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Politics Survey

God and Other Mysteries: A Look into the Religious and Spiritual Beliefs of Canadians

A Reader's Digest Sponsored Study Conducted by Ipsos-Reid
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BC Public Provides Backup To Police On Issue Of Police Brutality

Public Overwhelmingly (89%) Thinks Their Local Police Do A Good Job At Performing Duties In Professional And Respectful Manner

Two-in-Ten (22%) Say Incidents Of Police Brutality Are Common

One-in-Ten (13%) Are Personally Worried About Being A Victim Of Police Brutality
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Support for New Conservative Party Drops With Official Announcement of Merger

Four in Ten (39%) Canadians Likely to Vote for New Conservative Party, a Decline from 46% in Early October
Seven in Ten (68%) Say New Party Will Face Same Problems of Alliance in Breaking Through in Ontario and Quebec
If Former Ontario Premier Mike Harris Was Leader, One in Three (32%) Nationally Say They Would Seriously Consider Voting for New Party - 29% in Ontario
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Jack Webster Awards 2003: BC's & Canada's Top News Stories Of The Year

British Columbians Select Forest Fires (43%) as BC's Top News Story Of Yhe Year

SARS (29%) Top Choice for Canadian News Story of the Year
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Jack Webster Awards 2003: BC's Newsmaker Of The Year

Public Selects Robert Pickton (37%) As BC's Newsmaker Of The Year; Premier Gordon Campbell Is A Close Second (28%)

Public Thinks Media Important To Society (95%) And Themselves Personally (83%)
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Uniting the Right...?

While Almost Half (46%) of Canadians say it's Likely they'd Vote for a Merged Progressive Conservative/Canadian Alliance Party in the Next Federal Election...
In a Head to Head Vote, Federal Liberals Led by Paul Martin (51%) would Trump a New United Conservative Party (32%)...
As Federal Liberals Continue to Lead Today with 47% of the National Decided Vote
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Liberal Juggernaut Appears Headed Towards Majority Government . . . With Liberals (48%) Leading Conservatives (31%) and NDP (15%) in Decided Voter Support in Post-Debate Poll

Majority (52%) of Liberal Supporters Give Party Mandate On Platform . . . Not Just Throwing Tories Out (36%)

If Finances Worse Than Expected, Six in Ten (59%) Say Liberals Should Make Their Platform Promises Work Within Current Provincial Revenue, not Through Increased Taxes (18%) or Increased Deficit (11%)
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Heading Into Leaders Debate, Ontario Liberals (50%, +1 Point) Continue To Hold Decisive Lead Over Conservatives (33%, -2 Points) . . .

While NDP (12%, Unchanged) and Green Party (4%, +2 Points) Continue to Trail

Eves (34%) and McGuinty (31%) Close As to Who Is Expected to Win Debate

However, Six in Ten (60%) Continue to Desire Change in Government As Liberals Appear Poised to Form Majority Government Barring Significant Gaffe Between Now and Election Day
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Same Old, Same Old In BC Politics

BC Liberals (45%) Retain Solid Lead Over NDP (31%) and Green Party (17%)

MacPhail (53%) Continues to Lead Campbell (39%) in Job Approval