Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. Nik Nanos digs beneath the numbers with CBC Power & Politics host Evan Solomon to get to the political, economic and social forces that shape our lives. It puts a particular lens on turning 50. Angus says WE was "desperate" and cashed in on its connections to Trudeau, his family and his former finance minister, Bill Morneau, in order to persuade them to pay the organization to run the student service grant program. Engage in respectful discussions on the U.S. election on our dedicated Facebook page. Download the full polling report now. "WE shutting down doesn't make the Liberals' scandal go away," said Angus. “I remember one guy said, ‘you are not going to make any more money, you are not going to be any smarter. It is affordable. Watch this week's Nanos Number segment, above. “I have great conversations with him, the conversations you want to have, that are substantive and about the future and about the broader forces that are shaping the world.”. Fifty per cent of registered women voters would give their vote to Obama, compared to 42 per cent for Romney. As for his 50th birthday next summer, Nanos says, “My ideal birthday is about me being with people who are important to me. So the ideal for me is to be on vacation with my family, and just to be together, whether a barbecue or a nice dinner, whether it is at someone’s house, have a chat and a recognition of the milestone.”. Listen and subscribe to get a weekly update with the newsmakers who matter. CTV's official pollster, Nik leads one of Canada’s most distinguished research companies. 887 Followers, 533 Following, 524 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Nik Nanos (@niknanos) This week: The gender divide in the U.S. presidential race. I usually have dinner with him once a month and it’s fantastic; it allows me a glimpse of where I want to be beyond 50.”. But it's still unclear if the GOP will be successful. On Tuesday at the Republican National Convention, Romney's wife Ann reached out to women voters. Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole said Wednesday that WE must hand over all the documents requested by the finance committee about the student service grant program. It is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. OTTAWA -- However, thousands of documents released by the government suggest public servants may have been nudged to look at WE by their political masters. "It's pretty clear when we look at long-term tracking numbers in the presidential race that it's been fairly stable and tight, except among the different genders," Nanos says.
Trudeau and Morneau have apologized for not recusing themselves from the decision to pay WE up to $43.5 million to administer the program and are both under investigation by the federal ethics watchdog for possible breaches of the Conflict of Interest Act. Listen and subscribe to get a daily fix on the latest political news and issues. It will create jobs. The organization says it will no longer have staff to work with teachers, though existing resources will be digitized and available online. “We all benefit from that. Nanos was only 13 at the time. In the past year, he was seconded for four months in Washington as a public-policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Nanos has a regular stint with CBC News, where he has moved past the role of public-opinion researcher to the status of respected public affairs commentator. The brothers try to get their young families together as often as possible so the cousins will grow up friends.
WE says it was active in 7,000 schools across Canada. Nanos counts his wife, Paule, and his brother, John, as his best friends, and says he feels lucky to have John as a key colleague at Nanos; Nik is the president and CEO while John, five years young and based in Toronto, is senior vice-president. “Because of that experience, the relationship I have with my wife, and with my boys and my brother and my mother, are all very important to me.”. And it will work. Share time together. Two months before the government gave the contract to WE in late June, Angus notes that the organization had laid off hundreds of staff and replaced almost its entire board of directors, which had been denied access to the charity's financial reports.
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