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Luc Turgeon is full professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He is also affiliated to the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie, le Groupe de recherche sur les sociétés plurinationales and the Research Centre on the Future of Cities. His main areas of research include public opinion on immigration and ethnocultural diversity, the bureaucratic representation of minorities and the politics of multinational states. He is the co-editors of two books, both published by UBC Press.

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Loleen Berdahl is Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. She is the Executive Director of the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (2020-present) and the former Head of Political Studies (2016-2020). After completing her PhD at the University of Calgary, she worked for ten years in the non-profit sector, returning to academia in 2008. Her research examines how institutional, cultural, and political factors shape individual attitudes and collaborative decision-making practices, with a focus on public attitudes regarding Canadian public policy, federalism, and regionalism. Drawing on her interest in teaching and educational leadership, her work also considers career mentorship, including the use of career skills training in the undergraduate classroom and graduate career mentorship. Her most recent books include Work Your Career: Get What You Want from Your Social Sciences or Humanities PhD (University of Toronto Press; with Jonathan Malloy) and Explorations: Conducting Empirical Research in Canadian Political Science (Oxford University Press; now in its 4th edition with Jason Roy). Loleen is also the author of University Affair’s Skills Agenda column and the popular Substack blog Academia Made Easier, which provides easy tips for teaching, productivity, and work-life balance in academia. Loleen is the recipient of the University of Saskatchewan Provost’s Award for Outstanding New Teacher, the University of Saskatchewan Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching in the College of Arts and Science, Division of Social Science, the College of Arts and Science Teaching Excellence Award, Division of Social Sciences, the University of Saskatchewan Master Teacher Award, the Canadian Political Science Association Prize for Teaching Excellence, and the American Political Science Association Excellence in Mentoring Award. Loleen is also an active member of the Canadian political science community; she served on the Canadian Political Science Association board of directors (2014-17) and the Prairie Political Science Association board of directors (2013-2022).

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Dr. Joanna Everitt is a Professor of Political Science and a former president of the Canadian Political Science Association. At UNB she has served as the Director of the UNB Urban and Community Studies Institute (2018-21), the Dean of Arts at UNB Saint John (2008-2018) and as chair of the Department of History and Politics (2006-08). She has been a Visiting Fellow with the Electoral Integrity Project run out of Queen’s University and the University of West Anglia (2022), at the University of Exeter Q-Step Centre (2019), The McGill Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (2018), Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (2013) and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (2004). She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and her BA from Carleton University. She joined the Department of History & Politics at the University of New Brunswick – Saint John in 1997. In 2018 she was awarded the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC) Angela Hildyard Recognition Award for innovative leadership and outstanding contributions to her institution and in 2007 she was awarded the Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching. In July 2022, her research was recognized through her appointment as a UNB University Research Scholar (2022-2024). Joanna Everitt specializes in Canadian politics, gender and identity politics, and political behaviour. Her research specifically examines how gender and other identities affect political engagement, public opinion, and political success (including opportunities to run for elected office, media coverage and leadership evaluations) of political elites. She was the lead investigator for the 2020 and 2014 New Brunswick Election Study and was part of the team of scholars that produced the 2004, 2006 and 2008 Canadian Election Studies. She is currently the PI for a 5 year SSHRC Insight Grant to examine the impact of candidate affinity on voter political engagement in Canadian federal elections with a focus on women, LGBTQ, Indigenous and racialized individuals. Along with 6 co-authored and co-edited books, she has published over 50 articles in national and international journals and edited collections.

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BA Political Science (University of New Brunswick); MA Political Science (McGill University); PhD Political Science (McGill University); Postdoctoral fellow (Canada Research Chair in Electoral Studies – Université de Montréal).

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Professor Stephenson specializes in political behaviour, both Canadian and comparative. Her research is focused on understanding how institutions and context influence attitudes, electoral preferences and engagement with politics

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Statistics Canada

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The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a monthly survey of Canadian households carried out by Statistics Canada. It was developed after the Second World War to satisfy a need for reliable and timely data on the labour market due to the massive labour market changes involved in the transition from a war to peace-time economy. The objectives of the LFS have been to divide the working-age population into three mutually exclusive labour force status categories (employed, unemployed, and not in the labour force) and to provide descriptive and explanatory data on each of these groups. With the release of the survey results only 10 days after the completion of data collection, the LFS estimates are the first of the major monthly economic data series to be released. The LFS is the source of Canada's official unemployment rates, including the rates used by Employment and Social Development Canada in the calculation of Employment Insurance (EI) eligibility and benefit criteria. Data from the survey also provide information on major labour market trends, such as shifts in employment across industrial sectors, hours worked and labour force participation.

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Health Canada

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A study was conducted by Health Canada to survey the general public, including non-smokers and smokers, in the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, and British Columbia. The survey was conducted to measure knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of the population, both smokers and non-smokers, to serve as a baseline against which to measure and evaluate the impact of the smoking bans. A total of 1,468 adults, including 800 smokers, were surveyed in British Columbia on attitudes toward second-hand smoke and smoking in public places, during the same timeframe, also using a random-digit dial sampling process and trained, bilingual interviewers to administer the questionnaire. The margin of error for samples of this size is also plus or minus 2.6 percentage points, 19 times in 20 for the overall sample and plus or minus 3.5 per cent for smokers. The questionnaire was largely replicated from previous iterations with other provinces, although some items were changed based on the needs and laws in each province.

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Health Canada

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A study was conducted by Health Canada to survey the general public, including non-smokers and smokers, in the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, and British Columbia. The survey was conducted to measure knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of the population, both smokers and non-smokers, to serve as a baseline against which to measure and evaluate the impact of the smoking bans. A total of 1,468 adults, including 800 smokers, were surveyed in British Columbia on attitudes toward second-hand smoke and smoking in public places, during the same timeframe, also using a random-digit dial sampling process and trained, bilingual interviewers to administer the questionnaire. The margin of error for samples of this size is also plus or minus 2.6 percentage points, 19 times in 20 for the overall sample and plus or minus 3.5 per cent for smokers. The questionnaire was largely replicated from previous iterations with other provinces, although some items were changed based on the needs and laws in each province.

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Health Canada

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A study was conducted by Health Canada to survey the general public, including non-smokers and smokers, in the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, and British Columbia. The survey was conducted to measure knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours of the population, both smokers and non-smokers, to serve as a baseline against which to measure and evaluate the impact of the smoking bans. A total of 1,468 adults, including 800 smokers, were surveyed in British Columbia on attitudes toward second-hand smoke and smoking in public places, during the same timeframe, also using a random-digit dial sampling process and trained, bilingual interviewers to administer the questionnaire. The margin of error for samples of this size is also plus or minus 2.6 percentage points, 19 times in 20 for the overall sample and plus or minus 3.5 per cent for smokers. The questionnaire was largely replicated from previous iterations with other provinces, although some items were changed based on the needs and laws in each province.

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Western University

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C-Dem is a dynamic research network across Canada that addresses urgent questions about political engagement, underrepresentation, levels of government, the evolution of public opinion between and across elections, and data collection practices with an evidence-based, cooperative approach to studying electoral democracy, during federal elections as well as subnationally and between elections.