Professors Drummond and MacDermid comment on Liberal Ken Dryden's defeat in York Centre

After three terms in office, hockey legend Ken Dryden couldn't save his seat in York Centre on Monday, giving up a riding the Liberals have safely held for almost half a century, wrote The Canadian Press May 3 (via The Record.com): Considered one of the most vulnerable Liberal incumbents heading into the federal election, Dryden […]

Professor Robert MacDermid shares last-minute insight on interpreting polls

Elections Canada requires the publishers of public opinion surveys during elections to publish some facts about the methodology, so readers can gauge how reliable the poll is, wrote Global Television News online April 28: Anyone transmitting the results of a poll has to include the name of the sponsor and the company that did the […]

Video: Professor Robert MacDermid on mayoral elections, votor cynicism and transparency

Toronto candidates for mayor George Smitherman, Rocco Rossi and Sarah Thomson intend to keep their donor lists a secret until the law requires them to disclose the names more than five months after election day, wrote The Globe and Mail Sept. 17: The holdouts aren’t breaking any rules, but they are deviating from a practice […]