Some 78 per cent of readers expect U.S. president Donald Trump's tariffs to cause a recession on this side of the border, an online poll showed this week.
Arguably, there are signs of that happening already: not long after the wildly varying decisions about U.S. tariffs on Canada were announced in Washington, there was news of layoffs across Ontario: from Cambridge, Ingersoll and other communities.
The most revealing divide is partisan, with about 90 per cent of Liberals and New Democrats expecting a tariff-linked recession, and only about two-thirds of Conservatives:
Women are more pessimistic than men:
Pessimism rises somewhat with age:
But isn't strongly linked to income, except perhaps a little with the highest-income group:
One of Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre's most-repeated policies involves taking public funds away from the English-language side of the CBC.
In August of last year, 47 per cent of you supported the idea, and this week, when we ran the same poll question again, that had declined somewhat to 41 per cent.
About 20 per cent of those who favoured defunding the CBC in the first poll changed their minds over that period, and a much smaller number moved in the other direction.
Unsurprisingly, there is a very strong partisan connection:
The older readers were, the less inclined they were to defund the CBC, and vice versa:
There is a sharp gender divide:
And in a pattern that we're starting to see consistently on a range of questions, not much of a divide based on income, other than for the highest-income group: