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Eisenberger with mayoral lead in Hamilton

| Filed under: National

Just more than one quarter will vote for Fred Eisenberger for mayor in the upcoming municipal election (26%), compared to a sixth who will vote for Brad Clark (17%). Eisenberger has twice the support of Brian McHattie (12%) or any other candidates (11%).

Watson with clear lead over Maguire for mayor

| Filed under: National

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 1096 Ottawa voters, more than 4-in-10 will vote for incumbent mayor Jim Watson (44%), compared to fewer than half this proportion who will vote for his nearest contender, Mike Maguire (17%).

All tied up in New Brunswick

| Filed under: National

Exactly equal proportions, 4-in-10, will vote for Brian Gallant's Liberals or David Alward's Progressive Conservatives (40% each). This stands in contrast to last week, when the Liberals held a healthy lead (September 11, Liberals - 42%, Progressive Conservatives - 32%).

Australia, Switzerland, Sweden most favoured nations

| Filed under: National

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 1581 Canadians 18 years of age and older, Australia posted the highest favourable score (86%) and an extremely high net favourable score (favourable minus unfavourable) of +78 when respondents were presented with a list of 10 OECD countries.

Majority of Canadians oppose Scottish independence

| Filed under: National

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll among 1541 Canadians 18 years of age and older, one fifth (21%) claimed to come from a Scottish background. More than one half of Canadians (58%) do not favour Scottish independence.

Liberal lead tightens in New Brunswick

| Filed under: National

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 732 New Brunswick voters 11 days before the September 22 provincial election, just more than 4-in-10 will vote Liberal (42%), compared to about a third who will vote Progressive Conservative (32%), for a 10 point lead in favour of the Liberals.

Liberal lead tightens further

| Filed under: National

4-in-10 will vote for the Liberals if the election were held today (40%), stable from the same proportion who said this last month (August 20 - 41%). The Conservatives attract the vote of one third (34%) and this is a very slight increase from last month (32%).

Jobs and growth most important issue in campaign

| Filed under: National

Jobs and growth is the most important issue in this campaign (38%), followed by about half this proportion for keeping taxes low (20%) and integrity and transparency at city hall (19%).

Matt Brown with highest approval

| Filed under: National

In a random sampling of public opinion taken by the Forum Poll™ among 737 London, Ontario voters, among the three quarters who are aware of him (74%), Matt Brown has approval from 7-in-10 (70%).

Majority approve of Iraq deployment

| Filed under: National

The majority (54%) approve of Prime Minister Harper's decision to send about 100 Canadian troops to Iraq to act as advisors in the conflict with ISIS. Four-in-ten disapprove (40%) and few don't have an opinion (7%).

Toronto Election Polls

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City News - Tina Yazdani from City News has some fun with our Canada Day Poll; it's a lovely day for Canadiana!



CTV News - Forum President Lorne Bozinoff discusses The Forum Poll that suggests most Canadians wouldn't be able to pass the Canadian Citizenship test.



CP24 - Forum President chats Ontario Place and potential redevelopment options with George Lagogianes Live at Noon



CP24 - Forum Research President Dr. Lorne Bozinoff and Movember Director Ken Aucoin discussing the first day of the campaign and the study on men's health conducted by Forum, with support from the Movember Foundation.



City News - City News breaks down The Forum Poll numbers in Toronto and shows a startling transformation may be coming.