51d1-b956-fa4deeb24bb3","path":"/vox-pop-labs-launches-echoes","title":"Vox Pop Labs launches Echoes","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2017-12-04","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/Screen_Shot_2022_08_05_at_3_48_51_PM_d8e34cd45d.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Echoes is a user-generated, digital expression of the Canadian mosaic

\n Vox Pop Labs today launched Echoes, an innovative new platform for navigating the Canadian mosaic. Supported by the Government of Canada through the Canada 150 Fund, and hosted by CBC Radio-Canada, Echoes serves as a point of engagement with the diversity of views and values that characterize Canadian society. The user-generated content preserved in the platform will serve as a digital legacy of the peoples of Canada at this marker in history.\n\nTo try Echoes for yourself, visit echoes.cbc.ca .\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"959\"]\"\" A screenshot of the Echoes results. Try it for yourself at echoes.cbc.ca[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"7ed1f368-70f0-50fa-8a19-73d56d9743f8","path":"/vox-pop-labs-wraps-up-another-busy-year","title":"Vox Pop Labs wraps up another busy year","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2018-11-12","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/yolk_coworking_krakow_A_Qdy_Cf_X_Wx_B4_unsplash_5da2b1ede7.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

It's been a busy period for Vox Pop Labs. In the span of three months, we launched five different Vote Compasses, and together they were used by almost two million people.

\nThis past summer saw the launch of the third edition of Vote Compass Quebec, and the launch of the first-ever Vote Compass New Brunswick---all done in collaboration with CBC/Radio-Canada.\n\nWe also launched Vote Compass - Youth edition, designed specifically to engage students and teachers in classroom discussions about the Canadian political process. Launched jointly with CIVIX, Vote Compass Student Edition can be used at any time and is not specific to a given election.\n\nWhile those three Vote Compasses were running simultaneously, we added a fourth one: Sintonia Eleitoral. Launched in collaboration with Brazilian news portal G1 - Globo, Sintonia Eleitoral marked our first foray into Latin America, and engaged over a million users during each round of the Brazilian presidential election.\n\nFinally, to wrap up a busy year, we partnered with the Urban Policy Lab and CBC/Radio-Canada once again to launch the second municipal edition of Vote Compass Toronto. In this new edition, Torontonians were able to get a sense of how their political views aligned with not only the two major mayoral candidates, but also the 120+ candidates who competed for council seats in Toronto's 25 wards. Through the Urban Policy Lab's Council Scorecard initiative, our tool allowed users to match candidate positions in Vote Compass with the actual voting records of incumbent councillors.\n\nYou can explore the views of Torontonians on the 30 issues included in the tool and look at variation across Toronto's 25 wards."}},"featured":false},{"id":"d91315ef-c230-5f79-8264-7e6ad9bc9e52","path":"/vox-pop-labs-launches-us-presidential-edition-of-vote-compass-with-vox","title":"Vox Pop Labs launches US presidential edition of Vote Compass with Vox","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2016-10-04","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/element5_digital_ls8_Kc0_P9h_AA_unsplash_d33a9cea4b.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Vote Compass has made its return to the United States for the 2016 Presidential Election.

\n In an election that has recently been dominated by discussion of the candidates' personalities and of the latest polling trends, Vote Compass tries to steer the conversation in a more substantive direction toward the public policies championed by the respective presidential candidates. \n\n \n\nWithin a few hours of its debut, over 13,000 Americans used Vote Compass to see how their views align with those of the presidential candidates. Launched in partnership with Vox Media, the 20th and latest edition of Vote Compass is available here.\n\n \n\nTo learn more about the 2016 Presidential Election edition of Vote Compass, check out this article by Vox's Alvin Chang.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"959\"]\"\" The 2016 American Presidential Election edition of Vote Compass is available via Vox Media by clicking here [/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"e2ccd2fb-cd51-58e0-9674-2b25e496f663","path":"/manitoba-and-saskatchewan-editions-of-vote-compass-launch-with-cbc-news-and-radio-canada","title":"Manitoba and Saskatchewan editions of Vote Compass launch with CBC News and Radio-Canada","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2016-03-15","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/chris_henry_Za_T1_Rghkxs_E_unsplash_6996114620.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

