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Sep 26, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Stephen Duane Staley |Mike Colledge
Commentary 26 September 2024 Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre at a press conference in Ottawa, Aug. 29, 2024. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press. Joe Biden was elected in 2020 with a single, dual-prong mandate: occupy the Oval Office and not be Donald Trump. On that core mandate, he was wildly successful. He achieved his lifelong goal of becoming president and averted (at least temporarily) Trump’s second term.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Mike Colledge |Christopher Hume
Commentary 26 September 2024 Supporters of federal Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre in Ottawa, March 31, 2022. Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ipsos.com | Mike Colledge
Tree Canada and Ipsos have partnered to conduct a survey in support of National Tree Day. Communities across Canada will be hosting events and tree planting activities over two days on September 25 and September 28, 2024. The survey examines Canadians’ views toward the value of trees.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
ipsos.com | Mike Colledge
Companies are now required to substantiate their sustainability claims with reliable data and third-party verification. Are you ready? There are pros and cons to Canada’s recently passed amendments to the Competition Act but there is no doubt it will have an impact on ESG related communications and how companies position themselves and their products in the market.
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May 10, 2024 | 
ipsos.com | Mike Colledge
Spring has sprung in Canada! April showers! May flowers! Warmer weather and forest fires? With parts of Canada already experiencing forest fires and water rationing due to drought, we may be seeing a repeat of the Summer of 2023 when an area three times the size of Italy burned from one coast to another in Canada. Ipsos’ annual Earth Day report sheds light on how Canadians and the rest of the world are coping with climate change.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
ipsos.com | Mike Colledge
Toronto, Ontario, March 25, 2024 — In a perfect world, three in four (76%) employed Canadians would walk or bike to work, according to a new Ipsos poll conducted on behalf of Earth Day Canada. Moreover, two in three (66%) would like to have more sustainable travel options or commuting to work, and half (49%) would like their employer to organize ride sharing among their employees.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
linkedin.com | Mike Colledge
Public opinion surveys are but a snapshot in time. But when you look at their trends and the surrounding economic and societal context it is sometimes possible to get a glimpse into the near future. When we wrote this commentary “The danger of the fading middle-class dream” (https://globalnews.ca/news/8736782/fading-middle-class-dream/) in the Spring of 2022 we were reasonably confident that housing would become a sore point from a public opinion, policy and political perspective.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
ipsos.com | Mike Colledge
As climate change, economic strife, and community malaise hit closer to home, Canadians are feeling expected to align their wallet with their social conscience. While price, product, and service will always be key, how companies measure up on ESG initiatives is going to be a much bigger factor in future purchase decisions. Today, we are all being overwhelmed by a polycrisis. The list of crises is long.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
ipsos.com | Mike Colledge
Concluding from the latest Ipsos ESG Council report, it's increasingly clear ESG's role as an agent for positive change. With more than 8 in 10 Reputation Council members agreeing that poor ESG performance now has material consequences, it is hardly surprising that it is increasingly being given a place at the top table within businesses. But to drive real change, strong leadership from the CEO down is needed to ensure ESG is embedded in every function, process, and role.
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
globalnews.ca | Mike Colledge
By Mike Colledge, president, Ipsos Public Affairs Special to Global News 2:24 Canadians cutting back on travel as inflation, COVID-19 remain a concern We are living in uncertain times. It may seem as if COVID-19 brought with it a whole set of new problems but not all of the issues we are facing are new. Following the peak of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and a rising cost of living have become bookends now added to the long list of pre-pandemic issues. What really has changed is our...
