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Winnipeg, Canada – Although most Americans are confident that water will continue to flow from their taps in the coming years, a significant proportion expect that ordinary activities like turning on their faucet, washing their dishes or taking a shower will hit them much harder in the wallet in the years to come.

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Labels: American water issues, Probe Research, water prices, water shortages

Winnipeg – Shocking crimes in the news and the distinction of our city as Canada’s “Murder Capital” might make some Winnipeg residents wonder about the moral virtues of their fellow citizens. But a new Probe Research survey finds that most Winnipeggers are honest, upstanding folks who refuse to bend the rules even when presented with an opportunity to do so.

Probe Research asked 600 Winnipeg residents whether they would be consider doing the following activities that might be considered illegal or dishonest:
- Running a red light in the middle of the night if no one was around
-“Sampling” a grape in a grocery store while deciding whether to buy a bunch
- Exaggerating on their resume

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Labels: ethics, Probe Research, Winnipeg issues

Brandon - Housing, crime and economic issues share the spotlight as Brandon’s top public issues as we begin 2010.

Affordable or more housing, homelessness and poverty were the most important issues facing Brandon (18%), along with crime (17%), and the economy (16%). These results were obtained from a random and representative survey of 400 Brandon adults in an exclusive Probe Research/Brandon Sun survey taken in December 2009.

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Labels: Brandon issues, Probe Research

Winnipeg - Men drink merlot, women sip chardonnay and both sexes prefer dogs to cats and showers to baths. These are but of a few of the findings taken from a new Probe Research survey conducted for the Winnipeg Free Press which reveals a number of consumer tastes and preferences among a random and representative sample of 600 Winnipeg adults.

In addition to analyzing the differences in Winnipeggers’ consumer tastes based on age, gender, income and education, this survey also reveals variations among those who support different political parties. For example, Liberal voters are more likely to splurge on pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks, while many of the people you see lining up at your neighbourhood Tim Horton’s for double-doubles are more likely to be fans of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the federal Conservative Party.

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Labels: consumer behaviour, personal habits, Probe Research, Winnipeg

Brandon – Two years since the party lost Brandon West by the narrowest of margins, it appears as if the provincial New Democratic Party could recapture its former seat in the Wheat City if a provincial election were held today.

A Probe Research poll conducted exclusively for the Brandon Sun reveals that the governing NDP leads the rival Progressive Conservative Party throughout Brandon. The NDP, which currently holds one of the city’s two seats in the Manitoba Legislature, is supported by 45 percent of decided voters city-wide. The Progressive Conservatives, whose MLA Rick Borotsik wrested Brandon West from NDP cabinet minister Scott Smith in the 2007 provincial election, enjoy the support of one in three Brandon adults (33%). Twelve percent of decided voters would cast a ballot for a Manitoba Liberal Party candidate, while a slightly smaller proportion (10%) support parties that are not represented in the Legislature. Thirteen percent of voters were undecided.

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Labels: Brandon politics, Manitoba Liberal Party, NDP, Probe Research, Progressive Conservative Party

Brandon – As a municipal election approaches in 2010, incumbent Brandon Mayor Dave Burgess is well-positioned to win a third term based on the results of a Probe Research Inc. survey conducted exclusively for the Brandon Sun.

Probe Research presented 400 Brandon residents with a hypothetical ballot for the 2010 mayoral race that included the incumbent mayor and declared challengers Shari Decter Hirst and Deborah Boschman. Probe Research also added another potential challenger, local businessman and former city councillor Don Kille, to the hypothetical mayoral ballot to see how the race might be affected if he decided to throw his hat into the ring. To see how voter preferences might shift in the event that one of these candidates does not run, Probe Research also asked Brandon voters to provide their second choice for mayor.

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Labels: 2010 municipal election, Brandon politics, Probe Research