Mainstreet Research
Mainstreet Research is a Canadian market research and polling firm with headquarters in Toronto, and offices in Montreal and Ottawa.
Mainstreet Research conducts regular Canadian National],[1] Regional,[2] and Municipal[3] public polling and private market & public opinion research.
Impact and influence
Their polling topics are headlined,[4] and Canada's National Newswatch[5] headlines them.[6]
Canadian TV broadcasters list them as one of their credentialed sources.[7][8]
Controversy
A late 2017 "polling failure" was headlined by Canada's CBC, saying "Mainstreet Research repeatedly said Bill Smith would be elected, but Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi won 3rd term."[9] CBC gave them from election date, October 16, until December 11.
"We missed a lot of these young voters, because they are harder to reach" was one of Mainstreet's statements.
References
- Vigliotti, Marco (October 4, 2019). "Liberals Tories Deadlocked again in Mainstreet Poll". www.ipolitics.ca.
- "UCP holds support in Alberta, says poll". CityNews Edmonton. 2020-02-25. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- "Charlie Clark has second highest approval rating among Canadian mayors: poll". Saskatoon CTVnews.ca. January 16, 2017. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- Jolson Lim (July 1, 2020). "Most say Black and Indigenous people treated worse by police compared to white people: Mainstreet poll".
- "Newswatch: Examples". 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
National Newswatch is a great news service that I suspect a great deal of bloggers use to get their source of information for writing
- "National Newswatch: Mainstreet Research".
- "Canada News 1130" (PDF).
- "Trudeau has narrow lead nationally but enjoys big advantage". September 10, 2019.
Mainstreet Research polled 1,876 Canadians over the weekend and found
- "Calgary election polling failures caused by 'perfect storm,' Mainstreet research firm says". December 11, 2017.