Politics

Hospital Beds, MRI/Cat Scans, Nurses, Tuition Freeze and Diversion of Gas Tax Rank as Top Big Ticket Promises Public Want Now . . . Others Can Wait

Slim Majorities Support Safe Injection Site (56%), Same-Sex Marriage (55%) And Decriminalizing Possession Of Small Amounts Of Marijuana (54%)

Miller (37%) Holds Lead Among Decided Voters with Tory (31%) in Second Spot
Meanwhile, Hall's (19%) Support Tumbles, Nunziata's (6%) Collapses and Jakobek (2%) Out of the Race

A Reader's Digest Sponsored Study Conducted by Ipsos-Reid

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

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

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

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%)

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