It's official: Canadians who support increasing immigration levels are in the *extreme* minority.
New polling from @leger360 reveals 65% of Canadians believe there are "too many" immigrants.
Only 3% say "not enough."
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Breaking this down by region, age, and gender.... the consensus is strong across the board.
Men and women largely agree, as does every province. Seniors are just slightly more inclined to agree than younger generations.
Rural voters are more likely to oppose immigration than urban or suburban voters.
.@theJagmeetSingh's @NDP is the only party whose voters don't overwhelmingly think immigration levels are too high.
In contrast, @PierrePoilievre's @CPC_HQ voters are most likely to believe immigration is too high, followed closely by @MaximeBernier's @peoplespca.
It's important to note that the small sample size for PPC voters (just 38) in this poll is almost certainly skewing the results—in reality, the PPC is solidly to the right of the CPC.
78% of Canadians agree that ''Current immigration rates are contributing to the housing availability and affordability crisis''
76% agree that ''Current immigration rates are contributing to stresses on health care services''
72% agree that ''Canada's immigration policy is too generous''
a mere 26% agree that ''The Canadian government does a good and thorough job checking the background of immigrants coming to Canada''
41% of Canadians support taking in more Gazan refugees.
43% of Canadians oppose taking in more Gazan refugees
30% of Canadians agree that ''Canadian companies should continue to be allowed to use the TFW program to bring in low wage/low-skill employees''
Earlier this year, a team of European researchers with @I4Replication published, ''Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change: A Replication of Giuliano and Nunn (2021)''
‘‘This replication … identifies major discrepancies between several econometric specifications described in the article and their corresponding code. We are able to correct most of these mistakes by realigning the code with the text. Once corrections are implemented, we obtain almost invariably a smaller and non-significant coefficient for climatic variability.’’
The 2024 British Columbia provincial election just took an explosive turn.
Conservative candidate @Scrase has abruptly resigned after a series of mean tweets surfaced, tweets denouncing kids being exposed to ''pup play'' fetishists at Pride parades.
Just a few hours ago, @Scrase was "cancelled" by @JasJohalBC , a journalist in Vancouver and former Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
Johal unearthed four (just four!) of Scrase’s old tweets, and despite how thin the substance of this political hitjob was, the hit was remarkably effective. These 4 tweets ended Scrase’s political career.
Prince Edward Island is the most Scottish province, and perhaps the most ethnically Scottish place anywhere in the world outside Scotland. When combined with Irish and Welsh, almost 80% of islanders have some Celtic stock.
Earlier this month, @amconmag published an article in which I refuted @mcuban's crusade to convince the public that companies hiring board members based on ethnicity is a profitable endeavor.
Cuban responded.
Now... will he accept a debate with @realchrisrufo?
''Krish Pai, 17, of Del Mar, California, received the second Regeneron Young Scientist Award of $50,000 for his machine-learning research to identify microbial genetic sequences that can be modified to biodegrade plastic. His new software, called Microby, scans databases of microorganisms and determines which ones can be changed genetically to biodegrade plastics. In tests, he identified two microorganisms that can be genetically modified to degrade plastic at a cost he believes would be ten times less than traditional recycling.''