Patrick Cain

Internal government data released to Village Media under access-to-information laws; letting a health card expire can complicate already stressful medical situations

We asked parents if they worry that it will be harder for their children to afford a home than it was for them. The result: one of the most one-sided set of reader poll results in recent memory

Two-thirds of Village Media readers voting in an online poll said that Ontario Premier Doug Ford should resign over the Greenbelt scandal. Interestingly, a third of those who identify as PC voters agree.

Every six weeks or so, we check in on our running provincial politics poll. Bots have clearly been voting, but we found a way to pull results out anyway.

Most of you in an online poll thought the NDP would fare better in the next federal election if the party moved on from Jagmeet Singh. 

An online poll reflects the coalition of sorts behind Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre: young(er), more male than not and less likely to have a university education.

In an online poll this week, Village Media readers overwhelmingly thought that the Liberals would be better off if they went into the next election with a new leader

A plurality of Village Media readers picked Justin Trudeau as the worst prime minister of the last half-century in an online poll this week, though breaking the results out by age and sex shows some revealing differences.

Our first idea was that it was July and readers needed a break from weighty political topics, so we would have a poll about summer movies. But when the results came in, there was a puzzle to solve.

We publish polls every week, as you've probably noticed. At the same time, we also have several continuously running political polls: views of Justin Trudeau, views of Pierre Poilievre, and an Ontario party preference poll.