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Poll: About 1 in 20 have let driver's licence or health card expire

Poll: About 1 in 20 have let driver's licence or health card expire

Asked to check, about one in 20 of you said your driver's licence, health card or both had expired.
Health card renewals plunged after paper reminders ended

Health card renewals plunged after paper reminders ended

Internal government data released to Village Media under access-to-information laws; letting a health card expire can complicate already stressful medical situations
Poll: Overwhelmingly, parents worry about housing affordability

Poll: Overwhelmingly, parents worry about housing affordability

We asked parents if they worry that it will be harder for their children to afford a home than it was for them. The result: one of the most one-sided set of reader poll results in recent memory
Poll: Two-thirds say Doug Ford should resign over the Greenbelt scandal

Poll: Two-thirds say Doug Ford should resign over the Greenbelt scandal

Two-thirds of Village Media readers voting in an online poll said that Ontario Premier Doug Ford should resign over the Greenbelt scandal. Interestingly, a third of those who identify as PC voters agree.
Did bots infest our Ontario politics poll? Looks that way

Did bots infest our Ontario politics poll? Looks that way

Every six weeks or so, we check in on our running provincial politics poll. Bots have clearly been voting, but we found a way to pull results out anyway.
Poll: Most think NDP should move on from Jagmeet Singh

Poll: Most think NDP should move on from Jagmeet Singh

Most of you in an online poll thought the NDP would fare better in the next federal election if the party moved on from Jagmeet Singh. 
Poll: Most think Tories would be better off if Poilievre left

Poll: Most think Tories would be better off if Poilievre left

An online poll reflects the coalition of sorts behind Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre: young(er), more male than not and less likely to have a university education.
Poll: 70% say federal Liberals would be better off with a new leader

Poll: 70% say federal Liberals would be better off with a new leader

In an online poll this week, Village Media readers overwhelmingly thought that the Liberals would be better off if they went into the next election with a new leader
Poll: Men, women differ on best and worst PMs

Poll: Men, women differ on best and worst PMs

A plurality of Village Media readers picked Justin Trudeau as the worst prime minister of the last half-century in an online poll this week, though breaking the results out by age and sex shows some revealing differences.
Poll: Overwhelmingly, you chose 'Oppenheimer' over 'Barbie'

Poll: Overwhelmingly, you chose 'Oppenheimer' over 'Barbie'

Our first idea was that it was July and readers needed a break from weighty political topics, so we would have a poll about summer movies. But when the results came in, there was a puzzle to solve.