Introducing “The Week in Polling”, your Saturday dose of interesting numbers from top pollsters in Canada and around the world, curated by The Hub. Here’s what we’re looking at this week.
A new ABC News and Ipsos poll shows that nearly half of Americans believe the charges against former U.S. President Donald Trump regarding falsifying business records were politically motivated. Despite that finding, the majority (56 percent) of the poll’s respondents have an “unfavourable” view of Trump.
Just before the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Leger released a poll which found that nearly half of young Canadians (18-34) were unfamiliar with the event that marked the beginning of the end of the Nazi regime in Europe. The poll also found that barely a majority of young adult Canadians (51 percent), when informed of the events of D-Day, feel that the day is meaningful and significant.
This recent Angus Reid poll depicts the stark polarization between young and old Canadians around the legitimacy of students setting pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel protest encampments on university campuses for several months. Forty-seven percent of 18-34 year-olds approve, as opposed to 10 percent of those over 55. However within that younger cohort, there is division.
Additionally, the poll found that 47 percent of 18-34 year-olds support or strongly support universities severing all investment and academic ties they might have with Israel.
Aiden Muscovitch is a student at the University of Toronto studying Ethics, Society and Law. He has served as The Hub's Assistant Editor and writes The Week in Polling. He has also worked as an intern for Conservative Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Chong.
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