The 17th and 18th editions of Vote Compass mark the first time the popular civic engagement application has been launched at the provincial level in both Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

\nVox Pop Labs has once again partnered with CBC News and Radio-Canada for these latest iterations of Vote Compass, which are available in both provinces in English and French.\n\nThis is the seventh edition of Vote Compass to be launched in Canada since the 2011 Canadian federal election, and the second time the application is being used in an Ontario provincial election.\n\nVote Compass Manitoba and Saskatchewan are available online via CBC News. Their French counterparts are available via Radio-Canada.\n\n\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1500\"]\"\" The Saskatchewan and Manitoba editions of Vote Compass are accessible via CBC News at http://votecompass.cbc.ca/.[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"1e56f708-e1dc-5ae5-af10-53a33fdd3b16","path":"/vote-compass-launches-in-queensland-with-the-abc","title":"Vote Compass launches in Queensland with the ABC","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2015-01-12","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/city_of_gold_coast_SVS_Cw_O_Ht_P_0_unsplash_21b8aecb35.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Australia's public broadcaster has once again commissioned Vox Pop Labs to develop Vote Compass — this time for the state election in Queensland.

\nFollowing its wildly popular run with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the 2013 Australian federal election and its successful foray into state elections during the 2014 Victorian state election, the ABC has once again commissioned Vox Pop Labs for the 2015 Queensland state election.\n\nTry Vote Compass Queensland for yourself by visiting http://www.abc.net.au/news/qld-election-2015/vote-compass/."}},"featured":false},{"id":"ba98deb2-8d46-5e65-87e3-2433fa03742d","path":"/tedxuoft/","title":"Vox Pop Labs @ TEDxUofT","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2014-03-01","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/andre_furtado_G5rz_Fysg9_Ro_unsplash_8423779de3.jpg"},"seo":null,"shortContent":null,"content":{"data":{"content":"

Vox Pop Labs founder and CEO Clifton van der Linden was among the speakers at the 2014 University of Toronto TEDx conference.

