Stresses on Employee Health: Top Stresses: Money, Insufficient Exercise, Poor Managers, Parenting, and Spouses Top Employer Obligations: Improve Managers, Improve Leadership, Reduce Employee Conflict…Perhaps Install Exercise Facilities or Fight Alcoholism
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Bank Mergers: Business Opposition Digging in Its Heels Despite Bank of Canada Governor’s Entreaty
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

The Environment: The Frustrated Business Panel Sees Kyoto as a Bad Treaty on a Good Issue, and Gives a Failing Grade to Ambrose and Dion as Ministers
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Wait a Moment: Western Canada’s Initial Response to the Québecois as Nation Resolution in Parliament
A Western Standard/COMPAS Poll

Québecois as Nation Resolution in Parliament: Political Games That Won’t Affect the Quebec Economy or Future of Separatism but Reduces Respect for Politicians
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Infrastructure and P3s: Polytechnics, Subways, Hospitals, and Waste Treatment Facilities Most Need Investment; Seniors’ Residences, Seaports, and Recreational Facilities Most Appropriate to P3’s
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Wal-Mart: Great Business, Not Great Corporate Citizen Positive on More Banking Competition, Ambivalent about a Wal-Mart Bank
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Flaherty’s Fairness: The Minister Surpasses for Seniors, Is Mistrusted on Trusts
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

U.S. Congressional Election and Canada: CanAm Relations Best Ever, Border Movement the Big Issue, Democratic Victory Might Help Canada
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Seeming Seismic Shift in How to Spend the Federal Surplus: Jump in Support for Debt Paydown, Fall in Support for Provincial Transfers in Health/Education; Among Tax Cuts Benefiting the Economy, Jump in Support for Across-the-Board Personal Tax Cuts
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

R&D Spending by Government: Only One Instrument Works - Tax Credits; Only One Sector Merits Targeting - Environmental and Enabling Technologies; Only One Sector Deserves Grants—Universities
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

The Healthiest Old People in History: Retirement Aversion and Retirement Anticipation
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Harper’s Spending Cuts: Widespread Applause, Highest Scores for Clean Auditor-General Report, Cuts in Cabinet Spending, and Ultra-Low Debt/GDP Ratio
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Western Separation
Le Mouvement Séparatiste à l'Ouest
A Western Standard/COMPAS poll

Greenhouse Gas Policies for Corporations: Rare and Improbable - It’s a Government Responsibility
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Review of the Canadian Grain Act and Canadian Grain Commission, a report submitted to Parliament September 18,2006.

Examen de la Loi Sur les Grains du Canada et de la Commission canadienne de Grains, un rapport soumis au Parlement le 18 septembre 2006.

Crises and Crisis Preparedness: Harper Scores Highly While Border Problem Perceived as Worsening and Canada’s Legal and Immigration Systems Considered Failures Firms Perceive Palpable Risks for their Operations and Appear to Be Taking First Steps to Action
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Annual State of the Union Evaluation - Public Sector Unions on the Rise; Private Sector in Decline - Unions Good for Health and as Defence against Unfairness - Devastating to the Economy and Taxpayers
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Report Card on Federal Economic Policy: Strong Scores on U.S. Trade Relations and GST, Middling on Home Security Spending, Poor to Failing Grades in Eight Other Areas
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

State of the Teaching Profession 2006 Annual Survey
A COMPAS Report to The Ontario College of Teachers

Foreign Acquisitions of Canadian Corporations: Protect Energy and Natural Resources, Little Else
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Explaining the Globe’s misleading anti-Harper poll
A Report Poll by COMPAS Inc

Expliquer le sondage trompeur anti-Harper du Globe
Un reportage de COMPAS Inc.

Energy Crunch: More than Ever, North America Should Get Off Oil; Conserve, Explore, and Downplay Russia/Mexico; Ontario Should Renew Nuclear Despite Environmental and Terrorism Risk - Its Premiers Score Badly on Energy Planning
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Widespread Concern about Terrorist Risks in Canada, Harper Earns Good Performance Score on Mid-East, Israeli Response to Hezbollah About Right or Too Little vs. Too Much by Close to a 2:1 Margin, Iran, Saudis Blamed for Lebanon War
Nation-Wide Poll by COMPAS

It’s the U.S., Stupid - Forget WTO, and Build Bilateral Agreements
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Mideast Crisis
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Where and How to Make Money - Alberta - also B.C., Ontario, U.S., and China but Not Eastern Europe or Mexico Real Estate Trumps International Funds and Commodities - Best Two Items of Advice - Invest for the Longterm and Diversify
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

CPP, Pension Debacles, and Defined Contribution Plans: Tie CEO Pensions to Employee Pension Changes, Ontario Wrong to Infuse Teacher Pensions without Debate, No Enthusiasm for Plowing Surpluses into CPP
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Solving the "Fiscal Imbalance" - Good Idea Fraught with Inherent Conflict over the Details and a Risk of Harming the Economy; Newfoundland’s Position on Resource Income Repudiated
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Canada - Rosy Prospects; Education and Skills Key to Our Competitiveness; U.S. and Democracy Key to Our Century of Outperforming Argentina
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Lobbying and Political Lucre: What Gets Influence - Money, But Friendship More Effective; What Stops Corruption - Jail Time and the A-G’s Glare, Division of Opinion about Rules as the Solution
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Mississauga Terror Arrests: Significant Fallout for Canada’s Security Against Attack and Immigration Policy; Marginal Impact on Can-Am Relations; Harper Scores Again
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Corporate Scandals: Jail Trumps SOX and SOX-Light as Deterrent to Crime; Favour Long Prison Terms for Ken Lay, Ebbers, Kozlowski, and Rigas, but Divided Opinion about Martha; Canada Soft
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Asia-Pacific Partnership Embraced 2:1 over Kyoto: Treaty Rejected for Environmental and Business Reasons; No Honeymoon for Harper on the Issue
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Exchange Rates - Bank of Canada Should Not Raise Rates Wednesday; Ideal Loonie Is U.S. $ 0.86, But Likely Value Will Be U.S. $ .93; Rising Loonie Not Likely to Trigger Recession But Rise Appears to Have Harmed Some Businesses; Bank of Canada Governor Earns High Scores Despite Worries
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Corporate Giving: Widespread Agreement about Facts, Not about Obligation; Charities Admired, but Hints of Embryonic SOX-Type Backlash
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Another Strong Week for Harper: High Performance Scores for Budget and Softwood Deal; Praise for Military-Security and Tax Cut Provisions and the Principle of Keeping Commitments; Concern about Budget as an Electioneering Device
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Pre-Federal Budget Poll: Resistance to Cutting GST, Acceptance of Military/Security Spending, Support for SOX-Style Liability for Cabinet Ministers, Near Consensus for Slowing Growth of Federal Spending
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Harper Aces Accountability: Present Government Seen as More Ethical Than Others, Even Somewhat More Ethical than Business
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Newfoundland Oil: Newfoundlanders Hurt Most by Breakdown of Talks, Nobody the Winner, the Ghost of Churchill Falls
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post