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Presentation Event: Fire and Ice in the era of Obama and Harper: The surprising trajectory of social values among Americans and Canadians
The Environics Institute for Survey Research and the Munk School of Global Affairs hosted a special presentation event: in Toronto on June 17, 2013. WATCH THE EVENT HERE The event featured: Michael Adams, President, the Environics Institute for Survey Research Celinda Lake, President, Lake Research Partners (USA) WIth c...
Environics Institute partnering with the Tessellate Institute to launch 2013 Survey of Muslims in Canada
The Environics Institute is pleased to announce a new partnership with the respected Tessellate Institute, to jointly launch a new national public opinion survey of Muslims in Canada.Thiis new research - scheduled to launch in Fall 2013 - will provide a long-overdue update of the first-ever national survey of Muslims in Canada which was c...
Michael Adams on the demise of the long form census
In October, 2012, Environics Institute President Michael Adams gave an invited address at the 20th Anniversary celebration of Caledon Institute of Social Policy, to address the demise of the long form census in Canada and what this means for the country. Catch his address on video
New study shows national identity in English Canada compatible with inclusive view of immigration
In a study sponsored by the Environics Institute, UBC doctoral candidate Charles Breton looked at the impact of priming national identity on English Canadians' openness to immigration and multiculturalism. OVERVIEW National identities more often than not are divisive. Whenever a group begins to think of itself as such, those outside t...
Canadians are ready for a carbon tax. Is anyone listening?
Keith Neuman published the following commentary in the March 11, 2013 online edition of The Globe and Mail: Climate change is once again emerging as a pressing global issue, and it is becoming increasingly clear that substantial actions will need to be taken. What to do? An increasing number of experts and opinion...
In Canada, the new solitudes are East vs. West
Michael Mendelson and Keith Neuman published the following commentary in the March 5, 2013 online edition of the Globe and Mail. Growing up in the 1960s, we learned about Canada’s ‘two solitudes’ defining our national identity – and our national division – the French in Quebec and the English in the rest o...
Chaviva Hosek joins Institute Board
Institute President Michael Adams is pleased to announce that Chaviva Hosek has agreed to join the Board of Directors. Chaviva Hosek is currently a Professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. From 2001 to 2012, she served as President and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIF...
How social values explain Obama's reelection victory
In the latest edition of The American Prospect, Michael Adams, Celinda Lake and David Mermin provide new insight into Barack Obama's reelection through the lense of social values . . . . Barack Obama would have lost the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections had a new set of voters not joined the American electorate&mda...
Don’t forget Canada’s urban aboriginals. They're not just passing through
Michael Adams and Ginger Gosnell-Myers published the following commentary in the January 22, 2013 edition of the Globe and Mail: Who speaks for aboriginal peoples in Canada? In theory, the Assembly of First Nations represents Indian peoples, while Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Métis National Council represent the other two abori...
Canadians not ready for major health care reform
Canadians have long been proud of their country’s public health care system, and consider it to be one of the defining symbols of national identity (confirmed once again on this latest survey). The health care system is also becoming increasingly difficult to sustain, as costs are consistently rising faster than inflation so that ...
Power Shift: Michael Adams and Celinda Lake comment on the recent US election and new American values
The latest issue of Policy Options (published by the Institute for Research on Public Policy) features an incisive analysis by Institute President Michael Adams and US pollster Celinda Lake on how the re-election of Barack Obama was made possible by a changing American electorate. Why does demographic change matter to politics? Differe...
Canadians still care about climate change, and are ready for a carbon tax
Climate change has been starkly absent from the public agenda in Canada over the past year, but this does not mean the public has lost interest. Canadians are as attentive and concerned as they were 12 months ago, and are looking for government leadership to address the growing challenge of global warming, including a carbon tax l...
Making Canada’s health care system more culturally responsive to Aboriginal Peoples
The Health Council of Canada just issued a new report on making the country’s urban health care systems more culturally responsive to Aboriginal Peoples. The report (Empathy, dignity, and respect: Creating cultural safety for Aboriginal people in urban health care) captures the results of a series of roundtable discussions a...
Environics Institute presents at Ninth Annual Trudeau Foundation Conference
The Environics Institute was front and centre at the Ninth Annual Trudeau Foundation Conference, held in Edmonton Nov 22-24, 2012, on the theme “The Common Good: Who Decides?” Institute Executive Director Keith Neuman presented to the 350 conference delegates the results of national survey conducted in collaboration wit...