\nHis talk, entitled How digital media and Big Data are redefining democracy, centred on the prospects of technological innovation for democratic renewal.\n
“Emergent information and communication technologies demonstrate great promise for more robust democracies,” said Clifton. “What’s required is a retooling of the mechanisms of civic engagement and a redefinition of the practice of citizenship in a digital age.”
\nTED is a non-profit organisation devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages.\n\nThe conference was held on March 1 at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto, Canada.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_33\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"600\"]\"\" Clifton van der Linden, Vox Pop Labs founder and CEO, speaks at the 2014 TEDxUofT conference. (Photo credit: @KiranSajwani)[/caption]"}},"featured":false},{"id":"c79582e3-07d1-501b-9b2e-7792a925178e","path":"/vote-compass-canada-back-for-fourth-election-in-a-row","title":"Vote Compass Canada back for fourth election in a row","author":"","publishedOn":"2021-08-15","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/votecompass_product_thumb_a07160989e.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":"Canadians are going to the polls on September 20 and Vox Pop Labs has partnered with the CBC/Radio-Canada to bring you Vote Compass for the fourth federal election in a row. ","content":{"data":{"content":"Canadians are going to the polls on September 20 and Vox Pop Labs has partnered with the **CBC/Radio-Canada** to bring you Vote Compass for the fourth federal election in a row. \n\nVote Compass helps voters navigate how their personal politics line up with the party platforms.\n\nTo date it has been used over 25 million times, across eight different countries.\n\nThe topics covered in the 2021 election include:\n\n* People should be required to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to attend public events\n* How much should the Canadian government spend on police services?\n* How much should Canada do to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions?\n* Canada’s laws against hate speech place too many limits on freedom of expression\n\nIt takes 10-15 minutes to complete and is easy to use whatever device you’re on.\n\nTo take part in Vote Compass – a survey tool which shows users how their views match up with party policies – go to [https://votecompass.cbc.ca/canada](https://votecompass.cbc.ca/canada)."}},"featured":null},{"id":"b0af6638-80b4-5268-a24b-c9abfeae60fd","path":"/2025-year-in-review","title":"2025 Year in Review: Strengthening Democracy and Public Voice","author":"Vox Pop Labs","publishedOn":"2026-03-17","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/andre_furtado_G5rz_Fysg9_Ro_unsplash_8423779de3.jpg"},"seo":{"metaTitle":"Strengthening Democracy and Public Voice","metaDescription":"Reflecting on a year that saw Vox Pop Labs engage millions of people across the world in democratic participation and meaningful public dialogue.","metaImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/andre_furtado_G5rz_Fysg9_Ro_unsplash_8423779de3.jpg"},"twitterHandle":"@VoxPopLabs"},"shortContent":"As 2025 draws to a close, we're reflecting on a year that saw Vox Pop Labs engage millions of people across the world in democratic participation and meaningful public dialogue.","content":{"data":{"content":"As 2025 draws to a close, we're reflecting on a year that saw Vox Pop Labs engage millions of people across the world in democratic participation and meaningful public dialogue. From federal elections in Canada and Australia to groundbreaking research on trust in news media and the future of primary care, our team worked to amplify citizen voices where they matter most.\n\n## Vote Compass: Two Federal Elections, Millions of Voters\n\nThis year marked a historic milestone for Vote Compass, with simultaneous deployments during federal elections in both Canada and Australia.\n\n### Canada's Fifth Consecutive Federal Election Partnership with the CBC\n\nIn partnership with CBC/Radio-Canada, we launched the fifth consecutive federal edition of Vote Compass for Canada's April 2025 election. The response was remarkable—more than 100,000 Canadians completed Vote Compass within the first 24 hours, with participation exceeding 1.6M users during the election campaign. The tool helped Canadians navigate an election shaped by unprecedented issues, with Canada-U.S. relations emerging as the top concern for 29% of respondents—a dramatic shift from 2021, when the environment led at 24%.\n\n### Australia's Fourth Federal Edition with the ABC\n\nSimultaneously, we partnered with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to deploy the fourth Australian federal edition of Vote Compass. Within the first week, more than half a million Australians used the application to explore how their views aligned with party platforms ahead of the May 3rd election.\n\nTogether, these deployments extended Vote Compass's reach across 65+ elections in 11 countries—continuing our mission to provide voters with accessible, unbiased information to help them make informed choices.\n\n## The Signal: Forecasting Elections with the Toronto Star\n\nWe renewed our partnership with the Toronto Star to bring \nThe Signal—our election forecasting tool—to the 2025 Canadian federal election. The Signal is built on a Bayesian statistical model that draws on hundreds of opinion polls to predict vote and seat shares for each political party, identifying and correcting for bias in individual polls. Updated daily throughout the campaign, The Signal provided Canadians with a reliable forecast of election outcomes, continuing a track record that dates back to our original 2015 deployment, where it demonstrated the best overall performance of any poll aggregator in Canada.\n\n## Youth Vote Compass: Engaging the Next Generation\n\nIn partnership with CIVIX, we launched a refreshed Youth Vote Compass as part of Student Vote Canada 2025. This comprehensive, interactive tool was designed specifically for young people to explore their political views and discover where they stand on the political spectrum relative to voters of the major parties. The youth edition features age-appropriate context and explanations, supporting hundreds of thousands of students in secondary school in engaging meaningfully with democracy - sometimes for the first time.\n\n## OurCare 2025: the Canadian Public Speaks Out on Primary Care\n\nIn partnership with researchers at the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Unity Health Toronto, we conducted one of the largest national surveys on primary care in Canadian history. The OurCare 2025 study captured the voices of 16,876 people, comprising demographically representative samples of the adult population in all 13 provinces and territories, as well as a demographically representative sample of the adult Canadian population overall.\n\nData collection ran from April through November 2025, with participants recruited through multiple channels including our proprietary online panel, the OurCare website, external panels, and in-person interviewing in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to ensure territorial voices were represented. \n\nThis builds on years of citizen engagement that produced the OurCare Standard—a framework articulating what every person in Canada should expect from primary care: team-based care, timely access, connected community services, digital health records, culturally safe care, and accountability to communities.\n\n## The News Effectiveness Research Program: Understanding Trust in Media\n\nIn collaboration with Cossette Media and the Google News Initiative, we completed a two-phase research program examining trust in news environments and its effects on audiences.\n\n### Phase I: Unlocking the \"Trust Premium\"\n\nThe first phase, fielded in 2024 with 8,807 respondents across Canada (including both English-speaking Canada and a dedicated Francophone study focused on Quebec), demonstrated a clear and measurable \"Trust Premium.\" Key findings included:\n- Brands advertising in trusted news environments see a 25% lift in brand ratings\n- News publishers rank 35% above baseline in trustworthiness compared to other information environments\n- Local news outlets see an additional 16% gain in perceived trustworthiness—particularly pronounced in Quebec\n- Hard news produces the same positive brand ratings as soft news, challenging long-held assumptions in advertising\n- Publisher trust overpowers ideological slant—even politically charged content doesn't negatively impact brand perception when it appears in trusted contexts\n\n### Phase II: The Determinants of Trust in Information\n\nBuilding on these findings, the second phase of research in 2025 explored what drives trust in news information among the Canadian public. This study uncovered a hierarchy of trustworthiness across sources and contexts, finding that experts and journalists consistently ranked highest in perceived credibility, while traditional newspapers were deemed the most credible context. Notably, providing extended information (in the form of a synopsis of a published, peer-reviewed scientific study) boosted credibility perceptions most for sources initially seen as less trustworthy—suggesting transparency and depth can serve as powerful tools for building trust in emerging or unconventional channels.\n\n## Looking Ahead\n\nAs we enter 2026, Vox Pop Labs remains committed to our founding mission: applying computational social science to help individuals and communities navigate important issues and decisions. Whether through electoral tools that promote democratic participation, research that shapes public policy, or studies that demonstrate the value of trustworthy information, we continue to bring together human and machine intelligence in service of the public interest.\n\nThank you to our partners, collaborators, and the millions of people who engage with our tools each year. Your participation makes our work possible—and meaningful. \n"}},"featured":true},{"id":"1e03c53c-3df1-537e-a4b6-50a875723829","path":"/vox-pop-labs-brings-back-poll-aggregator-the-signal-for-canadian-election/","title":"Vox Pop Labs brings back poll aggregator The Signal for Canadian election","author":"Clifton van der Linden","publishedOn":"2021-08-16","heroImage":{"url":"https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/site.voxpoplabs.com/signal_product_thumb_2_1_7eaf6b56d2.png"},"seo":null,"shortContent":"Vox Pop Labs has once again partnered with the Toronto Star to relaunch The Signal, our election poll aggregator for the 2021 Canadian federal election.","content":{"data":{"content":"

