View the video here on your mobile device. Do you know what to do after a car accident? If you do, you’re in the minority. The results of an Angus Reid Public Opinion poll commissioned by collision repair centre CARSTAR found that just 45 percent of Canadian drivers feel that they are very prepared to [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. Small business owners are focusing on growth in 2010, with 34 per cent planning to expand their business over the next six months and 26 per cent indicating that they are at the start-up stage, according to a new RBC Small Business Poll. Only 14 per cent [...]
Reflecting their deep turmoil during the past two years, the banking and insurance industries rank as the least trusted in the U.S., with banks recording the only slide in faith in the past year. The survey of people that PR firm Edelman considered “informed publics” found that in the U.S., trust in banks fell to [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. The gender gap seems to have extended into Canadians’ views of retirement with twice as many men (32 per cent) than women surveyed saying they want to work past age 65, according to the second edition of the Sun Life Canadian Unretirement Index. The survey also found [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. Despite the economic downturn, government focus around the world has remained on tax reform. This is according to a new report released by the World Bank Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The report, Paying Taxes 2010 ranks the ease of paying taxes for mid-size domestic companies in 183 economies [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. After three straight quarters of rising interest in investments, more Canadians say they’re focused on paying down debts as they head into the New Year, according to a national poll for Manulife Financial. Those who say their top priority is to pay down credit cards, lines of [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. More than half of Canadians surveyed recently for the Economic Club of Canada expect the economy will improve this year. The Pollara Strategic Research survey in December found 54 per cent of Canadians expect the economy will improve in 2010. That’s a far more optimistic reading than [...]