After the Long-Form: Pursuing Sound Public Policy in a Land that has Lost its Census
On October 10, 2012, Environics Institute President Michael Adams gave an invited address at the 20th Anniversary celebration of Caledon Institute of Social Policy, a leading non-partisan think tank conducting research and analysis on important social policy issues in Canada. The full text of his remarks are provided below >>>&...
Black Experience Project draws together community leaders across the GTA
Late last month, 35 leading trailblazers from the region’s Black community gathered at Ryerson University’s Cara Commons to discuss the Black Experience Project in the GTA, a landmark study soon to be launched by the Environics Institute, in collaboration with Ryerson’s Diversity Institute, the United Way of Greater Toro...
New study reveals why Canadians have grown more positive about immigration over time
A recent study published in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology provides valuable insight into the basis for Canadians’ growing support for immigration. The study, conducted by UBC researchers Rima Wilkes and Catherine Corrigall-Brown, is based on Environics’ Focus Canada data on Canadian attitudes about immigra...
Breaking the Stereotype: Why Urban Aboriginals Score Highly on “Happiness” Measures
A new report just issued by the C.D. Howe Institute examines why, on average, urban Aboriginals are as “happy” as other Canadians. The report, authored by Dominique Gross and John Richards, draws its evidence from the Environics Institute’s groundbreaking Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study (UAPS). John Richards served ...
Michael Adams named to Advisory Board of Canadian Studies Program at Berkeley
Environics Institute President Michael Adams has just been named to the Advisory Board of the Canadian Studies Program at the University of California at Berkeley. The Canadian Studies Program at Berkeley was founded in 1982 with the aim of institutionalizing the interdisciplinary study of Canada through instruction and research. F...
New Board of Directors at the Environics Institute
The Environics Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of its first Board of Directors, which includes the following accomplished individuals: Michael Mendelson, Chair (Senior Scholar at the Caledon Institute of Social Policy) Wendy Cukier (VP Research and Innovation, Ryerson University) John Honderich (Chair...
Canadians are richer than they think
In his latest Globe and Mail opinion piece, Environics Institute President Michael Adams comments on revealing new statistics showing that the average Canadian household is now $40,000 richer than the average American household. For the moment, it seems that the risk-averse Canadian tortoise has the lead against the risk-taking American h...
Research Advisory Group Chair named to Institute's Black Experience Project
The Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Gervan Fearon is joining the project, to serve as Chair of the Research Advisory Group. Dr. Gervan Fearon is the Dean of The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education and is an Associate Professor with the Department of Economics at Ryerson University. Dr. Fearon’s career ha...
Environics Institute welcomes new Board chair
The Environics Institute is pleased to announce that Michael Mendelson has been appointed Chair of the its Board of Directors, effective April 2, 2012. Michael is Senior Scholar at the Caledon Institute of Social Policy. Prior to his appointment to Caledon he was Deputy Secretary (Deputy Minister) of Cabinet Office in Ontario, and ...
Institute presents at Tax Fairness Summit
The first-ever Tax Fairness Summit was held in Ottawa March 28-30, organized by Canadians for Tax Fairness. This new organization’s mission is to build a national campaign to promote fair taxation. The event brought together representatives from close to 200 organizations across Canada and other countries to share exper...
“The Future Starts Now”: Economic Space for First Nations
Economic prosperity and self-sufficiency represent a longterm and as yet unfulfilled goal for Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. A new blueprint for addressing this challenge was just released, coauthored by Nathan Elliott (a former member of the Institute’s UAPS Calgary project team) and Professor David Smith. The report’s t...
New report on First Nations education
One of the most serious problems facing Canada’s Aboriginal peoples is the absence of an education system that consistently supports and delivers positive outcomes for students. This issue is now being taken seriously and was the focus of The National Panel on First Nation Elementary and Secondary Education for Students on Reserve, ...
Institute presents on income inequality at Canada 2020 Conference
Income inequality has been a creeping problem in Canada and other advanced economies for many years now. Yet income polarization has not, up until now, been a big issue on the federal agenda. In January, Canada 2020: Canada’s Progressive Centre hosted a panel discussion on income disparity and polarization, the first in a series of ...
Keith Neuman joins the Institute as its first Executive Director
Michael Adams is pleased to welcome Keith Neuman, Ph.D. as the Institute’s first Executive Director. Keith joins the Institute from the Environics Research Group where he was responsible for the company’s Public Affairs and Energy-Environment research practice. Since the 1980s, Keith has conducted a wide range of...
Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study finds a permanent home at the University of Winnipeg
The Institute has just signed an agreement with the University of Winnipeg to become the permanent host of the Institute’s Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study (UAPS). UAPS was a landmark national research project to better understand the growing population of Aboriginal citizens in Canadian cities, focusing on new areas of inquiry not pr...