September 4, 2008
State of the City
Multi-Themed Survey for the Ottawa Citizen
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August 28, 2008
Prime Ministers Stephen Harper and Jean Chretien on China and the Olympics - CEOs and Business Leaders Back Harper on Human Rights Abuses
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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August 21, 2008
Competition Bureau and Its Investigations - Too Few Investigations, Yet Too Heavy Handed; Bureau Earns Bare Passing Grade for its Performance
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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August 14, 2008
CEOs’ Consumer Experience: Big Corporations’ Service Quality Declining Partly Because Customer Service Quality Does Not Affect Success; Insurance Companies OK; Airlines Earn Failing Grades
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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August 7, 2008
C.D. Howe Tax on Corporate Taxes, Ontario Tax Policy and Tax Inequalities
Inter-Provincial and Inter-Industry Inequalities and Ontario as Major Concerns; GST Harmonization Less of an Issue
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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July 31, 2008
Oil and Gas in Canada’s Future: Strong Support for Gwyn Morgan/ Jim Gray View on the Energy Crunch and Canada’s Energy Priorities
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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July 24, 2008
G.M.’s Cuts and the Future of the Auto Industry: A Serious Situation with Unions and Inflated Benefits as the Main Culprits, Not the Price of Oil, and an Increasing Concern about Government Failures to Negotiate Access to Asian Markets
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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July 17, 2008
Cut Fuel Taxes, Increase Infrastructure Spending—How the Federal Government Should Spend Increased Revenue from Rising Gasoline Prices
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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July 10, 2008
Dion’s Carbon Tax Makes No Progress among Business Panelists and Business Leaders
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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July 3, 2008
Competition Policy and Limiting Foreign Ownership: National Security and Reciprocity the Top Criteria with Culture and Media at the Bottom
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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June 26, 2008
Workplace Challenges - Blackberry and Cell Phone Top the List
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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June 26, 2008
Torontotonians speak in a new COMPAS poll. Is Toronto in Decline?
A Report to the Fraser Institute
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June 19, 2008
Dion's Proposals Strike A Nerve With Business Panel
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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June 12, 2008
COMPAS Business Leader Confidence Index (PDF Chart)
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June 12, 2008
Tax Reform for Small Businesses: COMPAS Business Panel Responds to C.D. Howe Proposals
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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June 5, 2008
Workplace Stress and Business Leaders
Revenue Targets; Staff Retention, Dismissal, and Mental Illness
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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May 29, 2008
Corporate Fraud and Corruption: Canadian Under-Reporting
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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May 22, 2008
COMPAS Business Panel Agrees with Conference Board’s Portrait of the International Decline of Canadian Manufactures, But Sees this as More Serious
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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May 16, 2008
Oil Companies and OPEC Cause Rocketing Gas Prices, Predicted to Rise 38% this Year, Not Booming Asian Economies and Rising Demand
National Poll for the Ottawa Citizen
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May 15, 2008
Government Red Tape - Very Serious Problem for Business, Who Have Little Confidence that Reduction Efforts Will be Fruitful
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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May 13, 2008
Economy in Decline But Canadians Doubt That Their Own Household Incomes Will Be Affected
National Poll for the Ottawa Citizen
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May 8, 2008
The Apprehensions of CEOs and Business Leaders
Deep Concern about the Decline of Manufacturing in Canada; Less Concern than Usual about Fallout from U.S. Recession
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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May 1, 2008
Bank of Canada (Rates) and Prime Minister (NAFTA) Both Earn High Performance Scores
BDO Dunwoody Weekly CEO/Business Leader Poll By COMPAS in Canadian Business
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