As tech giants threaten to block Canadians’ access to online news, a new poll has found that half of Canadians believe the federal government should “back down” on Bill C-18, which calls for big tech companies to financially compensate Canadian news organizations for sharing their content. “Half of Canadians (49 percent) feel their government should back…

In the wake of reports about China’s interference activities in Canada, few in the country see the communist regime in a favourable light, with most regarding it as either a threat or an enemy, according to an Angus Reid Institute survey. Among 1,622 Canadian adults surveyed, the majority (62 percent, or over three in five)…

More Canadians are cancelling their streaming subscriptions in an effort to offset the rising cost of living, according to an Angus Reid survey. The poll found that around a third of Canadians cancelled one of their streaming services within the last six months, with at least half of those surveyed citing the rising cost of…

Runaway inflation and lack of trust in the Bank of Canada mean a majority of Canadians are reluctant to make major purchases, a new Angus Reid Institute poll finds. June’s inflation rate was at 8 percent—the highest since January 1983. The online survey of 1,606  adults, conducted between July 18 and 20, found that 75…

Canadians now have a much smaller appetite for COVID-19 public health measures compared to just months ago, despite warnings of a resurgence of cases fuelled by the Omicron BA.5 variant, says a recent Angus Reid poll. The survey, published on July 20, shows just a quarter of Canadians would now support the reimplementation of a…

More than half of Canadians are struggling to pay for household grocery bills as the country faces a 7.7 percent inflation rate, the highest in 39 years, a new Angus Reid Institute (ARI) study shows. Out of more than 5,000 adult Canadians surveyed, 45 percent said they are worse off now than they were at…

Two-thirds of Canadians on the right of the political spectrum say that most stories in the news cover their beliefs unfairly, while less than one-quarter of Canadians on the left of that spectrum say the same, a recent survey found. The survey also found that two-thirds of Canadians on the right say they don’t trust…