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Bloomberg
03-07-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
The Institutions Protecting US Democracy Have Turned Into Traps
Americans take pride in their democratic past, but not their democratic present: A 2024 Pew survey found that 72% of US respondents felt their country was once a good model for the world to follow, but only 19% believe it still is. What changed?
BreakingNews.ie
03-07-2025
- Politics
- BreakingNews.ie
Nearly half of adults in Ireland say govt response to Palestine has been good, research shows
46 per cent of adults in Ireland think the response of the Irish government to the war in Palestine has been good, with 10 per cent of those thinking it's been very good, according to a new survey from iReach. Over half (53 per cent) of males in Ireland think the response of the Irish government to the war in Palestine has been good, versus 40 per cent of females in Ireland. Advertisement 60 per cent of respondents believe that Ireland should take a stronger public stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict. This number is highest for adults aged 25-34, with 75 per cent thinking that Ireland should take a stronger public stance. In terms of providing humanitarian support, 75 per cent of adults would like to see Ireland provide aid, 62 per cent feel they should provide diplomacy, and 38 per cent think they should provide refugee support. 83 per cent of adults aged 18-24 think Ireland should provide aid and 57 per cent think they should provide refugee support. 65 per cent of adults feel impacted by the ongoing war in Gaza and the West Bank, with 25 per cent of these feeling very impacted.
National Post
18-06-2025
- Politics
- National Post
Slim majority of Canadians found reduced immigration levels still too high: government polling
OTTAWA — Shortly after cutting immigration levels, the federal immigration department heard through government-funded polling that a slight majority of Canadians still found this year's number too high. Article content Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada commissioned the survey as part of its annual tracking of public sentiment towards immigration and reported it publicly as part of the government's disclosures on its public opinion research. Article content Article content The survey, which was done last November, followed the federal government's announcement that it would reduce the number of permanent residents by nearly 100,000 in 2025. The target was set at 395,000, down from 485,000 in 2024. Article content Article content The survey found that 54 per cent of Canadians said they 'felt there are too many immigrants coming to Canada.' Another 34 per cent said they felt the number was fine, according to the report. Article content 'When informed that Canada plans to admit 395,000 immigrants as permanent residents in 2025, 52 per cent said that it is too many, 37 per cent that this is about the right number and five per cent that this is too few,' it read. 'When informed that 395,000 immigrants is roughly 20 per cent fewer than Canada planned to admit in 2024, 44 per cent feel this is too many, 39 per cent that this number is about right and 13 per cent that it is too few.' Article content A spokesperson for Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab said in a statement that work has begun on setting immigration levels for the next two years, with that plan scheduled to be tabled in the fall, as it has in years past. Article content Article content '(Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada) will continue work together with partners to establish the best paths forward to ensure that Canada is in position to attract the best talent in the world, while ensuring that overall immigration levels are more sustainable, and that the integrity of the system's programs remain in tact,' wrote Renée LeBlanc Proctor, the minister's press secretary. Article content Article content 'We won't speculate about specific future policy decisions at this time, but note that work on the 2026-2028 levels plan is already underway.' Article content Determining how many more permanent and temporary residents Canada will allow into the country has been challenged by changing public sentiments around immigration, connected to concerns regarding housing affordability, the availability of doctors and other social supports. Article content While federal officials say immigration accounted for nearly 98 per cent of Canada's population growth in 2023, helping to offset an aging population and bringing the country's population to 41 people million last year, housing experts, economists, and the Bank of Canada all warned that it has contributed to the country's housing shortage.
National Post
11-06-2025
- Politics
- National Post
Canadians reject that they live on 'stolen' Indigenous land, although new poll reveals a generational divide
A majority of Canadians reject the idea they live on stolen Indigenous land, and the older people are, the more likely they are to say they don't, according to a new public opinion poll. Article content Among all respondents across Canada, 52 per cent said they did not live on stolen Indigenous land, with 27 per cent saying they do. The remaining 21 per cent said they didn't know or declined to answer. Article content Article content Article content Notably, there was a significant generational divide among those who answered the national opinion survey, conducted by Leger Marketing for the Association for Canadian Studies and provided to Postmedia. Article content Article content More respondents in the youngest cohort, 18-to-24-year-olds, agreed they did live on stolen Indigenous land (41 per cent) than rejected the idea (37 per cent). That contrasts with those in the oldest age group of 65 years or older, who overwhelmingly said they did not live on stolen land (65 per cent) with only 15 per cent agreeing they did. Article content In between them, the remaining age groups were on an unbroken sliding scale in their answers: the older they were the more likely they were to reject the statement they lived on stolen land, and, conversely, the younger they were the more likely they were to agree that they did. Article content The sentiment rejecting the idea they live on stolen Indigenous land was a low majority regardless of the respondents' region in Canada, except for in Atlantic Canada, where most people still rejected the idea, but at a nationally low rate of 44 per cent, with 29 per cent of Atlantic respondents saying yes, they do live on stolen land. Article content Article content The type of land people live on also impacted their feelings on the issue. Article content Article content Canadians living in rural areas were the least likely to agree they live on stolen Indigenous land, with urban dwellers the most likely to agree. Article content When asked to agree or disagree with the statement 'I live on stolen Indigenous land,' 56 per cent of respondents living in a rural area said they disagree, 24 per cent said they agree, and 20 per cent said they didn't know or didn't answer. For those living in a suburban area, 50 per cent said they disagree, 29 per cent said they agree, and 21 per cent didn't give an answer. For urban dwellers, 46 per cent disagreed, 34 per cent agreed and 20 per cent didn't answer. Article content Those living in Calgary were the most vociferous in rejecting that their land is 'stolen' among the cities named in the polling data. In Calgary, 69 per cent said no, 20 per cent said yes, and 11 per cent didn't answer. Article content That differs sharply from those living in Edmonton, just 300 kilometres away in the same province, where respondents were the most amenable to the idea: 41 per cent said no, 32 per cent said yes, and 27 per cent didn't answer.
Bloomberg
11-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Swedish Support for Joining Euro Fades as Krona Strengthens
Swedes' enthusiasm to adopt the euro fell for the first time in four and a half years after a recent run of strength for the krona, a survey showed. The share of Swedes who want to replace the krona with the euro fell to 32% from 34.4% a year earlier, according to the poll from Statistics Sweden on Wednesday. The share of proponents had a margin of error of 1.5%. Just under a half are against.