Vox Pop Labs has once again partnered with the Toronto Star to relaunch The Signal, our election poll aggregator for the 2021 Canadian federal election.

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The Signal is based on a statistical model designed to identify and correct for the bias in individual polls. The model draws on hundreds of opinion polls from past election cycles to predict the vote and seat share for each of the political parties.

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The Signal is based on the mechanics of a Bayesian dynamic linear model – a model also in use by the New York Times and FiveThirtyEight – and the full methodology is available online. The Signal will be updated daily.

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It was last used by the Star for the 2015 federal election where it demonstrated the best overall performance of any poll aggregator in Canada.

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Vox Pop Labs CEO and McMaster University political science professor Clifton van der Linden told the Toronto Star that The Signal is a passion project as we know that citizens sometimes rely on polls to make strategic decisions about how to vote.

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“Our goal in developing a poll aggregator is to provide them with the most accurate information we can so they can make an informed decision, if the state of the horse race is a factor in their calculus on election day,” he said

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Read the full article from the Toronto Star here.

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Visit The Signal at http://signal.thestar.com.

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Polimeter also generates data for scientific research.","content":{"data":{"content":"Vox Pop Labs has reimagined the Polimeter promise-tracking platform in collaboration with the CAPP – Centre d’Analyse des Politiques Publiques and CLESSN and relaunched it as polimeter.org.\n\nPolimeter monitors promises made by politicians – and whether those promises are being kept.\n\nThe platform has been completely redesigned and has shifted from a crowdsourced platform to a methodologically robust initiative that builds on the approach championed by the late François Pétry of Université Laval.\n\nPolimeter is rigorously curated, delivering objective, transparent and reliable political information to citizens, media, and researchers about what the government is doing. 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