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

ICV-National Post Values Survey Part 1: Religious Liberty under Same Sex Legislation - How Much Freedom Should Clergy Have and How Far Should Parliament Protect Freedom
An ICV-National Post Survey

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

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

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

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

Mideast Crisis
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

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

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

Taxes: CEOs Speak Out on the Ideal Tax Cuts for Growth vs. Job Creation, the Ideal Income Tax Rates for Discouraging Tax Cheating, What Most Troubles Them about Paying Taxes, and What Most Re-Assures Them
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Telecommunication - Redefine CRTC Role to Order in the Airwaves and Protection against Local Media Monopolies , Liberalize Foreign Ownership Rules
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Dramatic Improvements in Can-Am Relations Under Harper
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

The State of Press Freedom in Canada

• Very High and Unchanged in a Decade
  
• Among Journalists as a Whole, the Biggest Threats - Ill-Informed Journalists and Uninterested Audiences
  
• Among 9% of Journalists with Fear of Firing, the Biggest Threats to Freedom—Advertisers, Senior Editors, and Owners
  
• Government Secrecy Volunteered as a Threat,
  
• But Regulatory Reprisal Rarely Seen as Impacting Press Freedom
  

Journalists Speak - Part I of a Two Part Series from a National Poll of Journalists

The Offending Danish Cartoons - Most Canadian Journalists Found the Cartoons on the Web and Want Media to Carry Them; A Mix of Respect and Fear Explains Non-Publication; Non-Publication Plays into the Hands of Muslim Extremists
Journalists Speak - Part I of a Two Part Series from a National Poll of Journalists

Honeymoon with a Hiccup: Harper Earns High Scores Except Mainly for Emerson
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Fairmont and HBC Sales: Loss of Icons and Heritage or Ordinary Transactions
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Cues to Harper’s Longevity
A commentary by Conrad Winn for The National Post

What Should Harper Prioritize: Taxes, Crime, and Can-Am Relations, Not Bank Mergers or Childcare Allowance
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Expectations of a Potential Harper Government
A Weekly BDO Dunwoody CEO Business Leader Poll by COMPAS in the Financial Post

Canada’s Entrepreneurial Culture and Its Challenges
Mid-Cap Survey by COMPAS for Roynat Ca